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

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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”. In Japan, the number is around 80K.

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Discover Ambr, the company behind the Tokyo Game Show VR!

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a Virtual Reality Creative Studio based in Tokyo, Japan. Main investors to our company include ANRI, a top-tier venture capital, and Dentsu Group, the largest advertising and media conglomerate in Japan. Secondly, cross-play is possible on xambr , including Oculus Quest 1&2. Official VR Technology Partner NTT Group.

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‘The Mage’s Tale’ Studio Announces Team-based Shooter ‘Frostpoint VR’

Road to VR

The game, which will be published by Thirdverse , the successor to Japan-based company Yomuneco, is said to include over a dozen weapons which not only help you fight off the opposing team of players, but also the so-called ‘Reclaimers’, which seem to spawn from the ground. . We’re certainly hoping for the former.

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Anime VR: present and future of a new medium

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VR Anime in Japan. In general, VR in Japan didn’t take off as quickly as it did in the West. Apart from various PSVR games that saw the worldwide release, there were plenty that got released only in Japan and those are the ones that are specifically targeted at anime, visual novel or dating sim fans.

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JDI is Developing a 1001ppi High Pixel Density LCD for VR Headsets

Road to VR

Japan Display Inc. 60Hz is widely considered the bare minimum for VR headsets, although many PC VR headsets including HTC Vive and Oculus Rift function at 90Hz—a necessity in reducing motion blur and screen flicker. inch 1001ppi LCD created specifically for VR headsets. ms while operating at 120Hz refresh rate.

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Virtual Reality in Japan – Part 4 – Promotion & Added Value

VRPlayin

VRPLAYIN GROUP EVENTS. Basically this is what happened to me in Japan, luck would have it though that I already owned a Samsung Galaxy S8 and was reasonably happy with it, despite having my mind blown by the Galaxy S9 that the pop-up space was promoting. Until the re-match… fun! As the Nismo is a high power sports car.

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The XR Week (2020.11.16): HP Reverb G2 still haunted by WMR tracking, Quest 2 update brings 90Hz, and more!

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Oculus Quest 2 gets a huge update. Oculus has just started rolling out the update to the Quest runtime v23 , that introduces a lot of new features and improvements to this device: All the applications in the headset can now run at 90 Hz (including the passthrough vision); Oculus Link upgrades to 90Hz as well and finally exits from beta.