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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.09): New Half-Life: Alyx videos and details, coronavirus makes events go virtual and much more!

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And now also companies are affected directly : after a worker has been found positive to the virus in the Seattle venue, now a group of Facebook employees has been left working from home. HTC has answered to Road To VR about the critics regarding the too many headsets of its on the market. nReal adds hands tracking to its AR glasses.

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Top XR Stories of 2019

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Since then, Facebook has continued to roll out new features such as native hand tracking and Oculus Link , which allows users to experience PC VR HMD quality on the standalone headset. HTC Vive Retires. The HTC Vive was phased out in October, replaced by the Vive Cosmos , which was priced at $699. million downloads.