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Facebook Patent Teases AR Fedora, Visor, And Cowboy Hat

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The company says that a larger surface area would allow them to implement additional features, such as face and eye tracking. Earlier this week, the United States Patent & Trademark Office published a new patent filed by Facebook back in 2019 that showcases a “unique” type of AR headgear.

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Will these High-End VR Headsets Shift the Market?

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The device’s specifications include a 3840 x 3840 pixels per eye resolution, 72Hz/90Hz/120Hz (QLED version)/70Hz/90Hz (micro-OLED 70Hz/90Hz) refresh rate, glass aspheric lenses (QLED version)/glass pancake lenses (micro-OLED), and eye tracking. Its removed features include the Super’s modular design and integrated eye tracking.

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Nothing New: HTC Exec Slams Apple’s Vision Pro’s ‘Pricey’ XR Headset

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You can add facial tracking, you can add eye tracking, you can add accessories and peripherals. However, over the last few years, it has gained significant ground in popularity, mostly in the United States. At the time, Japanese tech giant SNK opened the price at $649.99. This is equivalent to $1,515.04

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VR as the Most Powerful Surveillance Technology or Last Bastion of Privacy? It’s up to Us.

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In order to have the full potential of First Amendment that guarantees the freedom of speech in the United States, then you need to have the protections of the Fourth Amendment that protects a reasonable expectation of privacy. Creating Unified Super Profiles.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.09.12). Quest 3 fully leaked, new Rumors on Valve, and more!

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More info (XREAL announces Air 2) More info (Differences between XREAL Air 1 and Air 2) Bigscreen Beyond is shipping Bigscreen has announced that its lightweight Beyond PC VR headset is now shipping in the United States, with international shipping coming in mid-late Q4 of this year.

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Our First Look At Microsoft HoloLens 2

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One of the more surprising announcements during the presentation, Spatial Anchors serve as a way to share three-dimensional images compatible with Apple’s ARKit as well as Google’s ARCore. In the demo given by Julia Schartz, Senior Researcher at Microsoft, we got a glimpse of what these “instinctual interactions” feel like.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.19): HTC launches Vive Flow, Magic Leap 2 announced, and more!

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A piece of very interesting news about this headset, which has been reported by few people, is that the Chinese company 7Invensun has already developed an eye-tracking module for it, making Vive Flow even more interesting for enterprise uses. Other relevant news. Image by Magic Leap).