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The XR Week Peek (2022.06.13): Apple doesn’t show its AR glasses at WWDC, Meta delays its AR plans, and more!

The Ghost Howls

First of all, its VR company Pico is now hiring to expand its presence in the US : there are currently 40 job listings for open positions in California. I’m honestly not that convinced by this feature , having seen similar features for PCVR headsets (Oculus Rift Home, SteamVR Home) never gaining ground, but maybe with Quest will be different.

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VR is a smart bet for the future of gambling

Hypergrid Business

In the US, for example, the state of New Jersey has introduced similar online gambling regulation, while a number of other states, including California, are considering similar licensing. It was built with Unity 5, using Chromium to emulate web-based games inside. Gambling is, above anything else, an entertainment product.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.09): Vive Cosmos probably on sale at €799, Kura reveals 150° FOV AR glasses, Oculus “Cablegate” and much more!

The Ghost Howls

A market where Oculus has almost no earning s from the hardware sales, though, so it’s a weird situation. Kura is a little startup in California that is working on a pair of lightweight AR glasses. It is highly probable that an HLVR game will be developed in the Source game engine, so a Unity game is not a possibility.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.01.11): CES had some interesting XR announcements, new rumors on Apple and Meta, and more!

The Ghost Howls

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. I attended AWE in California ), now many events are coming back to the digital format for safety reasons. News worth a mention. Image by Meta).

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A 2020 XR Year-In-Review, with MetaVRse' Alan & Julie Smithson, and Alex Colgan

XR for Business Podcast

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. Alex: RIP, LBE. chuckles] Alan: [laughs] Exactly! Alex: Mm-hm.

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A 2020 XR Year-In-Review, with MetaVRse' Alan & Julie Smithson, and Alex Colgan

XR for Business Podcast

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. Alex: RIP, LBE. Alan: [laughs] Exactly! Sounds like a rap song.

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A 2020 XR Year-In-Review, with MetaVRse' Alan & Julie Smithson, and Alex Colgan

XR for Business Podcast

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. Alex: RIP, LBE. Alan: [laughs] Exactly! Sounds like a rap song.