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Spatial Beats: Apple VR, Google Poly & LBVR Hangs On

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Finally, why in the name of the geek gods is Google shutting down Poly? Google’s own Tilt Brush, an important content creation tool, relies on Poly. Tilt Brush co-creator Patrick Hackett just left Google, too. The supermarket will anchor AREA15’s retail and entertainment complex in Las Vegas. Not a good sign.

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Spatial Beats: Zoom, Looking Glass & AR Funding

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While Burning Man announced it’s throwing in the towel on a live 2021 event, the world’s largest trade show, CES, will be back in Las Vegas the first week of January, 2022. In 2020, CES (the consumer everything show set a record with 170,000 attendees from 164 countries. Pfizer uses VR in its $450M injectables factory.

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Spatial Beats: Virtual CES Edition

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The Consumer Everything Show as we call it, attracts more than 200,000 people from all over the world to Las Vegas each year. billion and plans to go public via direct listing after delaying their IPO at the end of 2020 due to the unexpected soar of Airbnb and DoorDash stocks at their debut.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.09): Qualcomm XR2 defines the future of XR, Magic Leap having tragic sales, and much more!

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At the beginning of 2020, the American company will finalize its reference design based on this chipset, and in the second half of the year we will see the first headsets implementing this technology. He has tweeted “I’m very excited about our upcoming announcements next week, and all that we have planned for 2020–2024”.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.01.11): CES had some interesting XR announcements, new rumors on Apple and Meta, and more!

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And subscribe to my newsletter to not miss my upcoming CES roundup, which will contain all the news I’ve read about XR from Las Vegas! This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. So for today’s article, let me focus mainly on the non-CES-related news about AR and VR.

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The Tantalizing Promise Of Augmented Reality Games

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CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas last week, was loaded with augmented reality smartglasses, which layer digital animations and information on top of the real world. And the company predicts that AR will be a $90 billion market by 2020. GB: Google Glass. I look at Google Glass and it was really interesting.