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Big News From Meta, Samsung, Microsoft, and HTC VIVE

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

More on Meta this Week Moreover, Meta partnered with India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology MeitY and HCLTech as part of an XR Startup Program for boosting startup capacities, providing rising talent with resources to fulfil and showcase use cases in the region. The final announcement of the week from Meta.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.15): Facebook keeps working on its masterplan, WebXR arrives on iOS, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Facebook could sell all its devices undercost now, subsidizing the cost of the hardware with software and data collection, so that to compete with brands like Samsung and XiaoMi. Let’s wait for March, 1st when we’ll have more details about this; AjnaLens is a set of glasses very similar to Nreal, that should come from India.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2021

The Ghost Howls

This trend will continue in 2021 : the new LiDAR sensor, which is rumored to be installed in all future iPhones, will for sure be copied also by Android phones (Samsung?) And even if Google harvests data exactly as Facebook, it has been targeted by fewer scandals, so it is a brand people like more.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.20): Oculus ready to manufacture the Quest S, Pico doubles-down on 3DOF, and more!

The Ghost Howls

If we look at the data of the three independent reports, we get a clear coherent picture. Finally after China and United States, also India has entered the AR race with the launch of the Jio AR glasses. According to Samsung, it should come in 2028. So, thanks Pico for what you are still doing. Jio launches its AR glasses.

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Venture Capitalists Contemplate How Much Exuberance Is Good for VR Investing

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

As much as we all love Tim [Merel] over at Digi-Capital , I have a hard time reconciling his data. GamesBeat: If you take [big transactions] out for [the data in the past year] and see what everything else looks like, maybe you get a better picture? What’s the best way to stream data? Image Credit: Oculus. It’s very expensive.

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Getting — and Keeping — Your Attention in XR, with LumiereVR COO Alexander Haque

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: Today’s guest is Alexander Haque, the founder of RetinadVR, whose mission was to help pioneer virtual and augmented reality through powerful data. Our mission was, as you said at the beginning, was to bring VR analytics and data to virtual reality. RetinadVR was acquired recently by LumiereVR, in July 2018.

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Getting -- and Keeping -- Your Attention in XR, with LumiereVR COO Alexander Haque

XR for Business Podcast

Alan: Today's guest is Alexander Haque, the founder of RetinadVR, whose mission was to help pioneer virtual and augmented reality through powerful data. Our mission was, as you said at the beginning, was to bring VR analytics and data to virtual reality. my father could be in India, I could be talking to him.