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Augmented reality is reaching a mature state according to Gartner

The Ghost Howls

I have also noticed that actually there is still something AR-related in the hype cycle, and it is the AR cloud , the system to create a complete worldwide mapping between the real and the virtual world. Security — establishing hierarchies for data capture and protection. Considering that companies like 6d.ai

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Holoride debuts Ride crypto, the currency of its in-car metaverse

TechCrunch VR

Vehicle passengers keen to experience virtual worlds or play games — all of which are in tune with the movement the car they’re riding in — will have to use the Ride utility token to make purchases. That bet could pay off. In addition, content creators and car manufacturers may receive Ride as partner royalties, says Wollny.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.01): HoloLens 2 may come in September, Oculus may commercialize a multiplayer LBVR solution, HP Reverb is back and much more!

The Ghost Howls

(Image by Microsoft). According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. It is not on sale on US HP Store and will be on Amazon US next month.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.02): XR2 shows the future of standalones, F8 and GDC canceled and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft has released more specifications for its upcoming XBOX Series X, and from these data is clearly possible to see that it will be compatible with VR headsets. This reinforces my belief that Microsoft in 2021–2022 will add VR support to it , to fight the PSVR when the market will be riper.

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Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. But at the end of the day, you can be and interact with the virtual world. And I think that's all XR is about, is empowering and connecting the virtual and the real. We call this process data prep.

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Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. But at the end of the day, you can be and interact with the virtual world. And I think that's all XR is about, is empowering and connecting the virtual and the real. We call this process data prep.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.07): Meta has invested more than $10B on XR, Hololens 3 may have been canceled, and more!

The Ghost Howls

If you make some calculations using these data, the result is that Meta has probably sold 9–10M Quest 2 units until now. So creating new devices that young kids may like (the Quest 2) and that have an independent store (Quest Store) and where Meta can perform all the data tracking that it wants, seems the ideal scenario.