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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. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap may be in trouble, but its CEO remains confident. Other relevant news.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.29): Rec Room becomes a unicorn, Sandbox VR is back to business and more!

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If we exclude the major tech companies (Facebook, Valve, etc…) and the meteor Magic Leap, this is the first VR company to reach this status, and this is another sign of the health of the virtual reality ecosystem. Many of the investors were already involved in the $20M series C that the company obtained in December 2020.

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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: Magic Leap is a big presence in the AR discussion.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.01.11): CES is starting, Facebook smartglasses are coming “soon”, and much more!

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Because of the pandemic, though, it won’t be held physically in Las Vegas this year, but it will all be digital. Boz has added that he doesn’t want to overhype these devices (to avoid the same error made by Magic Leap), and so he has confirmed that they are not AR glasses, but just smartglasses.

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