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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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Will Meta-MediaTek Partnership Advance AR Smart Glasses?

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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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XR Today Guide: What is Augmented Reality?

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Google, Apple, and other map programmes offer this functionality to users. In 2009, the MIT Media Lab group launched SixthSense, the world’s first wearable gesture interface to overlay digital information on the real world. AR software is the platform delivery system, consisting of apps, tools, and software developer kits (SDKs).

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Why is Apple Buying NextVR?

AR Insider

Why is Apple Buying NextVR. Some AR/VR firms have seen dramatic increases in interest — especially those, like my company Imeve, who are focused on collaboration tools like AVATOUR which can lessen the impact of distance. Apple and NextVR. The obvious question is: what does NextVR have that could be worth $100m to Apple?

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Retrospective: How LEGO Augments Our World

VRScout

Developed with Apple’s ARKit, the unique creative tool allows kids to play with digital versions of some of the most popular LEGO sets, such as the LEGO City Train Set, LEGO City Fire Station, and LEGO Ninjago Movie, in real-world scenes using AR technology that mixes them with physical LEGO models. LEGO Digital Box (2009).

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Immersive Collaboration: XR Today Expert Roundtable

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Increasingly, improvements and innovations allow business owners to harness the power of emerging remote collaboration tools to increase ROI in various stages of collaboration – if implemented correctly. Immersive collaboration tools come in various forms. Due, in part, to the COVID pandemic of years past.

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7Invensun is a Chinese company that wants to disrupt the VR eye tracking sector

The Ghost Howls

It is mostly unknown here in the West because its target market is mostly the one of its home country, but actually, it’s working on eye tracking since 2009 , so it has a deep expertise with this technology. So we think it’s better to use eye tracking as an assistive tool for user experience designing.