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The XR Week Peek (2020.01.20): Oculus Go price cut down to $150, Mojo Vision teases AR contact lenses and much more!

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Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. This lens features a 70,000-pixels microdisplay big like a grain of sand and that projects the images just inside the fovea of the eye of the user. (Image by Engadget). Some XR fun.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2021

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And this year, we’ll see further growth of this trend, which has still a big untapped potential: many new items to try-before-you-buy, new features available for filters, new popular ecosystems (like WeChat) that are going to adopt it properly. All the big e-commerce websites will try to implement something of this kind.

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Vive Trackers Experiments – Part 2: Setup, Props, and Full Body Virtual Reality

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Today I host another amazing article by the VR ergonomics expert Rob Cole , which has already written on this blog amazing posts, like the series about the ergonomics of the Valve Index or the viral article about the amazing Caliper VR controllers he worked on by himself. units for my use in these articles. Image by Rob Cole).

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The XR Week Peek (2021.04.12): HTC and Pico are ready to launch new VR headsets, and more!

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The stocks of the headset are becoming empty on its main stores (Oculus website, Lenovo online store, Amazon US, etc…) and Facebook has stated that “it won’t replenish them”. The article is interesting, but I find it funny that they chose the acronym HOE for Holographic Optical Elements. It works only once, so you choose wisely.

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How Will AR Transform Advertising?

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This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. 8th Wall recently partnered with Amazon Sumerian on a WebAR ad experience where, with just a click of a banner ad, an AR experience placed a 3D Spiderman into your space for you to interact with directly in your mobile browser. by Tom Emrich.

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Project Caliper: the journey of prototyping optimal controllers for VR

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Today is a special day in Italy when families prepare the Christmas Tree, so I decided to publish a very special post that is a big gift to the whole XR community. I even hope some big brands can take inspiration from some of the features he has introduced in the Caliper controllers. Enjoy your read. Image by Rob Cole). Introduction.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.12.08): Medal Of Honor close to launch, Snapdragon 888 announced, and much more!

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If this was not enough to prevent people from buying the game, the first review articles I have read about the game are not enthusiastic: IGN and Road To VR highlight many bugs and a not-so-smart AI for the enemies, while Upload says that the multiplayer mode feels a bit shallow because it has no ranking system. VR is dead. Learn more.

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