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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

But it is still his fault for having driven the company to this point with the massive hirings of the previous months (do you remember he wanted to hire 10,000 people in Europe?) The console can also be inserted in a special case (a much improved version of Google Daydream View) to become a VR headset. Learn more. Learn more.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2021

The Ghost Howls

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Or is it just a talk about glasses?

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.07): Meta has invested more than $10B on XR, Hololens 3 may have been canceled, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Meta is trying to find a compromise with the EU, but if it doesn’t happen, it is threatening to leave its business in Europe, shutting down Facebook and Instagram in the whole European Union. Especially if it happens by hiring 10,000 people in Europe, so that it can apply stronger pressures on the EU about its data privacy rules.

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The YouTube of 3D Models, with Sketchfab CEO Alban Denoyel

XR for Business Podcast

And two thirds of them are in mostly Europe, mostly Paris. I would say about 40 percent of the users are in the US, and then another 40 percent in Europe. We’ve got a lot of users in Asia, a lot of users in Eastern Europe. And I know Samsung’s new Note 10 has 3D capture built into it. [chuckles].

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The YouTube of 3D Models, with Sketchfab CEO Alban Denoyel

XR for Business Podcast

And two thirds of them are in mostly Europe, mostly Paris. I would say about 40 percent of the users are in the US, and then another 40 percent in Europe. We've got a lot of users in Asia, a lot of users in Eastern Europe. And I know Samsung's new Note 10 has 3D capture built into it. Alan: I love it. Alan: Amazing.

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The YouTube of 3D Models, with Sketchfab CEO Alban Denoyel

XR for Business Podcast

And two thirds of them are in mostly Europe, mostly Paris. I would say about 40 percent of the users are in the US, and then another 40 percent in Europe. We’ve got a lot of users in Asia, a lot of users in Eastern Europe. And I know Samsung’s new Note 10 has 3D capture built into it. Alan: Amazing.

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The Three Cs of Success for AR with Zappar’s Caspar Thykier

XR for Business Podcast

You can’t google “19 crimes app.” I guess we were very flattered that, having done Zapcodes, you know, it wasn’t long before we then saw SNAP codes and Amazon codes and Spotify codes. Second of all, on the bottle, it doesn’t say anything anywhere, either. So there’s no call to action.

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