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The XR Week Peek (2023.08.28): Quest 3 unboxing leaked, Samsung+Google headset situation is blurry, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The unboxing shows that the device has a very simple packaging, which includes both the headset and the controllers. This confirms that the headset is going to ship with controllers and that there is no charging station in the original box. The video was later republished by “VR Panda” on Twitter.

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How Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence, Is Powering Audio-Interactive VR/AR Environments

VRScout

This will include query based voice interactions for a new level of digital agency, and even the ability to interact with and control digital environments through conversation. He talks about Mass Effect, an open-world game that was really groundbreaking when it first came out in 2007. NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING. “A

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Tech Giants Prime AR’s Headworn Era

AR Insider

I n 2007, Apple unveiled the iPhone. All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Google was the first major technology company to release a head-worn computer when it introduced Google Glass in 2013. Google paused Glass in 2015 and rejiggered it for business users.

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Take an Immersive Drive Through the World’s Most Secretive Country

Road to VR

North Korea’s citizens cannot travel abroad, they have little contact with those granted access and any media available in the country is tightly controlled by the Communist state, presided over by it’s ‘supreme leader’ Kim Jong-un. It’s a rare and immersive peek into a world few are allowed to witness.

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The New Age of Learning Science with Virtual Reality: A Literature Review

ARVR

Chen, Yang, Shjen, and Jeng (2007) examined how desktop virtual environments provided opportunities for students to interact with and manipulate objects while learning about orbital patterns of the planets. There are some fields, such as astronomy, that are difficult to learn about due to the abstract nature of the information. Rutten et al.’s

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Exclusive: Here’s How Fantastic Contraption VR Devs Generated More Than $1 Million

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. Other teams in this group include Survios ( which is funded by investors to the tune of $50 million ) and Owlchemy Labs ( acquired by Google ). This summer, it launched on Sony’s PlayStation VR.

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Lumus ‘Sheds Light’ on Future of AR, Apple Vision Pro

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

This is due to several “false starts” with Google Glass , Microsoft HoloLens2, and Magic Leap, although the companies remain potential customers. He added that users could control icons with their gaze, which had “effectively replaced the mouse.”

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