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Big XR News from Microsoft Ignite, Snap, Meta, and Valve

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However, with 2024 shaping up to be a monumental year for XR, with Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon, and Apple all putting major stakes and investments into the space, what companies do today could greatly influence the future of work. Snap, Amazon Expand In-App AR eCommerce Opportunities.

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Digital Twins: XR Today Expert Roundtable

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Ericsson uses Omniverse to create digital twins of cities to decide where to place 5G towers and virtually fix problems before deploying crews on the ground. Here are a few more examples: Amazon has over 200 robotics facilities that handle millions of packages each day. Canada, and Mexico.

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Project Caliper: the journey of prototyping optimal controllers for VR

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Becoming a licensee gave me access to the SteamVR Tracking HDK and Steam SDK, which also contained the original 2016 SteamVR training course documentation which was run for a couple of years in conjunction with Valve partner Synapse in Seattle. The name was of course inspired by “The Unity Cube” application (Image by Rob Cole).