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The XR Week Peek (2020.11.09): PS5 doesn’t improve PSVR, VRChat reaches 24,000 concurrent users, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. This is even more than the 20,000 concurrent users of early 2018 when the app went viral on Twitch. Oculus delays shipments of the Elite Strap due to breakage reports. News worth a mention.

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A Complete Guide to Virtual Reality

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Form factors have improved dramatically since then, and most people are familiar with the first commercially-available VR headset, then-Facebook’s Oculus Rift. It was not until 2018 when the first all-in-one headsets entered markets, transitioning from a futuristic dream to a mainstream reality by 2021.

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The Virtual Arena: Educators Learn Their VR

Peter Graham

This column previously covered the 2018 BETT show and how VR was immerging as a possible EdTech trend – but with BETT 2020 the event cemented this movement, with a vast array of new developments and applications for this technology, and growth of previous early adopters. Another exhibitor using Beat Saber and the Oculus Rift S was Nutanix.

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Project Caliper: the journey of prototyping optimal controllers for VR

The Ghost Howls

A big tranche of patents was released earlier this year following the termination of a lawsuit against an optics supplier they’d made a $9 million investment into back in 2018. The Global E-waste Monitor report says the UK generates 23.9kg per capita – compared with 26kg in Norway July 2020 Global E-waste Monitor 2020.