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Spatial Beats: Facebook, Rec Room & Looking Glass

AR Insider

This week, we look at Looking Glass’ latest hardware, New avatars at Rec Room and lots of new funding. The new new game studio pulled in an astonishing $113M Series C to produce what the company calls “massive interactive live events,” or MILEs. Two New Harry Potter VR Experiences Coming to New York Store.

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Official: Sony Sold Nearly 1 Million PlayStation VR Headsets in 4.5 Months, Despite Limited Stock

Road to VR

Sony is the first of the big three tethered VR headset makers to drop official PSVR sales figures: 915,000 PlayStation VR headsets sold as of February 19. Speaking with the New York Times recently , Andrew House, President of Sony Computer Entertainment, confirmed the PSVR sales data.

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Is this the end of the metaverse?

Hypergrid Business

Plus, it was a proprietary system, owned by Microsoft, and didn’t play well with other metaverse platforms. In its blog post, the company said that it will be focusing on other metaverse-related efforts, such as the launch of Microsoft Mesh , an enterprise-focused metaverse platform. ” And it’s making money.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.03): OpenXR is taking foot, new cool features found inside Oculus runtime, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. T his standard, dubbed OpenXR, was about the interoperability of different VR hardware and software together. OpenXR is now ready for prime time.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.07.07): Valve Index shows thumbstick issues, Cosmos works with Wireless Adapter, WeChat introduces AR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Microsoft is shipping Azure Kinect. Microsoft is finally shipping its Azure Kinect devkits. As promised, Microsoft has released the documentation on its website. It is more a game-oriented event, but there you can find some interesting VR experiences and hardware as well. IDC has released another positive report about XR.

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The best AR and VR news from CES 2022

The Ghost Howls

Now let’s dig into the best news! PlayStation VR 2 Logo (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Unlink VR hardware (Image by Unlink VR). Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership. Qualcomm and Microsoft have announced a partnership to push together the next-generation lightweight AR glasses. Further references.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.30): Niantic launches VPS, Pico launches Neo 3 Link, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for This time we don’t have more info about the hardware, but about the software. In a new business briefing for investors, the company stated that the headset should launch with 20+ titles. PSVR 2 is going to have 20+ launch titles.