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Spatial Beats: Snap, Niantic & Facebook

AR Insider

This week, we look at Snap’s latest lens craze, Niantic’s next AR gaming title, new XR funding and more Facebook/Oculus acquisitions. Oculus buys it’s fifth VR content company, Downpour Interactive, maker of “Population One,” the “Fortnite” of VR. MMO-like ‘A Township Tale’ Coming to Oculus Quest on July 15th.

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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

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. Peggy Johnson is the new CEO of Magic Leap. News worth a mention.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.16): HTC launches Tracker 3.0, Facebook has 10,000 people working on XR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

When Magic Leap One was revealed, Rony Abovitz stated he was already working on Magic Leap Two and Three, for instance; Facebook believes a lot in having avatars that truly represent ourselves in XR , and it is a field in which they will invest a lot. Read about Microsoft’s Ignite conference. Some XR fun.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.06.13): Apple doesn’t show its AR glasses at WWDC, Meta delays its AR plans, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info (What The Bat) More info (Moss: Book II) More info (Among Us VR) More info (Gambit) More info (Nerf Ultimate Championship) More info (Final Fury) More info (All the news from the Upload Summer Showcase). Microsoft will for sure keep pushing for immersive realities and “the metaverse”, but in a completely different way.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.01): HP Reverb G2 launched, Qualcomm goes bullish on 5G and Wi-fi 6 and more!

The Ghost Howls

They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). Oculus Link 2 could be tetherless.

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‘Ready Player One’ Author Ernest Cline Explains Why VR Is The.

AllThingsVR

Hollywood is adapting both of these Random House books into big screen adventures. Ready Player One has become required reading at Oculus VR, literally. Cline has seen his fictional universes blend with reality after the consumer launches of Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive (with Sony’s PlayStation VR slotted for an October debut).

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China watches and learns from the US in AR/VR competition

TechCrunch VR

When Chi Xu left Magic Leap and returned to China, he had big ambitions. “I can’t imagine any Chinese corporations willing to invest in AR and VR as heavily as Microsoft, Apple or Facebook today,” said the founder, whose company sells headsets both in and outside China. to Pico and Nreal in China. ”

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