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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. The biggest news of the week took place in the Hawaii islands, where Qualcomm had its Snapdragon Summit event. At it, it announced the Snapdragon AR2, a new chip optimized for augmented reality glasses.

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 to Improve AR/VR Rendering & Reduce Power Consumption “by 30%”

Road to VR

Qualcomm introduced it’s new Snapdragon 845 mobile processor at the company’s tech summit in Hawaii this week, which Qualcomm says improves mobile AR/VR headset (branded to as ‘XR’, or ‘eXtended reality’) performance up to 30 percent in comparison to its predecessor, Snapdragon 835.

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Magic Leap’s LEAP Con 2018 round-up: all the major announcements in only one place

The Ghost Howls

” , that are all the member states of the USA, excluded Alaska and Hawaii. The company will also launch “AMBEO Augmented Audio Lab” , an augmented reality experience to play around with spatial AR sound, mixing the real and the virtual sounds and recording the clips that you create.

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Coral Compass: Fighting Climate Change in Palau Leverages The Power of VR

VeeR VR

If a 2D picture or traditional documentary can’t raise enough awareness about the urgency of climate change, could a more immersive media - Virtual Reality, provide some more insights? Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University are researching to find the answer. . Filming underwater could never be a simple task.

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Meta has a sweet vision for VR, but it's a long way from reality for the rest of us

Mashable VR

Speaking to reporters from a room decorated with decals of California, Montana, and Hawaii (all states where he owns homes), Zuckerberg led a show-and-tell of Meta's VR research and prototyping. This, he said, is "what it's going to take to build the next-generation displays for virtual and augmented reality."

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Now Recruiting: Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Enthusiasts of Dubai, UAE

EON Reality

EON Reality and EAIT (Emirates Advanced Investments Trading) have partnered to form EON Reality UAE LLC , an Interactive Digital Center (IDC) focused on vocational skills training and higher education utilizing Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. King Tut VR: Mobile app for tourism.

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Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Design & Development Course at Oral Roberts University to Open January 2017

EON Reality

Augmented and Virtual Reality are some of the fastest growing sectors of our economy. Penn State Lions and Miami University Hurricanes Fan Engagement: 360 Virtual Reality Experience for Mobile. We'd love to keep you up to date with everything that's happening at EON Reality and the AR/VR Industry.