Google's Android XR Camera Access: As Easy as on Your Phone

2025-02-07
Google's Android XR Camera Access: As Easy as on Your Phone

This article reveals Google's approach to camera access in its Android XR system. Similar to phones, developers can access camera data with user permission, utilizing standard Android Camera APIs (like CameraX) for image streams. While the front camera is accessible (showing a user avatar), the rear camera provides a reconstructed image, not the raw data stream. This mirrors Apple's Vision Pro strategy, ensuring seamless Android app porting to XR devices and maintaining consistent permission requests across phones and headsets. Android XR is currently in preview, so future changes are possible.

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Roto VR: Revolutionizing VR Comfort with a Rotating Chair

2025-01-24
Roto VR: Revolutionizing VR Comfort with a Rotating Chair

The Roto VR Explorer chair automatically rotates to match your head movements in VR, significantly enhancing comfort and immersion. By tracking a sensor on your headset, the chair synchronizes its rotation, mitigating motion sickness and improving comfort during extended VR sessions. A Pro version and add-ons are available for productivity, such as working with virtual monitors. While some lag and control issues exist, Roto VR's core concept is innovative, particularly excelling in relaxed VR experiences, showing immense potential for future development.

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