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Meta's Head Of AR Glasses Hardware Claims They're As Mindblowing As The Original Oculus Rift

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Meta's Head of AR Glasses Hardware claims they give the same "Oh my God, wow! Kalinowski was previously the Head of VR Hardware at Oculus for the consumer Oculus Rift, Oculus Touch, Oculus Go, Rift S, Oculus Quest, Quest 2, and Quest Pro. I can't believe this!" reaction as the original Oculus Rift.

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My Taiwanese XR Chronicles part 1: Cave, zSpace, Brogent hands-on

The Ghost Howls

Two weeks ago, I had a fantastic trip to Taiwan together with my Chinese assistant Miss S. In this series of articles, I want to talk about my experience there , giving you some highlights about the hardware I tried, the companies I met, etc… I want to let you feel as if you did this VR travel with me. We were at the 88th floor.

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10 Recent VR and AR Investments You Should Know About

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The biggest gorillas in the room are the covert augmented reality company Magic Leap, which raised almost $800M in February (bringing its total funding to $1.4B), and the VR live-streaming company NextVR, which raised $80M in August (which brings its total funding to over $115M).

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Rumor: Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Consumer AR Headset

Road to VR

A DigiTimes Taiwan report (via MacRumors ) now suggests that Apple has disbanded the team behind it, effectively putting its consumer AR device on hold. Apple continuously advertises a number of job positions dealing with AR software and hardware. SEE ALSO Apple Offers Impressive Web-based AR Previews of New Mac Pro.

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Suzanne Borders says it all on being a female entrepreneur in XR

The Ghost Howls

In yesterday’s part , she detailed what BadVR does and why she’s so interested in the Magic Leap One device. From a consumer standpoint of making this technology attractive to consumers , the very most important thing and something I’m super passionate about is giving people understanding of utility of the hardware.

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How to be a good VR startupper – Part 1

The Ghost Howls

For instance, there are lots of new headsets being released by hardware companies: just in the last year, there have been the Oculus Quest & Rift S , HTC Vive Focus Plus , HP Reverb , Valve Index , Acer OJO 500, and HoloLens 2 … just to mention the most popular ones. Try to spare money whenever you can. The market is not there yet.

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Leap Motion’s North Star is the DK1 of AR: hands-on preview and how to buy it!

The Ghost Howls

The idea of Leap Motion is going against the current trend of augmented reality glasses, that is mostly based on expensive devices that have closed ecosystems (e.g. HoloLens or Magic Leap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint.