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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.09): Qualcomm XR2 defines the future of XR, Magic Leap having tragic sales, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

The best news of the week has not been the release of a new fantastic VR headset or AR glass, but of a technology that will make a new generation of XR headsets possible: I’m talking about the XR2 chipset by Qualcomm. That is, the Quest 2 and the Vive Focus 2 may be based on this technology. Image by Magic Leap).

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Lyft Patents Show How AR & VR Could Change Ridesharing

VRScout

Two patents in particular indicate Lyft’s exploration of AR and VR technology as part of their potential business model. The concept behind Lyft’s VR sounds very similar to Audi’s own backseat VR entertainment system, Holoride , which debuted last month during CES 2019 in Las Vegas. Image Credit: The U.S.

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DICE 2017: Magic Leap’s Graeme Devine on Ghost Girl Murder Mystery Game Concept

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Graeme Devine, Chief Game Wizard at Magic Leap, took the stage today at the DICE Summit 2017 in Las Vegas to talk about the future of mixed reality. Tagged with: DICE , Ghost Girl , Graeme Devine , Magic Leap. But designing games in mixed reality will have its own set of challenges.

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The World of Mobile VR After Pokemon Go

VRWorld

With Facebook announcing its buy-in of virtual reality technology for a whopping $2 billion, Google has responded with its own VR system, a simple piece of cardboard that can turn your Android phone into a neat virtual reality headset. The casino game with the most to gain from VR technology would be poker.

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The New 3D Apple Arriving at WWDC

Robert Scoble

When I worked at Microsoft I got in trouble with the lawyers over patents so they made me sleep with a lawyer (true story, that was my punishment). I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. Why am I so confident? Disclaimer. “Huh?

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The Tantalizing Promise Of Augmented Reality Games

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CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas last week, was loaded with augmented reality smartglasses, which layer digital animations and information on top of the real world. It’s amazing, the technology we have that can unlock that. Even five years ago we didn’t have enough technology to do it.

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As UploadVR Turns 2 We Reflect On The First Full Year of Consumer VR

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The enormous Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas kicks off the year with major showings for both Oculus and HTC. Magic Leap kicks off the month with the announcement of an enormous $794 million fundraising round, backed by Alibaba. January 2016. Oculus reveals the $600 price for the Rift and opens up pre-orders.