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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.11): new Quest is in the works, Magic Leap may pivot to healthcare, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap looks for a $100-million deal to save itself. Some reports by Business Insider and The Information talk about the current situation of Magic Leap, that seems always more complicated. More info (Magic Leap trying to raise $100M) More info (Magic Leap timing for the future).

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Apple’s Tim Cook Sees Opportunity In AR, But It ‘Will Take Some Time To Get Right’

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As the virtual reality industry makes its way through this highly important first year of commercial availability for its flagship headsets, it is being bolstered by most of the major tech companies. Google , Intel, Facebook and Microsoft have all either already begun or announced significant VR initiatives in the past 12-24 months.

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Are Publishers Ready to go Virtual?

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it makes strategic sense that Pearson has partnered with Microsoft to develop content for the HoloLens Click To Tweet. One example is Axel Springer Digital Ventures recently announcing that they would be investing an undisclosed amount in Magic Leap. That ship has sailed! If you are looking at the future, it’s right here.

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Is Personal Computing’s Next Conquest Your Face?

AR Insider

Microsoft, Google and Apple all have their own approaches to augmented reality and virtual reality, but the race for the face is particularly critical to Facebook and Amazon, because they have yet to establish computing gateways. Microsoft (enterprise) 4. Momentum is picking up. Apple (ecosystem) 2.

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Meta Expects to Ship 10,000 AR Dev Kits in 2017

Road to VR

Back in 2013 the company had announced and taken pre-orders for a $3,000 headset called the Meta Pro. SEE ALSO Hands-on: Meta 2 Could Do for Augmented Reality What Rift DK1 Did for Virtual Reality. SEE ALSO Exclusive: Meta 2 AR Demos Revealed in Full.

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CityXR: A Vision For Augmented Cities In The Shadow Of Hyper-Reality

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Back in 2016, designer and filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda released Hyper-Reality, a concept film that imagined an augmented reality future where physical and virtual realities have merged, resulting in a "city saturated in media." I started making it in 2013. You know, that film came out in 2016," he said. "I

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A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

By the time Howard Rheingold’s “Virtual Reality” was published in 1991, the Sensorama was already a “slowly deteriorating” relic stashed away in a cabana next the pool at its inventor’s West Los Angeles home. NASA promotion shot of VIEW (Virtual Interactive Environment Workstation). Helig died in 1997 at age 70.

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