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Ben Lang

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Reporting on XR for a decade+, co-founder of leading independent VR news pub @RtoVR. Journalist & analyst, not evangelist.

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Apple is adding a new feature to iOS that is designed to counteract motion sickness while looking at a screen in a moving vehicle. I'm very curious if they're thinking of the implications of this for VR experiences on Vision Pro.

Apple is adding a new feature to iOS that is designed to counteract motion sickness while looking at a screen in a moving vehicle. I'm very curious if they're thinking of the implications of this for VR experiences on Vision Pro.

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Nobody: Quest 3: T-posing avatar and extreme stuttering in the home Stutters were far worse than the video depicts (screen tearing). No app running the background. Wasn't caused by recording. Nominal tracking environment. So yeah, new hardware, but all this stuff remains.

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I'm excited to see first-time XR users when they realize this isn't just a marketing mock-up but actually exactly what it's like to use a headset and have a huge display in front of you.

I'm excited to see first-time XR users when they realize this isn't just a marketing mock-up but actually exactly what it's like to use a headset and have a huge display in front of you.

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The really fascinating thing about XR headsets is that where our smartphones took physical products and turned them into apps, these headsets now allow us to turn our apps back into “physical” products.

The really fascinating thing about XR headsets is that where our smartphones took physical products and turned them into apps, these headsets now allow us to turn our apps back into “physical” products.

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Someone help me understand how Meta misses such basic product UX. When you hold down the power button there is no immediate noise or light to confirm it is doing *anything*. You have to look through the lens to know if it’s booting up. It takes about 13 seconds from pressing the button until it makes a noise/light confirming that it’s turning on. Meanwhile the user is thinking, “is the battery dead? Maybe I didn’t hold the button long enough?” You might think this is an irrelevant detail, but find me any device made in the last 5 years that acts like this. Oddly enough, this is a regression from Quest Pro. How does a software company end up with a killer hardware team but struggle so hard with UX?

Someone help me understand how Meta misses such basic product UX. When you hold down the power button there is no immediate noise or light to confirm it is doing anything. You have to look through the lens to know if it’s booting up. It takes about 13 seconds from pressing the button until it makes a noise/light confirming that it’s turning on. Meanwhile the user is thinking, “is the battery dead? Maybe I didn’t hold the button long enough?” You might think this is an irrelevant detail, but find me any device made in the last 5 years that acts like this. Oddly enough, this is a regression from Quest Pro. How does a software company end up with a killer hardware team but struggle so hard with UX?

365,948 views • 2 years ago

Very cool (and almost *frustrating*) optical illusion. If you pause this video at any time, the shapes disappear. They exist *only* temporally, not visually. This is from Branta Games on YouTube (full video linked below)

Very cool (and almost frustrating) optical illusion. If you pause this video at any time, the shapes disappear. They exist only temporally, not visually. This is from Branta Games on YouTube (full video linked below)

210,153 views • 1 year ago

I think the average person still doesn't realize that clips like this are literal VR gameplay and not "for illustrative purposes only" conceptual BS. To be fair, it's hard to believe that we already have the technology to make you feel transported to another place entirely.

I think the average person still doesn't realize that clips like this are literal VR gameplay and not "for illustrative purposes only" conceptual BS. To be fair, it's hard to believe that we already have the technology to make you feel transported to another place entirely.

52,216 views • 6 months ago

Time-to-fun should be a critical KPI for VR. Optimizing this requires an end-to-end consideration of the UX, all the way from a user deciding 'I want to play' and putting on the headset to how the game is architected for in-game selection and loading.

Time-to-fun should be a critical KPI for VR. Optimizing this requires an end-to-end consideration of the UX, all the way from a user deciding 'I want to play' and putting on the headset to how the game is architected for in-game selection and loading.

41,460 views • 2 years ago

New Horizon Home background environment still isn’t quite tapping the maximum acuity that Quest 3 is capable of, but it looks about 100x better than what they had before 👍

New Horizon Home background environment still isn’t quite tapping the maximum acuity that Quest 3 is capable of, but it looks about 100x better than what they had before 👍

15,815 views • 11 months ago

Hey look, some actual novel VR-centric gameplay. Looks satisfying and interesting! ‘Slime Lab’ coming to Quest and PC VR.

Hey look, some actual novel VR-centric gameplay. Looks satisfying and interesting! ‘Slime Lab’ coming to Quest and PC VR.

19,159 views • 1 year ago

Making a “pinball machine simulator” seems to be most people’s first idea when thinking about combining pinball and VR. But to really take advantage of VR as a medium, thinking outside of the box results in far more interesting possibilities.

Making a “pinball machine simulator” seems to be most people’s first idea when thinking about combining pinball and VR. But to really take advantage of VR as a medium, thinking outside of the box results in far more interesting possibilities.

13,896 views • 1 year ago

Imagine how easy it'll be in the future to customize anything you own with AR. Autonomous heard I'm a bit of an ergo-nerd and sent me the Ergochair Pro And while I appreciate that they offer multiple colors... why not have something one-of-a-kind?

Imagine how easy it'll be in the future to customize anything you own with AR. Autonomous heard I'm a bit of an ergo-nerd and sent me the Ergochair Pro And while I appreciate that they offer multiple colors... why not have something one-of-a-kind?

12,404 views • 2 years ago

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