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The Week in XR: Most Important AR, VR and MR News in the Past Week
The week ending January 12, 2020 was one of the busiest in the immersive world. There was the CES 2020 which came with its fair share of announcements. The most…
Abrash: Facebook’s Augmented Reality Glasses Still 5 to 10 Years Away
A fortune has been poured into research yet it is still not clear when Facebook’s high-end augmented reality glasses will be built. Facebook Hopes to Create Sleeker AR Glasses …
SuperData Research Report: Oculus Quest Headset Powered VR Growth in 2019
The market research institute SuperData Research has published its end-of-year report for 2019 that offers new insights of the virtual reality industry as well as a review of the year…
Virtual Reality: What to Expect in 2020
Four years ago, virtual reality was billed as the next big computing revolution. Virtual reality and by extension, augmented reality, has evolved over the subsequent years and by 2019, it…
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…