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The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 29, 2025
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.
The Ghost Howls
MAY 14, 2023
Last week, Google delivered its most important event of the year, the Google I/O. Of course, AI has been the star of the show , with the public release of Google Bard and the announcement of a new language model, but there have been also interesting pieces of news about XR.
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The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 16, 2024
After the announcement of the release date of the Apple Vision Pro, the whole community is just waiting for its preorders to open up this Friday. The headset will be sold in physical stores and on the Apple website. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that Apple has only 60–80K units available at this time , so most likely they’ll go sold out.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
DECEMBER 14, 2022
The Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 took place in Miami 5 to 7 December, and concluded its final days in the sunny backdrop of Miami Beach’s historic Fontainebleu Hotel. Such platforms provided live data for face tracking, including facial expressions, eye movement, and other features.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
DECEMBER 6, 2022
The Immerse Global Summit 2022 Miami has rallied many top brands across the tech industry to reflect on both its achievements and setbacks. XR Today: Can you tell me about your experience with the IGS 2022 Miami and your best takeaways? There are also several rumours about Apple’s upcoming MR headset.
Cats and VR
APRIL 27, 2018
The VR series, produced by Richard Rionda Del Castro, Guy Griffithe and Travis Cloyd, was shot in Puerto Rico in the summer of 2017 to resemble Miami Beach in the early days of speed boat racing. Google Play - [link] Apple App Store - [link] Oculus - [link]
XR for Business Podcast
MARCH 31, 2020
But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. It was a talk I did at the Miami VR Expo. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control.
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