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Spatial Beats: Virtual CES Edition

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The Consumer Everything Show as we call it, attracts more than 200,000 people from all over the world to Las Vegas each year. SenseGloves Nova, which are haptic feedback gloves for professional VR training, were announced at CES. The company is currently developing an email service to compete with Google and Microsoft.

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Spatial Beats: Apple VR, Google Poly & LBVR Hangs On

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We are waiting and hoping and praying a white knight swoops in to rescue Poly like Microsoft rescued AltspaceVR in the VR winter of 2018. The company just launched a new attraction called UNCONTAINED, which will be the first free-roam, haptic feedback, hyper-immersive VR attraction built for a COVID world in shipping containers.

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Lyft Patents Show How AR & VR Could Change Ridesharing

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Lyft drivers would access this information through an AR headset, such as a Microsoft HoloLens, Google Glass, or Magic Leap, which would place the digital content directly in the view of the Lyft driver, or through an AR enabled smartphone. You could also use your own smartphone or any type of wearable AR device to find them yourself.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.03): OpenXR is taking foot, new cool features found inside Oculus runtime, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. The big news of the week is that CES 2021 won’t be physically held in Las Vegas, but will have just a digital edition. Top news of the week.

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The best AR and VR news from CES 2022

The Ghost Howls

This hilarious tweet thread by Nima Zeighami shows you all the worst uses that have been of the M-word on the Las Vegas showroom. Haptic technologies were represented at CES very well especially by two companies: OWO and bHaptics. OWO Haptic Vest (Image by OWO). Skinetic haptic suit (Image by Actronika).

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The XR Week Peek (2023.10.02): Meta Quest 3 launched, Vive Ultimate Tracker leaked, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info The Las Vegas dome hosts an astonishing concert by the U2 The U2 was the first band to perform inside the big dome in Las Vegas, and the images that have been recorded from the performance are pretty cool. It is not clear if they can also work in the future with the headsets from Pico and Meta.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.01.11): CES had some interesting XR announcements, new rumors on Apple and Meta, and more!

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And subscribe to my newsletter to not miss my upcoming CES roundup, which will contain all the news I’ve read about XR from Las Vegas! It will be the first consumer headset with eye-tracking and foveated rendering, and also the first one to feature haptics directly on the headset. Microsoft Maquette gets discontinued.

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