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 AR glasses are probably not here until 2027 (analysis below).
Event: The Immersive Wire and City, University of London is hosting a free networking and drinks event in London. Come along if you wish!
Tangents series: Why I hate cucumbers.
Other stories: Samsung's XR headset might have leaked on Geekbench, TechUK is hosting a Spatial LDN Vision Pro meetup in London, on 10 October, and the Peabody Awards are accepting submissions for the interactive and immersive category (more stories below).
Black Myth: Wukong is great so far! But I also have no idea whats happening in the story. Completely lost.
Top story
Meta's AR glasses are probably not here until 2027.
Why does this matter? A few pundits spat takes in 2020 that we would have full AR by 2025. That has not happened. If I were to guess why, the engineering and software considerations for making a computer on your face, while being slick enough to be as stylish as a watch, is taking some time.
How much could it weigh? The Information reckons it'll be 100g, which would be exceptionally light.
Other stories:
The Envision Smart Binoculars, which uses AR, is now on Kickstarter.
Exercise Your Demons!, a fitness game by developer Vyersoft, is coming soon.
HTC introduced VIVERSE Create, where people can create their own spaces with no-code tools.
The Peabody Awards are accepting submissions for the interactive and immersive category.
Meta is closing its Spark platform.
also, Meta will allow 10 to 12-year-olds into the Horizon Worlds platform.
The Metaverse: A Critical Introduction is out 24 September.
Samsung's XR headset might have leaked on Geekbench.
TechUK is hosting a Spatial LDN Vision Pro meetup in London, on 10 October.
Virtuleap published a new paper on how VR can help with working memory and inhibitory control in young adults with intellectual developmental disabilities.
V-Nova unveils its new V-Nova Studios business unit to focus on XR entertainment.
Note: The Immersive Wire is run by Tom Ffiske, who also works within Accenture’s metaverse group. The contents of the newsletter should not be regarded as Accenture’s views.
