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The XR Week Peek (2025.01.29): Google acquires HTC engineers, Meta plans to release Oakley smartglasses, and more!

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Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google acquires HTC Vive engineers for $250M Completely out of the blue (at least from our eyes), Google decided to acquire some XR-related engineers from HTC Vive (together with a non-exclusive license on some HTC IP) for the whopping amount of $250M.

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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. Or that it has multimodal input and can be commanded using controllers, hands, eyes, or voice.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.05.14): New rumors on the Vision Pro 2, Ultraleap Hyperion, and much more!

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This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple Vision Pro 2 may come in 2026 The rumors about the Apple Vision Pro 2 continue.

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The XR Week Peek (2025.02.04): Meta had a record Q4 2024, Apple still finding its way to AR glasses, and more!

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More info The Logitech Pen is a good tracker for the Meta Quest There is no equivalent of the Vive Tracker for the Meta Quest, and usually, developers have used a Quest controller whenever they needed to track an object in XR. And do you remember Google Poly, the online platform for sharing and downloading 3D objects made in Blocks?

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

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But unluckily, their tracking performance was bad, especially for what concerns controllers, the manufacturing quality was debatable, and especially Microsoft never invested enough into dedicated content. 1, 2026 for consumers and Nov. And that “ As of Nov.

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How is Google Cultivating AR Marketing?

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billion by 2026 according to ARtillery Intelligence. But greater impact could come from the web’s most traveled destination: Google. More specifically, Google continues to enable search results to come to life in 3D and AR. These use cases and categories will continue to broaden as Google tests the waters. This field?—?including

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The transition between Quest 2 and Quest 3

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Oculus Quest 2 and controllers (Image by Meta) So the Zuck and the Boz launched already the year after the Oculus Quest 2 (It’s so good to write “Oculus” again), which was much more powerful thanks to its Snapdragon XR2, more lightweight, more everything, but it cost less than its predecessor: $299.

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