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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!

The Ghost Howls

Let’s see in a few months what will be the data shared in this sense by Snap. What was expected but still not announced is that the FTC is also trying to prevent Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard. See the innovation from SIGGRAPH ASIA. SIGGRAPH ASIA has just taken place. Does Palmer want Oculus back?

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Korean 3D spatial data tool startup Urbanbase closes $11.1M Series B+ round

TechCrunch VR

Urbanbase , a Seoul-based company that develops a 3D spatial data platform for interior planning and design, announced today it has raised $11.1 Big tech corporations, ranging from Facebook, Intel to Microsoft, are targeting to move in the area. million (13 billion won) in a Series B+ round as it scales up.

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

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Digital Twin Virtualisation Remote Monitoring to safeguard on-site equipment with real-time sensor data with AR smart glasses, allowing remote workers to stream, capture, and transfer critical data to offices, boosting efficiency up to 40 percent. Southeast Asia’s first-ever maritime 5G XR smart glasses solution.

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Tech Giants Prime AR’s Headworn Era

AR Insider

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Apple’s working on solving this problem, too, according to a report in Nikkei Asia. Microsoft announced its augmented reality headset, Hololens, in 2015, and released the first version in 2016. These don’t even have a display.

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Forecast: VR Market Will Reach $162 Billion by 2020

VRScout

According to research from the International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide revenues for the augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) market is forecast to grow from $5.2 The US, Western Europe, and Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) are projected to account for three-quarters of revenue for VR and AR.

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Suzanne Borders: BadVR is mixing art and technology to innovate data visualization

The Ghost Howls

But it is very interesting , because it will touch a lot of hot topics, like: Data visualization in XR; Magic Leap; Being a woman working in XR; How is XR in Asia. You don’t need to have these condensed summary views of the data, you can actually see your real data set and that’s where our expertise comes in.

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The XR Week (2020.11.16): HP Reverb G2 still haunted by WMR tracking, Quest 2 update brings 90Hz, and more!

The Ghost Howls

HP has fixed many of the visual problems of the headse t, and Microsoft has just released a patch on Windows 10 that aims at solving many visual issues of all WMR headsets (like Chromatic aberration). But honestly, I expected a bit more … it’s a bit weird that Microsoft hasn’t solved its biggest pain point yet. More info.