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The Most Important Upcoming AR/VR Events This Year

ARPost

This is one of the most comprehensive fairs for professionals, stakeholders, and tech enthusiasts focused on immersive technologies. XR:WA When: July 20-23 Where: Perth, Western Australia Australian winter is mild compared to the summer heat in many parts of the US, so it’s a great moment to attend one of the best AR/VR events of the year.

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Vision Buddy: An Innovative Television Watching System for People With Low Vision

ARPost

It can be used in the following modes: As a TV watching system that can connect to any cable or satellite provider, and even streaming services like Amazon Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, and Roku player; As a magnifier, which has zoom in or zoom out capabilities up to 10x; Advanced OCR. Using the Vision Buddy Headset.

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Caregility Opens XR Solution at Saudi’s Seha Virtual Hospital

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These include Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The healthcare enterprise also expanded across New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom amid a surge in nursing and patient engagement solutions.

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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

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. More info (Sony invests in Epic Games) More info (Editorial by Ben Lang). Doooooooonate!

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The HoloLens Application that Wants to Save eCommerce Retailers Millions

VRScout

Much has been made of the use of robots to increase efficiency in warehouses —with web retailers such as Amazon announcing significant investment in that area. Seeing the huge technology gap between what is used in a typical warehouse and what they were working on in the lab convinced them that they were on to something. “By

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The device will be available for $3500 in United States, Japan, China, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Australia, and New Zealand, the same countries where it was previously available for pre-order. Image from Amazon). After a long wait, finally Microsoft is shipping its HoloLens 2 headset. We have to be patient.

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 – since before the interwebs! At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies. To learn more about Torch, you can visit torch.app.

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