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The XR Week Peek (2023.10.17): Quest 3 has been shipped, Quest 3 Lite to come in 2024, and more!

The Ghost Howls

To keep the price this low, the headse t will ship without controllers, it will feature Fresnel lenses and black/white passthrough. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine. The chipset will be the new one though, so it should run on a Snapdragon XR2 Gen2 core.

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‘ARKTIKA.1’ Behind-the-scenes – Insights & Artwork from 4A Games

Road to VR

If you’ve played any of 4A Games’ Metro franchise—all set in a post-apocalyptic Russian wasteland—you won’t be surprised to find that the studio was founded in Kiev, Ukraine. At the time the studio hadn’t yet committed to making a VR game, nor were Oculus’ Touch controllers on the map just yet.

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No one really knows how the next ten years are going to play out

The Ghost Howls

I started working in VR in 2014, and if you asked me what the XR landscape could have been in 2024 , I would have totally missed the predictions. The conflict in Ukraine has created new economic problems in Europe, and inflation has skyrocketed at a certain point. This reasoning works for everyone.

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Cyber Apocalypse 2023: Is the World Heading For A “Catastrophic” Event?

Bernard Marr

Key drivers of this growth are the ongoing digitization of society, behavioral changes due to the global Covid-19 pandemic, political instability such as the war in Ukraine, and the global economic downturn. This involves installing malicious software onto a targeted system in order to let the attacker control the system or access data on it.

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Bringing Book Covers to Life in AR, with Geenee’s Cory Grenier & Elena de Sosa

XR for Business Podcast

Cory: Yes, so we have a robust engineering team, primarily based out of Berlin, with a couple other engineers in Ukraine. I'm not used to this three-way control here. And my background: actually, I started at Google Glass when that project was underway in 2013 and 2014. Do you have developers in-house? How does it work?

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Bringing Book Covers to Life in AR, with Geenee’s Cory Grenier & Elena de Sosa

XR for Business Podcast

Cory: Yes, so we have a robust engineering team, primarily based out of Berlin, with a couple other engineers in Ukraine. I'm not used to this three-way control here. And my background: actually, I started at Google Glass when that project was underway in 2013 and 2014. Do you have developers in-house? How does it work?

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Bringing Book Covers to Life in AR, with Geenee’s Cory Grenier & Elena de Sosa

XR for Business Podcast

Cory: Yes, so we have a robust engineering team, primarily based out of Berlin, with a couple other engineers in Ukraine. I'm not used to this three-way control here. And my background: actually, I started at Google Glass when that project was underway in 2013 and 2014. Do you have developers in-house? How does it work?

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