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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

According to a blog post on the company’s website, Linden Labs has already been sold to an investment group led by Randy Waterfield and Brad Oberwager. Catan is the next big AR game by Niantic. Niantic has officially announced its upcoming AR game and it is “Catan?—?World The finalists for the VR Awards 2020 have been revealed!

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Meta Closes Two Services, Pursuing Consumer Device Adoption Goals

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February is already an eventful month for Meta; following its Q2 report last month, the immersive technology firm announced the closure of Crayta and Echo VR while exploring augmented reality (AR) wearable goals. link] — Echo Games (@EchoGames) January 31, 2023 Ready at Dawn initially launched Echo VR on Quest in 2020.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.27): new Quest leaked, Dreams now supports VR and more!

The Ghost Howls

If not, well, let me make a recap: startup Lynx opened the preorders some months ago about a new standalone headset all focused on having both virtual reality and passthrough augmented reality , and featuring amazing capabilities like eye tracking, hand tracking, a new lens design, and 5G connectivity (through an add-on). if compared to 2019.

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VR Reader

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What is often called ‘Augmented Reality,’ or AR, is just a bit of synthetic stuff laid on top of the world we’re used to, like, Pokemon Go. Everything from AR to VR, with a bunch of MR in between, is collectively referred to as XR, or XR Technologies. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. The Possibility of AR on the Urban Space 2.

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Facebook’s Sean Liu: we are at an inflection point of the VR industry

The Ghost Howls

It’s since when I launched my blog that I always dreamed of interviewing someone from Oculus , and finally today this dream has come true. Amazingly, months later I ended up joining Oculus. We really do think AR and VR will be the next computing platform centered around people and their connections.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.03): OpenXR is taking foot, new cool features found inside Oculus runtime, and more!

The Ghost Howls

If the developers of Onward thought it was better to launch the game now to please the Quest community, even at the risk of offending the PC ones, it means that PC customers are now less relevant than Quest ones. I’m writing a full editorial on it maybe tomorrow or the day after here on this blog, because there is a lot to talk about.

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Interview to Eduardo Siman: virtual reality makes data visualization fun, we should all work together to make AR and VR to succeed

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I’m not as important as other people you interviewed … I am just like a kid in the candy shop trying to eat some of the candies, enjoying AR and VR while I also have a daily job. I contacted them and I got no answer for 5 months. From that moment, I forgot about big data and started focusing on AR and VR.

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