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

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Another leak regarded the release date: an Amazon listing put the availability date of the Quest 3 starting from October, 10th. First of all, Google has to keep the work on the headset very secret also internally , because Samsung is afraid that Google will steal its expertise to build a competing product.

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The transition between Quest 2 and Quest 3

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And Quest 2 is much cheaper (especially now that has been put at $199): during the last holidays, it outperformed the Quest 3 by a factor 3:1 on Amazon US. As for the sales, Meta is used to launch headsets at Meta Connect, so probably preorders can start in Autumn 2024 at Meta Connect.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.09.12). Quest 3 fully leaked, new Rumors on Valve, and more!

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New leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt have revealed that probably the headset will be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. This headset should feature pancake lenses, mixed reality capabilities, and micro-LED displays by Raxium , a startup owned by Google. In a few weeks, there will be a free alpha test open on SteamVR.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.11): Upload VR Showcase, Metaverse Safety Week, and much more!

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More info You can do full body tracking in VR using your phone A guy published on YouTube a guide on how to use a body-tracking algorithm (based on Google MediaPipe) running on the phone to trigger full body movements in VRChat. Of course, it is not as accurate as using Vive Trackers, but it still looks like an interesting solution.

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Is Apple’s Spatial Computing Step the Correct Move? 

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Auidences are watching, developers are already working on realityOS applications, and XR device vendors are making a move towards the spatial computing trend of 2024. It is early 2024, and the year could flip. However, as the years progress, it appears that the space is expanding.

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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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He has tweeted “I’m very excited about our upcoming announcements next week, and all that we have planned for 2020–2024”. The Quest has dominated the searches on Google and it has gone sold out quite soon, and people that really wanted to buy it had to buy it from some online resellers that offered it at higher prices.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.11.01 + 2023.11.08): Pico performs layoffs, Nimo announces AR glasses, and more!

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More info (Meta’s losses in 2023) More info (Meta expecting even higher losses in 2024) Quest 3 enters the Steam chart at 0.15% Meta Quest 3 appeared for the first time in Steam’s Hardware Survey, with a 0.15% share of the market. The book is coming in March, 2024, but can already be preordered on Amazon.

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