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Qualcomm Unveils XR2 Reference Designs for XR Glasses With 5G Streaming
Qualcomm is an industry leader in XR chips and its XR2 chip is its latest product which provides hardware manufacturers with new capabilities as well as new technologies. In the…
Next Rift and Rift S Update to Bring Microphone Support to Oculus Link
Oculus Link so far does not provide microphone support and Oculus is finally delivering this with a new update. Oculus Link Update With the update now rolling out for both…
AR Smart Glass Manufacturer MAD Gaze Notches $19 Million in Funding
The Chinese Augmented Reality smart glasses manufacturer MAD Gaze announced that it has secured $19 million (130 million yuan) in a Series A funding round from DNS Capital from China…
Spatial, Nreal and Qualcomm Partner on Holographic Collaborative AR
This week, Spatial revealed a new initiative in partnership with various companies as part of a bid to speed up the mass-market adoption of 5G-optimized Augmented Reality collaboration tools. With…
Top 5 Haptic VR Devices Set to Launch in 2020
Haptic feedback or simply “haptics” is currently one of the fastest growing immersive frontiers in the industry. It entails deploying various technologies to simulate a sense of touch and even…
Standalone Headset Manufacturer LYNX Raised $2 Million in 2019
The French XR startup LYNX, which participated in Qualcomm’s hardware accelerator program, raised $ 2million in 2019. The startup is using the Snapdragon XR2 chipset which is made for XR…
Valve Index VR Headsets to be in Stock Again Ahead of the ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Launch
The Valve Index has been sold out for some weeks now. This week, the company finally confirmed that shortages of the headset have been occasioned by the coronavirus health crisis…
Latest Snapchat Filters Transform the Floor into Lava
With Snapchat’s latest AR filters, you can conjure realistic-looking lava flows or floods. Snapchat Lava and Flooding Filters The latest batch of Immersive Snapchat Lenses enable you to drastically change…
Microsoft Mixed Reality Dev Days for HoloLens Set Begin in May
Microsoft will be gathering Mixed Reality developers in Redmond for the second time. Microsoft Mixed Reality Dev Days Microsoft has announced it is planning to host two Mixed Reality Dev…
XR Marks the Spot: Learn How 5G Networks Are Driving the Future of XR at GTC
Discover how NVIDIA RTX powers virtual, augmented and mixed reality to accelerate a new era of computer graphics. Virtual reality is about to get real. 5G mobile networks are bringing…