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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.06.23): HTC teases the Vive Cosmos, Oculus announces AR at OC6 and much more!

The Ghost Howls

But for now, let me do a recap of the best news of the past week in AR and VR! It will be held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California on September, 25–26th. Oculus is going to announce something not only about VR but also about AR. Magic Leap is suing nReal. Top news of the week.

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China watches and learns from the US in AR/VR competition

TechCrunch VR

When Chi Xu left Magic Leap and returned to China, he had big ambitions. Xu, now chief executive of Nreal, one of China’s highest-funded AR startups , is among a group of entrepreneurs uniquely positioned to build world-class hardware. “It’s true that the more experimental efforts are happening in the U.S.,

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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

Hello everyone from San Jose, California! 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. Image by Magic Leap). News worth a mention.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

MAGIC LEAP, THE NOTORIOUSLY SECRETIVE STARTUP, STEPS INTO SPOTLIGHT. Magic Leap has raised $1.5B Boldly equating Magic Leap to a “baby Apple” (a reference to their end-to-end approach making not only the hardware but also software, chips, sensors, UI, electronics, etc.)

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Is Personal Computing’s Next Conquest Your Face?

AR Insider

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. It originally appeared in CNBC, including commentary from AR Insider’s research arm, ARtillry Intelligence and permission to re-post. . Meanwhile, heftier VR products from Facebook’s Oculus and Magic Leap have mostly been for gamers.

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Mark Zuckerberg and I are confusing the market about VR and AR and the future of all computing: here’s why we need to stop doing that

Robert Scoble

Mark Zuckerberg talks about the future of VR and AR at Facebook’s recent Oculus Connect conference. ” Facebook already has internal plans for the next five years and most of these new plans, and excitement, are about augmented reality. Is VR going to turn into AR? It’s clear there are two separate camps.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

I was at the San Jose newspaper at the time. And then, our particular vertical focuses are artificial intelligence on the tech side, and then the whole game sector. And then, I guess as far as getting into VR and AR, I’ve really followed the news. But now we pretty much cover the gamut of tech news and game news.