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Why is Apple Buying NextVR?

AR Insider

Why is Apple Buying NextVR. Two such companies apparently found ports in the storm last week: NextVR reportedly is being acquired by Apple, and 6D.ai Apple and NextVR. The obvious question is: what does NextVR have that could be worth $100m to Apple? And of course, Apple’s AR/VR strategy is both, and.

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Apple Drops Pegatron, Picks Luxshare for MR Headset

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Apple’s mixed reality (MR) headset has faced new setbacks after it dropped its exclusive assembly partner, Digitimes reported on Tuesday. Apple initially tasked Taiwanese firm Pegatron with assembling its upcoming MR headset, but has recently removed the company from its supply line, the report said.

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Alex Kipman Nominated for Inventor’s Award

Tech Trends VR

The Brazilian-born inventor gets recognition for his groundbreaking work with the Microsoft Hololens. Kipman started his professional career at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, right after graduating from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2001. billion in 2016.

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Immersive Collaboration: XR Today Expert Roundtable

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The extensive use case, which has and still does, drive the XR industry and many other enterprise technology sectors. Moreover, thanks to famed video conferencing tools such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams, companies remained robust and productive amidst a remote workforce culture shift. Immersive collaboration: The big one.

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One call to change my life, and another to redefine Spatial Computing

Robert Scoble

He, today, is working inside Apple on the augmented reality team. It wasn’t the first time I had seen these technologies demonstrated. Yelp, back in 2009, added a feature because I heard that it was working on such. Here’s the core team at our first meeting, which we did in Apple’s Palo Alto store.

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

You know, I watched your 2019 keynote from AWE again, and put on these these welding glasses that you had back in 2009. The fact that all these technologies are moving so fast, everybody needs to help to just keep up with it all. So it still happens, but not as much as maybe in other technologies or other industries.

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

You know, I watched your 2019 keynote from AWE again, and put on these these welding glasses that you had back in 2009. The fact that all these technologies are moving so fast, everybody needs to help to just keep up with it all. So it still happens, but not as much as maybe in other technologies or other industries.

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