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The XR Week Peek (2023.08.08): Immersed announces high-end VISOR headset, Roblox had 1M downloads on Quest, and more!

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Let’s leave the summertime sadness to Lana Del Rey… Top news of the week (Image by Immersed) Immersed announced Visor headset The company Immersed is well known in the VR community for its productivity application to have a multi-monitor setup for your computer in virtual reality.

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Google Axes Hundreds of AR Hardware Jobs amidst Qualcomm, Samsung Partnership

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Notably, the reshuffle is occurring following a partnership with Qualcomm and Samsung to leverage the newly announced Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset for empowering smart glasses. Is Google Delecating its Hardware Interest to Samsung? However, not all may be lost for Google’s AR roadmap. The Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset unlocks 4.3K

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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.11): Samsung headset delayed, Apple cheaper Vision delayed, and more!

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It’s been another interesting week in immersive realities, so let’s see what happened in our field in the past few days! Top news of the week (Image by Google) Samsung XR headset may have been delayed The new rumor in town is that Samsung has delayed its upcoming headset that it is building in partnership with Google and Qualcomm.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.11.08): Microsoft Teams gets immersive, Meta may open its stores, and more!

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That is, there will be an option that will let all the avatars abandon che classical videocall format and meet inside a virtual space (something like Altspace VR) for a more immersive experience. Samsung heavily invests in DigiLens to build its AR glasses. Thanks Rob for the tip on the second one!). Enter my Patreonverse.

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View Conference 2018: National Film Board of Canada offers us interesting VR storytelling tips

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Today I’ve attended my first lecture at View Conference : the Masterclass “Artist-Driven Immersive Work” by Eloi Champagne and Martin Viau, of the National Film Board of Canada. They like to use the Samsung Odyssey because it has great resolution and has an OLED display, so the colors are more vivid; There is no VR vs AR battle.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.11.27): Discover XR Cyber Monday Deals, Sam Altman returns to OpenAI, and much more!

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More info (Sam Altman returns as CEO of OpenAI) More info (The Q* algorithm could be the reason why Altman was fired) News worth a mention Samsung trademarks “Samsung Glasses” Samsung has filed a trademark for “Samsung Glasses” in the UK. Thanks to Davy Demeyer for the tip!)

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Qualcomm’s New 4K XR Chipset to Empower AI Smart Glasses

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The chipset also helps boost consumer and enterprise-grade XR use cases on headsets and smartglasses by leveraging partnerships with Samsung, Google, Tobii, and Goertek to provide visual clarity for gaming and productivity applications. Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2: What’s New?

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