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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 Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s Gamble on High-End Virtual Reality (and Why I Want One)

Ryan Schultz

The somewhat tepid success of previous VR/AR/MR/XR/metaverse ventures to date are clearly reasons why Apple has focused, in its usual savvy marketing campaign, on the fact that the Apple Vision Pro is intended to be a wearable personal computer (essentially, an iPad for your face).

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CES 2017 to feature more than 70 VR exhibitors

Hypergrid Business

Dacuda and ZEISS will be showcasing the world’s first mobile room-scale virtual reality system that uses standard mobile phones on the ZEISS VR One headset. VR and AR conference sessions. It employs an inside-out tracking system — meaning there is no outside camera that does position tracking. Image courtesy CTA.).

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Editorial: Apple Vision Pro is a mix of innovation, and year-2016 VR, for a hefty price. But…

The Ghost Howls

Some apps are also getting integration with XR features in a super-smart way: during the keynote, at a certain point, they showed the possibility that a person sends an iMessage with a 3D model inside, and that 3D model is extracted and viewed in AR in the environment by the receiver. But on AR glasses. Very cool. 2016 or 2023?

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Learn about Headsets

Delight XR

In 2018, all-new stand-alone devices are coming, and upgrades to the current generation will be released. Oculus Rift. Zeiss VR ONE Plus. Oculus Touch. Oculus Home. Oculus Home. Thanks to LibreVR/Revive project, Vive users can also play some of the Oculus Rift exclusive titles. Oculus Rift.

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Hackvention 2016 Mashed Up A Hackathon With A Convention

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

On the one hand we have platform wars , where Vive, Play Station, Oculus and Microsoft compete for the users. The next milestone in building a better European VR ecosystem, one that connects many great hotspots spread around the continent with the businesses in need of VR and AR, is VR@Cebit 2017. Best Pitch: Welding App.

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VR and AR in 12 variations

VRGuy

I've been thinking about how to classify VR and AR headsets and am starting to look at them along three dimensions (no pun intended): VR vs AR PC-powered vs. Phone-powered vs. Self-powered. 3: VR, Phone-powered, Wide-field Examples: Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard, Zeiss VROne. 7: AR, PC-powered, Wide-field Example: Meta 2.

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