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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.30): Quest 3 preview, XR journalists invited to WWDC, and more!

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Ben Lang from Road To VR and Ian Hamilton from Upload VR will be able to attend the event in person. And luckily, it is continuing this tradition: during an investor presentation event, the company announced that in the first month after launch, PSVR 2 had sold 450K units, which became 600K after two more weeks.

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Microsoft Presenting Easy-To-Use Virtual Reality Experience

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Microsoft is trying to nudge laptop and deskbound computers to interact with the three-dimensional world. Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella, speaking last week at a conference hosted by technology news site GeekWire, said the company simply couldn’t compete effectively with its small market share in the global smartphone market.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.11.21): OpenAI drama shakes the AI world, Unity enables Vision Pro development, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. I’ll try to summarize all of that, especially for what concerns the announcements related to our XR space.

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E3 Spotlight: Sony And The Future Of PSVR

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A port of Arizona Sunshine is on the way later this month, Theseus is coming to consoles as is Smash Box Arena , ROM: Extraction , Bloody Zombies , and Tiny Trax. Now that we know Microsoft isn’t showing VR on Project Scorpio this year , Sony has an open goal on the PSVR side. What We Expect At E3.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.26.11): Half-Life: Alyx revealed, Oculus Link out, XBox not considering VR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

I am also excited because thanks to the organizers of the VRX event, yesterday I have been able to interview Facebook’s Sean Liu and ask him some questions about Oculus and its vision of Virtual Reality. For now let just me say that Arizona Sunshine is coming to Quest on December, 5th. I love him. Some XR fun.

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Vive Trackers Experiments – Part 1: Everything you need to know about Vive Trackers

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It wasn’t uncommon for me to attend a big VR event and find 60 Vive Pro Eye headsets being used across the site, or see 12 Focus headsets being used at a VR festival. Playing games like Arizona Sunshine with the tracked gun was certainly fun, something I experienced several times at a local VR arcade here in the UK. Training.

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Big XR News from Boeing, ENGAGE XR, Apple, and Meta

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Now the Metaverse is gaining newfound traction from enterprise clients, companies like Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are reinforcing XR as a serious technology for various use cases. To power Athena AI, ENGAGE XR is leveraging OpenAI’s Chat GPT service – now partially operated by Microsoft – the firm is also leveraging Dall.e

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