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Meta Remains Committed to Enterprise Metaverse

XR Today - Virtual Reality

” Moreover, Meta emphasises that its Metaverse research could soon benefit many sectors, including healthcare, sports, and entrepreneurship. It appeared that Meta would instead focus on XR gaming and AR-lite consumer wearables. Additionally, all data linked to a user’s Oculus account will disappear by the end of March.

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How REACT Neuro Uses Pico VR Headsets to Assess Brain Health

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See Also: Virtual Reality in Healthcare. See Also: VR Headset Comparison of Vive Cosmos vs. Oculus Rift S. Now wearable tech that is publicly available and largely affordable can give people immediate and real-time access to understandable insights about their own heart health. Soon, the same may be true of brain health.

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From Brain-Computer Interfaces To Digital Humans: How These Technologies Are Bringing Us Closer To The Metaverse

VRScout

In June 2019, CTRL-Labs acquired patents from Myo, a similar wearable created by North that enables control of robotics and PCs via gestures and motion. With Oculus having launched hand-tracking on the Quest this past December, I wonder how far we are from consumer-ready mind-control systems. Eye-Tracking .

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Why Haven’t AR and VR Changed Our Lives Yet? 5 Barriers to Adoption

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It will come in the form of wearables that will not involve bulky headsets, which will be left for home use and tethered to devices. See Also: VR Headset Comparison of Vive Cosmos vs. Oculus Rift S. Untethered technology is being developed, but, again, it is expensive and not mainstream yet. Lack of Wide Consumer Demand.

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Where is Spatial Computing in its Lifecycle?

ARVR

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement… including lots of ups and downs in the intervening years. Another accelerant in that conditioning process will be wearables , as they acclimate consumers to body-worn sensors. Ways to Get Your Business into VR 2.

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How the Stock Market is Showing Faith in Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)

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How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are Revolutionizing Healthcare Facebook, Inc. (FB) FB) Facebook is the owners of Oculus Quest , the current gold standard when it comes to VR headsets. GOOGL, GOOG) Google Glass wasn’t the consumer wearable revolution about which Google ’s parent company, Alphabet , was dreaming.

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Facebook VR exec Hugo Barra is leaving

TechCrunch VR

Barra led Facebook’s VR efforts during a particularly tumultuous time for Oculus, coming aboard to helm the division as the once independent arm was folded deeper into its parent company after the departure of co-founder and CEO Brendan Iribe. Facebook AR/VR product head Hugo Barra is being replaced.