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Existing VR Games Would Look Great on Vision Pro, But Without Controllers Most Are Stuck

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It features robust hardware, which on paper seems to position it as an ideal platform for VR gaming. By all accounts, Vision Pro is impressive hardware, but it’s not serving up competition in a way we’re used to seeing, which is usually just by making a better mouse trap.

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Meet Brendan Bradley, the Artist Turning to Virtual Theater

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Bradley may principally be a stage and screen actor, but he’s been interested in “new media” since 2007 when he started exploring YouTube. Navigating Hardware. The early battle was overcoming the sticker shock that comes with outfitting remote actors with the hardware necessary to create a virtual theater production.

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Will Hearables’ Installed Base Reach 72 Million this Year?

AR Insider

That last part is key, as devices like Airpods have proven that consumers will indeed walk around most of the day with hardware hanging out of their ears. To quantify momentum in the hearables hardware base, IDC projects them to reach 72 million global annual sales by the end of the year, and 105.3 million by 2023.

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Qualcomm launches new AR dev kit, acquires Clay AIR

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The only supported hardware for the platform is currently Lenovo’s ThinkReality A3 smart glasses (paired with a Motorola phone), but it will expand to include hardware from Oppo and Xiaomi in the first half of 2022. ” for its hand tracking and gesture recognition solutions.

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Building The VR Experiences And Worlds of the Future

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Pallister added, “It feels like the current set of hardware has tipped us over a point where people can feel a magical experience but it is really only just the beginning of the types of experiences depicted in those fictional works.”. Soon I Will Be Invincible was nominated for the 2007 John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize.

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The 2019 VR Awards Winners Recognized for Outstanding VR Tech

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VR Hardware of the Year. This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. That same year, Oculus Touch won VR Hardware of the Year. Founded in 2007, the company first turned heads with its 2012 Hunger in LA experience. The Oculus Rift S was also nominated for the award.

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What Does Tech History Tell Us About AR’s Future?

AR Insider

We often forget that when the iPhone came out in 2007, high penetration levels didn’t happen until about three years later. It’s also about a hardware installed base, which is developing along several vectors including mobile devices, AR glasses and hearables. Sometimes we forget that this cycle took a few years. “We

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