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Behind Facebook’s AR Strategy, Part II

AR Insider

We’ve estimated that its annual XR R&D spend — not including its $2 billion Oculus acquisition — approaches $10 billion. That includes both AR and VR, the latter being more tangible today, given Oculus’ in-market status. XR Talks: Behind Facebook’s Spatial Strategy. It’s playing a long game and is firmly committed.

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VRTUOLUO talks about its FBEC event and the VR ecosystem in China

The Ghost Howls

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). Since Meta made the acquisition and took over Oculus, VRTUOLUO began to write original and in-depth articles on the XR industry.

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Facebook VP Says The Oculus Quest Is Seeing ‘Console-Like Usage’

VRScout

Facebook’s Oculus Quest seems to be hitting a mark with VR fans all over the globe. On top of that, user reviews have so far been overwhelmingly positive, save for a few users frustrated by Oculus’ strict content curation system. Jason Rubin, Facebook Vice President of Special Gaming Strategies // Image Credit: Oculus.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

The Ghost Howls

A bizarre strategy, that doesn’t surprise me anymore, though. Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Other relevant news. This is so sad.

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Meta Connect Is A One-Day Virtual Event On October 11th

Upload VR

Meta Connect is on for October 11th, 2022 as a one-day virtual event with announcements outlining the company’s next steps in VR and AR. Connect has been held annually since 2014 as Oculus’ and then Facebook’s biggest event focused around outlining the company’s strategy in VR and AR.

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Samsung’s VR Strategy with Tom Harding, Director of Immersive Products

Road to VR

It looks like we’ll have to wait until CES this year to learn if this is more than a positional tracking and 6-DoF tracking update to Gear VR, and whether Samsung is developing their own standalone headsets independent of Facebook’s Oculus Go. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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Amanda Watson On The Carnegie Mellon Oculus Booth Incident Of 2014

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Editor's Note: Amanda Watson joined Oculus VR in 2015 and took a cubicle outside John Carmack's office in Dallas where she worked late nights on the mobile SDK. Later in California, she worked on Oculus Link and Air Link before leaving Oculus in 2022. But not Oculus. In early 2024, Watson released CitraVR on Github.

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