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Magic Leap Acquires Augmented Reality Telepresence Startup Mimesys

Next Reality AR

Just months after we previewed the augmented reality, volumetric video conferencing powers of Mimesys, the company has undergone a major change — it's now a part of Magic Leap.

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Meta Upgrades Ray-Ban Stories with WhatsApp Support

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

To date, Stories are only available in select countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Belgium, Austria, Ireland, Italy, France, Australia, and Spain, with further plans for expansion.

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Snap and Rakuten Viber Go to FIFA World Cup 2022

ARPost

Users can also augment photographs with a World Cup sticker pack in English as well as eighteen other languages. Rakuten Viber has also created a series of gamified lenses, allowing users to score goals with a virtual ball, cheer on their favorite team, or make short videos of themselves with soccer balls flying around their heads.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.21): Qualcomm launches AR2 chip, HTC headset gets leaked, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Qualcomm and Niantic bet on the future of augmented reality with AR2. At it, it announced the Snapdragon AR2, a new chip optimized for augmented reality glasses. AR2 is a chip thought so that you can have a pair of lightweight augmented reality glasses that work by being wirelessly connected to your phone via Wi-Fi 7.

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XR Advertising Case Study in Focus: Meta and MADE.com

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

With Augmented Reality tools designed to allow any company to create their own immersive ad experience, Meta has helped a host of companies reconnect with their audience. So far, MADE.com has achieved phenomenal success across the Netherlands, the UK, Switzerland, Germany, France, Austria, Spain, and Belgium.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.11.09): PS5 doesn’t improve PSVR, VRChat reaches 24,000 concurrent users, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. More info (Unboxing video on Upload VR). Two interesting videos on the Quest 2. Microsoft is working to improve the distribution of its latest devices: HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure.

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Stereopsia report / 1: hands-on with Presenz, Antilatency, full-body on Quest and more!

The Ghost Howls

One month ago, I’ve participated in the Stereopsia event in Bruxelles (Belgium) to perform a talk about how to organize an event in virtual reality. Presenz is a company developing a solution to create 6DOF Videos. That is, using its software, you can create a 360 3D video where the user can move the head.

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