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Big News From Meta, Samsung, Microsoft, and HTC VIVE

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

More on Meta this Week Moreover, Meta partnered with India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology MeitY and HCLTech as part of an XR Startup Program for boosting startup capacities, providing rising talent with resources to fulfil and showcase use cases in the region. The final announcement of the week from Meta.

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Explain VR Is Like An Encyclopedia Brought To Life

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. “This is not so easy because schools or educational institutions are sometimes very slow in adopting new technologies mostly due to finances, but we believe that VR in education has huge potential.” They’ve even worked with schools from India and Africa and are considering designing it for their curriculum in the future.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

Over the years i have seen a few lists of Top 50 XR Influencers, but the curators of those list always overlooked China/India/Asia's XR Industry. Just for Context the worlds current population is 7 Billion, India & China's Collective population is 2.7 Written By: Eddie Avil. 1- Ambarish Mitra. Blippar was reportedly worth $1.5

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.15): Facebook keeps working on its masterplan, WebXR arrives on iOS, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Facebook keeps working to become a leader in immersive technologies. This week we had a bunch of news, that seem quite unrelated, that show us how Facebook is working on its plan to become the dominant force in future technologies. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook). For the short term future, we have some news on the Quest 2.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.20): Oculus ready to manufacture the Quest S, Pico doubles-down on 3DOF, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Finally after China and United States, also India has entered the AR race with the launch of the Jio AR glasses. While we have not even started using 5G, companies like Samsung (and Nokia) are already thinking about the next-generation 6G that could enable holograms and smart twins. According to Samsung, it should come in 2028.

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My predictions for augmented reality in 2021

The Ghost Howls

Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! This won’t be the year of AR : exactly as I said for virtual reality, let’s not hype the technology and think that this is the year when mainstream adoption of wearable AR glasses is going to happen. Sounded good.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Pokemon Go could be the perfect storm of nostalgia, brand recognition, and technology. SpectraVR produces high-end, 360-degree videos and animated interactive VR content, and US-based Rothenberg Ventures has invested a mystery amount of moolah in the India-based company. You can enjoy the full audio recording below: 1.