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HTC Teases Smartphone Capability With Vive Cosmos

Road to VR

Afterwards, HTC Vive America GM Dan O’Brien announced that they’d have more to share leading up to Cosmos’ launch, including “the kinds of form-factors it can expand into.” Although less likely, HTC could also certify a wider swath of smartphones from various manufacturers such as Google does with Daydream.

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Big XR News from Qualcomm, NTT DOCOMO, Varjo, Morpheus, GigXR, and CoSo Cloud,

XR Today - Big XR News tag

These technologies will require edge and cloud computing, green, and low-latency networks to deliver their services. Such tools and technologies have remained in increasing demand for programmes, including America’s Got Talent, one of the world’s most widely-viewed television programmes.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.08): Microsoft launches Mesh, HTC and Pico tease new hardware, and more!

The Ghost Howls

If Microsoft commits to building this platform and doesn’t abandon it (a la Google), it can become an incredible tool for us developers. Google stops selling Cardboard viewers. Google had already abandoned the Daydream and Cardboard platforms, leaving the source code for Cardboard to the community to maintain.

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What Does the XR Industry Think about Apple’s Vision Pro?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The M2 delivers unparalleled standalone processing performance, while the new R1 chip is specialized to process input from the cameras, sensors, and microphones to enable what looked like high fidelity, low latency passthrough for a real-time sense of presence. Brian Meaney , Head of Product, Alteon.io

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Nokia Announces Speech-Based AI Network Management Tools

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Unprecedented demand for telecoms bandwidth, speed, and reliability have not only come from consumers and their handheld devices like smartphone and tablets, but also a growing need for low-latency, high-bandwidth, and high speed networks to facilitate immersive tools.

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A 2020 XR Year-In-Review, with MetaVRse' Alan & Julie Smithson, and Alex Colgan

XR for Business Podcast

We also saw a growth of AR glasses, not in America and not North America, not the rest of the world, but in China. But in an industrial factory or something where you can have line of sight to all your machines, you now have instant, instant, latent free zero latency-- not zero, but you get my point. Alex: Near zero latency.

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A 2020 XR Year-In-Review, with MetaVRse' Alan & Julie Smithson, and Alex Colgan

XR for Business Podcast

We also saw a growth of AR glasses, not in America and not North America, not the rest of the world, but in China. But in an industrial factory or something where you can have line of sight to all your machines, you now have instant, instant, latent free zero latency-- not zero, but you get my point. Alex: Near zero latency.