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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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How Nokia Broke Into Virtual Reality With Its Ozo Camera

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We started seeing the first Oculus and HTC headsets this year. But something like the Samsung Gear VR, we don’t know how much it gets used, but at least you have the capability. Is it Finland? Voltolina: The majority of the R&D is in Finland. Now it’s maybe 65 percent Finland, 35 percent Sunnyvale.

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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. HTW Berlin, Germany.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Although the dubious award of #1 goes to Helsinki in Finland, #2-4 are Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane (Singapore is #5). in 2012 and has become a leading venture capitalist), released a video singing the praises of the VR/AR industry as a viable investment opportunity with HTC Vive. people have subscribed since March. who left the co.