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FORM’s AR Swim Goggles Now Work In Open Waters

VRScout

Pair your Garmin or Apple smartwatches for additional GPS functionality. FORM’s AR-enhanced swim goggles received a free firmware update today introducing support for Garmin and Apple smartwatches, allowing wearers to track a wide range of metrics, such as their GPS location and heart rate, while swimming outdoors in open water.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.10.03): Quest 3 leaks, Lenovo ThinkReality VRX launch, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This would be a total pivot for Meta, which would so migrate away from the social importance of having eye and face tracking to compete directly with Apple in offering a consumer device totally dedicated to mixed reality. Bytedance is trying to expand also in Japan , launching the Pico 4 with the support of many influencers.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.09.16): New leaks on Quest 3S, iPhone 16 can shoot spatial videos, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This was to be expected and it is no big deal: VisionOS 2 is coming today and this is great news by itself because it is bringing a lot of new features and improvements to the Apple device (three of these features are actually launching later this year, but all the other ones are coming now). A Creator Platform for next-gen to ‘Socialize.’

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The XR Week Peek (2023.09.25): Pico 5 to come in three models, Quest 3 is launching, and more!

The Ghost Howls

At the end of the day, I understand that Unity needs to monetize more because the economic conditions are s**t and Apple is killing its Unity Ads cash cow with its privacy shield. Some developers I know are already switching to Godot or Unreal because they say that Unity can’t be trusted anymore. As an entrepreneur, I understand.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.

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Rapidus Wants to Supply 2nm Chips to Tech Giants, Challenge TSMC

Anand Tech

As demand from Japanese companies alone may not suffice, Rapidus is looking for orders from international corporations like Apple, Google, and Meta. "We partner, and we have begun discussions with some GAFAM [Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft] corporations," Atsuyoshi Koike, chief executive of Rapidus, told Nikkei. "Specifically,

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Is Apple partnering with Valve on AR? A report by DigiTimes claims that Apple is partnering with Valve for the production of its AR glasses. The news would be incredible: Apple is a company that knows how to create something usable and cool to see, while Valve has a long expertise in experimenting with AR and VR.