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The XR Week Peek (2021.04.05): Rumors on a Apple headset intensify, Quest 2 sales grow fast, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The rumors on the Apple Glasses are intensifying. It is not a secret that Apple is working on an XR device: the mystery is when it is going to release it and what it will actually be. The hype is rising, and Apple is playing with it. (My usual terrible image to wish you Happy Easter, if you celebrate it). Top news of the week.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.28): PSVR 2 revealed, Meta working on AI and 5G, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Unluckily my referral gives you a chance of winning only if you are in the EMEA area (Europe, Middle-East, Africa). Magic Leap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. During a presentation, Magic Leap has unveiled some more features about its headset and controllers. That’s it, easy peasy. News worth a mention.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.02.08): Samsung is back to XR, Echo VR gets shut down, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Most probably this announcement has been made to envision a future competition with Apple, bringing to XR the battle Android vs iOS (and Samsung vs Apple) that we already have on phones. I guess the purpose is to reassure its existing customers, to prevent them all from going to Magic Leap 2.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.08.01): Quest 2 price raise, PSVR 2 passthrough, Pico 4 leaks, and more!

The Ghost Howls

To qualify, registrants need to be resident in EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, or Africa). He also is aware of Apple entering the market, and said his employees that the battle between Meta and Apple is a battle between open ecosystems vs closed ecosystems. Step-2: Wait for the GTC to start and join the Keynote livestream.

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Charlie Fink on his new book Convergence and the future of XR

The Ghost Howls

When I was a junior executive at Disney I pitched my boss Jeff Katzenberg the idea this way: “ Bambi in Africa”. I love any kind of AR , from the simple marker-based mobile AR in the book to advanced systems like the Magic Leap One. Is it true that you invented the Lion King? I’m still a stage-struck kid.

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ANNOUNCEMENT and Why the Tesla Humanoid Robot Matters

Robert Scoble

Here is our first analysis (located at: [url]) on why we should all be paying attention to what is happening in humanoid robots and consumer electronics, which include autonomous vehicles that are now arriving to people’s garages and, soon, Augmented Reality devices from Apple and others. The robot brings other robots.

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Bringing the XR World Together at the VR/AR Global Summit, with Executive Director Anne-Marie Enns

XR for Business Podcast

Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. And what’s great to do, with it being the global summit, is we’ve got speakers this year that are coming from Africa, and India, and Asia, and Germany and– you know, we’re doing a European summit next year. And then we’ve got workshops too.

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