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XR Talks: Behind Facebook’s Spatial Strategy

AR Insider

As we’ve examined , Facebook is motivated to avoid the fate it endured in the smartphone era in being beholden to the major mobile platforms: Apple and Google. Google launched the mobile OS — and made it free — so that it could steer the direction of the mobile ecosystem and place itself at the center.

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VIEW Conference 2018 will host amazing XR talks and workshops

The Ghost Howls

I’m very happy to talk about a very important event that will take place very soon in my city of Turin (Italy): the VIEW Conference. The VIEW Conference is an annual conference focused on Computer Graphics that is held in my city and that has now arrived at its 19th edition. October, 25th (Wednesday) – 17.00.

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Google’s AR/VR Chief on Ambient Computing, Conversational Interfaces, & AR/VR Strategy

Road to VR

At Google’s big October 4th press conference, the company announced a new Pixel 2 phone and a range of new ambient computing devices powered by AI-enabled conversational interfaces including new Google Mini and Max speakers, Google Clips camera, and wireless Pixel Buds. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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Google Reportedly Killed Its AR Glasses, Will Focus On Android For Third Party Hardware

Upload VR

Google reportedly killed its glasses hardware project. Business Insider's Hugh Langley cites "three people familiar with the matter" as saying the hardware, which resembled standard glasses, was canceled earlier this year amid the mass layoffs at Google and the departure of Google's AR/VR chief Clay Bavor.

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How Google’s Latest VR Moves Are a Major Blow to Oculus’ Mobile Strategy

Road to VR

Last week at Google’s I/O 2017 developer conference the company made a number of new announcements which are very exciting for VR consumers. Within the industry though, the announcements represent somewhat of a repositioning of industry players, one that puts Oculus’ mobile strategy in a rough spot. This is Awkward.

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Why are businesses looking to use XR more in their business strategies?

Digitalnauts

WHY ARE BUSINESSES LOOKING TO USE XR MORE IN THEIR BUSINESS STRATEGIES? Corporations and bigger names are not afraid of XR, are using it and integrating into a bigger business strategy. We see it everywhere, every day on the news there seems to be a big organisation that announces their XR or immersive strategy.

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Tech Trends at #io18

Tech Trends VR

We’ll be dropping by Silicon Valley next month for Google I/O to check out the latest scoop from the Big G. We’re jetting off from Heathrow to the US West Coas, stopping by Seattle to cover Microsoft Build before heading to the Bay Area for Google’s flagship developer conference in Mountain View Click To Tweet.

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