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XRSPACE to Accelerate Taiwanese Metaverse Growth

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Taiwan’s National Development Fund also assisted in providing XRSPACE with its capital. Moreover, XRSPACE’s funding enables new collaborations and partnerships with international brands, including those from Taiwan, China, Japan, and the US.

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Meta's Head Of AR Glasses Hardware Claims They're As Mindblowing As The Original Oculus Rift

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Meta's Head of AR Glasses Hardware claims they give the same "Oh my God, wow! She switched to Head of AR Glasses two years ago. Regardless, it's clear that what Kalinowski means here is that trying Meta's AR glasses is just as mindblowing as trying good VR for the first time. I can't believe this!"

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Rumor: Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Consumer AR Headset

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The Cupertino-based tech giant may be pumping the brakes on its long-rumored Apple AR headset , something that was reportedly slated to see a release as early as 2020. A DigiTimes Taiwan report (via MacRumors ) now suggests that Apple has disbanded the team behind it, effectively putting its consumer AR device on hold.

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iOS 13 Code Suggests Apple is Testing Its AR Headset Internally

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Apple may not have shown off any AR tech at the company’s grand iPhone 11 unveiling yesterday, however thanks to some newly discovered code in a recent built of iOS 13, it appears Apple is testing its own AR headset internally. ” Image courtesy Steve Troughton-Smith. Both iOS 13.0 gold master and iOS 13.1

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Meta Hints It Might Demo A 'Prohibitively Expensive' AR Glasses Prototype In 2024

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Meta's CTO seemed to suggest the company could demo a highly advanced true AR glasses prototype in 2024. Meta has been working on AR glasses for at least eight years now, spending tens of billions of dollars on the project that Mark Zuckerberg hopes will one day deliver him an "iPhone moment".

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Lynx Secures $4M in Series A Funding, Aims to Become “European Champion of Mixed Reality”

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Alongside Somnium Space , participants in the latest funding round also include what Lynx calls early supporters of the company and “other investors involved in the AR/VR field such as ex-Meta and Google engineers.” ” This brings the company’s total outside funding to $6.8

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10 Recent VR and AR Investments You Should Know About

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has been invested in the VR/AR industry according to Digi-Capital. Despite the fact that a mere 6% of Americans will own a VR headset in 2016, future-looking venture capital firms have invested $500M in the VR/AR industry in Q3 of 2016 , with an average investment of $9.3M. Moscow-based VR/AR game developer Luden.io

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