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The outlook is getting more complicated for Meta’s virtual reality dreams

TechCrunch VR

What’s worth recalling is why Meta pursued the strategy of selling headsets at-cost to begin with. Apple seems poised to gain an advantage when it comes to acquiring new startups and products in the VR space, however. I think if that as 300 x Series A financings, or more than 3 per day for every day in the quarter!

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After Meta’s Q4 Results, What’s Next for the Embattled Metaverse Firm?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

” Measures taken in the initiative included consolidation strategies for its real estate to “sublease, early terminate, or abandon” some offices under lease. This reflects actions taken at Google, Snap, Microsoft, and Apple over the last few months regarding their respective smart glass offerings.

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Our First Look At Microsoft HoloLens 2

VRScout

It’s no secret that Microsoft’s mixed reality strategy is centered around its Intelligent Cloud, and the Intelligent Edge; therefore the HoloLens team has worked very closely with Azure to bring it all together in one sleek package. In other words, down with the “walled garden” approach favored by companies such as Apple and Oculus.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.29): Oculus kills the Go, Google buys North, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Original image by Oculus). Oculus kills the Go and opens to content on Quest. In the end, the time of the Oculus Go has come. Devices like Oculus Quest , Pico Neo 2 , and Vive Focus Plus have proven that 6DOF VR is more interesting and has far more retention. Apple adds spatial audio to AirPods.

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Magic Leap’s LEAP Con 2018 round-up: all the major announcements in only one place

The Ghost Howls

It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus. Finally Magic Leap will be available in almost all the United States. Magic Leap availability.

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Augmented reality’s half-decade of stagnation

TechCrunch VR

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey called the device a “tragic heap” and sales of the device flopped — The Information reported that the company sold just 6,000 of the devices in the six months following its long-awaited launch. But, I’m excited to see what Apple thinks it is.” other things.

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Super-interview with Jeri Ellsworth about her Tilt Five glasses, AR tech, and startups!

The Ghost Howls

In virtual reality, you have to do this reprojection, Oculus calls it timewarp, and that means that your video card and your computer has to be running at a really high frame rate to correct for your head motion and we’ve rolled that all into the headset. That’s where I got started with augmented reality. The Vive Wands.

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