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Welcome to your weekly briefing on immersive technologies and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week:
Top story: Sony sells XR patents to Meta (more below).
Other stories: The Norwegian government plans to propose a temporary ban on AI glasses in selected public places such as parks, beaches, museums and shopping centres, with a council set up to look at permanent national rules.
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Top story
Sony sells XR patents to Meta.
ZDNet Korea reports that Sony transferred 43 US patents covering VR, AR and mixed reality headsets to Meta between June and September, part of a wider deal covering 419 patents worldwide.
What does this mean? You don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to suspect that Sony is backing out of massive technologies in the short term.
This week’s stories
Kluge Interactive has added hand tracking support to its rhythm game Synth Riders on Quest 3.
Meta has started rolling out Horizon OS 2.9 to its Public Test Channel, overhauling 2D window management with spatial stacks and grouping, and bringing back classic Home environments such as Desert Terrace and Space Station.
Additionally, code found in the same build points to a built in cinema environment, called Theater Home, for Quest and the upcoming Meta VR Glasses.
Mighty Coconut has added mulligans, hand tracking on Quest and a 42nd course, Escape From Planet Xylodon, to Walkabout Mini Golf, shortly after announcing its second round of layoffs.
New Canvas, Jacaranda Productions and Pico have announced Coltrane, a VR series of five 15 minute episodes set in Hong Kong that continues the 2016 detective story VR Noir, due later this year.
The Norwegian government plans to propose a temporary ban on AI glasses in selected public places such as parks, beaches, museums and shopping centres, with a council set up to look at permanent national rules.
Pimax has announced the Crystal Pro, a $1,399 wireless PC VR headset with 2,880 x 2,880 pixels per eye and eye tracking, shipping next year alongside ringless controllers and a Spation mini PC.
Resolution Games will delist its arena sports game Ultimechs from all VR platforms and shut down its multiplayer servers on 20 October, leaving single player only.
Spot Glass, a new open source project, streams the cameras of a Boston Dynamics Spot robot, including a FLIR thermal feed, to Meta Ray-Ban Display.
Valve has said Steam Frame games get about as much isolation as apps on any general purpose computer, replying to a user request for camera, microphone and network permissions for each game.
Vuzix has partnered with Houston based Shiny Box Interactive, which is bringing its military medical training and remote mentoring software to the Ultralite Pro OEM platform.
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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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