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I suggest watching the full interview so that you can access all the knowledge that Ben has and that he has shared with us. Plus, you can also listen to a fun anecdote involving Palmer Luckey...

- What should we expect from the next 15 years in XR (things should move faster than the previous 15 years)

- How to be a good VR journalist (be independent, speak only out of verified sources)
- How to design a proper UX in your VR games (copy and evolve some smart solutions that have already been implemented by other games)

We covered a lot of topics, and he gave us many lessons, like for instance:
- How a VR indie game studio should perform outreach to be featured in magazines (having a unique value proposition and a custom pitch helps a lot)
- How to write a good VR review (being objective is key)

Ben Lang gives us great lessons about XR journalism, marketing, and technology Explore the thoughts of Ben Lang, a leading journalist in XR, as he discusses the industry's evolution and fun anecdotes.

Watching this #interview, you'll learn a lot of things. I've had the pleasure of speaking with Ben Lang, the founder of Road To #VR, someone who has been in the industry since 2011 (before Oculus was a thing).

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#VirtualReality #journalism

Ben Lang telling me an interesting anecdote from the early days of #VR. It seems that Palmer Luckey was already nerding on Anduril before Anduril even existed...

The full interview with Ben is coming very soon on my blog. Stay tuned!

#VirtualReality #technology

The XR Week Peek (2025.10.06): Meta launches its display glasses, Apple prepares to launch a refresh of AVP, and more! Roundup of the most interesting pieces of XR news of the week: Ray-Ban Meta Display glasses have been launched with some issues, ...

My roundup of the most interesting XR news of the week is out! Read about the complicated Ray-Ban Meta Display launch, the cancellation of the cheaper Vision Pro, and much more!

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#VirtualReality #smartglasses #technology

My hope is that something like this could come in the upcoming years... that would be the real game-changer paradigm if compared to the camera-based tracking.

Many people (me included) are praising the accuracy of the Neural Band, and this is amazing, because an input mechanism should have a reliability close to 100%. Then we as users have never been trained to just think about actions, it would feel weird and hard to learn.

Then why isn't this feature available today? My guess is that the reason is twofold. First of all, we have accuracy: the full gesture is more easy to detect for the system.

If the Neural Band is evolved to this stage, and the users are educated to this, potentially we may not even need to perform air taps, or writing gestures, but we could just think about doing them. This would reduce a lot the fatigue of using XR devices.

As long as the brain is sending an electric message to the fingers, the full action is not necessary anymore

At the beginning of the video, the guy makes an action (a keyboard key press) with his hands, then the bracelet is able to substitute the key pressure, and at the end of the video, the guy doesn't even have to do the action, it is just sufficient that he thinks about it.

This can be the superpower of the Neural Band that Meta is giving together with the Ray-Ban Meta Display glasses. The video shows a prototype bracelet by CTRL+LABS, the startup acquired by Meta and whose technology was used to develop the Neural Band.

Hey Meta, I don't like it Typescript either, but age-restricting it is too much even for my standards

You can do everything

immersive insiders – Form Join XRCC Online – The world's biggest independent XR hackathon: Oct 31 - Nov 21

I'm happy to support the XRCC again as a media partner, because it's one of the best hackathons we have in the AR/VR ecosystem!

Register now at XRCC Online forms.immersive-insiders.com/xrcc-global-... and join this cool event!

#VirtualReality #hackathon #technology #innovation #gamedev

The XR Week Peek (2025.09.30): Meta bets on Horizon Worlds on mobile, Meta opens physical stores, and more! Roundup of the most relevant XR news of the week: Meta bets on Horizon Worlds on mobile, while it opens physical stores... and more!

My roundup of the most interesting pieces of #XR news of the week is out! There is a lot to talk about Meta and its strategy revolving around mobile and physical stores, but there are also pieces of news about Niantic, enterprise #AR, and fighting robots!

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Meta Horizon Hyperscape Capture review: an impressive way to capture and teleport to places Discover how Meta Horizon Hyperscape Capture brought teleportation to VR with unparalleled capture technology.

Meta Horizon Hyperscape Capture is one of the MOST IMPRESSIVE things I've tried in the last couple of years in XR. It's the democratization of environmental scanning, it's VR teleportation made real.

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#VirtualReality #VR #MetaQuest3 #technology

"We are working on a new UI so you are going to find all your PC games right alongside your Quest apps all in one place. That's coming NEXT YEAR". This was Mark Zuckerberg at Connect 2020. #VirtualReality

The feature to see PCVR games alongside Quest games has been released in beta now, in 2025 :D

Yeah Luxottica is the real deal for Meta

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Meta to Open Second Permanent Store in Preparation for Next Wave of Smart Glasses Meta announced its LA-based pop-up store is returning as a flagship retail location, which is slated to arrive alongside more Meta branded pop-ups in New York and Las Vegas. The News The company opene...

Meta insists on its strategy of opening its own physical stores. On one side, this makes sense, because it needs places where to make people try the glasses.

Meta to Open Second Permanent Store in Preparation for Next Wave of Smart Glasses
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Quick hands-on impressions from Connect: Deadpool VR, Star Wars, and more! Join me as I review the latest demos from Meta Connect, featuring the new Avatar movie trailer, Deadpool VR, Star Wars, Meta Vanguard, and more

In my last article about #MetaConnect, I provide you my first impressions on the things that I tried there: the Avatar trailer, Deadpool VR, Star Wars, Oakley Vanguard, and more!

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#VirtualReality #MixedReality #Meta

Damn, I wanted to try Hyperscape Capture like all the cool guys, but I'm not on the PTC, so I wasn't able to install it because it needs the runtime v81.

I so had a tour of the worlds now available in the Hyperscape viewer, which are pretty cool...

#VirtualReality #VR

Meta Connect: useful advice for attendees Learn essential advice for first-time attendees at Meta Connect. Discover tips to make the most of your experience.

After my experience at #MetaConnect, I've written a post with some useful pieces of advice in case you have to attend this event, too!

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#VirtulReality #VR #Meta

The XR Week Peek (2025.09.22): A big summary of Meta Connect, Snap and Apple's glasses update, and more! Roundup of the most relevant XR news of the week, including a big summary of Meta Connect, and other updates

My roundup of the best AR/VR news of the week is out! Of course there is a big summary of #MetaConnect, but I also mention news from Snap, Apple, Google, and more!

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#VirtualReality #MixedReality

Thanks Sebastien! Meeting you was one of the highlights of my Meta Connect!

Thanks Paul!

Thanks Joseph!