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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.15): Google confirms headset with Samsung, Ultraleap teases a new device, and more!

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But to summarize, the most important XR-related tidbits have been: Google confirmed that is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung to build an XR headset. More info Tribeca Film Festival is coming Tribeca Film Festival, one of the most important film festivals of the year, is coming on June, 7–18.

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The 25 Best Free Meta Quest Games & Apps - Winter 2023

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first appeared back in 2016 and was once one of the most popular Samsung Gear games. Read More : F2P Shooter Gun Raiders Jumps From App Lab To Oculus Quest & Rift Store Quest Store Elixir Elixir is a free hand-tracking demo game developed by Magnopus and Reality Labs. A free-to-play fishing game from Resolution Games, Bait!

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What’s New in Virtual Reality (VR) Headsets in Fall 2019?

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First off, some of the early major players like Google, Apple, and Samsung seem to be taking a step back. Google is discontinuing Daydream (more on that below), Apple seems to be focusing most of its efforts on AR, and Samsung is doing very little promotion of Gear VR despite launching a new phone line.

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KLM’s Chris Koomen teaches us how to use AR/VR in the civil aviation sector

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During all these months, I had the occasion of reading on Linkedin about all his cool prototypes and enterprise solutions that he and his colleagues have developed inside the company, ranging from 360 videos to hand-tracked training solutions with the Quest, not to mention XR entertainment solutions for airplane passengers.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.09.04): Meta may be working on the next Quest Pro with LG, Meta Avatars get legs, and more!

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The haptic feedback of typing on a surface is much worse than the one of a keyboard, plus hand tracking is too prone to errors when the hands are close to a surface. More info Discover London Film Festival Like Venice, the London Film Festival has its own section dedicated to XR, called LFF Expanded.

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Apple Vision Pro Review: A Portable But Heavy Cinema & Monitor With A Promising Spatial OS

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Apple Vision Pro on the other hand has occlusion in two distinct forms. The main form is hand and arm occlusion. There’s clearly a 2D hand and arm segmentation model (separate to the 3D skeletal hand tracking) running for each eye’s camera. Unintentional inputs are also a very real problem with hand tracking.

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Valve Index turns one: all the tweaks and tricks from one year of usage!

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Frunk removal would have to be weighed against the benefit that some Index owners really appreciate, the most obvious being the “Chilldex” cooling system that fits neatly into the Frunk , or an Ultra Leap module for hand tracking experiments. Cranial cap with occipital support. Image by Immersive Computing).

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