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XR Year in Review: The Most Important Stories of 2023 and What They Mean for 2024

Road to VR

Instead a ‘look-and-tap’ system relying on eye and hand-tracking is the core input method, and by all accounts ( including mine ) it works very well. But not more than two and a half years later the company is reportedly laying off hundreds of its staff as it pivots its strategy.

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How Will Xiaomi’s AR Smart Glasses Square Up with Rivals?

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2023 , the new device includes a trove of innovative features such as a “retina-level” electrochromic adaptive display, lighting adjustment, Snapdragon Spaces tethering, and hand tracking, among others. percent year-on-year, or 1.7 billion CNY ($245.1 percent for the same period.

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12 Major New Features Quest Has Received Since Launch

Road to VR

Since its launch in 2019 Oculus Quest has represented a major shift in Facebook’s VR strategy by moving away from the PC. Hand-tracking. Hand-tracking first came to the original Quest in late 2019, offering users and developers a controllerless option for input on the headset. Facebook Messenger.

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Oculus Rift and Touch Now Cheaper Than Vive

VRScout

The strategy to slash Touch pricing by 50% when they’ve only just begun making their way into the hands of consumers is a bold move. You can head on over to Amazon to pick up a Rift + Touch bundle , the Rift , or just Touch controllers. Not much of a consolation, but it’s something.

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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

More info (Vive Cosmos Elite launch) More info (New offerings of Vive Pro Eye) More info (Ben Lang’s editorial on HTC’s strategy) More info (Vive Sync launch). Developers continue to have fun with Oculus Quest hands tracking! A new week, a new sheer of demos exploiting Oculus Quest hands tracking!

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My predictions for Meta Connect 2023: Meta Quest 3 and…

The Ghost Howls

Considering the leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt, the device will probably be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. After the Vision Pro announcement, both Meta and Pico started giving even more attention to it, and a few days ago, the Quest runtime was updated so that the main menu became hands-first.

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Power and Responsibility: Highlights from Microsoft Build

Tech Trends VR

Its intelligent cloud and intelligent edge strategy is a much more compelling proposition for developers which will continue to define its corporate strategy for the next several years.”. The whole world is becoming a computer Click To Tweet. Alice Bonasio is a VR Consultant and Tech Trends’ Editor in Chief.

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