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VRX 2017 Hosts Top VR/AR Companies in San Francisco This Week – Road to VR Readers Save 15%

Road to VR

With the latest amazing innovations in VR/AR, VRX 2017 next week in San Francisco is the place to be to hear from those leading the charge. The event takes place at the San Francisco Marriot Marquis this week on December 7th and 8th. Check out all the latest VRX details here. Not attending?

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GDC Tackles XR Tactics in March

AR Insider

As spatial computing (AR & VR) continues to develop ways to accelerate consumer and enterprise adoption, it’s all about gaining knowledge and network. With that backdrop, the Games Developer Conference (GDC) is returning to San Francisco in March, including lots of AR & VR focus.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.17): Half-Life Alyx will launch on March, 23rd, MWC has been canceled and much more!

The Ghost Howls

On this special day, let’s all talk about AR and VR! In this big phone exhibition, usually, companies also exhibit AR and VR devices and considering that this year the trend is the one of AR and VR devices connected to the phone , I bet that this year’s edition would have been very interesting for us all (in fact I was planning to go there).

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.30): Niantic launches VPS, Pico launches Neo 3 Link, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Niantic has finally launched its VPS (Visual Positioning System), a solution that will allow developers to create AR applications that are persistent and shared in various locations in the world with centimeter accuracy. VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

HOW DO YOU HELP THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED WITH VR/AR? Virtual and augmented reality technology is being used to help people who are blessed with perfect vision – and lots of interesting solutions are out there. A startup out of Oxford, OxSight is building AR glasses that described as “hearing aids for the blind.”

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Despite the WSJ’s opinion that this tactic is a response to slower-than-expected sales, in February Sony disclosed that their sales numbers were on track to exceed their internal goal of 1M units in 6 months (and location-based activations were likely integrated into their strategy from the beginning). IS GOOGLE WORKING ON A VR MUSIC APP?

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How Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent are Investing in VR

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The BAT web companies — Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu — are using their war chests for a different take on virtual reality (VR) than their overseas competitors. It used Google Cardboard, which can be distributed at close to nothing. Alibaba debuted its VR mall, called Buy+, last year.

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