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Meta Quest 2 & Quest Pro VR Headsets Get Price Cuts

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Beginning March 5th, 2023, the 256GB Quest 2 will be available for $429.99 (previously $499.99) in the US, Canada, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the UK.

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Opera Beyond Creates Virtual Theater With Varjo and the FNOB

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They also use hardware from fellow Finland-based immersive tech company Varjo. “People now clearly have a much more open mind for experimenting with digital tools, and they now understand the advantages of these kinds of workflows and remote coworking platforms better,” said Haapasaari. Virtual Theater and the High-Tech Opera.

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Facebook Expects Coronavirus Will Have “additional impact” on Oculus Quest Availability

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That said, like other companies we’re expecting some additional impact to our hardware production due to the Coronavirus. We’re taking precautions to ensure the safety of our employees, manufacturing partners and customers, and are monitoring the situation closely.” United States. Netherlands. South Korea. Switzerland.

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XR Device Maturity to Trigger ‘Big Shifts’ for Metaverse, Agora Says

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The news comes after the company participated in an event in Helsinki, Finland in late September. Held at Finland’s largest cultural centre, the Cable Factory, Agora exhibited its RTE audiovisual solutions at the Pocket Gammer Connects event. pic.twitter.com/YY4Qo7jzsG. Agora (@AgoraIO) October 10, 2022.

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Russia Bans Facebook & Instagram, Quest Sees Ripple Effects

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Countries not included in Meta’s list of supported regions can’t buy VR headsets directly from Meta, although residents can import hardware from elsewhere and access the digital side of the platform without issue; supported regions include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, (..)

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Microsoft to Expand HoloLens Availability to 29 More European Markets in December

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Microsoft says the HoloLens Commercial Suite is “[i]deal for organizations,” and includes the Development Edition hardware, plus a warranty and enterprise features “for added security and device management.” image courtesy Microsoft. image courtesy Microsoft.

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Varjo Backs NVIDIA Omniverse for Ray-Tracing XR Tools

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With the two companies working together, the Helsinki, Finland-based extended reality (XR) firm will leverage NVIDIA’s industry-leading technologies to support applications with photorealistic, real-time ray-tracing. This has led to the creation of its own Reality Cloud platform, used by US automaker Rivian, and Varjo Teleport.

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