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Spatial Beats: Snap, Niantic & Facebook

AR Insider

This week, we look at Snap’s latest lens craze, Niantic’s next AR gaming title, new XR funding and more Facebook/Oculus acquisitions. Oculus buys it’s fifth VR content company, Downpour Interactive, maker of “Population One,” the “Fortnite” of VR. MMO-like ‘A Township Tale’ Coming to Oculus Quest on July 15th.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.16): Oculus Quest gets hand tracking, Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. Last week, the runtime v12 of Oculus Quest has been rolled out , and this took with it lots of interesting updates. To start, now the Oculus Link is more stable and it is compatible with some AMD GPUs. Oculus Quests have started getting vocal commands in the menu. Top news of the week.

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Report: AR Startup Magic Leap is Looking for a Buyer

Road to VR

The Plantation, Florida-based company has raised $2.6 billion since its initial Series A financing in 2014, garnering cash from the likes of Google, Alibaba, Qualcomm, and Andreessen Horowitz over the years. Other options reportedly under consideration are potential partnerships and a stake sale.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.07): new Quest is coming at $299 and $399, NVIDIA RTX3070 is powerful and affordable and more!

The Ghost Howls

Rumors hint to Oculus discontinuing the current Quest and selling the new one at $299 and $399. The Facebook Connect is close and we all expect that during that conference Oculus is finally going to announce the new Oculus Quest. Facebook is temporarily suspending the sale of Oculus Quest devices in Germany.

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‘Tis The Season to VR

VRScout

It was announcements and product launches galore with news coming from key players like Oculus, Sony, Microsoft and Google dominating the headlines almost every week. As a mom of 3, living in Gainesville, Florida (population 127,000+) there are not many options when it comes to retail stores. So what’s next?

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.17): Half-Life Alyx will launch on March, 23rd, MWC has been canceled and much more!

The Ghost Howls

More info (Use Google Translate). It is also organizing the LEAP Developer Days, a big event for ML developers, that will be held on May 19–22nd inside Magic Leap headquarters in Plantation, Florida. Google Chrome now supports WebAR. More info (Google Chrome 81 supports AR) More info (Nicolò Carpignoli’s initiative).

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All the most important AR and VR news from the GDC 2018

The Ghost Howls

I think that, after a year, its specifications don’t sound exceptional anymore and maybe it is better that LG jumps directly to a second generation or that enters the standalone market (as it seems, since there are some rumors about a new revolutionary headset screen developed by Google and LG). Oculus Go showcased.

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