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The 5 most important XR-related pieces of news from Google I/O 2023

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Last week, Google delivered its most important event of the year, the Google I/O. During its keynote, the CEO Sundar Pichai announced many new products of the company. During the last years, XR has never been relevant at Google I/O, but this year it has been relevant inside the keynote, again.

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Trends and predictions for XR in 2024

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(Some of them have been brainstormed with Lorenzo Cappannari with whom I wrote an article a few months ago and who I thank for the collaboration ). These new headsets have hybrid virtual and mixed reality features, natural interactions and come at a high price : Vision Pro costs $3500 and the Samsung headset is rumored to be around $2000.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.12): Quest 2 is launching, dogs use AR, and more!

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Many partner stores like Best Buy have already received hundreds of boxes and are ready to start selling the headset from tomorrow. Many people are getting ready to receive their new toy. Other relevant news. NVIDIA takes Cloud XR to AWS and reveals other news. Image by NVIDIA).

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2021

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The moment we all dream of, that is when we all will wear AR glasses all day, is several years away : 5 years if you are very optimistic, 15 years if you are pessimistic, most probably something in between. This commercial video about Google Glasses led me to immersive realities. New Snapchat’s full-body filters (Image from AR Post).

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.01): Quest Pro gets released, Quest 3 slated for 2023, and more!

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Face tracking and mixed reality are cool, but there is no app truly exploiting them Some features are still lacking. The problem is that for this reason, it has rushed the launch of a device that has no “wow feature” or “killer application”, and so this is not going to impact at all the future launch of Apple Reality.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

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It’s Chinese Single Day and I wish the best to all the single people that are reading this article: I hope you are all on Taobao or Aliexpress buying super-discounted items! There’s a lot to say about me, but I think you are more interested in the weekly roundup of news, so…. Top news of the week. Image by Google).

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Apple Vision Pro Review: A Portable But Heavy Cinema & Monitor With A Promising Spatial OS

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Apple Vision Pro Specs, Features & Details Apple officially revealed the full Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. While I often discuss the long-term potential of AR & VR, in this article I'm reviewing Apple Vision Pro as it stands as a real product today. This basic idea isn’t new. But does it deliver?

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