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End of the World Simulator in VR

ARVR

million people living in Hawaii on January 13, 2018. The three-part story experience takes about 38 minutes, the same amount of time it took for Hawaii citizens to find out that the alert was a false alarm. In terms of navigation, you won’t have to do any, and you don’t have any controls Check out the trailer here.

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 to Improve AR/VR Rendering & Reduce Power Consumption “by 30%”

Road to VR

Qualcomm introduced it’s new Snapdragon 845 mobile processor at the company’s tech summit in Hawaii this week, which Qualcomm says improves mobile AR/VR headset (branded to as ‘XR’, or ‘eXtended reality’) performance up to 30 percent in comparison to its predecessor, Snapdragon 835.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.21): Qualcomm launches AR2 chip, HTC headset gets leaked, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Another week, another roundup of amazing AR/VR news! The biggest news of the week took place in the Hawaii islands, where Qualcomm had its Snapdragon Summit event. To maximize power and thermal efficiency, the chip is actually split into three processing units: AR Processor, co-processor, and connectivity. Top news of the week.

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

The Ghost Howls

” , that are all the member states of the USA, excluded Alaska and Hawaii. It is a set of very high-quality headphones that are able to offer truly immersive and spatial audio, with a unique feature that lets you blend the audio of the AR experience and of your real world in an optimized way. MagicScript.

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Jake Rowell: How The best VR Experience Came to Life

VRWorld

Coming from Hawaii, Jake brings a laid back, creative spirit but hardworking ethics which brought a lot of success. Jake Rowell: You can blame Neville ( Neville Spiteri, co-founder and CEO, WeVR ) for bringing me from Hawaii to Los Angeles. VR should be considered as ‘liquid dreaming’, a dream you can control.

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