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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.23): New info on Apple glasses, Qualcomm glasses go wireless, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Google launches “Immersive Stream for AR”. Google has launched a new cloud service based on Stadia technology: dubbed “Immersive Stream for AR”, it lets you perform cloud rendering for augmented reality applications for mobile phones. This is a great deal, that lowers even more the barrier of cost to enter virtual reality.

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Samsung Leaks MR Headset Specifications

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According to the now-deleted article from Gyro Technology, the upcoming headset will leverage four tracking cameras, a pancake lens, two RGB outward-facing cameras, a depth sensor, eye-tracking, hand-tracking, OLED microdisplays, and Samsung’s Exynos 2200 chipset.

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A Tech Investor’s Take on the Apple Vision Pro

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“The job descriptions first showed up across the internet and that started the rumors, I’m going to say back in 2014, 2015.” However, Almeida said that he had been waiting for something like an Apple headset for even longer than that – ever since he was, like so many others, disenchanted by the Google Glass device that launched in 2013.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.10): Lynx launches MR standalone headset, Facebook acquires Scape and much more!

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The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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Developing the Future of Mixed Reality

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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.

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Virtuleap wants to read your mind while you play in VR

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Thanks to an accelerator program he attended in 2015, he got in contact with virtual reality and remained fascinated by it. The plan is gathering data, train the machine learning system and then validate the results using the ones from other devices like eye tracking and EEG.

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What Is EMG and Why Will it Revolutionise Meta’s AR Future?

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Thalmic Labs has rebranded as North since then, and Google acquired the firm in June 2020. Here is a quick roundup: Facebook started work on an input device for AR glasses six years ago, in 2015. Estimations predicted that the purchase cost the Menlo Park-based firm somewhere between $500 million and $1 billion.

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