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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.28): The debate on Facebook continues, Microsoft acquires Zenimax, and more!

The Ghost Howls

It was the community creating and publishing, with almost no control, exactly as it happens today on SideQuest. I’m happy SideQuest is getting this money because it is helping standalone VR to have a creative open store , not directly controlled by the business owner Facebook. Microsoft has acquired Zenimax for $7.5B.

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The Next Frontier of XR Hardware

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See Also: The Future Is Now: 2023 Metaverse and XR Predictions Worth Looking Into Think how Microsoft revolutionized personal computers, or how Apple changed the mobile phone market forever. With the PSVR2 and Apple VR, both are moving away from controller-oriented inputs which could bring a layer of accessibility to VR.

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A Closer Look at the HP Reverb G2

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Don’t worry – preorders open across Europe and Asia on July 6. Where the Reverb really comes into its own is gesture control. Both Valve and Microsoft collaborated with HP on the headset. While it lacked the pizzazz of an AltSpace event, Popper again presented the Reverb G2 at the VR/AR Global Summit the following week.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.12.13): Upload Winter Showcase had many VR announcements, Pico prepares for the holidays, and more!

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What was expected but still not announced is that the FTC is also trying to prevent Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard. This acquisition could give too much power to Microsoft and it could damage the customers by making all Blizzard games exclusive to Microsoft platforms, so the FTC is trying to prevent it. Learn more.

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Keppel O&M, IMDA Trial Smart Glasses for Remote Inspections

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The IMDA has selected numerous projects for its 5G Innovation Programme worth $30 million USD, which will support the following projects: Asia-Pacific’s first 5G mobile edge computing platform for healthcare-based MR and Holomedicine. Southeast Asia’s first-ever maritime 5G XR smart glasses solution.

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WebVR: Taking The Path Of Least Resistance To Mainstream VR

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” A British Nuclear Fuels PLC control room modeled and rendered in the 1990s using Superscape’s VRT platform. The same BNFL control room model hosted under Division’s dVS/dVISE platform, but using the same assets as in the image above. Looking Forward. ” Browsers. .” ” Browsers. Creating an AR Tracker.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.04.13): iPhone 12 adds depth camera, StarVR One is back to the market and much more!

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On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Microsoft releases Azure Remote Rendering.