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A Recap of This Week in XR: End of Daydream, High End Varjo HMDs, Sony Prototypes, Wonderscope AR Content
This week’s biggest news was of course Google’s scrapping of its Daydream View headset which didn’t really come as a surprise to anyone. The Daydream View VR headset was always…
XR Highlights This Week: Holoride In-Car Experience, Apple Glasses, Sony Ghostbusters, HiiiDii Smartglasses, Microsoft Floor Mat Patent
This was another busy week in XR with a string of new announcements, launches, patent applications and much more. Apple super-analyst Ming-Chi Kuo with a string of new predictions and…
XR Highlights of the Week: Vive Cosmos Available, Quest PC, Apple and Verizon Acquisitions, Tilt Five Kickstarter
A recap of the XR (virtual reality and augmented reality) developments over the past week. Verizon Media This slowed down a bit this week as the biggest news of the…
Recap XR News Last Week: Oculus Connect 6, Rift S Obsolete, XR Kickstarters, iOS 13 AR Secrets, Absurd:joy
Last week was a busy one in the XR sphere. The week was of course dominated by the Oculus Connect 6 developer conference held at the San Jose Convention Center…
These Deepfakes of Freddy Mercury and Rami Malek Look Terrifyingly Real
Deepfakes are a fast-growing technological phenomenon which are also creating a moral-ethical dilemma. It is essentially an AI-powered technology used in altering videos and superimposing someone’s face and audio over…
Facebook’s Future AR Glasses Will Incorporate Oculus Insight VR Tracking Technology
Facebook has this week given an insight into the development of its Oculus Insight tracking system for Oculus Rift S and Quest headsets. The tracking technology was developed for the…
Major Retailers and Tech Companies Form an Exploratory Group for a Single 3D Commerce Standard
Towards 3D content standardization, interoperability and consistency across VR, AR and other end points OpenXR standard developer Khronos has put together a consortium of 140 companies consisting of some of…
Chart Showing Value of Bitcoin Versus Other Forms of Wealth
Every year since it was created, people have watched bitcoin go up and up, and every year they think that it's now too late to get in, because it's already…
Bitcoin and the Future of Virtual Reality
We all have heard about Bitcoin, the most famous cryptocurrency in the market, but few really know what it is and how could it relate to Virtual Reality. Luckily for…
Kernel – The Company that Wants to Hack the Brain
Kernel is a neuroscience startup and its CEO and main sponsor, Bryan Johnson, doesn’t ask if we should have chips inside out brains, but when will we. Johnson founded Kernel…