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Apple is Prepping Retail Stores for Vision Pro Debut

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The device will initially enter markets in the United States and release later in Canada and the United Kingdom. It will also have a ring of LED lights to improve eye-tracking performance and hand-tracking sensors, allowing users to interact with their spatial computing environment without controllers.

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Snap Lens Upgraded with Ray Tracing Tools

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

The Saatchi Gallery in London, United Kingdom hosted the event, transforming the building’s exterior into a massive Tiffany jewel. Ray tracing tools from NVIDIA, Epic Games, and Unity Technologies also use ray tracing processes to boost efficiency rather than monitoring all of the light trajectories from their respective sources.

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Big XR News from Microsoft Ignite, Snap, Meta, and Valve

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

In January 2024, the avatars and spaces will be made available for general use through Mesh, a suite of no-code tools and integrated Unity features that will allow enterprise customers to create bespoke immersive spaces, such as employee events, training, tours, and product showcases.

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Is Gaming in the Metaverse the Next Frontier?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

As companies like Meta Platforms, Unity, and Epic Games build interconnected world-building platforms, gaming has found a new home with immersive technologies. The United Kingdom, United States, and Germany-based firm has created novel technologies to facilitate immense multiplayer metaverse worlds. Improbable.

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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!

The Ghost Howls

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. Oculus provides some details on controllers tracking. If you will be in Italy, please come visiting me!