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Spatial Beats: Facebook, Rec Room & Looking Glass

AR Insider

Two New Harry Potter VR Experiences Coming to New York Store. Chaos at Hogwarts”and “Wizards Take Flight” are now available exclusively at Harry Potter World in New York’s Flatiron district. GIGXR Awarded Phase $750,000 Contract to Develop Extended Reality (XR) Simulation Training for Air Force Academy.

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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

Top news of the week. 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. Microsoft Flight Simulator is adding VR support, but…. Some news on content. Image by Khronos Group).

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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 And Sony will give a “Sneak peek” of PSVR 2 games at its upcoming State Of Play event on June 2nd at 3 PM PT. The “metaverse” was not a key topic inside “Microsoft Build”. This is the reason why I think this announcement is so important.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.01.11): CES had some interesting XR announcements, new rumors on Apple and Meta, and more!

The Ghost Howls

As I’ve said, I won’t focus this roundup on the announcements from CES, but for sure I can’t ignore the fact that CES happened, so let me tell you what has been in my opinion the most interesting news from there. I have to admit that I thought this CES wouldn’t have brought great news about XR, but actually, we had some nice announcements.

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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. In front of you will be two 8K Sony chips, I hear.

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

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. November 2015. March 2016. The month closes with the arrival of the Oculus Rift alongside more than 30 games.

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The Curious Relationship Between DVDs and VR

VR Playhouse

INTRO: A little over a hundred years ago, the light switch was invented in the sleepy suburb of Lynbrook, New York. And to explain at least a small portion of this sudden success, I’m going to look at another piece of technology at the time, Sony’s Playstation 2. As I said, terrifying.