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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.07): new Quest is coming at $299 and $399, NVIDIA RTX3070 is powerful and affordable and more!

The Ghost Howls

This fall promises to be very interesting for AR and VR, and in this first week of September we had many interesting XR news that are going to heat up the competition in the space! Facebook halts the sale of Quest in Germany. Facebook is temporarily suspending the sale of Oculus Quest devices in Germany.

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The Best Third-party Vision Pro Accessories & Why You’ll Want Them

Road to VR

Pre-order through Spigen ($90) BandWerk Headstraps – $159 Image courtesy BandWerk You don’t need a Nappa leather head band for Vision Pro, but then again, unless you’re developing the next big AR app for Apple’s continuing line of headsets, you don’t really need a Vision Pro either.

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How the Magic Leap 2 is Powering the New Mercedes Vision 111

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

As reported in recent months, the new electric vehicle (EV) combines augmented reality (AR) digital overlays from the Magic Leap 2 for an unrivalled driving experience. The Stuttgart, Germany-based carmaker originally unveiled the C111 at the Frankfurt IAA exhibition in 1969. The latest concept car pays homage to the classic icon.

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How Are XR Firms Training Sports Athletes and Saving Their Lives?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

News reports have revealed that a new extended reality (XR) tool has now become integral to Germany’s European Under 17 (U17) football training programme, leading to enhanced sports training. Germany recently scored a major win at the European U17 Football Championship against France.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.11.09): PS5 doesn’t improve PSVR, VRChat reaches 24,000 concurrent users, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This means that professionals from these countries will be finally able to buy the best AR headset on the market in an easy way without using foreign stores. The questions are: is the “H3” headset (the one with the worse visuals) a headset shipped by error or are there slightly different Quest 2s out there?

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The XR Week Peek (2020.12.14): Facebook gets sued for alleged monopolization, Medal Of Honor is a mediocre game, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Facebook gets sued for monopolization in US and Germany. In Germany, instead, the legal action regards the mandatory Facebook login for Oculus Quest 2. Enter the matrix in AR. Thanks to the power of Apple AR and LiDAR, a creative has been able to create a Matrix filter for the environment around the user that is incredibly cool.

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Visualizing the Future of AR, with Visualix’s CEOs Michael Bucko & Darius Pajouh

XR for Business Podcast

All the world’s a stage, but in AR, that’s a stage we’re still building. So this allows us to basically escape the limitations of mobile devices such as phones or let’s say, AR glasses that only allow shared experiences on an area of about 20 square meters or 50 square meters. So basically a small room.

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