📊 Week Ahead
- XR Southern Summit (Feb 25–26, 2025): Cedar City, UT – XR Southern Summit
- IMMERSEcon (Feb 27–28, 2025): Virtual – IMMERSEcon
- MWC Barcelona (Mar 3–6, 2025): Barcelona, Spain – MWC Barcelona
- IEEE VR 2025 (Mar 8–12, 2025): Saint-Malo, France – IEEE VR Registration
🔬 Deep Dive
AR Glasses Go Incognito: AI-Metasurface Holograms Shrink Headsets to Sunglasses
Stay Ahead of the Spatial Computing Revolution
Voxel Team
💰 Market Moves
- Snap Acquires WaveOptics for Over $500 M: Yahoo Finance
- Google Debuts Android XR Glasses Demo at I/O 2025: Times of India
- Unity Reveals 2025 Engine Roadmap at GDC: Unity Blog
🎯 Research Radar
- Gaussian Splatting Revolutionizes 3D Capture: A new “fuzzy blob” approach yields photorealistic volumetric video in real time – The Verge
- GuardSplat: Watermarking 3D Gaussian Splatting: Robust, imperceptible watermarking for splatted scenes – CVPR 2025 Paper
- Hybrid 3D–4D Gaussian Splatting: Fast dynamic scene modeling balancing spatial and temporal fidelity – arXiv
📋 Patent Watch
- US20250076661A1 – AR Glasses With Photovoltaic Power: Integrated display optics and solar harvesting – Google Patents
- WO2025073114A1 – Snap-Fit AR Glasses Assembly: Modular frame and quick-attach optics – Google Patents
- US20250076990A1 – AR Glasses as IoT Remote Control: Wearable eyewear controlling smart devices via onboard camera – Google Patents
✅ Prediction Tracker
- ✓ Called Niantic’s pivot 3 months ago
- ✗ Overestimated Apple’s AR timeline
💬 Community Pulse
- Poll Results: 67 % expect a major AR breakthrough in 2025 – View Poll
- Reader Question: “What about haptic feedback?”
📅 Calendar
- Feb 27–28, 2025: IMMERSEcon – IMMERSEcon
- Mar 3–6, 2025: MWC Barcelona – MWC Barcelona
- Mar 8–12, 2025: IEEE VR 2025 – IEEE VR Registration
- Mar 9–11, 2025: SXSW XR Experience, Austin, TX – SXSW XR
