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Samsung Reportedly Deepens XR Ties with Google in Push for Ray-Ban Smartglasses Competitor

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Samsung and Google announced in early 2023 that, along with Qualcomm, they’d be releasing an “XR platform” based on Android , which could also see the release of a high-end mixed reality headset. It was said Google created several smartglasses prototypes in a bid to interest manufacturing partners, such as Samsung.

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John Carmack: PC VR "A Boutique Niche", Beat Saber "Far More Important Than Half-Life: Alyx"

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Carmack was the driving force behind the original mobile VR efforts at Oculus, spearheading the software side of the Samsung Gear VR partnership and Oculus Go, which was essentially a standalone version of it. And in 2013, while CTO of Oculus, Carmack even described this ideal headset as running a version of Android.

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E McNeill Brings Hacking VR Classic Darknet To Quest Headsets

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Darknet was the first full game to launch on Samsung Gear VR, which is considered to be the first consumer VR headset. Inspirations include TRON, Neuromancer, The Matrix, and Johnny Mnemonic, and it won a VR Jam all the way back in 2013.

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Oculus to Support WebVR Through New VR Browser Codenamed ‘Carmel’

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Samsung’s Gear VR web browser ‘Samsung Internet’ already has preliminary support for WebVR, but the move by Oculus to support it directly and offer the tools to do so means they’ll be throwing their full weight behind the initiative. .”

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Apple Joins the Impending Avatar Wars With Memoji

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Move over Samsung AR Emoji , because Apple looks to have gotten the cutesy Pixar-vibe down pat. Samsung AR Emoji – Image courtesy Samsung Central. Apple is also integrating Animoji, as well as Memoji, onto FaceTime group chat, which is cool if that’s what you’re into. SEE ALSO Apple Unveils ARKit 2.0,

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One of the First Oculus Rift Games is Currently One of Vision Pro’s Best

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Proton Pulse , originally created for the Oculus Rift DK1 development kit in 2013, has been re-released on Apple Vision Pro this week. The game was also released on Google Cardboard, Google Daydream, Samsung GearVR, Oculus Go, and the Oculus Rift consumer headsets.

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

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CES 2013 / 2014: The Early Years. From the advent of the Oculus Rift in 2012, we saw Oculus attend the show for the first time in 2013 to show off their pre-production Rift headset prototype ahead of the DK1 launch, following their wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. Oculus’ Pre-DK1 Prototype, shown at CES 2013.