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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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If I had known people could like it, I would have not made it in 5 minutes with Microsoft Word, lol. Facebook Reality Labs creates a group focused on working on the “metaverse”. The leader of the group will be Vishal Shah, Instagram VP of Product, that will report directly to Andrew Bosworth. Other relevant news. Image by IGN).

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XRDC Interviews AR and VR Industry Experts in Healthcare Report

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This year, new standalone headsets from Oculus and Vive debuted. Creating new standalone headsets make sharing VR a social experience, which can aid in training and group activities. To illustrate, readers will learn how VR helps kids and people with special needs learn to use an MRI machine.

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Meta and the next 24 months crucial for its leadership

The Ghost Howls

The Quest 2 is a great gaming machine offered at a ridiculous price, and it has totally crushed the competition. There are so periods during the evolution of a tech with a certain group of leaders, who change over time. Meta is currently the market leader in VR, and no company does even get close to its sales numbers.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.26): DecaGear is an intriguing VR headset, HTC is working on a new device, and more!

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The startup is pretty new, in fact, and its owner group is Megadodo, another unknown company that is working on an MMO game about which is difficult to find any information. While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this weekly VRScout Report, Google Earth in VR is a rush, Facebook analyzes your face w/ augmented reality, GE uses AR to talk to machines, the funding wrap-up, cure lazy eye with VR, and more…. GE USES AR TO TALK TO MACHINES IN MICROSOFT PARTNERSHIP.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.01): HoloLens 2 may come in September, Oculus may commercialize a multiplayer LBVR solution, HP Reverb is back and much more!

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(Image by Microsoft). According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. VR is an empathy machine, but this is not always the case.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.22): Sony reveals PSVR2 controllers, FRL shows the wristband of the future, and more!

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The shape of the controllers is slightly different than the one of the Oculus Touch, though, and there is a ring that surrounds the wrist of the user. There is also “finger-tracking” a la Valve Index , but just for the thumb, index, and middle finger (so, it is more a la Oculus Touch). Image by Microsoft).

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