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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.07): PSVR 2 will cost $549, HoloLens are probably dead, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The collaboration between Microsoft and Samsung is now over. Some months ago, some important magazines leaked that Microsoft might have abandoned the HoloLens project. According to a new leak, Microsoft scrapped the plans for a HoloLens 3, and also the collaboration with Samsung has been brought to an end. Other relevant news.

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Oculus Store Thanksgiving Sale Now On, Up to 50% Off Rift Games

Road to VR

In addition to offering $100 in Oculus Store credit for every new Rift purchase from Best Buy, Amazon, and Microsoft (US), GAME (UK), Saturn (Germany), and FNAC (France), Oculus have provided some significant software discounts on the store, highlighted below: Dirt Rally – $40 (33% off) – a superb rally sim from Codemasters.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.19): HTC launches Vive Flow, Magic Leap 2 announced, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This week, the company has announced it is going to hire additional 10,000 people to help in developing the m verse , and all these new hires will happen in the Europen Union , and in particular, inside Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands and Ireland . Amazon Glow is a video projector for kids.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.24): Apple opens applications for Vision Pro devkits, Meta may stop the production of Quest Pro, and more!

The Ghost Howls

For me this is not a fortunate sentence: this is what Alex Kipman said about the HoloLens, a few weeks before the whole Microsoft Mixed Reality division was disbanded and he was fired from the company. 1 billion of this money is planned in Germany, with €500 million for a new Technology Campus in Erlangen.

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Big News XR from BMW, Meta, Apple, Campfire, Nreal, and Cannes XR

XR Today - Big XR News tag

Apple’s upcoming MR headset is expected to be a high-end device that will compete with headsets from Meta and Microsoft. In addition, Amazon Germany listings display an “Xreal Air Adapter,” which could be a successor to Nreal’s Apple Adapter—the Apple Adapter sold out in 24 hours when it was released last year.

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Lumus ‘Sheds Light’ on Future of AR, Apple Vision Pro

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

Through partnerships with Mainz, Germany-based glassmaker Schott and Taiwanese firm Quanta, Lumus has explored many projects for the optics industry. This is due to several “false starts” with Google Glass , Microsoft HoloLens2, and Magic Leap, although the companies remain potential customers.

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Letting Workers Qualify Themselves in AR, with AR Expert’s Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger

XR for Business Podcast

I have Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger from Germany. And among other things, his company, AR Experts, is advising about a third of Germany’s most important production companies, and is shaping their augmented reality roadmaps. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. I’m really excited today.

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