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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

The Ghost Howls

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. Peggy Johnson is the new CEO of Magic Leap. News worth a mention.

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Spatial Beats: TikTok, Rec Room & VRChat

AR Insider

As if on cue, enter Matthew Ball, former Amazon Studios strategist turned VC, who has written brilliantly about The Metaverse. Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson tells Venture Beat’s Dean Takahashi how they’re getting traction with their enterprise pivot. See his books here. China remains Kuaishou’s key market.

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Spatial Beats: 2020’s Top Ten

AR Insider

Now what’s going to happen to the malls Amazon doesn’t want as warehouses? A year later Magic Leap ran out of cash and laid off half the company. See his books here. Social media giants have a lot to answer for. The end of the movie theater? Have the streaming services won? The hack of the century.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. First of all I want to congratulate you on the launch of your new book Convergence, an AR-enabled book about AR.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. First of all I want to congratulate you on the launch of your new book Convergence, an AR-enabled book about AR.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.06.13): Apple doesn’t show its AR glasses at WWDC, Meta delays its AR plans, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info (What The Bat) More info (Moss: Book II) More info (Among Us VR) More info (Gambit) More info (Nerf Ultimate Championship) More info (Final Fury) More info (All the news from the Upload Summer Showcase). Amazon now offers the possibility to try-on shoes in AR on its app. Alex Kipman leaves after the misconduct allegations.

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Mark Zuckerberg and I are confusing the market about VR and AR and the future of all computing: here’s why we need to stop doing that

Robert Scoble

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. Literally everyone in the industry other than Magic Leap and Apple uses Qualcomm’s spatial computing tech stack). Is VR going to turn into AR?

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