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SOUTH KOREA 2022 CHAT WITH MARK BAXTER: METAVERSE, EMERGING TECH AND B2B VS. B2C TECH

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SOUTH KOREA 2022 CHAT WITH MARK BAXTER: METAVERSE & EMERGING TECH. TELL US A BIT MORE ABOUT HOW THE OPPORTUNITY FOR DIGITALNAUTS TO GO TO SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA THIS YEAR CAME ABOUT. So, this was the first time they managed to get a cohort over to South Korea since the pandemic. It’s South Korea!

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LG-Made Quest Pro 2 Will Reportedly Ship In The First Half Of 2025

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The Korea Economic Daily cites "industry sources" as saying that Mark Zuckerberg will meet with the CEO of LG Electronics on Wednesday to finalize the details of the partnership. This will be Zuckerberg's publicly-known trip to South Korea since 2014, when he visited Samsung to finalise the Gear VR smartphone headset partnership.

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Meta & LG Officially Confirm Partnership, Including "Next-Gen XR Device Development"

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This is Zuckerberg's first publicly-known trip to South Korea since 2014, when he visited Samsung to finalize the Gear VR smartphone-holder headset partnership. Samsung handled the hardware for Gear VR, Oculus Go was manufactured by Xiaomi, and Oculus Rift S was co-designed and manufactured by Lenovo. Quest Pro 2?

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Samsung Suggests High-Powered, Standalone VR Headset To Compete With Rift and Vive

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Continuing to push its established mobile VR business—recently revealing its flagship Galaxy S8 smartphones support and an updated Gear VR with controller —Samsung has again confirmed it has more powerful VR hardware up its sleeve. High-end, standalone VR headsets from Samsung are still in development, according to a report by CNET.

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NOLO VR Completes $10 Million Series A Financing Led by BlueRun Ventures

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With the funding, Nolo VR says they will “continue to optimize the software, hardware, and content platforms,” and will also soon release their own 6DOF mobile VR app platform, dubbed Nolo Home. The Series A was led by the Menlo Park-based BlueRun Ventures , and included Nigeria-based Lotus Capital. Image courtesy Nolo VR.

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Samsung’s New Standalone VR Headset May be Called ‘Odyssey’

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Samsung reportedly confirmed back at the company’s own developer conference that a new, standalone VR headset was on it’s way and new trademark filings may indicate it’s name. Now it seems that a recent trademark filing in South Korea may reveal a possible name and brand identity for the new headset.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.02.13): Quest 3 confirmed for 2023, 100+ games in the work for PSVR 2, and more!

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The model should be codenamed “SM-I120” and its battery has just been certificated in South Korea. Learn more Inseye proposes camera-less eye tracking Inseye has just announced its eye-tracking solution which doesn’t use cameras but photosensors and AI software. But now some data about it is starting to be found.

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