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The XR Week Peek (2020.01.20): Oculus Go price cut down to $150, Mojo Vision teases AR contact lenses and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Oculus Go price cut down to $150. Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. More info (Oculus Go price cut) More info (Xiaomi laying off the team dedicated to Go). Top news of the week. Image by Engadget). Let’s see….

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.08): Quest 2 ecosystem is profitable, App Lab launched, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Oculus Quest 2 keeps showing impressive sales stats. Since the game works through the Oculus Store, it can exploit all the features of the Oculus SDK (e.g. Oculus Avatars), plus the features of the store (e.g. Sidequest was completely free of control, while on App Lab you have to adhere to Oculus guidelines.

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U.S. Department of Education Embraces VR/AR With $680K EdSim Challenge

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

That means apps that demonstrate genuine use cases for VR and AR in the classroom, be it through an Oculus Rift or a HoloLens. An Informational Webinar will also be hosted on November 16th for those hoping to find out more. Along with the Korean electronics giant, Oculus, Microsoft, and IBM are sponsoring the competition.

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Zoom working on adding Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality to Meetings

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Zoom's fast ascent to $ 100 Billion was thanks to #covid, #zoom was the single most used platform for meetings, conference, webinars, virtual gatherings & events soon after the world went into a lockdown. Zoom has announced a partnership with Facebook’s #Oculus that will let users meet in virtual reality.

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The State of the XR Marketplace, with XR Intelligence’s Kathryn Bloxham

XR for Business Podcast

I’m going to be speaking at your VRX conference — we’ll talk about that, and all the great things — and you also host a number of really informational webinars. So we do the webinars, industry surveys and reports, as well as three events throughout the year across the US and Europe. So we’ll get into that.

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The State of the XR Marketplace, with XR Intelligence’s Kathryn Bloxham

XR for Business Podcast

I’m going to be speaking at your VRX conference — we’ll talk about that, and all the great things — and you also host a number of really informational webinars. So we do the webinars, industry surveys and reports, as well as three events throughout the year across the US and Europe. So we’ll get into that.

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The Down-Low on What You Need to Know (To Be Competitive in XR), with SuperData’s Carter Rogers

XR for Business Podcast

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. Oculus Go came out with this $199 headset – this really inexpensive headset — and they sold millions of these units. And we have a webinar for that in May — I think the exact date’s on our website.