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The XR Week Peek (2024.01.16): Apple prepares the launch of Vision Pro, Sony announces MR headset, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

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.

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IGS 2022 Miami: XR Today Expert Round Table

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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.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.11.19): Meta announces Project Aria research kits, a wave of Chinese smartglasses is coming, and more!

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What is interesting is that a few important universities are already using it, including Arizona State University, Houston Community College, Imperial College London, Miami Dade College, Morehouse College, University of Miami, and University of Michigan. This device, which has also a cool design, is now available on IndieGoGo.

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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. That same year, Allen became a board member of NextVR , a company that specialized in VR broadcasts of live entertainment.

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Big XR News from Boeing, ENGAGE XR, Apple, and Meta

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Now the Metaverse is gaining newfound traction from enterprise clients, companies like Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are reinforcing XR as a serious technology for various use cases. During its WWDC event, Apple showed how clients could use first-party productivity applications on the Vision Pro product.

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These Headphones Offer Solid Active Noise Cancellation for Those on a Budget

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Founded in Sweden, the company makes low-cost, high-design headphones for folks who don’t want to spend a few hundred dollars on options from Apple , Bose , or Beats. Their latest product, the Miami , is a pair of active noise-canceling headphones with 50-hour battery life and a tempting… Read more. Urbanista isn’t a household name.

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The 5 most important XR-related pieces of news from Google I/O 2023

The Ghost Howls

I guess this line has been added to the keynote speech because Apple is going to announce its device very soon at WWDC (at least according to the rumors), and Google wanted to show that it’s part of the game, too.

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