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HoloLens 2 Sales Expanding to 15 More Countries, ‘Development Edition’ Launches in the US

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HoloLens 2 is Microsoft’s enterprise-focused AR headset which the company initially launched late last year with limited availability to select partners. 3-month Unity Pro license. The ‘Development Edition’ is, as the name implies, made for developers who want create AR applications that run on the headset.

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EU Accuses Google of Violating Antitrust Regulations

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Google’s latest row with European regulators comes as the company rolls out its Geospatial Creator for Unity platform. Using Unity Editor, people can create spatially-linked creative content across 3D map of the world while leveraging Google’s ARCore and Photorealistic 3D Tiles.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.06.20): Samsung to change its XR plans, Upload made a cool showcase, and more!

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More info Quest Gift Cards are now available in more countries Quest Gift Cards, which let you gift friends some credit for the Quest Store, are now also in the UK, Canada, Ireland, Germany, France, and Japan. This is its description that I lazily copy-pasted: AR/VR creators, this survey is for you.

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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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Top 26 VR/AR Events, Expos and Conferences to Attend in 2018

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VR/AR/MR Conferences, Expos, Festivals & Summits SXSW (South by Southwest) - VR/AR Date (for VR/AR events only): March 10. Here's SXSW's full schedule for VR/AR sessions. Click on each title to visit their official website, or follow them on social media by clicking through the icons we've listed for you.

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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

Is Apple partnering with Valve on AR? A report by DigiTimes claims that Apple is partnering with Valve for the production of its AR glasses. The news would be incredible: Apple is a company that knows how to create something usable and cool to see, while Valve has a long expertise in experimenting with AR and VR.

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

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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. VR First Institutions (including new openings).

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