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The XR Week Peek (2024.03.04): Meta and LG confirm their partnerships, Meta to unveil some AR glasses at Connect, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Google has great expertise in building operating systems, plus its Google Play store would have let Meta Quest become compatible with all its Android Apps out of the box. This is going to create more awareness around virtual reality. Looking at the face of his wife, I can tell you that someone had not had sex that wedding night.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.07): Meta has invested more than $10B on XR, Hololens 3 may have been canceled, and more!

The Ghost Howls

If you make some calculations using these data, the result is that Meta has probably sold 9–10M Quest 2 units until now. So creating new devices that young kids may like (the Quest 2) and that have an independent store (Quest Store) and where Meta can perform all the data tracking that it wants, seems the ideal scenario.

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Spatial Beats: Virtual CES Edition

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Sony unveils a new virtual concert experience at CES. The company is currently developing an email service to compete with Google and Microsoft. Snap acquires Streetcred, a location data startup. See his books here. For audio, the product uses built-in headphones. She was actually in a VR suit performing in a studio.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.15): PS5 revealed, SteamVR implements OpenVR and more!

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Image by Sony, from Road To VR). Sony announces PS5, it supports PSVR. With an online livestream of around 1 hour, Sony has finally unveiled the design of the PlayStation 5. But Sony has confirmed that while we wait for it, the PS5 will be able to work with the current PSVR device. I hope you’ll enjoy it…. SSD (8–9 GB/s).

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VR is dead, the metaverse is dead. Maybe.

The Ghost Howls

This is why I stopped believing the forecasts of the “market analysts”: usually they just fit a linear or exponential curve to some current data … it’s like the followed a few lessons of algebra and created a profession out of it. And after that, there will be something else. Rinse and repeat.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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When you’re “wearing” in Vernor Vinge’s 2006 book Rainbow’s End, contact lenses and computers woven into clothing serve up an assortment of competing realities and overlays. The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.06): Upload VR Showcase, Apple headset rumors, and more!

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Called Cities: VR, it will bring the city-building and management simulation to Oculus Quest 2 in Spring 2022; Polyarc has confirmed that is working on Book 2 for Moss and expects to release it for PSVR in Spring 2022. Google details Project Starline. Honestly, I think it will be the next project abandoned by Google.

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