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The XR Week Peek (2024.02.06): Apple ships the Vision Pro, Meta had record revenues, and more!

The Ghost Howls

My feed on social media is full of posts about the Apple Vision Pro, which has just been released a few days ago. So, as you can expect, a big part of this newsletter will be about Apple’s device, but actually there are also a few interesting pieces of news that regard other products and other companies.

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In-Vehicle VR Company Holoride Adds Marvel Film Directors To Its Team

VRScout

The Russo Brothers join Holoride’s new advisory board alongside Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey. From entertainment, to transportation, technology, and finance, Holoride is tapping into a diverse suite of entrepreneurs to move our company forward.”

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Apple CEO: VR Has “Lower Commercial Interest” than AR, New Hires from Magic Leap & Oculus

Road to VR

Apple CEO Tim Cook has stated that in his view, augmented reality and not virtual reality holds the ticket for commercial success in immersive technologies in the future. As its largest competitors trail-blaze a particular path, Apple is content to be Apple and survey the chaos and decide to do things when it’s good and ready.

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Over 2,000 Meta Quest Headsets Deployed in Kentucky Schools

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Following funding via COVID-related investments, the region gained the support required to kick off the VR immersive learning program, starting with just 50 Oculus Gos, before reaching its current hardware figure. ” A new wave of XR influence emerges with the Apple Vision Pro recording sales figures of roughly 200,000 headsets. .”

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Interview with Robert Scoble about Oculus Quest 2, Apple Glasses and more!

The Ghost Howls

He has also recently written together with Irena Cronin “The Infinite Retina” , a great book about the technologies of the future, like XR, AI, and autonomous vehicles. But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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Metaverses grapple with Meta versus Apple

TechCrunch VR

Last week, I talked about Apple and crypto. This week, we’re talking about Apple clashing with Meta over their metaverse taxes. It goes to show that while they seek to use Apple’s platform for free, they happily take from the creators and small businesses that use their own.”. tax attached to them.

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Bigscreen TV Launches With 50+ Channels Of Video Content

VRScout

News & Finance: NBC, CNN, Bloomberg, Sky News, Newsy, Cheddar News, RT America, Weather Nation, Crypto News, and more. We built a new VR video browser technology that can load video streaming and live streaming sites,” Bigscreen says. Random: Monstercat, Lofi Hip Hop Beats Radio, Comedy Central, NASA, SpaceX, 24/7 Cats, and more.

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