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The XR Week Peek (2022.01.03): Quest 2 sales spark a debate on kids and VR, Apple hires XR communication rep, and more!

The Ghost Howls

VR had a great Christmas, and in particular, Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. Image by Apple). Apple hires Meta’s XR Head of PR. A report by Bloomberg reports that Apple has just hired Andrea Schubert, Communications Director at Meta’s consumer hardware division for XR, including Portal, AR, and VR devices.

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Facebook steps into cloud gaming — and another feud with Apple

TechCrunch VR

Their approach is different than what Microsoft or Google has built but Facebook highlights a shared central challenge: dealing with Apple. Facebook’s service will launch on the desktop web and Android, but not iOS due to what Facebook frames as usability restrictions outlined in Apple’s App Store terms and conditions.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.05.17): HTC announces Vive Pro 2 and Vive Focus 3, PSVR 2 to feature eye tracking, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Roblox CEO hints at the Oculus Quest as a future platform. And among these platforms onto which the game could be ported in the future, he has also mentioned the Oculus Quest. Some intriguing news on the Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest 2 has disappeared from all Amazon EU websites. News worth a mention.

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Small Mistakes Led to a $500 Million Verdict Against Oculus

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Mistakes in doing everyday business led to a $500 million verdict against Facebook’s Oculus division in a legal battle with ZeniMax. ZeniMax sued Oculus, Facebook, and well-known virtual reality leaders John Carmack and Palmer Luckey for misappropriating trade secrets after Carmack left ZeniMax’s id Software and went to work at Oculus.

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“But I don’t want to wear glasses”

Robert Scoble

Well, some do, but most of us use Spotify, Apple Music, or Youtube, to listen to music now. Some people denigrated early efforts, like the VR headsets that HTC and Oculus produced, as a fad, comparing it to the Segway or earlier 3DTV attempts. The vinyl is more enjoyable. You can hear more detail in the highs.

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XR Technologies in Service of the Human Experience, with Voices of VR Podcast’s Kent Bye – Part 2

XR for Business Podcast

And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. And then he went to go start the HITLab in Washington. As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. You have Apple, with ARKit. So you have all these different 3D file formats. Or in Canada, USDZed.

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XR Technologies in Service of the Human Experience, with Voices of VR Podcast’s Kent Bye – Part 2

XR for Business Podcast

And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. And then he went to go start the HITLab in Washington. As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. You have Apple, with ARKit. So you have all these different 3D file formats. Or in Canada, USDZed.