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AR Technology Meets Music At SXSW 2022

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Individuals lucky enough to get a slot into the show were shuffled into a small theater where everyone was given an older model head-mounted display powered by Samsung mobile devices. Credit: VRScout. What the audience got was an immersive experience unlike anything available at the event. Like I said, “very up-close.”

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Is Sony Accelerating Digital Twin Content Creation?

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The firm explains how its content creation platform is ready for the influx of wearables due in 2024, including AR, VR, and MR devices. Pfeifer added, “For them, it’s very important to move between the virtual and real world easily and quickly, and that’s what we are supporting.”

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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!

The Ghost Howls

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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HTC VIVE Flow Review: Lightweight VR for Beginners

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They were also a world apart in functionality from other simple but effective VR solutions, like the VIVE Focus 3. They were named the “best wearable tech” at the Esquire Gadget Awards in 2021. However, the limited functionality of the wearable does make it feel more like an “early generation” headset than a future-facing device.

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Microsoft's Mixed-Reality Dreams Are Fading

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One of the most outspoken proponents of the metaverse is struggling to find its place in this hypothetical virtual world. Microsoft has reportedly scrapped plans to make a HoloLens 3—what would have been a successor to its current mixed reality headset—and infighting within the mixed reality division has fueled… Read more.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.06.13): Apple doesn’t show its AR glasses at WWDC, Meta delays its AR plans, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Meta has not officially answered this report, but Andrew Bosworth, the CTO of the company, has indirectly commented on it: “ We’re going to ship wrist wearables and AR glasses that bring completely new tech?—?like I truly hope they can create a serious blockchain that can be the foundation for ownership and payment systems in virtual worlds.

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Facebook Expands to Enable 360 Photos in News Feeds

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Earlier last week, Oculus announced a handful of new changes to Gear VR , its mobile headset for Samsung phones, along with one big new Facebook feature created with virtual reality (VR) in mind: the arrival of 360-degree photo capability in Facebook’s News Feed. Photo credit: Samsung).