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The XR Week Peek (2022.06.13): Apple doesn’t show its AR glasses at WWDC, Meta delays its AR plans, and more!

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Meta delays its plans for AR glasses. Meta has not officially answered this report, but Andrew Bosworth, the CTO of the company, has indirectly commented on it: “ We’re going to ship wrist wearables and AR glasses that bring completely new tech?—?like Other relevant news. Image by Meta). like EMG?—?to This is anyway good news.

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Spatial Beats: Apple, Epic & Tom Brady

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The trial begins next month in California. Some new additions to the headset are features such as pupil and eye tracking, heart rate, and facial tracking with an extra mounted unit. The Unity Cube is an experiment from developer Tony “SkarredGhost” Vitillo to test the limits of what Oculus will allow into the App Lab program.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.23): Facebook works on its OS, Oculus Link official cable released, Huawei VR glasses available, and much more!

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Facebook is reportedly working on its AR glasses (made with Luxottica) that should be released in 2023. Facebook is investing billions for hardware creation, and it is going to move 4,000 employes working on AR hardware in a new venue just built in California. This has been a great week for all Oculus Quest users and developers.

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The XR Week Peek: Facebook abandons BCIs, VR grows fast, and much more!

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Facebook has given up on brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to focus on EMG-based wristwatches , which are considered a more practical path for input in AR and VR. Inside this growing VR market, the headset that is selling the most is the Oculus Quest 2. Digilens and Luxecel present innovations for AR lenses.

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Editorial: Apple Vision Pro is a mix of innovation, and year-2016 VR, for a hefty price. But…

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Some apps are also getting integration with XR features in a super-smart way: during the keynote, at a certain point, they showed the possibility that a person sends an iMessage with a 3D model inside, and that 3D model is extracted and viewed in AR in the environment by the receiver. But on AR glasses. Very cool. 2016 or 2023?

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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More evidence of Facebook’s big plans for VR/AR: they plan on selling almost half a million Oculus Rift units by the end of 2016. Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.09): Vive Cosmos probably on sale at €799, Kura reveals 150° FOV AR glasses, Oculus “Cablegate” and much more!

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Image by Ars Technica). A market where Oculus has almost no earning s from the hardware sales, though, so it’s a weird situation. Kura teases second-gen AR glasses, but…. The specs are like a dream, considering that no AR headset on the market is even close to these ones. Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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