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Spatial Beats: Apple VR, Google Poly & LBVR Hangs On

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Finally, why in the name of the geek gods is Google shutting down Poly? Google’s own Tilt Brush, an important content creation tool, relies on Poly. We are waiting and hoping and praying a white knight swoops in to rescue Poly like Microsoft rescued AltspaceVR in the VR winter of 2018. See his books here. Not a good sign.

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XR Talks: Follow the Money for AR’s Trajectory

AR Insider

XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, as well as narrative analysis and top takeaways. For Google , it’s all about search, and boosting query volume with more user touchpoints. Last but definitely not least is Microsoft.

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AWE 2023 Day 1 Highlights: Neal Stephenson on Stage, Qualcomm, Zapbox, and more!

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Anyway, his book has not to be taken as a manual of how to build the metaverse… it is just a book. For instance, in a cooking experience they teased, you can select on the smartphone what video of the recipe you want to watch, and then you watch it in AR in front of the eyes while you cook.

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Spatial Beats: Snap, Niantic & Facebook

AR Insider

Let’s dive in… E3, the big trade event for the video game industry, concluded this week. Hopefully not like the Slaughterbots in the infamous video above. 3 B is a lot of money, but hardly enough to match the vision of founder Rony Abovitz, who was up against the likes of Microsoft and Facebook. See his books here.

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Businesses are Leveraging GenAI-Ready VR Training Tools Today

XR Today - Virtual Reality

With major technology firms like Meta, Google, and Microsoft investing millions into the emerging space, enterprise end-users are already feeling the innovative presence of genAI – and there is more to come. Generative AI is here to stay.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.09.12). Quest 3 fully leaked, new Rumors on Valve, and more!

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The project is carried on by Microsoft which was given the monster contract of $22B to create this device by modifying its HoloLens glasses. The next step is about trying to integrate the glasses with cloud services, something about which Microsoft is a worldwide leader thanks to Azure. Hope you enjoy!

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VR Veteran Tony Parisi is Leading Unity’s AR & VR Strategy Beyond Gaming

Road to VR

Here’s the full two and a half hour 2017 Unity Vision VR/AR Summit Keynote , hosted by Parisi and below a some of the news that has come from the event thus far: Google Announces New Tools to Develop High-performance Daydream Apps. New Unity Tools Bring Interactivity and Real-time CGI to 360 Video, Now in Beta.

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