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Newly Announced ‘Neuromancer’ TV Show Could Be Another Big Moment for VR to Make an Impact

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Apple announced that it’s bringing a new show to Apple TV+ based on William Gibson’s award-winning cyberpunk novel Neuromancer (1984), offering another big moment for VR to take the limelight. And what does this mean to Joe Blow, Apple TV+ subscriber?

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Ultrahaptics Acquires Leap Motion for a Reported $30M

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Leap Motion, the pioneer in optical hand-tracking, has been acquired by Ultrahaptics, the enterprise-focused immersive haptics company. Since its founding in 2011, Leap Motion has garnered over $94 million in outside funding. The latest round, amounting to $50 million, arrived in summer 2017. Image courtesy Leap Motion.

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Nintendo President Says The Company Is Exploring New Ways To Use AR

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While commenting on the recent trend of major corporations such as Apple dipping their toes in the AR market, Furukawa expressed Nintendo’s own interest in exploring the rapidly-growing technology: Image Credit: Radomir Tinkov, Nintendo. We are currently researching what interesting ways we can utilize it.”.

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Can Gowalla Reinvent AR (and Itself)?

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” It was acquired by Facebook in 2011, then mostly faded away. Gowalla hopes to infuse novelty and stickiness through visually-immersive experiences: Hold up your phone to reveal game elements or notes that friends left for you. But now it’s back for more SoLoMo action… this time with an AR focus.

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Report Predicts AR and VR Headsets Shipments to Approach 100 Million by 2021

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.” Lets be honest, the last few years have seen some pretty wild speculation from industry analysts whilst the excitement and hype surrounding the most recent renaissance in immersive technology has ridden high. It should also be pointed out that, as is the case for every market researcher, predictions can easily be wide of the mark.

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Can Gowalla Reinvent AR (and Itself)?

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It was acquired by Facebook in 2011, then mostly faded away. Gowalla hopes to infuse novelty and stickiness through visually-immersive experiences: Hold up your phone to reveal game elements or notes that friends left for you. But now it’s back for more SoLoMo action….this this time with an AR focus. Foursquare?—?

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10 Augmented Reality Trends of 2022: A Vision of Immersion

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APPLE ARKIT 5 The latest version of Apple’s open source mobile augmented reality development toolset, ARKit 5 , offers significant improvements from ARKit 4. ARKit appears to have the best compatibility between software and hardware, as Apple is responsible for all aspects of their devices. billion by 2024.