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Meta Quest 2 & Quest Pro VR Headsets Get Price Cuts

VRScout

Beginning March 5th, 2023, the 256GB Quest 2 will be available for $429.99 (previously $499.99) in the US, Canada, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the UK.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

THE FAMOUS ICELANDIC ECCENTRIC EMBRACES VR. That fabulously weird genius known as Björk continues her lifetime exploration of technology, art, and music with Björk Digital. All hardware manufacturers are chasing that time when the tech shrinks enough to be able to wear PCs on our faces. Internet traffic.

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How science fiction precedes science fact and what it means for the metaverse

Hypergrid Business

I wrote my own ViFi novel, MetaWars , in 2010 after the Icelandic ash cloud grounded flights across Europe. Technology tends towards monopoly, or at least oligopoly, and the metaverse will likely not be different. All this was foretold in ViFi.

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Google-backed Magic Leap Reveals Mixed Reality Music App

VRWorld

The problem was, that at that time, they just promised to create a headset using a type of light-field technology that would result in superior augmented reality experiences, an area most major consumer technology companies are chasing. But it has never given a launch date for its device, nor offered much detail on how it would work.

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The Road Ahead in VR and AR Will Have Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

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John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, predicted that tech journalists would start gleefully writing that the virtual reality revolution is over because sales of VR headsets fell short of expectations, and analysts are in the midst of shaving back their predictions. The hardware is not there. I’m not one of those journalists.

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After 6 Years in Person & 3 Remote, Why is Meta Connect Still Not Held in VR?

Road to VR

Pandemic notwithstanding, they all had one important thing in common: none of the conferences used the company’s core XR technology to virtually connect people. Meanwhile, Horizon Worlds is only available to Quest users in a handful of countries, including the US, UK, Canada, France, Iceland, Ireland, and Spain. Why is that?

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

The Ghost Howls

Whatever device you may choose, VR can boost your business (and you can contact us of New Technology Walkers to have help in this sense, if you want). This seemed a great program to me, an d as a VR consultant that has already developed various enterprise AR/VR solutions at New Technology Walkers , I was going to apply.

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