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: PICO teams up with Intel for a VR Sports Festival, with finalists coming to a stadium (analysis below).
Event: Metaverse Safety Week starts on 10 December.
Other stories: ANYTHING WORLD launched a platform to generate, rig and animate 3D models in one place, and HTC VIVE and Virtualware established a strategic partnership to bring enterprise XR solutions to the Americas market (more stories below).
Project Hail Mary is niot a good book. Don’t buy it. Don’t even bother googling it.
Top story
PICO teams up with Intel for a VR Sports Festival, with finalists coming to a stadium.
What’s happening? PICO opened the doors to a competition that culminates in finalists going to Bird’s Nest stadium. The event will feature 2 competitions. The first one is All-in-One Sports VR, including basketball, squash, shooting, boxing, volleyball, tennis, badminton, table tennis, soccer, hockey, and the other one is TempoClub. You can register here.
What’s the significance? It’s rare to have a bigger headset manufacturer push for sports and VR. I wonder how it’ll go, and I will follow it closely when it’s finally being played in Bird’s Nest.
Other stories
ANYTHING WORLD launched a platform to generate, rig and animate 3D models in one place.
FINAL FURY, will be featured at Steam Next Fest on October 14th with a playable demo.
HTC VIVE and Virtualware established a strategic partnership to bring enterprise XR solutions to the Americas market.
Infinite Reality bought Zappar for $45mn.
Metaverse Safety Week starts on 10 December.
Readyverse Studios unveiled Promptopia, an AI-powered generative creation tool.
Spatial Ops is coming out 14 November.
Taqtile announces the latest version of its Manifest work instruction software, Manifest 4.0.
TREBUCHET’s latest title, Prison Boss: Prohibition, is out now in Alpha.
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.
