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JUNE 10, 2024

Previously only available in the United States since its initial launch in February, Apple says it’s now bringing Vision Pro to mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the UK, which includes keyboard support for major world languages used in those countries.

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MARCH 14, 2024

The languages above however suggest it’s at least coming to Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, Singapore, the UK, France, and Germany. A report from earlier this year maintained that talks between Meta and Chinese tech giant Tencent had stalled , which allegedly put hopes for a Chinese launch of Meta hardware on ice.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

We learned from Google Glass that cool hardware is not enough to impress consumers. High demand caused an initial early sell-out of the hardware, pushing orders back online. AR headsets need to present a lot of content to keep up with the frankly unrealistic expectations of the mass market. A Sign of Things to Come?

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

November 22nd : Early Bird Shipments begin for Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand & SE Asia. Tundra Tracker (left), Vive Tracker 2.0 right) | Image courtesy Tundra Labs. Here’s the current shipping estimates from the company: November 10th : Early Bird Shipments begin for Americas Region.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

The company says it will use the funds to accelerate the global expansion and development of its XR hardware and software products. Varjo, the Helsinki, Finland-based creators of high pixel density VR/AR headsets for enterprise, today announced it’s closed a $54 million Series C funding round.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

. “AR is core to the Snapchat experience today, and over time, we see even greater opportunities for hardware to bring it to a new dimension,” said the company in an official update. Participating Lenses will begin rolling out over the next few weeks throughout select locations in Australia and New Zealand, according to Engadget.

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MAY 6, 2024

In a new video focusing on the Australia-base ddesign team behind the Ford Ranger, Ranger Raptor and Everest, we get a look at just how one of the world’s largest car manufacturers is using mixed reality, namely Varjo’s enterprise-focused XR-3 headset.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

However, hardware and wearables are not the only part of the XR deployment story. Furthermore, the PICO 4 Ultra Enterprise edition, designed for workplace use, will be sold through official partners across Europe, Africa, North America, Australia, and New Zealand.

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Priced at $1,000, the headset makes for an interesting value proposition for users already hooked into the SteamVR hardware ecosystem, offering up a slim design thanks to the inclusion of pancake lenses and micro-OLEDs. Check out the specs at the end of the article. ” There’s also a bigger international expansion on the horizon.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

At the time of this writing, Meta officially supports the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan and most countries in Europe. This isn’t the first time Meta hardware has found its way into mainland China.

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MARCH 14, 2023

In it, players race across lush, photorealistic environments including ice caves in Antarctica, tropical locales in Costa Rica, storm waters in Norway, and the stark canyons of Australia. There’s also to consider that it was the subject of a hardware bundle, however that included a voucher code and not a physical disk.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Yet, like all technology, it’s not the hardware that’s the problem, but what you do while operating it; depending on the operator, any piece of technology can be a force for evil. Image Credit: Edgybees.

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JULY 8, 2017

The strap is still available for purchase in Australia, New Zealand, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan. Proving to be popular despite the $100/£100/€120 price tag, many territories ran out of stock in only a few days. HTC Vive Pre, photo courtesy HTC.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

Brian Rakowski, VP Product Management at Google, showed off Pixel’s hardware on stage boasting a Snapdragon 821, AMOLED capacitive touchscreen on both phones, 5-inch for Pixel and 5.5-inch Built by HTC, Google Pixel smartphones are available for pre-order today across USA, Australia, Canada, Germany, UK starting at $649.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

While some people would prefer to stay at home and use their own hardware, VR arcades – and the arcade VR experience – are an important social aspect of VR culture. While he expects around thirty people at most locations, Rock’s hopes for the New York and Australia locations are particularly high.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

Throughout the event, speakers expressed enthusiasm for the creative ecosystem built around Snap’s software, and increasingly, their hardware. Hardware Announcements. However, consumers look forward to a day when the hardware becomes readily available to the rest of us. But, more on those later. Software Announcements.

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OCTOBER 13, 2024

In hardware and app news, Meta confirmed it's cancelled a Quest Pro 2 candidate and is working on an ultralight headset. The PTC build of Quest v71 includes a passthrough cutout for any keyboard , and Meta AI became available in the UK and Australia for the Ray-Ban Meta Glasses.

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APRIL 13, 2017

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. North Metropolitan TAFE, Australia. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. RUBIKA, France.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

HoloLens is currently only officially available in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. image courtesy Microsoft. image courtesy Microsoft.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

So you’re probably better off designing around the hardware than making your own from the ground up. After all, Valve’s Lighthouse sensor technology is protected under a royalty-free license, but you can only obtain it after going through a $3,000 course. SEE ALSO HTC Vive Accessory Store Now Stocks Things You Actually Need.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

BISim was founded in 2001 in Australia as part of Czech-based Bohemia Interactive Studio (makers of Arma and Dayz). VR, for example, allowed some of our customers to focus on pilot training to start to train flying in formations which was not possible with previously used displaying hardware (i.e., That’s it for this interview!

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Meta first debuted the features in the US, Canada, and Australia. This international university research partnership comes as Meta seeks to enhance the applicability of AR data for new uses beyond smart glasses hardware. As XR technology expands beyond hardware, valuable spatial data will lead to new use cases.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

To deliver the best software experience for watching movies in Bigscreen , we also had to build the best hardware with Bigscreen Beyond.” A third wave of will come sometime in late 2023, including Japan, Australia, New Zealand. The company says Beyond will be available in more countries and regions in 2024. Base Stations.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2025

He further suggested that the multi-modal visual AI feature , currently limited to the US, Canada, and Australia, will "soon" expand to other countries worldwide. Milleri described the smart glasses as "a great success", and told investors that their retention has been increasing over time too.

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JUNE 6, 2016

In Melbourne, Australia, there’s a warehouse where you can freely roam in VR, blasting zombies with friends as a team. Tim Ruse, Zero Latency’s CEO, told Gizmodo Australia that hardware has significantly changed since they opened in August 2015, with the backpacks being rebuilt using Military Spec components.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

While Toikkanen didn’t have much to say about his new role with the company, he had plenty to say about their direction going forward, including new markets and partnerships, as well as hardware and software updates. See Also: Lenovo Updates XR Software and Hardware Package for a Memorable School Year. “We Meet the Investors.

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MAY 13, 2024

Gurman, who reliably reported many details of Vision Pro before it was officially revealed or even acknowledged to exist by Apple, reports today that Apple is now conducting Vision Pro training sessions for retail staff from Germany, France, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and China. But does it deliver?

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MARCH 25, 2024

And what’s it really like to own and use? Late last month prominent supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claimed that Apple will launch Vision Pro in more countries before June. Meta Reportedly Cancels Plan To Bring Quest 3 Lite To China Meta has reportedly suspended its plan to bring a ‘Quest 3 Lite’ to China via a partnership with Tencent.

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ARVR

JUNE 27, 2022

We’re getting better on hardware and high quality content, but how do we actually distribute the fabulous 360 degrees pieces? Hardware ?—?you Limited availability of hardware, difficulty in selecting the best experiences and loneliness in VR pushes us into the old good movie theatres, arcades or events.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

Then there is Australia-based Zero Latency , who has put thousands of consumers through their warehouse space in Melbourne and announced in June that they will be bring their multiplayer VR theme park to Japan in partnership with Sega’s amusement park division.

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JULY 15, 2022

Nofio is a new Australia-based company building a low latency adapter to make Valve’s Index headset wireless. As with all hardware Kickstarters you should read that as an aspiration, not a promise – especially given the ongoing supply chain crisis. Valve Index might be getting a wireless adapter by way of Nofio.

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I learned how to build hardware because back in the late ’90s, we weren’t using beautiful inside-out tracking systems. There was a lot of hardware work. You were really there building hardware and using very low frame, low-resolution headsets. Or Unreal if that’s your language. I learned how to do the coding.

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JUNE 5, 2024

Notably, Apple’s hardware debut has brought more attention to immersive productivity tools that assist with situations like training and collaboration. Before the Apple Vision Pro, we had several commercial battles between hardware manufacturers. Because, they already have an existing hardware contract with Lenovo.

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JULY 31, 2024

Apple Vision Pro Rolls out in Australia Cam stated that Apple is engaging deeply with Australian audiences. Stevens noted: Obviously, the Vision Pro launched in Australia on Friday, July 12th, and there was a bit of buzz going on. “Meta doesn’t have a hardware ecosystem number 1, but they’ve got a reputation.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Sony has finally revealed that PlayStation 5 is coming on November 12th (in America, Australia, Korea and other countries; rest of the world is on November, 19th). Sony has confirmed once more than PlayStation 5 will work with the same hardware of the PSVR. The price is $499 for the full edition, $399 for the digital edition.

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AUGUST 12, 2024

This news comes after Apple debuted the Vision Pro internationally in various new regions, such as the United Kingdom, China, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Canada, France, and Germany. However, Apple is yet to confirm any information regarding new XR products. Will MR Headsets and AR Smart Glasses Overtake VR Headsets?

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Virtual reality (VR) startup Bigscreen revealed its first major hardware offering: the world’s smallest headset, the Bigscreen Beyond. Further abroad, shoppers in Japan, Australia, and New Zealand can buy the device, which the company plans to expand next year. It is available to buyers across the United States and Canada.

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