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Big XR News from Apple, Google, XREAL, and Meta Reality Labs

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Google Axes Hundreds of AR Hardware Jobs Recent reports suggest that Google is downsizing a significant part of its 1P AR hardware team, which raises doubts about the future of its in-house XR product portfolio. The Seattle department filed its most recent citation in mid-December, and Meta plans to fight the filing in June.

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Valve Showcasing New VR Prototypes At Steam Dev Days

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New VR peripherals will be shown off at Steam Dev Days this week as developers gather in Seattle, Washington for two days of meetings and sessions covering the latest “tools, services, and hardware in production for 2017 and beyond.” Many of these are targeted to ship in 2017.

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Valve to Sell Base Stations Directly, Lower Barrier to SteamVR Tracking Development

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There was just one catch though: people hoping to use SteamVR Tracking in their devices would need to attend a $3,000 introductory course in Seattle. Anyone who wants to develop new products using SteamVR Tracking can do so as easily as buying the necessary hardware components and downloading the development software.

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1,350 Student VR Education Study Measures Attitudes, Interest in VR Learning & Building

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Foundry10 , a Seattle based philanthropic educational research organization, wanted to explore what happens when you bring VR into the classroom. All-School Aggregated Findings – 2016–2017 VR. At the moment of the published released 30 schools were enrolled for the 2017-2018 program.

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2019 Was a Major Inflection Point for VR—Here’s the Proof

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We believe this is thanks to the introduction of new hardware—Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S—as well as the launch of several exclusive hit games like Asgard’s Wrath and the continued success of Beat Saber. Based on the data we’ve collected, by the end of 2017 we estimate that almost 40 titles made over $1 million in revenue.

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Exclusive: First-Ever Impact Reality Summit Announces 2020 Lineup

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The Impact Reality Summit—hosted by Kaleidoscope and Vulcan, and held at Vulcan’s Seattle Headquarters Jan. The VR industry has exploded with groundbreaking storytelling projects, hardware, and platforms that have shone a light on physically disabled individuals worldwide.

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HTC Pushes Back On Reports of Declining Headset Sales

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.” Very few major manufacturers have released sales data on their VR headsets, with Sony being the exception when they said that PSVR had already sold over 2 million units back in December 2017. million units since December 2017.

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