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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.20): Meta to perform new layoffs, Google Glass to shut down, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Many magazines wrote that Meta is abandoning the “metaverse”, but actually, the famed M-word appeared two times in the statement that Mark provided his employees about the new course of the company. Google is discontinuing Google Glass, even in its Enterprise Edition which found some fields of application in the B2B sector (e.g.

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Spatial Beats: Facebook, Rec Room & Looking Glass

AR Insider

GIGXR Awarded Phase $750,000 Contract to Develop Extended Reality (XR) Simulation Training for Air Force Academy. GIGXR, has received a Phase II Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract from AFWERX to developing HoloChem, a new mixed reality application for the Academy’s 100 and 200 level chemistry courses. They have to.

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Your VR Guide To Black Friday Deals

VRScout

While companies like Walmart are preparing for the busiest shopping day of the year with Black Friday VR training simulators , i’m sure all you really care about is how to save some major dough this holiday weekend. Sony announced a $100 discount on all PlayStation VR bundles as well as the PlayStation 4 1TB consoles. Shop on Amazon.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.06.21): Facebook experiments with VR ads, PSVR 2 to come at the end of 2022, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This is the first day of this sunny season (if you live in my same hemisphere of course), and I hope that you won’t have any Summertime Sadness like Lana Del Rey, but you all will enjoy the sun, have some relax, and forget for a moment all the hard times we are living in. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Happy VR Summer!

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.06): Upload VR Showcase, Apple headset rumors, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Called Cities: VR, it will bring the city-building and management simulation to Oculus Quest 2 in Spring 2022; Polyarc has confirmed that is working on Book 2 for Moss and expects to release it for PSVR in Spring 2022. Of course, like everything regarding Apple, these are just rumors. Google details Project Starline.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.01): Sony confirms PSVR 2, Facebook teases Quest 2 Pro, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Sony). Sony officially states it is going to launch the PSVR 2. PlayStation VR has been the most successful headset until now (if we exclude the crappy mobile viewers), but now it is pretty dated and people were wondering what Sony was going to do. Some people started to think that Sony could have abandoned VR.

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A Brief History of VR

VeeR VR

Of course, it would be almost 600 years before the birth of modern VR technology and VR headsets). In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted display (HMD) system for immersive simulation applications. In 1994, they released the Sega VR-1 motion simulator arcade attraction which tracked head movement.