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How Different Age Groups Can Use Virtual Reality

ARPost

Users from every age group can use VR but may use it for different purposes. Younger people often use VR, but many hardware manufacturers include an age suggestion in product manuals. These suggestions are not grounded in medical science, but they provide information on which age groups the hardware best suits.

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The Glimpse Group IPO, the Metaverse ETF, and a Market Coming of Age

ARPost

Between the Metaverse ETF, the Glimpse Group IPO (initial public offering), and other big trends, XR might be finally coming of age. Glimpse Group Goes Public. Glimpse Group is composed of eight subsidiary XR companies. Glimpse Group recently went public with a successful Nasdaq IPO with the ticker “VRAR.”

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VR Owl Group Acquires MeetinVR in Company Shakeup

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The VR Owl Group has officially acquired MeetinVR, with the Group replacing the company’s CEO with Incoming Chief Executive, Wisse Jelgersma , it announced on Thursday. Formed in Utrecht, The Netherlands, the VR Owl Group employs dozens of people across the country and Germany. “Goodbye, MeetinVR!

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Apple Reportedly Departs from Tradition with Creation of Dedicated XR Product Team

Road to VR

According to a Bloomberg report from Mark Gurman, Apple is changing things up with the creation of a new Vision Products Group (VPG), which is tasked with developing the company’s recently unveiled mixed reality headset, Vision Pro.

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Niantic, Qualcomm Partner for Snapdragon Hardware Scalability

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Last Wednesday, augmented reality (AR) software studio Niantic partnered with Qualcomm to leverage the latter’s Snapdragon Spaces extended reality (XR) platform for geotagged immersive content and supporting hardware. Developing AR Hardware. a service for designing and distributing location-based AR content ? —

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The XR Week Peek (2021.08.02): Facebook creates Metaverse group and prepares to launch its smartglasses, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Facebook Reality Labs creates a group focused on working on the “metaverse”. Zuckerberg said last week that he wants in 5 years Facebook to become a “metaverse company” and this week he started taking action in this sense: he has created a group in the company focused on “building the metaverse”. (Image by Facebook).

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Haptic Solution to Support XR Accessibility for the Visually Impaired

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, and National Eye Institute to advance research into using haptic solutions to provide accessible XR applications for visually impaired groups. According to the research team, the work extends away from visually impaired groups and provides usage in work environments.

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