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Meta, Tencent in Talks to Sell Quest Headsets in China

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Currently, the Chinese have Lenovo, ByteDance, Plimax, DPVR, HTC VIVE via Taiwan, and a few other tech firms providing headsets. The company did this by launching its partnerships with Microsoft and Zoom, its Meta Quest Pro, and continued research and development (R&D) in haptics and enterprise avatars , among others.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.07.15): Apple kills its AR glasses, Oculus full-steam ahead on 2nd gen VR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

A piece of unexpected news has shaken the XR communities this week: according to a report on Digitimes Taiwan, Apple has abandoned its AR/VR glasses project and all the members of the team have been re-allocated in other teams. Microsoft has released this week a new video showing how the game will work.

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

The Ghost Howls

At the time of writing they are: United States Canada Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Iceland Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Republic of Ireland Spain Sweden Switzerland UK Australia Japan New Zealand Taiwan. Focused on VR training, simulations, data visualization, or remote collaboration.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.02): XR2 shows the future of standalones, F8 and GDC canceled and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. Image by Microsoft). Microsoft has released more specifications for its upcoming XBOX Series X, and from these data is clearly possible to see that it will be compatible with VR headsets.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.05.24): Snap releases new Spectacles AR glasses, Quest releases runtime v29, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The technology behind it is pretty cool: you have some cameras (I guess RGB + depth) that scan yourself live in 3D , compress the data with a special Google algorithm, send it to the other peer, where it gets decompressed and reconstructed in real-time on a light field display. Microsoft confirms (again) it wants to build consumer HoloLens.

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Holographic Waveguides: What You Need To Know To Understand The Smartglasses Market

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

If they’ve not yet using their layered waveguides to achieve a light-field display it is because their client use-case has never required it — they have thus far specialized in contextual navigational data, rather than entertainment. Now imagine two of those 90° prisms set side by side. In this configuration one can turn an image 180°.

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Next-Generation CAMM, MR-DIMM Memory Modules Show Up at Computex

Anand Tech

ADATA demonstrated potential candidates to replace SO-DIMMs and RDIMMs/LRDIMMs from client and server machines, respectively, in the coming years, at Computex 2023 in Taipei, Taiwan, reports Tom's Hardware. Such modules promise to increase performance and somewhat simplify building dual-rank modules significantly.

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