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The XR Week Peek (2020.01.20): Oculus Go price cut down to $150, Mojo Vision teases AR contact lenses and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Oculus Go price cut down to $150. Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. More info (Oculus Go price cut) More info (Xiaomi laying off the team dedicated to Go). New troubles for Oculus Rift users.

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Tech Giants Prime AR’s Headworn Era

AR Insider

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. In 2017, Apple released software called ARKit, which includes tools for software makers to determine how far away an object or wall is, if the phone is moving, or identify limbs in a human body, among other functions.

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Getting started with Augmented Reality (AR)

ARVR

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Amazon Sumerian   — Amazon Sumerian enables users to create and run virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and 3D applications quickly without requiring any specialized programming expertise.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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The Industrial Metaverse – Which Company Will Dominate?

CraneMorley

Here are some additional thoughts on how AWS could compete in the industrial metaverse: AWS could focus on developing industrial metaverse applications for its existing services, such as Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Rekognition. AWS could invest in developing open source tools and frameworks for the industrial metaverse.

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The Down-Low on What You Need to Know (To Be Competitive in XR), with SuperData’s Carter Rogers

XR for Business Podcast

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. BlackBerry started off kind of as an enterprise tool, as well. Oculus Go came out with this $199 headset – this really inexpensive headset — and they sold millions of these units. Which still has its uses!

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The Down-Low on What You Need to Know (To Be Competitive in XR), with SuperData’s Carter Rogers

XR for Business Podcast

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. BlackBerry started off kind of as an enterprise tool, as well. Oculus Go came out with this $199 headset – this really inexpensive headset — and they sold millions of these units. Which still has its uses!