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The XR Week Peek (2023.11.27): Discover XR Cyber Monday Deals, Sam Altman returns to OpenAI, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

And talking about “cool” things (pun intended), today I’m traveling to Helsinki, Finland, where I hope to have a great time at MatchXR. This may be one of the potential names for either the upcoming mixed reality headset that Samsung is developing with Google or the name of future AR glasses. Will we meet there?

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, Finland. Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

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Major Report Calls for Standards on XR Metrics

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The report surveyed respondents from September last year to June to discuss findings across some of the world’s top firms, including Unity Technologies, HTC, manufacturers such as Jaguar Land Rover, and media firm Yahoo, among many others. What’s the Deal on Data?

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

According to Google Trends, the search term “Virtual Reality Porn” has increased by almost 10,000%. Google knows everything, so who are the ones downloading the most? Although the dubious award of #1 goes to Helsinki in Finland, #2-4 are Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane (Singapore is #5). Turns out, it’s our friends Down Under.

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Dress for Success: Talking Headsets and Haptic Suits with Skarred Ghost Antony Vitillo

XR for Business Podcast

Antony: Yeah, of course, I was there; I listened to all the presentations by HTC. I think that the strength of HTC now is the services that they’re offering for enterprises. But definitely, HTC is really far ahead with the services and, being able to do that. or Finland? Antony: Varro is from Finland.

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Dress for Success: Talking Headsets and Haptic Suits with Skarred Ghost Antony Vitillo

XR for Business Podcast

Antony: Yeah, of course, I was there; I listened to all the presentations by HTC. I think that the strength of HTC now is the services that they're offering for enterprises. But definitely, HTC is really far ahead with the services and, being able to do that. or Finland? Antony: Varro is from Finland.

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Dress for Success: Talking Headsets and Haptic Suits with Skarred Ghost Antony Vitillo

XR for Business Podcast

Antony: Yeah, of course, I was there; I listened to all the presentations by HTC. I think that the strength of HTC now is the services that they’re offering for enterprises. But definitely, HTC is really far ahead with the services and, being able to do that. or Finland? Antony: Varro is from Finland.

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