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BMW Group Taps Meta for XR Car Gaming System

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BMW Group USA has teamed up with Meta Platform’s Reality Labs division to develop an automotive virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR) solution. The new system combines BMW’s sensor data with Meta’s tracking systems and technologies to create a “car-locked” immersive entertainment console.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.06.26): Quest 3 page appears on Best Buy, Vision Pro SDK released, and more!

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Unity has already sent an email to all of us to say that the distribution of the Beta will start next month (July) and will be gradual starting from a small group of developers. Thanks to Hexa, Amazon can so show the 3D model of the items it is selling , and also provide virtual try-on features.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.07.13): Lynx now aims at the consumer market, App Lab to enable DLCs, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Honor to all the other countries, some of them probably deserved more than us, but I think Italy won because we were a true team, a group of people that supported each other for a goal they craved to reach. Amazon Lumberyard becomes opensource. We won with our heart, the big heart of us Italians. News from partners (and friends).

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Wearing Apple Vision Pro With Glasses Works, But It's Risky

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It’s now 2024, and both Meta and Amazon are members of the Vision Council, a group whose members "produce 90 percent of the prescription lenses worn in the U.S.". I watched as the green outlines inside Apple Vision Pro adjusted to my eyes and set up eye tracking. I've lost so much time to smudges, though.

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XR Goes Mainstream at MWC 2024 – Event Roundup

XR Today - VR Headsets tag

According to reports, the upcoming Samsung XR headset will feature a microOLED display, eight tracking cameras, a Time of Flight (ToF) sensor, voice commands, eye tracking, and hand tracking. At the event, AWS collaborated with Proto Holograms to showcase a new system powered by Amazon Bedrock.

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E3 2017: Sony Video Talks Future PSVR Upgrades: A.I., Focus Variation And More

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Dominic Mallinson, Senior Vice President of R&D at Sony Interactive Entertainment, spoke a little about the current areas of VR that the group is looking into in a video that ran before the company’s E3 press conference yesterday. You can see it below, the clip starts at around 43:20.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.10.02): Meta Quest 3 launched, Vive Ultimate Tracker leaked, and more!

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More info (Bigscreen Beyond review — Road To VR) More info (Bigscreen Beyond review — Upload VR) Amazon announces new Echo Frames Amazon has announced the new model of its Echo Frames glasses, which are smartglasses that connect you to Alexa. This new model has new cool styles and features improved battery life, all for $269.99.

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