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Is Facebook Building a ‘Social Layer’ For the Spatial Web?

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So predicting AR’s trajectory becomes an exercise in “ following the money.” Amazon wants AR for product visualization, pursuant to boosting e-commerce sales and reducing returns. Amazon wants AR for product visualization, pursuant to boosting e-commerce sales and reducing returns. to Oculus headsets.

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How Much is Facebook Investing in Spatial Computing?

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We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. More importantly, this aligns with the timeframe that followed its 2014 Oculus acquisition. billion for a representative baseline of pre-Oculus spending.

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Who’s Waging the Wearables Wars? Part VII: Facebook

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Like in our ongoing “ follow the money ” exercise, they’re each building wearables strategies that support or future-proof core businesses where tens of billions in annual revenues are at stake. The story is similar for Amazon , Microsoft and Bose (kind of), and the 800-pound gorilla in wearables, Apple.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.30): OC6, Pimax Day, Huawei VR glasses, Minecraft Earth and much more!

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This has been the week of the OC6, but, believe it or not, I have been able to find some other interesting news that don’t regard Oculus. Image by Oculus). Oculus bets on Oculus Quest at OC6. Well, the top news of the week is, of course, the Oculus Connect 6. Do you want to read them? Top news of the week.

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Getting started with Augmented Reality (AR)

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Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market. Salesforce uses Oculus Rift to create an immersive 3D environment for analyzing data. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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Editorial: Apple Reality may aim to replace the iPad, while Meta…

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Fitness+ : will let users exercise while watching an instructor in VR. Sam&Max: This Time Is Virtual is another amazing game on the Quest (Image by Happy Giant) The Quest Pro tried to change this trend: Meta launched it as a device specifically for professionals, and launched it together with a partnership with Microsoft, for instance.

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Accenture’s Top 5 Predictions For What Will Be Hot At CES 2017

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You’re going to see health and fitness devices incorporate AI, helping people come up with better exercise regimens, reminding them to take their medicine. When you think about things like intelligent assistants, we have embedded services like Siri from Apple, Google Home, Amazon Echo with Alexa. Facebook has Oculus.

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