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Report: Leaked Email Reveals Facebook XR Strategy, ‘Our goal is not only to win, but to accelerate its arrival’

Road to VR

We are vulnerable on mobile to Google and Apple because they make major mobile platforms. From a timing perspective, we are better off the sooner the next platform becomes ubiquitous and the shorter the time we exist in a primarily mobile world dominated by Google and Apple.

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Apple Mum on AR/VR for iPhone 7, but Here’s How We Know They’re Still Working on It

Road to VR

Yesterday Apple held a keynote presentation to update the world on their latest products. It’s too early for Apple to jump into the AR/VR game. That much was made clear on stage at the company’s latest keynote where they revealed the iPhone 7 and the Apple Watch Series 2. Acquisitions.

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The Best Smart Watches In 2023 / 2024: From Blood Sugar Monitoring To AI Personal Training

Bernard Marr

Apple popularized the smartwatch, just as it did with the smartphone when it released the Apple watch in 2015. This is a feature that other watchmakers, including Apple, have been aiming to develop for some time, but the Chinese manufacturer is the first to market. And who remembers the Pebble ?

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Developing the Future of Mixed Reality

Tech Trends VR

Object Theory are pretty much the oldest Mixed Reality company around, having launched in June 2015, before the HoloLens had even started shipping. Object Theory are the oldest Mixed Reality company around, having launched in June 2015, before the HoloLens had even started shipping Click To Tweet. pic.twitter.com/UMhQbxgH1g.

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Report: Magical Leap Sees Sluggish Sales Numbers Amidst Latest Funding Round

Road to VR

Even at the low side of 100,000 units, that’s in the neighborhood of how many Oculus Rift DK2s were shipped globally , which at the time of launch in 2015 cost nearly one-sixth of the price of ML One. SEE ALSO Apple AR Headset FOV, Codename, and Stereoscopic Rendering Mode Reportedly Found in iOS 13.1.

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What to Expect from Apple in the AR/VR Space

ARVR

© Apple, Inc. While Apple fans have long been waiting for Apple to launch its own augmented and virtual reality ( AR/VR ) wearables, and despite many competitors already presenting market-ready AR glasses and VR headsets , there are still more questions than answers around what Apple’s AR/VR first product will look like.

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A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

“The first metaverse that gains real traction is likely to be the last,” Oculus exec Jason Rubin wrote in a 50-page internal document laying out the strategy. “We Google revealed Glass the same year the first Oculus prototype hit the scene. Image Credits: Apple Magic Leap is far from alone in those struggles.

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