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Spatial Beats: Oculus, Google & Snap

AR Insider

This week, we look at tech stocks, Quest 2’s continued rise, Google’s VR sunsetting, and horsing around with Snapchat See the full roundup below. Zuckerberg also stated that the Quest 2 successor is in development already and that smartglasses and AR glasses will come in the near future. What is up with Google and XR?

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Owlchemy Labs Reveals Experimental AR ‘Mobile Spectator’ App for VR Games

Road to VR

After an initial calibration, its AR-calculated position is sent to the PC, which then places an additional camera in the VR scene—Mobile Spectator’s point of view. SEE ALSO Oculus Quest Supports "Arena-scale" Tracking and Multi-room Guardian.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.12.28): Flight Simulator VR released, a new hack lets you use Quest without Facebook, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Happy Holidays , my dear AR/VR community! Even if these should be holidays, my will to inform you is not in vacation, so here you are my roundup of the best AR/VR news for this week. But the advantage is that you can play all the games of the Oculus Store and from Sidequest without Zuck watching you. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.26.11): Half-Life: Alyx revealed, Oculus Link out, XBox not considering VR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

I am also excited because thanks to the organizers of the VRX event, yesterday I have been able to interview Facebook’s Sean Liu and ask him some questions about Oculus and its vision of Virtual Reality. That said, let me do a short recap of the past days in AR/VR. Oculus Link is here. Top news of the week.

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NVIDIA CloudXR Allows Hi-Fi XR Streaming via 5G Networks

ARPost

Thanks to NVIDIA CloudXR SDK kit, users will be able to enjoy VR, AR, and MR experiences at the highest definition of graphics and sound on head-mounted devices or mobile devices. They will have complete freedom of movement to explore the virtual environment, because they won’t need to connect their devices to a computer by cables.

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The Best Apps and Games to Get Seniors Into VR

ARPost

Some of the experiences are 360 video, while others are full VR. Some are even mobile AR experiences that allow viewers to navigate their own experiences on a tabletop of floor space. Whether in the mobile AR version or in a VR headset, these volumetric scenes can be navigated in full six degrees of freedom.

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When to Use Virtual Reality (VR) Instead of Augmented Reality (AR)?

InstaVR

VR, AR, MR, XR — those are just a few of the acronyms used to talk about exciting new immersive technologies. But how do you know when you should be creating VR apps instead of the other options like AR? Interestingly, the same department within a company may use AR and VR for similar but very different purposes.