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How Much is Facebook Investing in Spatial Computing?

AR Insider

We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. More importantly, this aligns with the timeframe that followed its 2014 Oculus acquisition. billion for a representative baseline of pre-Oculus spending.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

With regards to talent, Snapchat has been acquiring there in a big way as well, hiring people from Oculus, Hololens, Qualcomm, as well as a few designers who have created glasses for names like Michael Kors and Lady Gaga. Did Seebright just release the augmented reality equivalent of Google Cardboard?

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Exclusive: First-Ever Impact Reality Summit Announces 2020 Lineup

VRScout

The Impact Reality Summit—hosted by Kaleidoscope and Vulcan, and held at Vulcan’s Seattle Headquarters Jan. The VR industry has exploded with groundbreaking storytelling projects, hardware, and platforms that have shone a light on physically disabled individuals worldwide.

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VR Gloves Go Mainstream with Ready Player One

HaptX

A couple months ago on a murky Seattle day, my colleague Andrew and I were at the HaptX office discussing the upcoming release of Ready Player One. A search on Google Trends reveals more searches for “VR gloves” than “haptic gloves.” bought the script to Ready Player One back in 2010, two years before the Oculus Rift Kickstarter.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.30): Niantic launches VPS, Pico launches Neo 3 Link, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for This time we don’t have more info about the hardware, but about the software. Somnium is already an investor in XTAL, and it is so strengthening its position as a leader both in the software and the hardware necessary to access virtual worlds.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.09): New Half-Life: Alyx videos and details, coronavirus makes events go virtual and much more!

The Ghost Howls

This week, the damn coronavirus has caused the cancelation of three super-important events: GTC (that will be substituted by the streaming of the sessions), SXSW and Google I/O. More info (GTC canceled) More info (SXSW canceled) More info (Google I/O canceled) More info (Facebook & working from home). That’s a disaster.

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XR’s School for Innovators, with Circuit Stream’s Lou Pushelberg

XR for Business Podcast

They were based out of Seattle. laughs] Lou: Yeah, it’s totally transformed to just some of the kind of IT enablements and hardware enablements that have happened. The hardware is just year over year just changing at a blistering pace, which is amazing for anyone who’s getting into the ecosystem.