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An Inflection Point for WebVR and the Open Metaverse

Road to VR

First, Nate Mitchell announced during his Oculus Connect 3 keynote that Oculus will be supporting the WebVR ecosystem with the React VR framework and a VR-enabled browser called Carmel. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.06.23): HTC teases the Vive Cosmos, Oculus announces AR at OC6 and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Oculus has teased the OC6. Oculus has just announced the dates for the Oculus Connect 6. It will be held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California on September, 25–26th. Oculus is going to announce something not only about VR but also about AR. Other relevant news. Image by Upload VR).

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Is Personal Computing’s Next Conquest Your Face?

AR Insider

At an event in San Jose, California, Facebook introduced its plan for augmented reality glasses, where users will be able to pull up a visual display on top of what’s actually in front of them. Microsoft won the PC era and now has a tablet business, while Apple and Google have the dominant mobile operating systems.

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China watches and learns from the US in AR/VR competition

TechCrunch VR

He believed China would have its own augmented and virtual reality giants, just as how the domestic smartphone industry birthed global leaders like Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi that rival Apple today. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips are used almost exclusively by serious players, from Facebook’s Oculus Quest in the U.S.

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What F8 2017 Means for Mass Market Adoption of Immersive Technologies

VRScout

More than 4,000 people attended the event at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, and more than 3 million worldwide watched the keynote via Facebook Live. Rachel Franklin, Head of Social VR, came on stage to announced Facebook’s first social VR app, Facebook Spaces , available now in beta on Oculus Rift.

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Google Launching WebVR Support for Android Chrome in January, Desktop to Follow

Road to VR

Just a few weeks ago, major forces collaborating on the WebVR Spec gathered in San Jose, CA for the W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality , a two-day conference where the likes of Mozilla, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Oculus, The Khronos Group, and many more hashed out the latest developments and directions for the WebVR ecosystem.

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Key News Around the Globe

VRWorld

Apple announces new iMac Pro with up to 18-core Intel Xeon and AMD’s Radeon Vega Graphics. “Apple today announced a brand new tier of its all-in-one desktop called the iMac Pro. times more pixels than the Oculus and Vive VR headsets. ” Apple pushes AI – who needs others when we can do it all alone.