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The transition between Quest 2 and Quest 3

The Ghost Howls

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. Quest 3S launch date and strategy When will the Quest 3S be launched? I would wait a bit more, probably until the second half of 2025.

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Google Tried To Get Meta To Kowtow To Its Upcoming XR Platform

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The Meta Quest operating system is a fork of the open-source core of Android (known as AOSP), a similar strategy to Amazon's Fire OS for its Fire tablets. Google and Meta's XR strategies could end up remarkably similar, with the two companies vying to entice hardware companies to adopt their platform.

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Snap Earns $20m Grant to Back California Tech Industry

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

The firm is expected to receive the funds in 2025. ” Doing so would offer “suggestions to develop regional strategies to help businesses prosper.” For example, the company has struck a massive partnership with Amazon to pilot online shopping integrations.

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Caregility Opens XR Solution at Saudi’s Seha Virtual Hospital

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

These include Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Dubai Enters Metaverse Race with XR Telehealth Platform Regarding Dubai, it approved its Metaverse Strategy to boost its digital transformation with an outlined strategy.

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Unlocking the Magic of XR With Your Voice

Tech Trends VR

Millions of us now own some sort of room-based voice device such as Google Home or Amazon Echo and the global voice and speech recognition market size is estimated to reach USD 31.82 billion by 2025. Millions of us now own some sort of room-based voice device such as Google Home or Amazon Echo Click To Tweet.

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Rapidus Wants to Supply 2nm Chips to Tech Giants, Challenge TSMC

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Rapidus itself projects that it will need approximately $35 billion to initiate pilot 2nm chip production in 2025, and then bring that to high-volume manufacturing in 2027. But in addition to developing a viable 2nm fabrication process, Rapidus will also have to build a modern semiconductor fabrication facility, which is an expensive venture.

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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. Development is taking its time, and no glass based on Micro XR is expected to hit the market before 2025. Samsung can be the first partner also on this line of products.

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