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Big News From Meta, Samsung, Microsoft, and HTC VIVE

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More on Meta this Week Moreover, Meta partnered with India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology MeitY and HCLTech as part of an XR Startup Program for boosting startup capacities, providing rising talent with resources to fulfil and showcase use cases in the region. The final announcement of the week from Meta.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.15): Facebook keeps working on its masterplan, WebXR arrives on iOS, and more!

The Ghost Howls

A Facebook operating system, pervasive of all devices (Portal, Quest, Smartwatch, etc…) could give Facebook the same power as Apple: having full control of hardware and software , with also complete interoperability. Then it could update them very fast and make them as powerful and successful as the Oculus Quest.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.20): Oculus ready to manufacture the Quest S, Pico doubles-down on 3DOF, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Finally after China and United States, also India has entered the AR race with the launch of the Jio AR glasses. While we have not even started using 5G, companies like Samsung (and Nokia) are already thinking about the next-generation 6G that could enable holograms and smart twins. According to Samsung, it should come in 2028.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2021

The Ghost Howls

This trend will continue in 2021 : the new LiDAR sensor, which is rumored to be installed in all future iPhones, will for sure be copied also by Android phones (Samsung?) NuEyes and Shadow Creator+Photon Lens should do something similar, while I guess that Rokid will focus more on China and Jio Glasses on India.

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Venture Capitalists Contemplate How Much Exuberance Is Good for VR Investing

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GamesBeat: Now that all the hardware has launched, you guys get to look at some of the results that are coming in for some of your portfolio companies. We see a lot of innovation coming from Chinese hardware manufacturers when it comes to very small form factors. Feature films go to China, they go to India, they go everywhere.

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InstaVR Interviews: Dr. Matthew Frew, Senior Lecturer in Enterprise, University of the West of Scotland – School of Business and Enterprise

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Question: What kind of hardware are you using for image and video capture? . Similarly we’ve got a few Samsung cameras that, like the Theta V, are pretty good consumer cameras. So we have students in Seychelles, India, Sri Lanka, all over the place. UWS invests in 8K Insta360 Pro cameras.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

Over the years i have seen a few lists of Top 50 XR Influencers, but the curators of those list always overlooked China/India/Asia's XR Industry. Just for Context the worlds current population is 7 Billion, India & China's Collective population is 2.7 He also Hosts XROM the 1st of its kind AR/VR focussed #Podcast from India.