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Update: Oculus Rift + Touch Immediately Sells Out After Start of Amazon Prime Day

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If you’re already an Amazon Prime Member, or looking to become one starting today, Amazon’s annual Prime Day is here to help you spend that hard earned cash on at very least an Oculus Rift. Update (July 16th, 3:53 PM ET) : It appears Amazon USA is already out of stock. Check here to see if your computer is ready.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.12): Quest 2 is launching, dogs use AR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

VR people think that this may mean that Facebook may have to remove its mandatory Facebook login, also because other countries (like Germany) are raising similar concerns. Unreal Engine and Photoshop), as it happens in Google Docs when many people edit the same document at the same time. Image by Google). News worth a mention.

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How Are XR Firms Training Sports Athletes and Saving Their Lives?

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News reports have revealed that a new extended reality (XR) tool has now become integral to Germany’s European Under 17 (U17) football training programme, leading to enhanced sports training. Germany recently scored a major win at the European U17 Football Championship against France.

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Digital Twins: XR Today Expert Roundtable

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Orlando’s digital twin could be viewed as a more in-depth version of Google Maps that allows decision-makers to experience a “flyover” of the region with overlays of relevant data points. This brings with it security and access control concerns.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.19): HTC launches Vive Flow, Magic Leap 2 announced, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Vive Flow is a 6DOF headset that works with your Android phone as a 3DOF controller (hands tracking is coming in the future). Amazon Glow is a video projector for kids. Amazon has just announced Glow, a product to make people interact and play with children remotely. Microsoft X-Rings is a controllers that can change its shape.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.24): Apple opens applications for Vision Pro devkits, Meta may stop the production of Quest Pro, and more!

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Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. Quest Pro is also receiving a special hybrid mode, where both controllers and hands are tracked at the same time. Ah no, not even that because also Twitter is dead. Long story short, this week has been a cemetery.

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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!

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Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed. Image from Amazon).