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The XR Week Peek (2025.04.08): Meta’s upcoming smartglasses may cost $1400, the worries for US tariffs, and more!

The Ghost Howls

All the American companies that are going to source components and/or have manufacturing facilities in Asia will see the BOM (basically, the cost of the components) increase , and most probably have to recoup these additional expenses by raising the final price to the customer. If you need testing services, feel free to reach out to them.

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How Beat Saber Won The Battle For Mainstream Consumers

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With the VR industry crying out for ways to make it ‘make it mainstream’, can we learn a thing or two from Beat Saber … a game that won over VR trendsetters and traditional gamers alike? . Finally comes their newest addition – dedicated arcade machines. Does Beat Saber hold the recipe for global VR success? VR content?

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Immersive Inspiration: Why Extended Reality Learning Holds Multi-Sector Potential

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Furthermore, Mordor Intelligence data suggests that the XR market is growing globally, and experiencing particularly high levels of growth in Asia and Oceania. With this in mind, let’s take a deeper look at why extended reality holds such vast potential for the future of learning across the world of education and many other sectors.

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Lenovo Unveils ThinkReality VRX Headset for Enterprise Sporting Some Increasingly Familiar Specs

Road to VR

You can think of a polarizer like the coin-slot on a vending machine: it will only accept coins in one orientation. We’ll update this piece when/if we learn more. Normally the orientation of light beams are random, but you can use a polarizer to only let light of a specific orientation pass through. Image courtesy Lenovo.

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Spatial Beats: Facebook, Walmart & Legoland

AR Insider

Let’s dive in… Librestream has raised over $55M for its device-agnostic Onsight remote assistance platform, which puts “the human at the hub of the tech stack that includes Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT), Natural Language Processing (NPT-3), and Augmented Reality (AR).

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Suzanne Borders: BadVR is mixing art and technology to innovate data visualization

The Ghost Howls

But it is very interesting , because it will touch a lot of hot topics, like: Data visualization in XR; Magic Leap; Being a woman working in XR; How is XR in Asia. The interview is quite long, that’s why I split it in half. and many other interesting stuff! Essentially you do analyze faster and come with better insights.

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There’s Virtual Mario And Dragonball Z At Bandai Namco’s VR Park

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In Dragonball Z VR you’ll be guided by Goku, one of the show’s main characters, as you learn to fire a wave on your own. Image Credit: Nikkei Asia. The arcade, which opened last Friday, houses 96 VR machines that are all short experiences like DBZ VR (roughly 7 minutes).

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