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Big XR News from Google, Meta, IGS Orlando, HTC VIVE, and Warpin

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This week has seen its fair share of tricks and treats ahead of the Halloween season, where companies like Warpin Reality, HTC VIVE, Google, Shopify, and Apple, among others, have offered a powerhouse of insights to XR Today on their latest innovations. Here are the top stories from this week’s news stories.

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A Complete Guide to Virtual Reality

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Also, unlike augmented reality (AR), which people can access via smartphones and smart glasses, VR relies on larger headsets and controllers to interact with fully-immersive virtual worlds. Meta, Pico, HTC VIVE, and Varjo headsets all incorporate this new technology. The History of VR.

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Will the Apple Vision Pro Change the XR Training industry?

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ARuVR , an award-winning supplier of virtual and augmented reality training solutions, and Apple, a major innovator in the computing space, have both reached new heights with its cutting-edge immersive technologies. Expanding into this is Apple’s head-mounted display (HMD), the Apple Vision Pro.

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Microsoft Finds Its Voice In Mixed Reality: ‘It’s About What We’re Gonna Do With These Technologies’

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It could be useful for business applications or training, but games suffer because of the limited field of view, and you’re not likely to use it to put a virtual television on the wall. Microsoft still has a lot to prove in this emerging industry, with input and controls being the biggest blind spot for the company.

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5 Reasons Why The Matrix Reboot Should Get a VR Experience

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It’s a more bleak and grotesque way of displaying VR than simply sliding a head-mounted display over your face like the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, but it’s funneling towards a similar idea of a digital landscape where anything is possible. The Format Lends Itself to Short Experiences.

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XTAL: Hands-on With VRgineers’ 180° FoV Headset

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However, there are companies that require way more than these headsets can provide, turning to manufacturers like VRgineers and its XTAL head-mounted display (HMD) for that quality and feature set a consumer device just can’t match. But what do you get when spending £5,000 GBP on a VR headset? Plus XTAL supports SteamVR!

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Meet Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR

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After that, every time Oculus released a new piece of hardware, they would send it to me and Nick Donaldson and we’d make small demos for them; Showdown and Bullet Train were more. Since it was such a popular demo and you mentioned it earlier, we have to ask: any plans for Bullet Train?

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