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

InstaVR

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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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. image courtesy VR First. Doña Ana Community College, USA.

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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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Building the Foundation of XR with 5G, with Nokia’s Sandro Tavares

XR for Business Podcast

To learn more about the great work that Sandro and his team at Nokia are doing, you can visit nokia.com and if you want to dig even deeper, you can just type in “Nokia 5G” into Google. It started as a paper mill in the countryside of Finland. And a Samsung. It started as a paper mill in the countryside of Finland.

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Building the Foundation of XR with 5G, with Nokia’s Sandro Tavares

XR for Business Podcast

and if you want to dig even deeper, you can just type in “Nokia 5G” into Google. It started as a paper mill in the countryside of Finland. And a Samsung. It started as a paper mill in the countryside of Finland. Sandro, welcome to the show. Sandro: Thank you very much, Alan. Thanks for having me. Sandro: Yeah!

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Building the Foundation of XR with 5G, with Nokia's Sandro Tavares

XR for Business Podcast

and if you want to dig even deeper, you can just type in "Nokia 5G" into Google. It started as a paper mill in the countryside of Finland. And a Samsung. It started as a paper mill in the countryside of Finland. To learn more about the great work that Sandro and his team at Nokia are doing, you can visit nokia.com.

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