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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

If the 10th is the wrong date, then all my bets are on the 19th of October because on that date by chance already two games are launching : The Wizards Dark Times Brotherhood and the 7th Guest. It’s strange that two games decided to launch on the same date, so there is a chance this is a magical date.

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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. by Kif Leswing, CNBC.

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Igloo Vision Stirs XR World With London Open House Demo

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

All you need to do is get in touch [link] pic.twitter.com/o8VKifqGdl — Igloo Vision (@IglooVision) October 13, 2023 Formed in 2007, the company began building its geodesic domes for projection-mapped immersive spaces. People can also view YouTube 360 videos, Google Street View, as well as the enterprise’s bespoke 360 web browser.

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Apple Mum on AR/VR for iPhone 7, but Here’s How We Know They’re Still Working on It

Road to VR

It’s too early for Apple to jump into the AR/VR game. In fact, Apple’s patents in this field tell us that the company has been thinking about immersive wearables for a long time; patents filed at least as far back as 2007 show a device that looks much like the VR headsets we see today.

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A Brief History of VR

VeeR VR

Atari founded a lab for virtual reality research in 1982, but it closed down two short years later due to the North American video game crash of 1983. In 1991, Sega released Sega VR headsets for arcade games and the Mega Drive console. 2017 is also the year that Microsoft entered the VR industry. .

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

And then slowly and surely, we picked up the business up to 2007, 2008. There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. Only instead of for games, you’re doing it for learning. And then we had crash 2001 and then we had another crash in 2007. Alan: Pretty awesome.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

And then slowly and surely, we picked up the business up to 2007, 2008. There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. Only instead of for games, you’re doing it for learning. And then we had crash 2001 and then we had another crash in 2007. Alan: Pretty awesome.

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