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Report: Pico to Layoff “hundreds” as Company Shifts Focus to Hardware

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Citing three people with direct knowledge of the matter, the report maintains the information comes from an internal meeting from earlier this morning wherein it was allegedly revealed Pico is keeping its VR hardware team whilst folding much of its software team back into ByteDance’s own product development team.

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Additional Languages Found in Vision Pro Suggest It May Launch Where Meta Can’t

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The languages above however suggest it’s at least coming to Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, Singapore, the UK, France, and Germany. Granted, Simplified Chinese is also commonly used in Malaysia and Singapore, whereas traditional Chinese script is used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Monash University Malaysia and EON Reality Announce New AVR Platform Academic Installation

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Monash University Malaysia and EON Reality, the world leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills transfer for industry and education, announce a new installation to bring the AVR Platform and technology into the university’s classrooms in the near future. is capable of on a local, national, and global scale.”

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Report: TikTok Parent Lays Off Hundreds at VR Subsidiary Pico Interactive, Tencent Scraps VR Plans

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Seen a direct competitor to Meta Quest 2, Pico 4 still isn’t officially sold in the US; the headset is currently only available across Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, and most countries in Europe. Shortly afterwards, the China-based company then released its latest standalone headset, Pico 4, in Europe and Asia to consumers.

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Scouted: Batman Samsung Galaxy S7 and Gear VR

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At the time, Samsung announced that they would begin taking pre-orders for the Injustice Edition bundle if you lived in select countries like China, Singapore, Korea, Latin America, Malaysia and Russia. Thanks to reader Abu Hafiz Abu Huraira from Malaysia, he sent us a load of images of his latest score.

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Holovis Uses Giant Robot Arms for Intense VR Motion Simulated Experiences

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First demonstrated to theme park executives at the Asian Attractions Expo in Singapore last month, Holovis ’ R3ex (Rideable Realtime Robot Experiences) project combines virtual reality with four/six-axis robot arm amusement rides. The demonstration depicts a futuristic flying taxi ride through Singapore. image courtesy Holovis.

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Pico 4 Ships October 18 To Europe, Japan & South Korea For €429

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This is a significant claim, so we’ll be testing it as soon as we can get our hands on this hardware. Pico says it plans to launch in Singapore and Malaysia later this year. Pico claims it can also predict your full body pose using a machine learning algorithm. Just Dance VR Exclusive. Availability.