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A Look at VIVE’s Top 100 Global VR Social Influencers List

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See Also: VIVE Hardware Energizes “Best-in-Class” Military Training From Street Smarts VR. The LA-based startup brings together blogs, videos, and a weekly podcast. While XR buffs are often underwhelmed by WIRED’s XR content, Rubin focuses on XR stories and content and literally wrote the book on virtual presence. Charlie Fink.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.16): HTC launches Tracker 3.0, Facebook has 10,000 people working on XR, and more!

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for training), and also for full-body tracking by all people performing in VRChat. When Magic Leap One was revealed, Rony Abovitz stated he was already working on Magic Leap Two and Three, for instance; Facebook believes a lot in having avatars that truly represent ourselves in XR , and it is a field in which they will invest a lot.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.23): Half-Life: Alyx launches, Oculus Del Mar leaked, PS5 revealed and more!

The Ghost Howls

Even if there hasn’t been any GDC, Oculus has made its related announcements online , via various blog posts. Magic Leap reveals updates and new enterprise solutions. With various posts on its blog, AR startup Magic Leap has revealed a bunch of new updates. Oculus has made its GDC announcements.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.01.11): CES is starting, Facebook smartglasses are coming “soon”, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, the head of Facebook Reality Labs, has written a blog post in which he revealed two very interesting pieces of news. Boz has added that he doesn’t want to overhype these devices (to avoid the same error made by Magic Leap), and so he has confirmed that they are not AR glasses, but just smartglasses.

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How to be a good VR startupper – Part 1

The Ghost Howls

This is the week of this blog’s birthday and so I’m publishing a very special post, that I’m going to split into two parts. I wrote a review on Magic Leap One because my friend (and ex partner ) Gianni made me try it. Try to spare money whenever you can. For a consultancy on HoloLens, we borrowed one.

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Some fluff on the metaverse

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Whenever someone contacts me for my blog promising some interviews about the metaverse, I roll my eyes at 360°. I just know about Neal Stephenson because he was “Chief Futurist Wizard” at Magic Leap and that the company with him as a Wizard has gone close to bankruptcy (probably he made the wrong spell as a wizard).

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The First Tour of Giant AI’s Robot Lab

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He played a key role in the early development of Magic Leap, an augmented reality company that just won best of show at the industry’s biggest gathering, AWE (for Augmented World Expo). He also wrote what many say is the book on Computer Vision which is still used by many computer science departments. Even a smile on the face.