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AR Insider
JANUARY 21, 2020
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.
AR Insider
OCTOBER 1, 2019
Up north in Seattle, Amazon announced Echo Frames, lightweight glasses with the Alexa voice assistant embedded in them. Microsoft won the PC era and now has a tablet business, while Apple and Google have the dominant mobile operating systems. Microsoft (enterprise) 4. Google (search). Apple (ecosystem) 2.
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VRScout
DECEMBER 23, 2019
The Impact Reality Summit—hosted by Kaleidoscope and Vulcan, and held at Vulcan’s Seattle Headquarters Jan. Vulcan Productions has teamed up with Kaleidoscope to launch the Impact Reality Summit, a two-day event celebrating the very best in “XR for Good” storytelling.
VRScout
JUNE 10, 2016
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?
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
In a mission to make 360 video less terrible, the Seattle-based company has developed a number of technologies since they came out of stealth last December. As ‘platform agnostic’ player, we’re sure to see apps available for headsets such as Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, Google Daydream, and Oculus Rift.
The Ghost Howls
MAY 30, 2022
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. Meta details its research on lenses and avatars.
The Ghost Howls
MARCH 9, 2020
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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