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The XR Week Peek (2024.12.16): Android XR announced, Samsung headset showcased, and more!

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Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announced Android XR The most important news of the week, and one of the most important of the whole year, has been the official announcement by Google of Android XR. Developers can already access a preview of the development environment for native, Unity, WebXR.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.01): Quest Pro gets released, Quest 3 slated for 2023, and more!

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Meta confirms Quest 3 is coming in 2023. We were all suspecting it, but now it is official: Meta has announced that Quest 3 is coming in 2023. We can also guess that the release will happen during Meta Connect 2023. More info (Meta confirms Quest 3 for 2023?—?Road I’m sure we will have more rumors in the next few months.

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Visual Positioning Systems: what they are, best use cases, and how they technically work

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A VPS system detecting visual features in the surrounding environment (Image by Google) VPS stands for Visual Positioning System. GPS together with the sensors on the phone is all that we need to orient ourselves on a 2D map like Google Maps that we use every day. What is VPS? How do you develop an application using VPS?

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‘Space Invaders: World Defense’ Will Showcase Google’s Newest AR Tool This Summer

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Google has announced an upcoming AR game, Space Invaders: World Defense , which is built as a showcase of the company’s latest AR tool. Over the last few years Google has been steadily working on its AR developer toolset, ARCore.

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AR Advertising Projected to Reach $8.8 Billion by 2023

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billion in 2023. billion in 2023, an 81 percent compound annual growth rate. Visual search, a la Google Lens , identifies objects using the smartphone camera or AR glasses. Unity has begun to serve AR ads in its extensive in-game ad network and is worth watching closely for best practices. billion last year to $27.4

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AWE 2023 Is Right Around the Corner

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Augmented World Expo , AWE for short, returns to Santa Clara this year from May 31 to June 2, 2023. Following that is a “Fireside Chat” with Unity CEO John Riccitiello. It’s hard to find an XR organization that Peck isn’t or hasn’t been involved with, and Bar-Zeev co-created Google Earth and HoloLens. Let’s take a look.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.11.01 + 2023.11.08): Pico performs layoffs, Nimo announces AR glasses, and more!

The Ghost Howls

There are many limitations to this mod, plus the application is not on sale anymore so only existing players can mod it, but it made me smile the idea that the community managed to restore the game in a way More info Meta Reality Lab’s revenues dropped in Q3 In Q3 2023, Meta had its lowest revenues for Reality Labs. SteamVR 2.0

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