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Spatial Beats: Facebook, Rec Room & Looking Glass

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Two New Harry Potter VR Experiences Coming to New York Store. Chaos at Hogwarts”and “Wizards Take Flight” are now available exclusively at Harry Potter World in New York’s Flatiron district. GIGXR Awarded Phase $750,000 Contract to Develop Extended Reality (XR) Simulation Training for Air Force Academy.

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Spatial Beats: Zoom, Looking Glass & AR Funding

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The XR section of the venerated New York film festival introduced its offering on Tuesday: a mix of VR in the Museum of Other Realities, some limited in-person events at the Tribeca Hub downtown, and location-based mobile AR experiences around New York. Zoom rolls out new features, including Immersive View.

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Augmented Reality in the Movies: When Fantasy Becomes Reality

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Items like Google Glass and Focals offer consumers today the ability to text, update their calendar and even control their smart homes directly from their glasses. It’s a red-tinted world explained by text and data popping up with each step he takes, providing context to each new thing he sees. More specifically, Google Glass.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.01.11): CES had some interesting XR announcements, new rumors on Apple and Meta, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This week, thanks to The New York Times, we got to know the reason , and it is pretty interesting. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. Cooking Simulator VR is the best VR game of 2021 on SteamVR. Microsoft Maquette gets discontinued.

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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 is why Tim Sweeney, talking about the metaverse, rants about how we should avoid having again companies like Google and Apple that may decide the destiny of the others thanks to the immense power they have. Other news.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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When the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift was launched in the spring, it was disappointingly bundled with a Microsoft Xbox controller – and we’ve eagerly been awaiting the native Touch Controllers. GOOGLE DAYDREAM SCORES NETFLIX AND HBO APPS. valuation) from huge names like Google, Alibaba, and Andreeson Horowitz.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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One big name that was notably missing from the VR news at E3 was Microsoft—who, contrary to many predictions, did not announce anything VR-related for Xbox. Based in New York, a startup called VRB (pronounced “verb”) has been acquired by Samsung. GOOGLE LAUNCHES 3000 YEARS OF FASHION & CULTURE PLUS VR.