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HoloLens Optics Chief Joins Google Amid Reported Push for Upcoming Google AR Headset

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Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, has left the company to take on the role of Director of XR Engineering at the recently formed Google Labs. Now Kress is back at Mountain View working on Google’s next AR headset.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook is Hyping XR Ahead of WWDC

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In an interview ahead of Apple’s upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference event, CEO Tim Cook talks about the potential of XR and why elements of it may be “even better than the real world.” Just as Apple was skeptical of Google Glass, Cook knows Apple will always be in a similar boat when launching new products.

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The Apple Effect: Magic Leap Founder’s Previous Company Launches App on Vision Pro

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Apple’s significant impact on the market tends to draw attention from companies that might not have otherwise entered a specific product category—aka “The Apple Effect.” billion in 2013, or just around three years after Magic Leap was founded by Abovitz in stealth mode. So why Apple, and why now?

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Google to Publicly Test AR Prototypes Starting in August

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Google announced that the company will be conducting real world tests of its early AR prototypes starting next month. ” Some of the key areas Google is emphasizing are things like real-time translation and AR turn-by-turn navigation. ” Critically, Google says the research prototypes look like “normal glasses.”

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A Tech Investor’s Take on the Apple Vision Pro

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Apple’s entrance into the XR space via their announcement of the Apple Vision Pro was one of the most anticipated events in recent XR history. Years of Watching Apple Neso Brands is an investment company specializing in tech-augmented eyewear. Somehow I’ve been following it for the last seven years,” said Almeida.

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Proton Pulse Is The First Good Fully-VR Game On Apple Vision Pro

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The developer of early demos for the Rift DK1 and DK2 has brought one of modern consumer VR’s very first demo experiences to Apple Vision Pro — Proton Pulse. Justin Moravetz initially released a Proton Pulse demo to the Oculus forum in April 2013 in the days before Oculus Share. I later found two boxes at my house,” Moravetz wrote.

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One of the First Oculus Rift Games is Currently One of Vision Pro’s Best

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Proton Pulse , originally created for the Oculus Rift DK1 development kit in 2013, has been re-released on Apple Vision Pro this week. The game was also released on Google Cardboard, Google Daydream, Samsung GearVR, Oculus Go, and the Oculus Rift consumer headsets.

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