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

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

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

The Ghost Howls

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 The same on Twitter. Other relevant news.

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Microsoft to Cut Back Staff for US Army’s IVAS Headset amid Layoffs

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The decision follows the US government’s total $1.75 The news comes just a day after a Bloomberg report revealed Apple had indefinitely postponed plans for its augmented reality (AR) smart glasses. Setbacks Across XR Headset Manufacturers The news is one of the latest setbacks for Microsoft’s military project.

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How Transportation Sectors are Leading in Scalable XR Training

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Supporting that trend is a broad scope of heavyweight companies debuting XR devices this year, most notably the Apple Vision Pro, which is driving the productivity and workplace solutions market forward. HTC VIVE is currently providing their devices for North Dakota Classrooms, and Meta recently gave thousands of Quests to Kentucky Schools.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2021

The Ghost Howls

Regarding the glasses, I have not big hopes for true AR glasses, but I think that thanks to Facebook and Apple, finally we’ll have some important smartglasses entering the market , making the mainstream think about wearing something on their face to enjoy notifications from the phone. Phone AR will be always more popular.

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My predictions for virtual reality in 2021

The Ghost Howls

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores. The rise of enterprise.

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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

But we’ve got some amazing people this year, both in the enterprise side — so talking about training — we’ve got a whole defense and government sector that’s happening at the event this year, a couple hours of that. And then another stage on Saturday that’s all about defense and government.

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