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Executive summary
Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week:
Top story: Meta’s Project Phoenix surfaces before Connect (more below).
Other stories: ByteDance is reportedly developing an AI model to rival Google's Genie for real-time spatial video (more below).
Star Wars Zero Company has scratched my XCOM itch with the satisfaction of drinking a cool glass of water (though with fewer bullets clattering in the glass).
Top story
Meta’s Project Phoenix surfaces before Connect.
What is it? Project Phoenix was found by people who looked at the latest firmware update from Horizon OS. It looks like a sleek headset with some processing power going to an external puck, and it may fit in the same category as the Quest Pro, though with a much sleeker form factor.
Anything more to it? As a lot of the details are based on a file within the system, there are not as many details available. More will likely be shown during Meta's major event later this month.
This week’s stories
ByteDance is reportedly developing an AI model to rival Google's Genie for real-time spatial video.
Focal Point VR will demonstrate a live dual 8K immersive video workflow on Bluebell Opticom's stand at IBC 2026, combining IO Industries cameras with real time processing for broadcast grade VR playback.
FORVIA HELLA has invested in Distance Technologies to develop a mirrorless 3D augmented reality head-up display.
Lumus has signed a manufacturing agreement with Crystal-Optech to produce its geometric waveguides for AR eyewear.
No Man's Sky has added a new Cosmos update that overhauls its outer space experience.
Polyarc Games, the studio behind Moss, has shut down.
SimX has added two nursing curricula to its VR healthcare training platform.
Valve has pushed a major SteamVR update ahead of the Steam Frame launch.
XR Brooklyn: Worlds by Hand will showcase immersive installations from Brooklyn Navy Yard artist studios, featuring spherical display technology from Pufferfish and large format visual systems from Duggal, on 1 October.
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Note: The Immersive Wire is run by Tom Ffiske, who also works at Accenture. The contents of the newsletter should not be regarded as Accenture’s views.
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