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Big XR News from Apple, HTC VIVE, Taqtile, and Amazon

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This week has circled Apple, the legacy consumer hardware innovator shocked audiences in many ways when it debuted the Vision Pro, fairly stealing headlines as hyped ramped during the event’s leading months. Apple Debuts Vision Pro This week the news finally broke. Perhaps Apple will go the way of Meta’s reputation.

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What the EU Digital Markets Act may mean for XR

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The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. Concept of a future AR glass by Apple. Fairer competition.

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The Most Infamous Story in Tech Returns With New Details—but No Hard Evidence

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More than two years after Bloomberg Businessweek published a widely disputed investigation claiming the Chinese government had secretly installed microchips on server motherboards produced by Supermicro that were used to spy on companies like Amazon and Apple, the outlet has published its follow-up , which doubles down… Read more.

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Spatial Beats: 2020’s Top Ten

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Now what’s going to happen to the malls Amazon doesn’t want as warehouses? Russian government hackers piggybacked on cybersecurity software (!!!!) to penetrate deep into hundreds of government and corporate systems. I’d put Apple in the top ten also for its introduction of lidar (3D depth scans) on the new iPad.

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Big News from Altspace VR, Apple, Disney, Lloyd’s, and the US Justice Department

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Recently, Microsoft and Amazon cut back roughly 10,000 employees, and Meta dismissed approximately 11,000 people. Apple Teases Reality Pro Specs, Disney/Sony Partnership On Monday, Apple Inc. Reports reveal that Apple is talking to the Walt Disney Company to develop a VR platform.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

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Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools ?—?Pre-release Image by Epic Games).

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XR Talks: Defining the AR Cloud, Part II

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The spatial computing-focused privacy expert believes that industry self-governance will be more impactful. ” Google could be the knowledge layer , Facebook the social layer , Microsoft the enterprise productivity layer , and Amazon the commerce layer. But real change will be measured in action, says Pearlman.

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