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Huge’s 2018 Holiday Gift Guide Comes With AR Easter Eggs

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We printed 100 @hugeinc 2018 Magenta Gift Guides with a little something extra #limitededition pic.twitter.com/LuRlgfMGX7. — Derek Fridman (@hellofridman) December 3, 2018. When building the AR piece of the gift guide, Huge used Unity and Apple’s ARKit for each individual experience. Image Credit: HUGE.

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There Will Be No Proto Awards In 2017, Return Planned In 2018

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They aim to bring the awards back in 2018, skipping the 2017 season “in order to assess the changing landscape of immersive technology and entertainment,” according to a prepared statement. The move to 2018 by the Proto Awards comes when the emerging mixed reality industry is in a transitional period.

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All the most important AR and VR news from the GDC 2018

The Ghost Howls

As with every big event, I’m writing a post to try to summarize the most important news that have come out from the GDC 2018 … so that if you have lost something, you just need to read this post to get in par with the rest of the world. — Benjamin Lang (@benz145) March 23, 2018. So, are you ready? Let’s start!

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Will Meta Be The Android Of Spatial Computing, Or The Blackberry?

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Meta is reportedly optimistic about the release of Apple Vision Pro, seeing itself as the future Android of the market. The Wall Street Journal cites "people familiar with their thinking" as saying that Meta executives believe Apple's entry into the market will "validate Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble and draw more consumers".

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The XR Week Peek (2023.08.28): Quest 3 unboxing leaked, Samsung+Google headset situation is blurry, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Then the wish to compete with Apple may not become a reality: when the Vision Pro was announced, Samsung didn’t expect such cool features from it, so it delayed the announcement of the headset to have the time to increase its capabilities. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers! in the reviews!

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Roundup of VR & AR Announcements from WWDC1) Apple announces.

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Roundup of VR & AR Announcements from WWDC 1) Apple announces VR Ready Computers Thanks to Apple updating Metal, their graphics API, to Metal 2, in their new macOS called macOS High Sierra, VR is coming to Mac. Sadly, this won’t launch until Spring 2018 :( Full tweet here.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.13): AltspaceVR shuts down, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

First of all, it seems that the headset is not a new product, but that Apple has been working on it for 7 years. It seems anyway that for the first time ever at Apple, Cook has this time now given priority to the operations team. I loved the news of this launch because the first alpha of Flipside was launched in 2018 for PCVR.

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