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Big XR News from PICO, Meta, Microsoft, and Samsung

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The likes of Apple and Meta are investing in MR to provide an accessible and feature-rich device. PICO is updating its hand-tracking and MR features as other upcoming headsets – from firms such as Apple and Meta – offer similar technology, making XR headset vendors refine MR offerings as the technology becomes mainstream in 2024.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.26): WMR gets discontinued, Meta to showcase an impressive AR prototype, and more!

The Ghost Howls

(PS Remember that there is an ongoing giveaway of physical copies of the Sam&Max game for PSVR for all people in North America! For this reason, even if across the years some good headsets came out from that ecosystem, like the Samsung Odyseey+, the platform never took off. Microsoft in the end has decided to deprecate it.

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Report: HTC to Merge VR and Smartphone Divisions as President of Smartphones Resigns

Road to VR

Daniel O’Brien, GM of HTC VIVE Americas, is now GM of HTC Americas. According to a report by China-based tech publication YiVian , five general managers, most of whom oversaw VR divisions in the company, will be taking charge of both smartphone and VR business moving forward in their respective regions.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.19): Vision Pro is slated for January, Quest 2 is selling incredibly well, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple Vision Pro may be out in January According to the latest report on Bloomberg, Apple is still on track to release the Apple Vision Pro at the beginning of this year. I hope we will meet there and have fun together! Outstanding move. Good luck with that.

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Report: Global VR Gaming Market to Jump 84% in 4 Years

VRScout

” The report predicts America will be the major source of revenue for the VR gaming market, citing increased awareness and growth brought on by companies such as Google, Samsung and Sony.

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Bigscreen TV Launches With 50+ Channels Of Video Content

VRScout

News & Finance: NBC, CNN, Bloomberg, Sky News, Newsy, Cheddar News, RT America, Weather Nation, Crypto News, and more. Bigscreen TV enables VR users to access the content they can already access via a web browser, but with a user experience that’s like an Apple TV.”. Image Credit: Bigscreen TV.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.02.08): Samsung is back to XR, Echo VR gets shut down, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. This is huge because we know that Samsung is able to always deliver good hardware.

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