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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 Oculus). Facebook is working on a new version of the Oculus Quest. According to a report by Bloomberg, Oculus is working on a new Oculus Quest model, and it has already done prototypes that are lighter and more powerful than the current device. Image by Magic Leap). Top news of the week.

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Apple Hints At VR/AR Work Once More With Oculus, Magic Leap.

AllThingsVR

Apple Hints At VR/AR Work Once More With Oculus, Magic Leap Hires Business Insider is reporting that the ever-popular tech giant made two key hires in recent weeks and months. One was from VR specialist and Rift maker, Oculus, the other previously worked at illusive and intriguing mixed reality company, Magic Leap.

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A decade later, this VR treadmill is finally ready to ship

TechCrunch VR

The fictional depiction of virtual reality and adjacent technologies are intentionally forward-looking. As part of our Kickstarter campaign in 2013, one of the price tier perks was 50 Ready Player One books signed by Cline. Funnily enough, [he] lives in Austin,” says Goetgeluk. “As We had a wooden prototype at the time.”

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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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Facebook CEO: ‘In Five to Ten Years AR Will Be Where VR is Today’

Road to VR

” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (left) checking out the Rift with Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe (right) | Photo courtesy Mark Zuckerberg. ” Unless the secretive Magic Leap has something truly revolutionary up their sleeve, I’m in the same boat of Zuckerberg’s assessment of the AR timeline.

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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. Photo by Road to VR.

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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. Meanwhile, heftier VR products from Facebook’s Oculus and Magic Leap have mostly been for gamers.

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