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The XR Week Peek (2022.06.13): Apple doesn’t show its AR glasses at WWDC, Meta delays its AR plans, and more!

The Ghost Howls

We at VRrOOm are hiring to do our innovative XR events, check the “Friends” section of this newsletter if this opportunity can interest you! Image by Apple). Apple has not announced any glasses at WWDC. RoomPlan is an app that scans your room and identifies where are the pieces of furniture and what is their size.

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Spatial Beats: Apple, Huawei & Virtuix

AR Insider

This week, we look at new VR mounts and locomotion inputs, the ongoing Apple/Epic saga, and hands-on with Huawei’s VR glasses. The lower-cost locomotion option, Cybershoes , is now on Amazon for $349. Together with cyberchair and cybercarpet (included), Cybershoes allows gamers to walk and run in virtual reality.

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The AR Space Race, Part VI: Amazon

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Apple signals interest in location-relevant AR through its geo-anchors and Project Gobi. These are a few utilitarian, commerce, and social angles. How else will geospatial AR materialize? What are its active ingredients, including 5G and the AR cloud ? continuing here with Amazon. But it’s not alone.

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Amazon Brings Augmented Reality Product Previews to iOS App

Road to VR

Well, an AR preview might not exactly be ‘trying it’, but Amazon’s new ‘AR View’ function aims to help you figure out if a crock-pot clashes with your marble counters, or if that chair can really fit in that corner, adding a little more depth to the online shopping experience than you’re used to.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.31): Roblox released on Quest, Apple bringing back investments in VR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

We were all waiting for an Apple announcement, hoping that it could bring back some enthusiasm into the field, and it seems that the Vision Pro is having some beneficial effects , indeed. Apple showed investors that XR is not a fad, and even if it is still in its early stages, it is going to stay.

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Enhancing Immersive Experiences With Spatial Audio

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The sounds we hear are crucial to the multisensory environment needed for compelling immersive worlds. Let’s take a quick peek at spatial audio, its accelerating adoption, and how it enhances virtual reality experiences. Compared to stereo and surround sound, which are limited to the lateral plane, it adds a vertical plane.

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What’s Behind Amazon’s AR Play?

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The still-nascent AR sector hasn’t lived up to expectations. In reality, there are several technical challenges to get digital content to interact with physical objects realistically. But there are subcategories gaining meaningful traction, including industrial productivity and brand marketing.

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