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The XR Week Peek (2023.06.20): Samsung to change its XR plans, Upload made a cool showcase, and more!

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We all joked about Samsung waiting for the Apple Vision Pro announcement to copy it, but according to some rumors, this is exactly what is happening. Learn more (Trailer) Fill SlashData’s survey and win prizes Also this year I’m supporting the survey about XR that SlashData is carrying on.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.01.27): Samsung may be working on a new headset, Half-Life: Alyx will ship on time and much more!

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Image by Samsung, taken from Upload VR). Samsung may launch a next-gen Samsung Odyssey. A recent filing at the Chinese IP offices makes us speculate on a new PC VR headset in the works by Samsung. That said, let’s have a look at this interesting week in AR and VR. Top news of the week. I admit I am intrigued.

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Super Data Report: 6.3 Million Virtual Reality Headsets Shipped in 2016

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The report, titled “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: 2016 Mobile and VR Games Year in Review,” is a compilation of information Super Data and Unity Technologies, though we clarified with Unity that they did not contribute to the estimates for VR headset data in the report. The report estimates 4.5

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The Brighter Reality of Virtual Reality

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Creating remote MR productions VR for rehabilitation of cognitive and psychological disorders (Source: Kurt Othmer, Youtube) A recent survey has narrowed down to the fact that every minute of the day, there is a vehicle related accident. If you are a game developer in unity or even just a beginner do give VR development a try!

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.03): VR adoption is rising, Lynx teases new MR headset and much more!

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The first one is the usual SteamVR hardware survey. Apart from highlighting that the Rift S is expanding its size and that the Valve Index is now selling well, the survey shows that VR users on Steam are continuously growing. Unity now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest. Samsung Odyssey+ is now at $230. Image by Oculus).

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All the most important AR and VR news from the GDC 2018

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In my opinion , the true error is with the Vive 1 , that will get a price that is higher than the one of all the competitors… and that will cost as much as a Samsung Odyssey, notwithstanding its far lower features. This is Oculus’s answer to Steam Hardware & Software Survey. Vive Focus comes to the west.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.08.11): Gear VR is over, Go long term future is uncertain, Huawei teases its metaverse and much more!

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Image by Samsung). Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. But at the presentation of the latest Samsung Note 10, for the first time after the Note 4, Samsung has dropped support for Gear VR in its latest flagship device. And Samsung is not abandoning XR for sure.

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