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

The Ghost Howls

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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Our First Look At Microsoft HoloLens 2

VRScout

One of the more surprising announcements during the presentation, Spatial Anchors serve as a way to share three-dimensional images compatible with Apple’s ARKit as well as Google’s ARCore. In other words, down with the “walled garden” approach favored by companies such as Apple and Oculus. Spatial Anchors.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.21): Google is building an AR OS, Nike acquires RTFKT, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Some positions talk about a “real-time operating system”; some others are located in Waterloo, Canada, where there was the HQ of North, the company making the Focals smartglasses acquired by Google. As Google adds products to the AR portfolio, the OS Foundations team is the very first software team to work with new hardware. Tilt Brush).

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The Right Time to Invest in VR, with MetaVRse’s Alan Smithson and Alex Colgan

XR for Business Podcast

He's in the eastern part of Canada. So I'm really excited to talk about that, because I believe that as much as we're going into physical winter in Canada, I believe that we're going into a beautiful spring with regards to the investment landscape of this technology. Alan: Hey, what's up, Alex? Or near Halifax. Thanks for having me on.

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The Right Time to Invest in VR, with MetaVRse’s Alan Smithson and Alex Colgan

XR for Business Podcast

He's in the eastern part of Canada. So I'm really excited to talk about that, because I believe that as much as we're going into physical winter in Canada, I believe that we're going into a beautiful spring with regards to the investment landscape of this technology. Alan: Hey, what's up, Alex? Or near Halifax. Thanks for having me on.

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Creating Synthetic Photography, with ThreeKit’s Ben Houston

XR for Business Podcast

So these are like baseball caps or beanies, in Canada, they're called toques. They own Moores Clothing in Canada and also Jos. And it's great that Apple is pushing this pretty hard. There's a lot of rumors [that] Apple's working on that. What is the difference between workflows on Threekit, versus Unity or even Unreal?

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Creating Synthetic Photography, with ThreeKit’s Ben Houston

XR for Business Podcast

So these are like baseball caps or beanies, in Canada, they're called toques. They own Moores Clothing in Canada and also Jos. And it's great that Apple is pushing this pretty hard. There's a lot of rumors [that] Apple's working on that. What is the difference between workflows on Threekit, versus Unity or even Unreal?

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