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The XR Week Peek (2022.08.15): NVIDIA makes many announcements at SIGGRAPH, new leaks on Apple and Pico, and more!

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Thanks to it, it will be possible to create realistic avatars that understand natural language easily and even without having computational power in the local machine. NVIDIA wants USD to become the HTML of the metaverse; Major extensions to NVIDIA Omniverse , the computing platform for creating virtual worlds and digital twins.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.07.18): Magic Leap 2 price revealed, new rumors about Apple, and more!

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Probably the communication machine of the company is not as strong as before, so the old message still hangs around. Apple to launch a second “more affordable” headset in 2025. If it is true, it confirms that Apple has no mainstream plans for this device, and it will bet on true AR glasses for the mainstream.

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SIGGRAPH 2017: Neurable Lets You Control A Virtual World With Your Mind

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I’ve used my eyes to interact with a virtual world before, but startup Neurable just enhanced that experience by reading my thoughts too. This is combined with eye-tracking technology from German firm SMI, which may have just been acquired by Apple.

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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!

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But I hope you’ll enjoy this newsletter coming from the world of the undead anyway… Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple starts accepting applications for Vision Pro devkits Apple has started accepting applications from interested developers to get a Vision Pro to develop XR experiences.

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The XR Week Peek (2025.03.18): Niantic sells Pokemon Go, Meta released passthrough APIs, and more!

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They sold this money machine to focus on a technology that is currently not making any relevant money. This means that Samsung wont go all-in with hand tracking like Apple did. The first one of them, which is rather surprising, is that its developers are not passionate about virtual worlds.

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How InfiniteWorld Is Building “Web2.5”

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Six years later, the company was purchased by Apple. The same year that Apple purchased NextVR, InfiniteWorld was founded in Miami – a city rapidly becoming the physical epicenter of the metaverse. The company would also begin talks to acquire gaming studio Super Bit Machine – an acquisition which took place in August.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.07.25): Google to test AR glasses in the wild, Pico 4 spotted, and more!

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We often talk about Apple and Meta, but we should not forget that Google is still in the match, and that in the AR Cloud race, it has still many cards to play, like the mapping of all the world already made with Google Maps. She lists some interesting stats about Gen Z and how is their attitude towards virtual worlds.

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