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You'll Have to Wait Until 2022 for Smart Home Gadgets That Work Together

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Apple, Amazon, Google , Samsung SmartThings, and Signify, the team behind the Philips Hue smart bulbs, already committed to it earlier this year. Matter is a new standard that’s supposed to make your smart home gadgets play nicely together.

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What the EU Digital Markets Act may mean for XR

The Ghost Howls

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. Concept of a future AR glass by Apple. Fairer competition.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.14): Meta lays off 11,000 people, Apple works on some sort of “metaverse”, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Apple is working on some sort of metaverse, and its headset is entering mass production. It has been a week of interesting rumors about the upcoming Apple MR headset. So, forget about an Apple headset that is going to enter the mainstream , as I already sold in this previous article. Other relevant news. News worth a mention.

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Tech Giants Prime AR’s Headworn Era

AR Insider

The tech industry is looking to replace the smartphone — and everybody is waiting to see what Apple comes up with. I n 2007, Apple unveiled the iPhone. Apple didn’t invent the smartphone — companies like Palm and Blackberry had been selling them for years. But Apple’s not the only company working on these products.

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Google Parent Firm Alphabet to Lay Off 12,000 Jobs

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Google parent company Alphabet announced layoffs on Friday of roughly 12,000 workers, totalling 6 percent of its global workforce. The news comes just days after Microsoft and Amazon announced cutbacks of roughly 10,000 employees. The company recently began beta testing for its Google Glass follow-up across the US in July last year.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.17): Apple Glasses are sleek, UE5 rises hype, NVIDIA releases CloudXR SDK, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. Apple glasses are coming. The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. Apple is really good at selling stuff.

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XR Year in Review: The Most Important Stories of 2023 and What They Mean for 2024

Road to VR

Apple Announces Vision Pro Image courtesy Apple The News Apple announced is Vision Pro headset in June of 2023 marking the company’s first public step into the XR headset space. Apple also boldly announced the headset’s staggering $3,500 price, despite a launch date set for nearly a year later.

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