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The XR Week Peek (2022.06.20): Roblox may come to Quest, Meta launches Avatar Store, and more!

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The reason why I think that this news is super-important is two-sided: On one side, it means that a platform with 50M of daily users is coming into virtual reality. Engage is one of the most appreciated virtual reality professional social ecosystems, and it is used a lot for enterprise meetings and presentations and for university lessons.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.01.17): Big tech companies’ battle for talents, PSVR 2 still not confirmed for 2022, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Meta is well-known for having performed some key acquisitions related to hardware, but also to software (e.g. It is becoming always more difficult for a new company entering the field: the key hardware suppliers of displays and other components are all being bought by Meta, Apple, Snap, Google, and other big players. Beat Games).

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The XR Week Peek (2021.05.31): UE5 released in Early Access, Lumus shows an impressive AR prototype, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Youtuber Eric For President has twitted some days ago that “September is the VR hardware you want”. In the comments he has hinted about a great piece of hardware, that will be affordable because heavily subsidized by Facebook, which will be revealed. A Youtuber says Facebook is going to reveal something in September.

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