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Report: Apple Using VR to Test Self-Driving System

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Virtual reality is being used to test Apple’s self-driving vehicle. According to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday, Apple will be able to continue to keeping their secretive plans to develop self-driving software behind closed doors thanks to virtual reality. For a full list of Apple’s VR plans, we listed out 10 of them back in February.

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Big XR News from Meta, HaptX, Siemens, and Apple

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billion, driven by investments in servers, data centres, and network infrastructure. The new smart glasses are available for pre-order in 15 regions, covering the US, Canada, Australia, and Europe. Meta’s open approach contrasts Apple’s walled garden ecosystem, which supports its spatial computing vision.

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FORM’s AR Swim Goggles Now Work In Open Waters

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Pair your Garmin or Apple smartwatches for additional GPS functionality. FORM’s AR-enhanced swim goggles received a free firmware update today introducing support for Garmin and Apple smartwatches, allowing wearers to track a wide range of metrics, such as their GPS location and heart rate, while swimming outdoors in open water.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.17): Apple Glasses are sleek, UE5 rises hype, NVIDIA releases CloudXR SDK, and more!

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Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. Apple glasses are coming. The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. Apple is really good at selling stuff.

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Minecraft Earth Gets 1.2 Million Downloads in First Week

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Data Point of the Week is AR Insider’s dive into the latest spatial computing figures. It includes data points, along with narrative insights and takeaways. For an indexed collection of data and reports, subscribe to ARtillery Pro. percent of downloads), Great Britain (5 percent of downloads) and Canada (2.6

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Big XR News from Meta, Apple, Immersive Tech Week, Xreal, and Microsoft

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Apple to Release Vision Pro in March According to Bloomberg’s senior tech analyst Mark Gurman , Apple plans to introduce its Vision Pro MR headset in March 2022, despite previous plans to launch the head-mounted display (HMD) in January. The impact of the Metaverse is real, and it’s happening today, right now. –

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The XR Week Peek (2021.08.02): Facebook creates Metaverse group and prepares to launch its smartglasses, and more!

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It is very interesting that because of this recall, Facebook shared some data about how many facemasks were affected : it says 4M in the United States, around 170K in Canada. Facebook is evaluating the integration of Oculus Move with Apple Health. I think they handled all this situation in the best way possible.

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