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The XR Week Peek (2023.02.08): Samsung is back to XR, Echo VR gets shut down, and more!

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I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. This is huge because we know that Samsung is able to always deliver good hardware.

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Qualcomm’s Head of XR is Leaving at a Pivotal Moment for the Industry

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“It was an amazing two decades starting with driving EV-DO technology adoption in Latin America to running Qualcomm’s XR business. A crucial indicator of Qualcomm’s continued momentum in the XR market may be the reception of Samsung’s upcoming XR headset.

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Big XR News from PICO, Meta, Microsoft, and Samsung

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The likes of Apple and Meta are investing in MR to provide an accessible and feature-rich device. PICO is updating its hand-tracking and MR features as other upcoming headsets – from firms such as Apple and Meta – offer similar technology, making XR headset vendors refine MR offerings as the technology becomes mainstream in 2024.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.26): WMR gets discontinued, Meta to showcase an impressive AR prototype, and more!

The Ghost Howls

(PS Remember that there is an ongoing giveaway of physical copies of the Sam&Max game for PSVR for all people in North America! For this reason, even if across the years some good headsets came out from that ecosystem, like the Samsung Odyseey+, the platform never took off. Microsoft in the end has decided to deprecate it.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.19): Vision Pro is slated for January, Quest 2 is selling incredibly well, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple Vision Pro may be out in January According to the latest report on Bloomberg, Apple is still on track to release the Apple Vision Pro at the beginning of this year. I hope we will meet there and have fun together! Outstanding move. Good luck with that.

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Report: HTC to Merge VR and Smartphone Divisions as President of Smartphones Resigns

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Daniel O’Brien, GM of HTC VIVE Americas, is now GM of HTC Americas. According to a report by China-based tech publication YiVian , five general managers, most of whom oversaw VR divisions in the company, will be taking charge of both smartphone and VR business moving forward in their respective regions.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.13): Horizon Worlds is now in open beta, Among Us VR is coming, and more!

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The North-America-only limitation is quite a bummer for us Europeans, but honestly, as a developer, I understand the will of making an incremental deployment to be sure that everything works before expanding the product to many countries. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. Samsung Odyssey+).

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