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Apple is Prepping Retail Stores for Vision Pro Debut

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Despite some setbacks during production, Apple is now seemingly ready for its proposed release in the 2024 window, as shown by a recent push by Apple to introduce Vsion Pro training sessions to its retail store workers in the new year. These sessions help developers optimize their visionOS, iPadOS, and iOS apps for the new platform.

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Apple’s Vision Pro “Works Like Your Mind” Says Tim Cook, CEO

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Moreover, the device also negates keyboard requirements (and controller requirements) with eye and hand-tracking features integrated into the headset. The tracking features aim to streamline user interaction while also potentially increasing accessibility to innovative computing technology. .”

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Horizon Worlds Launches In The United Kingdom This Week

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Meta’s Horizon Worlds is officially expanding this week from the United States and Canada to Quest 2 owners who are 18+ living in the United Kingdom. Horizon Worlds recently was updated to include an asset library to help jump-start world creation and Meta has been supporting creators with both training and community competitions.

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Big XR News from Meta, HaptX, Siemens, and Apple

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The new smart glasses are available for pre-order in 15 regions, covering the US, Canada, Australia, and Europe. The solution provides immersive and visual training to help those entering the workforce or those who want to learn new skills.

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

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When you buy a headset like Oculus Quest, it is meant for consumer usage, and theoretically speaking, you can’t use for commercial purposes (exhibitions, training applications, VR cinemas, etc…). Customers don’t have to go through the Oculus Home interface, look for sideloaded apps menu to launch the training app.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.08.25): Lots of new VR content previewed, Sony acquires Insomniac, Matrix 4 in the works and much more!

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Google releases an opensource library for hand tracking. Google has released opensource a library for tracking your hands on a mobile device. The solution is part of Mediapipe, the framework to create machine-learning-based solutions , and offers 21-points hand tracking on your mobile phone.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

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The device will be available for $3500 in United States, Japan, China, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Australia, and New Zealand, the same countries where it was previously available for pre-order. It comes with already included the training to detect 400 categories of objects. More info (Almalence) More info (DiCE).