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Rumor: Apple Reportedly Partners With Valve to Develop AR Headset

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Apple is developing an AR headset; so much is clear from its many AR-specific job listings and even its latest version of iOS, which includes a stereoscopic renderer. SEE ALSO Apple AR Headset FOV, Codename, and Stereoscopic Rendering Mode Reportedly Found in iOS 13.1. Image courtesy HTC.

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Searches for “HTC Vive” Have Caught up with “Oculus Rift” and May Be Accelerating

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When it comes to Google searches, “HTC Vive” has recently matched “Oculus Rift” and may be continuing to rise. “HTC Vive” didn’t exist as a search term until the headset’s relatively recent reveal back in early 2015.

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The Best VR Headsets You Can Buy Right Now

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VR has come a long way since the launch of the Oculus DK1 in 2013. The standalone VR headset, developed by Meta (formerly Facebook), was one of, if not the hottest item of the holiday season, with the Oculus companion app becoming the #1 download on the Apple App Store.

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Is 2022 the Year for Consumer AR Glasses?

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Google Glasses were the first arguably-AR glasses on the consumer market, coming out in 2013. A lot of people who see this headline might say that they’ve seen it before – and they might have seen it in 2013. The return of Google and the advent of AR glasses from Apple or Meta are widely rumored, but they always have been.

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10 Recent VR and AR Investments You Should Know About

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The Series A was led by Qualcomm Ventures, and also involved The VR Fund (contributors to The Wave’s round as well), Colopl Next, Capital Factory, HTC, and more. HTC FUNDS STEEL WOOL, SOLO. Bitmovin , founded in 2013, is based in Palo Alto, CA, and Klagenfurt, Austria, and provides video infrastructure for the web.

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The ‘Wolfe’ External GPU Aims to Make Macbooks VR Ready

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Those with Apple computers may well feel a little left out in the cold when it comes to running the latest virtual reality hardware. But right now there’s just not a single machine out there [from Apple] that supports it. So are Apple computer users SOL when it comes to running VR? Mac Pro, Late 2013-2015.

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A decade later, this VR treadmill is finally ready to ship

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As part of our Kickstarter campaign in 2013, one of the price tier perks was 50 Ready Player One books signed by Cline. The move is especially interesting in light of the relatively recent shift toward enterprise customers that’s been explored by Meta, Magic Leap and HTC. Funnily enough, [he] lives in Austin,” says Goetgeluk. “As

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