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New Quest 3 Mixed Reality Features Leak, amidst Allegations of Biometric Data Misuse

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Still, the feature could debut alongside Apple’s XR product debut next month to showcase the firm’s MR vision compared to Apple’s spatial computing future. The groups have not yet confirmed a deposition date for Zuckerberg. Meta has not yet confirmed an official release date.

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The 5 most important XR-related pieces of news from Google I/O 2023

The Ghost Howls

I guess this line has been added to the keynote speech because Apple is going to announce its device very soon at WWDC (at least according to the rumors), and Google wanted to show that it’s part of the game, too. My candid opinion is that the project Starline as is will be abandoned and will enter the Google Graveyard.

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Weekly Funding & People Roundup: TheWaveVR Raises $4M, Pluto.

AllThingsVR

2) Pluto VR , the Seattle-based virtual reality startup co-founded by PopCap Games co-founder John Vechey , has raised $13.9 Seattle-based Maveron led the round, with participation from Madrona Venture Group of Seattle, Trilogy Equity Partners of Bellevue and other individual investors. Read more here.

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Pixvana Reveals 10K VR Video Player and Publishing Platform ‘SPIN’

Road to VR

In a mission to make 360 video less terrible, the Seattle-based company has developed a number of technologies since they came out of stealth last December. Company founders come from senior product and engineering leadership roles at Apple, Adobe, Microsoft and Lucasfilm. They’re calling it Pixvana SPIN.

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Exclusive: Here’s How Fantastic Contraption VR Devs Generated More Than $1 Million

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Fantastic Contraption’s developers are part of an exclusive group of VR creators who have successfully generated in excess of $1 million. Other teams in this group include Survios ( which is funded by investors to the tune of $50 million ) and Owlchemy Labs ( acquired by Google ). ” Accepting The Possibility Of Failure.

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Meet & Greet in AR, with Spatial’s Jacob Loewenstein

XR for Business Podcast

” After he gave his TED Talk on it, there’s interest from Apple, and Google ended up buying his company. Then what happened was some of these Microsoft Office tools came out — like PowerPoint — and they embedded within certain groups of people. But most people weren’t great at using that.

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Meet & Greet in AR, with Spatial’s Jacob Loewenstein

XR for Business Podcast

” After he gave his TED Talk on it, there’s interest from Apple, and Google ended up buying his company. Then what happened was some of these Microsoft Office tools came out — like PowerPoint — and they embedded within certain groups of people. But most people weren’t great at using that.

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