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The Apple Effect: Magic Leap Founder’s Previous Company Launches App on Vision Pro

Road to VR

Apple’s significant impact on the market tends to draw attention from companies that might not have otherwise entered a specific product category—aka “The Apple Effect.” So why Apple, and why now? And that’s in spite of its $3,500 price tag.

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Report Casts Doubt on HoloLens 3, Microsoft Says AR Headset is “doing great”

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Microsoft’s enterprise-focused HoloLens 3 may be dead in the water, as a recent report maintains that internal divisions have hobbled the company’s efforts to release its next AR headset as planned. Alex Kipman wearing HoloLens 2, Image courtesy Microsoft. Microsoft Responds.

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Top XR Vendors Majoring in Advertising in 2022

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Among the biggest technology brands in the world, and a major name for any company interested in advertising within the digital world, Google has plenty to offer in XR promotion. Most companies investing in concepts like SEO and content marketing will already have a strong knowledge of Google and the company’s wide range of tech resources.

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Google Parent Firm Alphabet to Lay Off 12,000 Jobs

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Google parent company Alphabet announced layoffs on Friday of roughly 12,000 workers, totalling 6 percent of its global workforce. The news comes just days after Microsoft and Amazon announced cutbacks of roughly 10,000 employees. The company recently began beta testing for its Google Glass follow-up across the US in July last year.

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Headworn AR: A Market Still Finding its Footing

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2022 was an incremental year for AR & VR, which both continue to gradually push forward in gaining mainstream traction. Our research arm ARtillery Intelligence’s recent report Spatial Computing: 2022 Lessons, 2023 Outlook tackles these questions. And that’s where headworn AR’s biggest looming topic factors in: Apple.

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How to Create an Augmented Reality App: Technology Guide 2022

ARVR

In this guide, we’ll discuss the details of augmented reality development in 2022, including the choice of technologies and the development flow. For example, a user could point a camera at areas of their city to see what it looked like ten years ago from an archive of Google Maps.

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Top XR Vendors Majoring in Art and Entertainment in 2022

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Although Microsoft hasn’t shown much of an investment in the entertainment and arts sector as of yet, it has a lot of potential to offer with the HoloLens ecosystem. Software like Google’s VR tilt brush allows users to create unique virtual art pieces in a completely limitless canvas space.