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Meta Ramps Up Metaverse Investments in Vietnam

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

China banned Meta’s social media technologies across the mainland in 2009 due to reported security concerns in its Xinjiang province. The flagship headset is expected to compete with Apple’s Vision Quest Pro, leading to renewed rivalry in the immersive space. What is the US-Vietnam Comprehensive Strategy Partnership?

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Will Meta-MediaTek Partnership Advance AR Smart Glasses?

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MediaTek is a key challenger to companies like Qualcomm, Intel, Apple, Google, and others, with the latter two also branching out with their own chipsets such as the M2 and Tensor G3, respectively. Meta and MediaTek: Chip(sets) off the Old Block?

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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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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. 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. More on the definition in a bit. For me, it is personal. Our advisors.

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Immersive Collaboration: XR Today Expert Roundtable

XR Today - Virtual Reality

As with most of the industry, we’re excited by the recently launched Apple Vision Pro – but even the very best technology has a hard time being adopted if people are not ready for it. As the latest entrant by Apple, the Vision Pro, exhibits, we will move towards a more intuitive interaction system using our hands, eyes, and voice.

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Off to Digital Market We Go, with InContext Solutions’ Tracey Wiedmeyer

XR for Business Podcast

They’re delivering a mixed reality platform that is the world’s largest brands and retailers are using to streamline their merchandising process and go to market strategy much faster. We started in 2009 before really headsets were hitting the market. Tracey: Yeah, exact for us. We’ve been doing this for 10 years.

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Off to Digital Market We Go, with InContext Solutions’ Tracey Wiedmeyer

XR for Business Podcast

They’re delivering a mixed reality platform that is the world’s largest brands and retailers are using to streamline their merchandising process and go to market strategy much faster. We started in 2009 before really headsets were hitting the market. Tracey: Yeah, exact for us. We’ve been doing this for 10 years.

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