The XR Week Peek (2024.05.14): New rumors on the Imaginative and prescient Professional 2, Ultraleap Hyperion, and rather more!
This can be a interval with many tech bulletins: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the brand new GPT-4o, and immediately Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR working system. What a time to be alive!
High information of the week

Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional 2 could are available 2026
The rumors concerning the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional 2 proceed. In line with a current report, the successor of the primary Imaginative and prescient Professional could are available 2026 and have a value comprised between $1500 and $2500. Chinese language producers BOE and SeeYA could present cheaper shows in greater portions than Sony is doing now, whereas Samsung could also be supplying the DRAM elements.
It appears that evidently many of the rumors are aligning on the launch of an Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional 2 in 2026–2027. This appears an affordable date to me, even when it needs to be taken with a grain of salt as a result of the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional was launching “subsequent yr” yearly, so these predictions can’t be trusted a lot.
Matt Miesnieks mentioned that the rumor aligns with some issues he heard. He additionally mentioned that different OEMs are going to launch headsets with AVP-matching {hardware} for $1500 this yr. That is going to be very attention-grabbing…
More info (New rumor about the Apple Vision Pro 2)
More info (Matt Miesnieks comments on the news)
Different related information

Ultraleap declares new Hyperion runtime
Hand-tracking firm Ultraleap has introduced its newest hand-tracking runtime, Hyperion, which substitutes the earlier one dubbed Gemini. Aside from being extra correct, Hyperion options some vital new options, that the corporate describes as follows:
- Microgesture interactions: Hyperion can monitor small finger actions right down to the millimeter, enabling delicate gestures that require minimal effort.
- Sturdy to dealing with objects: Hyperion provides superior hand monitoring whereas holding an object in your hand, making it good for blended actuality. For instance, whereas holding a bodily prop, reminiscent of a welding torch, the hand monitoring stays strong.
- Object monitoring: Hyperion permits the Leap Movement Controller 2 digicam to trace AR Markers (often known as fiducial markers) enabling monitoring of any object.
- Efficiency switching: Hyperion provides new modes that allow clients to get the perfect hand-tracking efficiency for his or her use case. This features a low-power mode that allows hand monitoring to run with decreased energy consumption and a high-performance mode that delivers correct finger mapping with low latency when pc processing energy is unrestricted.
- Expanded monitoring capabilities: Hyperion allows direct entry to the Leap Movement Controller 2 stereo IR digicam {hardware}, increasing its use to different pc imaginative and prescient duties, like depth sensing, 3D scanning, and object monitoring.
These options make Hyperion attention-grabbing as a result of it turns into a really versatile answer that’s totally customizable relying on the consumer’s wants. I’m significantly intrigued by the combination of direct digicam entry and object monitoring as a result of it signifies that because of Hyperion and the Leap Movement Controller 2, we will work together with actual objects whereas being in blended actuality. I consider there will likely be many use instances for this.
More info (Hyperion page on the Ultraleap website)
More info (Hyperion announcement blog post)
A brand new know-how for AR glasses has been invented at Stanford
A analysis staff at Stanford’s Computational Imaging Lab has developed a brand new AI-assisted holographic imaging know-how that’s thinner, lighter, and better high quality than most AR applied sciences on the market. Due to this new imaging know-how, which is made by a stack of holographic components, the person is ready to see a really high-quality illustration of digital components, that even have actual depth (like in lightfields). All of this might additionally match contained in the frames of ordinary glasses.
This know-how remains to be at a prototype stage, and actually, its area of view is only a ridiculous 11.7 levels. However it’s because of analysis tasks like this that within the subsequent years, we’ll arrive at having AR glasses we will put on each day.
Meta could also be much less inclined to do information mining for VR advertisements than we thought
On X, a person mentioned that Meta sells its headsets at a loss “to information mine the ecosystem for advert income revenue”, which actually talking is one thing many people suppose, given the present enterprise mannequin of social media. However surprisingly, John Carmack, who’s normally very frank with the group, answered that this might not be precisely the case:
Information mining the VR ecosystem for advert income wasn’t even on the radar at Meta whereas I used to be there. You’ve gotten a mistaken mannequin of the strategic motivations. Improved advert concentrating on based mostly on VR information would primarily profit VR builders, however you’d be stunned how reticent Meta is to export new information for promoting selections resulting from privateness tensions.
I discover two tidbits very attention-grabbing: the primary one is that all of the pressures that Meta is receiving about privateness administration are having some impact, and the corporate is extra cautious about dealing with folks’s private information than it was once. The second is that “mistaken mannequin of the strategic motivations”, which appears to intention at the truth that Meta has a transparent technique that’s not (solely) about information mining this time. If I needed to wager 1 euro, I might say that Meta goals at a enterprise mannequin based mostly on user-generated content material, like Roblox. If everybody within the metaverse makes use of Horizon OS, all content material will likely be generated and bought on Horizon OS, and Meta can take a 30% minimize on all of the transactions occurring within the metaverse.
Information price a point out

Holoride recordsdata for insolvency
Holoride, the corporate providing progressive VR leisure for the automotive sector, has filed for insolvency after the lead investor of its upcoming spherical modified his thoughts on the final minute. The corporate is now making an attempt to discover a answer by the tip of June to ensure its continued existence, with a strategic repositioning. Go, Holoride staff!
Neurable raised $13M to combine BCIs into on a regular basis merchandise
The Mind-Pc-Interface startup Neurable has simply raised $13M to proceed refining its non-invasive BCI know-how and combine it into on a regular basis merchandise. It’s attention-grabbing to see that Neurable remains to be round and kicking: a number of years in the past there was a little bit of hype round it when it created an EEG-based “thoughts controller” for the HTC Vive. I’m wondering if VR stays one among its most vital use instances.
SenseGlove introduces Nova 2 gloves
SenseGlove’s Nova 2 gloves supply varied enhancements over the earlier mannequin and their greatest innovation is the introduction of the palm strain suggestions. Having haptic sensation on the palm is essential to extend the sense of presence when you’re holding a software in your hand. The value of this machine is $6000 and it’s after all aimed on the enterprise sector.
Teleporting with gaze on the Imaginative and prescient Professional
WebXR expertise The Escape Artist is being ported to the Imaginative and prescient Professional and the developer is experimenting with a really authentic and intriguing locomotion mechanic. As an alternative of the classical teleporting arc, the concept is to make use of gaze-and-pinch as with lots of the different interactions on the AVP. So the person can have a look at the place he desires to go, after which he can pinch to teleport there. From the movies, it seems fantastic.
Uncover New Photographs pageant
On Add VR, you could find a report concerning the New Photographs Competition and an important VR experiences that had been showcased there. Certainly one of them was “In pursuit of repetitive beats” which is a nostalgic exploration of the UK’s acid-house motion and ’80s rave scene
More info (New Images Festival)
More info (In pursuit of repetitive beats)
Some information about content material
- 5 Nights at Freddy’s: Assist Needed 2 is now out there on the Quest Retailer for $40
- Blade And Sorcery is near releasing the replace that can carry it to model 1.0
- Spin Rhythm XD, the kinetic rhythm-action sport mixing Bop It and Guitar hero, is coming to PSVR 2 on July, ninth
- Marvel Studios and ILM Immersive introduced a brand new interactive story coming completely to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional based mostly on the favored Disney+ animated sequence What If…?.
- Niantic launched on App Lab a demo of a blended actuality digital pet (a Peridot) referred to as “Hiya, Dot”
- Runaways is a spatial countless runner designed particularly for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, to be launched on Might, 27
- Beat Saber is now out there as cross-buy between Quest and Rift
- ‘Batman: Arkham Shadow’ trailer has been massively downvoted for being a VR sport unique to Quest 3
- Add has written its typical “In Case You Missed it” put up, with many items of minor VR information
More info (FNAF 2)
More info (Blade And Sorcery)
More info (Spin Rhythm XD)
More info (What if…?)
More info (Hello, Dot)
More info (Runaways)
More info (Beat Saber)
More info (Batman: Arkham Shadow)
More info (ICYMI)
Some opinions about content material
- I’ve gone hands-on with Hiya Dot from Niantic. This little peridot in my home was very cute, however unluckily the expertise remains to be in very early phases so there will not be many attainable interactions
- Underworld Overseer is a sport impressed by Dungeon Keeper. Add tried a preliminary model of it and located it very promising, because of its handsome graphics and entertaining gameplay
- I’ve tried the demo of COLD VR and I liked the gameplay of this sport the place time strikes slowly provided that you retain transferring, even when I believe that it nonetheless wants a little bit of polish earlier than the ultimate launch
More info (Hello Dot)
More info (Underworld Overseer)
Extra information (COLD VR)
Different information
It’s now attainable to remark once more on Add VR at no cost!
It appears that evidently the case of an Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional saved the machine from being destroyed by a automobile
Highway To VR explains to us how XR headsets are at the moment used within the automotive trade
New research present how VR is efficient in treating despair like conventional means however with extra engagement
NVIDIA’s Latte 3D can generate 3D fashions in a number of seconds
Somebody managed to make use of Gaussian Splatting to stream volumetric movies in Unreal Engine 5
Good journalism nonetheless exists. Somebody on Engadget wrote an article saying that it’s regular that Apple just isn’t promoting hundreds of thousands of Imaginative and prescient Execs
OpenAI introduced GPT-4o, a brand new multimodal AI that works with textual content, audio, pictures, and movies
Learn more (Announcement livestream)
Learn more (Announcement blog post)
Information from companions (and associates)
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Generally VR functions have sudden penalties…
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What if AI firms had trustworthy commercials?
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