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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.26): WMR gets discontinued, Meta to showcase an impressive AR prototype, and more!

The Ghost Howls

(PS Remember that there is an ongoing giveaway of physical copies of the Sam&Max game for PSVR for all people in North America! For this reason, even if across the years some good headsets came out from that ecosystem, like the Samsung Odyseey+, the platform never took off. Microsoft in the end has decided to deprecate it.

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Kevin Williams: LBVR is not dead, it is rising again

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Superdata reported about a -72% in revenues for out-of-home VR entertainment , and there is the common consensus that “LBVR is dead “ Pretty ironic, considering that when at-home VR was considered “dead” by many mainstream journalists, LBVR was considered the only VR sector that could succeed.

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How Nokia Broke Into Virtual Reality With Its Ozo Camera

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Voltolina: We started selling the Ozo in February of this year, in North America. We started with one region, North America, to see if the product would be well-received, and then if we could scale manufacturing. VB: The Sony Pictures deal is hopefully going to create more fresh content. That happened in August.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.13): Horizon Worlds is now in open beta, Among Us VR is coming, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The North-America-only limitation is quite a bummer for us Europeans, but honestly, as a developer, I understand the will of making an incremental deployment to be sure that everything works before expanding the product to many countries. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. Samsung Odyssey+).

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