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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Sony invests $250M in Epic Games. Sony has announced that it has made a big investment of $250M in Epic Games through one of its subsidiaries. The investment gives Sony a minority stake in Epic that now is evaluated at more than $17B. And Sony for sure wants to have a stake in the metaverse. Top news of the week.

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Miami to Host Immerse Global Summit 2022

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The event will showcase the future of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), blockchain, the internet of things (IoT), and the Metaverse with a series of keynote speeches, workshops, product demos, and many others. See you in Miami, Dec 5-7 [link] #IGS pic.twitter.com/cXVNb0JvoE.

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Mark Zuckerberg and I are confusing the market about VR and AR and the future of all computing: here’s why we need to stop doing that

Robert Scoble

Mark Zuckerberg has been talking a lot about augmented reality and investing a lot, too. ” Facebook already has internal plans for the next five years and most of these new plans, and excitement, are about augmented reality. .” Back to the augmented reality devices that Zuckerberg is promising.

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The New 3D Apple Arriving at WWDC

Robert Scoble

That is the basis for the new Apple and is important for a range of new products, from robots that will do things around your house, to cars that will drive you around, to augmented and virtual reality products that will bring new kinds of games and experiences to all of us. Just get Amazon’s latest iPhone app. Disclaimer.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.06.07): Facebook working on Quest 2 Pro, Nolo and Arpara announce new VR headsets, and more!

The Ghost Howls

A decent budget for Microsoft and Facebook… but something impossible for companies like HTC or Magic Leap (do you remember when we all thought that $2.5B Magic Leap partners with AMD for its next-generation device. Magic Leap has announced that it has partnered with AMD to build the next generation of its glasses.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. Magic Leap are the highest-profile, with both a device and a platform, and more recent entrants include Ubiquity6, AIReal and Placenote.

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As UploadVR Turns 2 We Reflect On The First Full Year of Consumer VR

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Magic Leap kicks off the month with the announcement of an enormous $794 million fundraising round, backed by Alibaba. The money is said to help in manufacturing and launching the secretive augmented reality company’s first product. Google transitions Clay Bavor into a position as head of VR. February 2016. March 2016.