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Big XR News from Microsoft Ignite, Snap, Meta, and Valve

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However, with 2024 shaping up to be a monumental year for XR, with Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon, and Apple all putting major stakes and investments into the space, what companies do today could greatly influence the future of work. The firm is rolling out the features starting in early December this year for free.

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Is Personal Computing’s Next Conquest Your Face?

AR Insider

Up north in Seattle, Amazon announced Echo Frames, lightweight glasses with the Alexa voice assistant embedded in them. Microsoft won the PC era and now has a tablet business, while Apple and Google have the dominant mobile operating systems. Microsoft’s second AR headset, Hololens 2, is expected to be released this month.

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How Much is Facebook Investing in Spatial Computing?

AR Insider

We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments. Q4 2014 R&D spend increased to $1.1 This is a $9.8

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SteamVR to Get Linux and Mac OSX Support Within “a Few Months”

Road to VR

The initiative was revealed by Valve’s Joe Ludwig during a talk at this year’s developer-focused Steam Dev Days event in Seattle last month. This is news that will likely delight both open source operating system enthusiasts, Apple fans and Windows detractors alike.

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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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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.30): Niantic launches VPS, Pico launches Neo 3 Link, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for Apple may unveil RealityOS at WWDC. At the upcoming WWDC, Apple may unveil its operating system for XR glasses, dubbed RealityOS. Most probably, it won’t also unveil the glasses, but it may just talk about upcoming features for Apple XR developers.

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

XR for Business Podcast

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. ” After he gave his TED Talk on it, there’s interest from Apple, and Google ended up buying his company. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT.

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