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Tribeca Immersive 2019: A VR Arcade In Review

VRScout

Yours truly checking out Game of Thrones The Dead Must Di e for the Magic Leap One // Image Credit: Darragh Dandurand. Noah Levenson’s Stealing Ur Feeling // Image Credit: Darragh Dandurand. As an industry, we have yet to fully resolve how best to share mixed-reality art at a large, public scale.

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How Mixed Reality Will Bring Us Industry 4.0

Tech Trends VR

Driven by the ambition of cities such as Dubai to push for innovation, the market for VR and AR in the Middle East and Africa is booming, and is expected to reach a massive $6 billion by 2020, according to international analysts International Data Corporation (IDC). efficiencies.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.28): PSVR 2 revealed, Meta working on AI and 5G, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Unluckily my referral gives you a chance of winning only if you are in the EMEA area (Europe, Middle-East, Africa). Magic Leap 2 has inside-out tracked controllers. During a presentation, Magic Leap has unveiled some more features about its headset and controllers. That’s it, easy peasy. News worth a mention.

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Vantari VR Expands Training Solution to Middle East, Italy

XR Today - Virtual Reality

In the Middle East, North Africa (MENA) and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) regions, the company found that Vantari VR solutions offered optimal procedural training and simulation features. Due to the need to accommodate patients remotely, the United Arab Emirates aimed to implement virtual reality solutions across its healthcare sector.

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Charlie Fink on his new book Convergence and the future of XR

The Ghost Howls

When I was a junior executive at Disney I pitched my boss Jeff Katzenberg the idea this way: “ Bambi in Africa”. I love any kind of AR , from the simple marker-based mobile AR in the book to advanced systems like the Magic Leap One. Is it true that you invented the Lion King? I’m still a stage-struck kid.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.02.08): Samsung is back to XR, Echo VR gets shut down, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I guess the purpose is to reassure its existing customers, to prevent them all from going to Magic Leap 2. And an interesting article pointed me to the fact that now also the game development ecosystem in Africa is growing and getting some serious investments.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.04.05): Rumors on a Apple headset intensify, Quest 2 sales grow fast, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Two years ago, the company had won a $480M deal with the army to produce the first evaluation units (beating Magic Leap in this contest and condemning it to a sad fate) that should have increased soldiers’ efficiency and lethality. Learn more (Africa XR Report) Learn more (Form to contribute). Learn more.

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