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NYT: Mandalorian Director Favreau Building Dinosaur Experience For Apple’s Headset

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The New York Times reports that Jon Favreau is developing “video content” for Apple’s upcoming mixed reality headset , expected to launch next year. According to industry analysts and publications, Apple’s mixed reality headset is set to be revealed either this year or early next, for a release in 2023.

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

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And it wasn’t till a year later in 2008, that there was even an app store…. Boland and McDowall run through each of these players — Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft — to compare and contrast their AR ambitions. And a constellation of wearables fits another key Apple M.O.:

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Anthony Mackie is reportedly launching his own movie studio in New Orleans

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He was credited as the executive producer on the 2019 science fiction film Io , and he's listed as a producer on two more recent streaming projects — The Banker on Apple TV+ and Outside the Wire on Netflix. The Mackie family already has a big presence in New Orleans, including a lengthy history of supporting the city.

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XR Talks: How Snapchat Became AR’s Usage Leader, Part I

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XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, as well as narrative analysis and top takeaways. Along those lines, Snap’s Carolina Arguelles gave a monster presentation at AWE Europe (video below) which we’ll cover in three parts.

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

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And it wasn’t till a year later in 2008, that there was even an app store…. Boland and McDowall run through each of these players — Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft — to compare and contrast their AR ambitions. And a constelation of wearables fits another key Apple M.O.:

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VR gaming startup Lucid Sight nabs $3.5M in Series A.

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The pair co-founded Jirbo in 2008, an iPhone gaming company that dominated the Apple App Store in its early days. The team would soon evolve Jirbo’s gaming efforts into building out its video ad network for in-app advertisements. The team later sold a majority stake of the company to Insight Venture Partners.

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Breaking Down Facebook’s XR Road Map

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But it’s not like video chat, which is also imperfect. Expect to see some fusion of Portal and VR with video and avatars mixed. Eventually, expect to see branded avatars telling us how to approach lifestyle, money, political concerns the way YouTube or TikTok videos work now, but in interactive 3D. 2025+: Custom Casting.