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UploadVR’s weekly VR & AR hardware, technology, and industry trends show streamed live from a virtual reality studio.

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Meta's OpenXR Support, Valve SteamVR Link Dongle? Mar 13, 2025

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Ian Hamilton and David Heaney talk for over three hours covering more than a dozen subjects in this week's episode:

Samsung's Headset Could Launch In Q3, With A Very High Price
Niantic Sells Pokémon Go To Saudi Arabia To Fund Spatial AI Transition
GOLF+ Tests Tracking Your Real Putter Using Logitech's MX Ink
Major Developers Are Already Using Quest's Passthrough API
MAGE Uses A Custom Engine To Drive 120 FPS Physics With Dynamic Shadows On Quest 3
Meta To Recommend Using Unity & Unreal's Built-In OpenXR Support From Next Week
Meta: Suppliers "Heavily Pursuing" Producing "Wonder Material" Enabling Orion's Field Of View
Immersed Now Says Visor Mass Production Will Begin "After Summer"
VRChat Now Testing Drones, Dolly Cams And Desktop Webcam Mode
visionOS 3 Will Reportedly Be A "Feature-Packed Release"
Google Set To Acquire Ultra-Low-Power Eye Tracking Startup For Headsets & Glasses
Steam Link App Seemingly Coming To Pico & HTC Vive Standalone Headsets
D-Link VR Air Bridge No Longer Works In Windows 11 24H2
Valve Working On "SteamVR Link Dongle" For Reliable Wireless PC VR

Meta Vows To "Never Give Up", Samsung Headset's Resolution Revealed? Mar 06, 2025

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Kyle Riesenbeck and David Heaney discuss:

- PlayStation VR2's Price Cut To $400

- Apple's New Spatial Gallery Platform On Vision Pro

- Yankee Stadium Friday Night Baseball Apple Immersive Video Coming In - AMD RX 9070 & 9070 XT Graphics Cards Out Now

- Aria Gen 2 Research Glasses

- Meta Researchers Generate Photorealistic Avatars From Just Four Selfies

- F2P Apps Now Account For 70% Of Time Spent On Quest

- Meta Is Discontinuing Move, Quest's Fitness Tracking Feature

- Inseye "Pauses" Lumi, Its Quest 2 & 3 Eye Tracking Addon

- Meta's Unity & Unreal "OpenXR" SDKs Block Other PC VR Headsets

- Meta Support Page Suggests Quest's Passthrough API Is Imminent

- "Never Give Up", Meta CTO Responds To Leaked Memo Discourse

- Samsung's Headset Will Reportedly Use Sony's New 4K Micro-OLED Displays

PlayStation VR2 Price Cut, Will Valve Deckard Be $1200? Feb 27, 2025

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Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss:

- HTC's Viverse Worlds
- visionOS 2.4 Coming In April
- First Feature-Length Apple Immersive Video Announced
- Meta For Education Brings Quest To Schools & Universities
- Valve Deckard This Year At $1200?
- PlayStation VR2 Price Cut

PS VR2 Hand Tracking Review, Horizon Worlds PC Editor & Creator Fund Feb 20, 2025

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Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss:
- Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Production To Be Vastly Increased
- The Highest Quality Immersive Video Yet
- Anduril's EagleEye Helmet Will Give Soldiers Superhuman Senses
- Quest v74 Brings Web Shortcuts, DisplayPort Out & More
- PlayStation VR2 Hand Tracking Review
- Horizon Now Has 'Fantastical Avatars', Including Captain America
- Potential Of Computer Vision For MR & AR
- Meta Horizon Desktop Editor & Creator Fund

Palmer Luckey's Anduril Takes Over U.S. Army IVAS Program, Is John Carmack Right About PC VR? Feb 13, 2025

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Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss:

dbrand's "Trypophobic" Apple Vision Pro Faceplate
TouchDesk On Apple Vision Pro
NBA Apple Vision Pro App's Tabletop View
First PlayStation VR2 Game To Support Hand Tracking
Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Super Bowl Ads With A-List Celebrities
SideQuest & Meta Dependency
Android XR Will Let Apps Access The Passthrough Camera View
Anduril Taking Over The IVAS Program, Replacing HoloLens
John Carmack's Comments On PC VR And Standalone VR

Apple Reportedly Cancels Mac AR Glasses, The State Of Meta's Ecosystem Feb 06, 2025

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Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss:

Apple & Sony Still Bringing PS VR2 Controllers To Vision Pro
Apple Reportedly Cancels Mac-Connected AR Glasses
Quest 1 No Longer Gets New App Updates
Over 1 Million Ray-Ban Meta Glasses Sold
Quest 3 & 3S SteamVR Usage Share Growth
Meta's Head Of Quest & Horizon OS Leaving The Company
Meta CTO's Leaked Memo
Meta's Shifting Priorities Affecting Developers

Meta Reality Labs Revenue Record, Google Acquires Part Of HTC Vive Jan 30, 2025

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Ian Hamilton and David Heaney catch up on two weeks of VR news in this three-hour long episode covering:

- GeForce Now Comes To Quest 3, Pico & Apple Vision Pro
- VRChat Age Verification For VRC+ Subscribers
- Shuhei Yoshida: "I'm Sorry I Was Wrong" About PS VR2
- Snap Now Offering Its AR Spectacles To Students & Educators
- Meta Plans To Make Quest Scene Mesh Scans Update Automatically
- Meta Reportedly Working On A Quest Pro Successor Again
- Meta Reality Labs Achieves Its Highest Ever Quarterly Revenue
- Meta Ray Ban & Oakley Smart Glasses Plans
- Meta Orion Dev Kits?
- Zuckerberg Teasing Major Horizon Worlds Upgrade
- Mudra Link, An Alternative To Meta's Neural Wirstband
- Apple's Newest Store Has A Dedicated Vision Pro Side Room
- Apple Working On MicroLED Displays For AR Glasses
- Google Acquires Some Of HTC Vive's Engineering Team
- The First Look At Samsung's Android XR Headset

Quest 3S Outsells Consoles, Play For Dream MR Impressions Jan 16, 2025

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Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss Quest 3S outselling consoles, Meta removing Quest scoreboards app, Zuckerberg complimenting the Apple Vision Pro, a Sony standalone headset for enterprise and Play For Dream MR.

Quest 2 In Court & Sony's XYN Standalone Jan 09, 2025

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Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss Sony's XYN standalone making an appearance at CES 2025 as well as the use of Quest headsets in a Florida courtroom, with much more covered in this super-long three-hour episode.

Questmas Came Again & Pimax Dream Air Jan 02, 2025

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Ian Hamilton and David Heaney discuss Meta's big sales for 2024 with Quest as well as the bricking issue that affected some headsets over the holiday.

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