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The XR Week Peek (2021.01.04): New Year’s Eve parties go virtual, Tundra to offer a Vive Tracker competitor, and more!

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Because of the pandemic, many people have been forced to celebrate New Year’s Eve at home skipping the usual rituals of the home party with friends or the big celebrations in a public plaza. It was impressive seeing at the TV news Time Square in New York being almost empty on December 31st. News worth a mention.

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Remote assistants in combination with AR or VR in US 2022

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As for Virtual Reality (VR), it’s a complete immersion into a virtual world, shutting off the physical world entirely through special VR devices like HTC Vive, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Rift. This initiative helped boost New York excursions by 190%. Credit: Unsplash.

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Apple Vision Pro Review: A Portable But Heavy Cinema & Monitor With A Promising Spatial OS

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Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Apple Vision Pro Specs, Features & Details Apple officially revealed the full Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own. But does it deliver?

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The XR Week Peek (2022.01.11): CES had some interesting XR announcements, new rumors on Apple and Meta, and more!

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A Horizon game is coming for this new headset, and some rumors talk also about Half-Life: Alyx potentially be available in the future; HTC has announced the Vive Wrist Tracker, a 6 DOF tracker for the Vive Focus 3. Other relevant news. New rumors on Apple and Meta devices. Image by The Information).

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The best AR and VR news from CES 2022

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HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). HTC has made an announcement at this CES and it has been a pretty cool one. To showcase its functionality, HTC showed some videos of the tracker in use to improve the performances of hands tracking and also with the tracker installed on external props.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.01): Quest Pro gets released, Quest 3 slated for 2023, and more!

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This is the same confusion that created issues for HTC in the past with the Vive Pro, for instance. The other part of the problem is due, as per my speculation, to Meta wanting absolutely to take this out before Apple could release its headse t, to have a first-mover advantage over it.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR. HOLLYWOOD LOVES HENRY.