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The XR Week Peek (2021.01.04): New Year’s Eve parties go virtual, Tundra to offer a Vive Tracker competitor, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This is the first newsletter of the new year, and I hope it will just be the beginning of a wonderful year in AR and VR for all of you! A reality check on AR in 2020. AR is a widely used feature on smartphones now, while smart glasses are slowly growing, waiting for the big shots of 2023 (yes, Apple, I’m looking at you).

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The XR Week Peek (2020.01.16): CES is coming, Abrash predicts AR to substitute smartphones in 2040 and more!

The Ghost Howls

In the meanwhile, I wish you all a fantastic 2020! CES 2020 is going to start soon. They are incredibly light (10 grams!) At least, this is what they promised us some months ago. I think this is the occasion that the startup has to show that its claims are true. Top news of the week. Image by nReal).

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.31): Facebook becomes Meta, Pimax teases Reality headset, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Apart from this, we had a few important announcements, like for instance: GTA San Andreas coming to Quest 2 Project Cambria : a hybrid AR/VR headset arriving next year. Somnium has never become popular like VRChat, but it has grown steadily in these months. 1 hour of a standing ovation for having highlighted this.

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Exclusive interview and footage about “Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual”!

The Ghost Howls

It turns out he’s a reader of this blog (I’ve always told you that the readers are smarter than the writer here) and we’ve become virtual friends during these years. I can say without any doubt that this is one of the most interesting interviews I’ve made in more than 4 years of blogging, so I advise you to watch it all.

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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 (2020.10.05): HP and Canon reveal new XR enterprise headsets, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

It’s that time of the week when I report to you the best news of the week in the AR/VR fields, so fasten your seatbelts and get ready! Some months ago, Road To VR unveiled that Canon was going to update its mixed reality offering with the Mreal MD-20, a high-quality passthrough AR headset that substituted the previous MD-10 model.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.31): Oculus becomes Facebook Reality Labs, Horizon gets revealed and more!

The Ghost Howls

All the people that were working on AR/VR inside Facebook now have a new group they belong to: “Facebook Reality Labs”. This was the previous name of the AR/VR research division guided by Abrash, that now gets rebranded as “FRL Research”. There’s also a reference to a whiteboard that you can use together in AR/VR and in real life.

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