📊 Week Ahead
- NAB Show 2025 (Apr 5–9, 2025; Las Vegas, NV): View NAB Show 2025
- Laval Virtual 2025 (Apr 9–11, 2025; Laval, France): Explore Laval Virtual
- VRARA Central Florida Immersive Technology Summit (Apr 9–10, 2025; Orlando, FL): Register for VRARA Central Florida Summit
- TECHSPO Vancouver (Apr 10–11, 2025; Vancouver, Canada): Attend TECHSPO Vancouver
🔬 Deep Dive
Meta & Princeton Hack Display Physics—64× Wider, Retina-Sharp XR with a Neural Étendue Expander
Stay Ahead of the Spatial Computing Revolution
Voxel Team
💰 Market Moves
- Apple Intelligence Arrives on Vision Pro in April: Apple’s visionOS 2.4 brings Writing Tools, Image Playground, Genmoji and more AI-powered features to Vision Pro this month
- Neural Shading Support in DirectX 12: NVIDIA and Microsoft to enable RTX Tensor Core–accelerated neural shading in April via Agility SDK Preview
- RTX Neural Rendering for Unreal Engine: NVIDIA’s new RTX neural rendering tech now available for Unreal Engine developers
🎯 Research Radar
- Recent Advances and Future Directions in Extended Reality (XR): A comprehensive review of AI-powered spatial intelligence in XR (Baichuan Zeng, arXiv Apr 22, 2025)
- Computer Vision and Deep Learning for 4D Augmented Reality: Feasibility of real-time 4D video rendering on Mixed Reality platforms (Karthik Shivashankar, arXiv Mar 31, 2025)
- Do We Need Responsible XR? Drawing on Responsible AI to inform ethical XR research and practice (McGill et al., arXiv Apr 6, 2025)
📋 Patent Watch
- AR Glasses With Photovoltaic Power (US20250076661A1): Integrated display optics and solar harvesting
- Snap-Fit AR Glasses Assembly (WO2025073114A1): Modular frame with quick-attach optics
- Meta’s Gaze-Driven AR Adaptive Content Generation (US20250130636A1): Smart glasses patent for real-time, ML-based content adaptation
✅ Prediction Tracker
- ⏳ Tracking our Magic Leap prediction
💬 Community Pulse
- Poll Results: 67 % expect a major AR breakthrough in 2025 — View Poll
- Reader Question: “What about haptic feedback?”
📅 Calendar
- Apr 5–9, 2025: NAB Show 2025
- Apr 9–11, 2025: Laval Virtual 2025
- Apr 10–11, 2025: TECHSPO Vancouver
- Jun 10–12, 2025: AWE USA
