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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.22): Oculus working on AR glasses with Luxottica, Apple glasses FOV discovered and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Another week, another roundup of amazing AR/VR news! but I have found some time anyway to read all the news I found about AR and VR and create this summary just for you! Not reading it would be a pity, so go on…. Facebook may be partnering with Luxottica to create consumer AR glasses. Top news of the week. Image by Ray-Ban).

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Are Apple’s AR Glasses Hiding in Plain Sight?

AR Insider

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. It originally appeared in WIRED , including commentary from AR Insider’s research arm, ARtillery Intelligence. . Apple’s AR Glasses are Hiding in Plain Sight. by Peter Rubin, WIRED. PHOTOGRAPH: CARSTEN KOALL/GETTY IMAGES.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. image courtesy VR First. image courtesy VR First. image courtesy VR First.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.19): HTC launches Vive Flow, Magic Leap 2 announced, and more!

The Ghost Howls

HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. Magic Leap is back: CEO Peggy Johnson has just unveiled in a post on the company blog the Magic Leap 2 , the new version of the AR glasses from the company in Florida.

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Facebook changes its corporate branding to Meta

TechCrunch VR

After 17 years of being called Facebook, the social networking parent company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus has a new name. “To reflect who we are and what we hope to build, I am proud to announce that starting today, our company is now Meta. Facebook’s corporate entity is now Meta.

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The 2019 VR Awards Winners Recognized for Outstanding VR Tech

ARPost

AIXR – “The Academy of International Extended Reality” – is an independent non-profit dedicated to promoting MR, AR, and VR tech. Their site also posts educational and informative articles relating to the world of MR, AR, and VR technology. Anybody can make nominations, which are then judged by a massive panel.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

The Ghost Howls

There’s a lot to say about me, but I think you are more interested in the weekly roundup of news, so…. Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google has already abandoned all its VR projects (e.g.