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Meta Wants to Beat Google at its Own Game with Horizon OS

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This puts Meta in an entirely new position as a platform holder, as it now seems the company is trying to beat Google at its own game. Apple vs. Google. Google: Keep on Daydreaming After having abandoned its ill-fated standalone XR platform Daydream in 2019, Google took a giant step back from VR that it never quite recovered from.

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Meta Rebranding Quest Software Horizon OS, Will Run On New Headsets From ASUS, Lenovo, More

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Meta is rebranding its Quest software platform to Meta Horizon OS, and opening it up to third-party headset makers. They'll have access to the same core software and platform services as Meta Quest headsets, including Meta's tracking and mixed reality technology and store. And if so will it be Meta, or Google?

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Meta Affirms it Will Continue Making Quest Headsets Even as it Offers OS to (select) Third Parties

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Meta made a huge announcement today , saying that the Quest operating system, rebranded to Meta Horizon OS, would be the software basis of new headsets built by third parties like Asus and Lenovo. With that news came two big questions: Will Meta continue making its own Quest headsets?

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Who’s Waging the Wearables Wars? Part III: Google

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Like in our ongoing “ follow the money ” exercise, they’re each building wearables strategies that support or future-proof core businesses where tens of billions in annual revenues are at stake. After examining Amazon and Microsoft , it’s time to zero in on Google. For Google that of course means search.

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Data Dive: ARCore Joins the 3-Comma Club

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A fter launching in 2017, Google’s ARCore has been relatively quiet. Google reports this week that ARCore has surpassed one billion installs. This refers to the Google Play Services for AR app in Google’s Play Store. That’s just a thought exercise of course. Google lives on the web after all.

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Cas & Chary Present: Why Working Out in VR is Game-changing

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It certainly doesn’t help that I find exercising in a gym boring and time-consuming. The Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise does research on the impact of virtual reality exercise on the human body. If you use the app without a heart monitor, it’ll estimate your heart-rate by software.

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What’s Google’s ‘Audio AR’ Play?

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Picking up where we left off last week in examining Apple’s hearables strategy, what’s Google’s counterpoint? With Apple out of the way, we’ll now tackle Google (and Bose next week). How is audio AR aligned with Google’s master plan to be the “knowledge layer” for the spatial web?

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