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Google Announces Android XR Operating System Alongside Samsung MR Headset

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Google today announced Android XR, a new core branch of Android, designed as a spatial operating system for XR headsets and glasses. The company is pitching this as a comprehensive spatial computing platform, and hopes to establish its own territory in the XR landscape against incumbents Meta and Apple.

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Apple Reportedly Delays Cheaper Vision Pro Beyond 2027, M5 Chip Refresh May Arrive Instead

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Apple may be taking a beat before it releases a cheaper follow-up to Vision Pro, which would more broadly appeal to consumers, instead releasing a hardware refresh next year that includes the new M5 chipset. The post Apple Reportedly Delays Cheaper Vision Pro Beyond 2027, M5 Chip Refresh May Arrive Instead appeared first on Road to VR.

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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. Controllers are to come in 2025, the year the headset will ship. million units, down from 7.7 million in 2023.

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2025 Predictions: Visual Search Moves Closer to the Mainstream

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Visual search such as Google Lens continues to fall short of its potential. Could recent moves from Apple, Meta, and Google change that? We predict visual search's fate in 2025. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Smartphone Giant Vivo Announces ‘Vision’ MR Headset, Copying Apple’s Name & Design

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” Image courtesy GSM Arena While Vivo Vision is expected to be officially unveiled in mid-2025, specifics are still thin on the ground, with notable question marks surrounding the MR headsets specs, operating system, release date, global availability, pricepretty much everything besides the device’s externals. .”

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Android XR will allow camera access like on the phone

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Passthrough camera access is a hot topic in the XR community right now and while the positions of Meta, Apple, and Pico are known, everyone is wondering what Google will do with Android XR. Meta, Pico, HTC, then Apple… all of them prevented the developers from accessing the camera frames. Keep reading to discover more!

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Samsung’s Android XR Headset Will Have First-party Motion Controllers & Support PC VR Streaming

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Vision Pro, on the other hand, doesn’t support motion controllers, which means the vast majority of the most popular VR content to date doesn’t have a straightforward path to working on Apple’s XR platform. While this is confirmed, details here are slim too. It looks to be leaning toward the latter.