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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.21): Qualcomm launches AR2 chip, HTC headset gets leaked, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Let’s see what have been the most interesting things happening in immersive reality…. The biggest news of the week took place in the Hawaii islands, where Qualcomm had its Snapdragon Summit event. Talking about hardware, a great partner of Qualcomm is Niantic , which make two great announcements at the Snapdragon Summit.

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Qualcomm announces AR2 chip to pave the road to the augmented reality glasses of the future

The Ghost Howls

Unluckily I haven’t been able to go to Hawaii to enjoy the live announcement (and enjoy some drinks on the seaside), but I attended a preview of the presentation dedicated to the press, so I’m able to tell you everything I’ve learned about this new chip, and why it is so important for me. But this is just my speculation.

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Hands-on: VR Goes Skydiving at iFLY – The Ultimate Haptic Simulation

Road to VR

iFLY , a leading provider of indoor skydiving facilities, today launched their iFLY VR initiative which combines the company’s indoor skydiving experience with immersive visuals powered by a Gear VR headset. I got to try to experience for myself at the company’s SF Bay location.

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Jake Rowell: How The best VR Experience Came to Life

VRWorld

As an industry, we need immersive experiences that will show what VR brings to the table and so far, there are two experiences one should go through: WeVR’s “theBlu” for HTC Vive and Crytek’s “The Climb” for Oculus Rift. Be on Hawaii in a way that you could not be before? Why not have a third experience?

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Magic Leap’s LEAP Con 2018 round-up: all the major announcements in only one place

The Ghost Howls

” , that are all the member states of the USA, excluded Alaska and Hawaii. It is a set of very high-quality headphones that are able to offer truly immersive and spatial audio, with a unique feature that lets you blend the audio of the AR experience and of your real world in an optimized way. MagicScript.