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Which Startups Are Hiring for Augmented Reality Jobs?

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billion in 2019, with many billions more being invested in R&D by the likes of Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and many more. Their Oculus app allows real-time collaboration without ever leaving your home. As of November 2020, they’re hiring for both New York and San Francisco positions.

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Report: Meta is Considering Physical Stores to Sell Its Vision of the Metaverse

Road to VR

A New York Times report maintains that Meta has been planning its own retail stores that aim to eventually span the world. The report cites people with knowledge of the project in addition to internal company documents shared with The New York Times.

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Bigscreen Beyond 2 Hands-On: Refining A Vision For VR Enthusiasts Without Apple Or Meta

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When Bigscreen founder Darshan Shankar told us he was bringing the sequel to his Beyond SteamVR headset to GDC 2025, I booked a flight from New York to San Francisco and back with less than 24-hour turnaround. You can go get a Quest or Vision Pro and wear the weight of the Apple or Meta platforms, quite literally, upon your brow.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.03): OpenXR is taking foot, new cool features found inside Oculus runtime, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Other relevant news.

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Spatial Beats: Facebook, Nreal & More Metaverse Hype

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It’s very similar to what Apple has been doing for smartphone,” CEO Chi Xu said. “We Billion in its latest round of financing, is available on PC, PS4/PS5, Xbox Series X/S, iOS, and Oculus Quest. The new social VR world launching in 2021, id backed by Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who used to own the New York Nets NBA team.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.01.04): New Year’s Eve parties go virtual, Tundra to offer a Vive Tracker competitor, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Because of the pandemic, many people have been forced to celebrate New Year’s Eve at home skipping the usual rituals of the home party with friends or the big celebrations in a public plaza. It was impressive seeing at the TV news Time Square in New York being almost empty on December 31st. News worth a mention.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.27): Vive inside-out Tracker announced, Pico’s launch in the US delayed, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Of course, Epic is completely against Apple and its vision of its own walled garden. The new mixed reality headset is expected to perform a bit like the Apple Watch: very slow sales in the beginning, to then increase them a lot at every iteration. In his vision, web3 and XR are nice to have but are not fundamental.

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