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The XR Week Peek (2023.08.22): VRChat Android alpha released, Kinect For Azure discontinued, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info Some new leaks on the Apple Vision Pro This has been a quite positive week to discover news about the Apple Vision Pro, thanks to a few leaks about it. My thoughts and prayers go to the dev team that violated the NDA of the Apple Vision Pro: Apple will find them and sue them to hell. RIP Kinect, again.

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VR Therapies Calls for Urgent Support after Christmas Day Burglary

XR Today - Virtual Reality

It’s heartbreaking […] “They stole accessibility items, like our adaptive controllers, [which are needed] so children with special needs can access all of these technologies and games” VR Therapy Treatments Following the incident, the charity recouped roughly £5,600 after army veteran Nick Wilson launched a GoFundMe page.

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AR 101?—?A brief summary (Part 1)

ARVR

70s : Group of researchers at different organizations, such as NASA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of North Carolina, continued research in computer graphics and virtual reality (Krevelen, 2010). 2000s : First outdoor mobile AR game ARQuake. 2000s : First outdoor mobile AR game ARQuake.

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I tried the Apple Vision Pro and saw the future, but don’t buy it yet

Hypergrid Business

Maria Korolov at the Apple store in Holyoke, Massachusetts. This past weekend, I went to the local Apple store and got a demo of the new Apple Vision Pro headset — the one where you’ll spend a minimum of $3,500 and more likely $4,000 if you buy it. Is the Apple Vision Pro the reason to switch?

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Facebook steps into cloud gaming — and another feud with Apple

TechCrunch VR

Facebook will soon be the latest tech giant to enter the world of cloud gaming. Their approach is different than what Microsoft or Google has built but Facebook highlights a shared central challenge: dealing with Apple. Why cloud stream mobile games that your device is already capable of running locally? Image via Facebook.

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The most streamed movies of the week and where to find them

Mashable VR

Netflix's latest horror outing sees Iola Evans and Sex Education 's Isa Butterfield going up against a cursed video game that torments its players with some Saw -style scenarios that they have to complete in order to stay alive. Credit: Apple TV+. Choose or Die. Credit: CURSR FILMS LIMITED 2022. — S.H.

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Imagine XR Tomorrow; Build for XR Today, with PTC’s Mike Campbell

XR for Business Podcast

So PTC is a billion-dollar plus software company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. They’re shopping, they’re gaming, they’re entertainment. ” and letting everybody else know, which is really wonderful, because I don’t think we’re in a net sum game of humanity. What is PTC? Alan: Yeah.