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The XR Week Peek (2024.02.27): Meta reported to release Quest Pro 2 in 2025, Apple Vision Pro affected by the crackgate, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The hype for the Apple Pro is starting to deflate and it is possible to see that from some cues: for instance, there are more critics of the headset and fewer articles are talking about it. So at the beginning of next year, we may have huge players like Apple, Google, and Meta battling for the high-end XR sector.

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The other DWI: Driving while immersed

TechCrunch VR

Scholars analyzed just under 12,000 police reports of accidents in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, both before and after the release of the game in 2016, which was downloaded 100 million times during the brief study period. I spent a number of years as an advisor to Samsung, working on their AR/VR strategy. VR is still in its infancy.

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

The Ghost Howls

The company is based in Bloomington, Indiana and has the mission of creating engaging AR and VR applications about the world’s cultural heritage sites and monuments. By the summer of 2018, we were ready to unveil our work to the general public through the stores of Apple, Microsoft, Oculus, and Vive. Where is that?