Steam Frame Beta now lets you keep your Room View when viewing remote frames or overlays streamed from your PC. It also adds mixed reality support to OpenXR titles and will include Chroma Key passthrough when the Steam Link update drops.
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Room View is retained while viewing remote frames/overlays streamed from PC.
Mixed reality support added for OpenXR titles.
Chroma Key passthrough will arrive with the Steam Link update.
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SteamVR new chroma key pipeline enables Room View on Vision Pro
SteamVR forced its new chroma key pipeline to activate Room View on the Vision Pro. Valve is using this method to enable PCXR for all headsets that support Steam VR Link.
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SteamVR rendered its new chroma key pipeline to activate Room View on Vision Pro.
Valve aims to enable PCXR for all headsets that have Steam VR Link.
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LODGE XR Talk Vol.45 announces four content pieces and open-call exhibit
LODGE XR Talk Vol.45 announces four pieces of content and an open-call exhibit for Tuesday 11/17 evening. The items are 3DGS/4DGS Viewer, Korogarium (ELF-MN1 version), SpatialGlass, and 8K VR180 movies of the past, with free admission.
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Date: Tuesday, 11/17 evening.
Content: 3DGS/4DGS Viewer, Korogarium (ELF-MN1 version), SpatialGlass, 8K VR180 movies, plus an open-call exhibit.
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- Original post
- 【XRトレンドウォッチ&体験会！】LODGE XR Talk Vol.45 - Linked page
Xperia 1 II UniXNU port GPU driver stable to boot Dusklight
Xperia 1 II UniXNU port GPU driver is stable enough to boot Dusklight. Stability achieved after removing the unified SMMU hack and splitting tables per process.
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GPU driver on Xperia 1 II UniXNU port stable enough to boot Dusklight
Removed the unified SMMU hack in upstream and split tables per process
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Meta VR Glasses e-book announced with eye and hand interaction guide
Meta VR Glasses e-book announced, teaching eye and hand interactions, testing without hardware, and performance optimization with Unity’s XR tools. It lists covered technologies and sections.
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Content: XRI, OpenXR, Quad Views, foveated rendering, Unity
Guidance: set up eye and hand interactions, test without hardware, optimize performance with Unity’s XR tools
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Gentle Monster AI glasses slated for December release
Gentle Monster is planning to release AI smart glasses in December. The company has previously announced collaborations with Google and other partners.
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Release: AI smart glasses scheduled for December.
Partnerships: Prior collaborations announced with Google and others.
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Amazon Bee Frontier adds daily recap feed
Amazon Bee Frontier creates a private Instagram-style feed that merges photos, calendar entries, conversations and events into a daily recap. It lets you scroll back to see a panel you spoke on and a photo from an afternoon talking tech.
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Daily recap combines photos, calendar, conversations, events
Scrolling shows past panels and tech talk photos
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Sand3D releases 100,000 code-generated 3D assets
Sand3D open-sourced with around 100,000 3D assets built by code, covering everyday objects, mechanical parts, and moving-part models. It also lets AI build 3D models using Python code.
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Open-sourced Sand3D includes about 100,000 code-generated 3D assets.
AI can build 3D models with Python code.