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The XR Week Peek (2025.01.29): Google acquires HTC engineers, Meta plans to release Oakley smartglasses, and more!

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The problem with big companies is that they are big and complex machines whose main goal is making money: any promise they make is worth nothing. Learn more and try the game Some XR fun Being a parent of a VR son can be tricky at times Funny link This is crazy: you can play DOOM inside a PDF file!

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Google Wants To Deliver World-Scale AR Using Google Maps

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A more detailed map experience that allows you to gain a closer look at building details, learn about cool underground music venues, and discover locations off the beaten path for you to chill and have a cup of coffee. . You can read more about Google’s world-scale AR goals on their developer’s blog. Image Credit: Google.

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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!

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For $32, you can enjoy a realistic train driving experience in VR for the first time The studio behind Township Tale has teased its upcoming title, a dungeon-crawler extraction game called REAVE Bearly Escape, an Early Access claw-machine puzzler, will launch on May 1 on SteamVR and Quest 3 for $14.99

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Hot Chips 2021 Live Blog: Machine Learning (Graphcore, Cerebras, SambaNova, Anton)

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Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday for our regular AnandTech Live Blogs. This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited.

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Oculus Launches New-And-Improved VR Avatars

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Alongside the new design and customization options, the new Oculus Avatars feature “machine-learning based motion prediction technology,” resulting in more fluid, natural movements akin to what you might see in real life. ” Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus. . ” Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus.

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Google Releases Real-time Mobile Hand Tracking to R&D Community

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Google has released to researchers and developers its own mobile device-based hand tracking method using machine learning, something Google R esearch engineers Valentin Bazarevsky and Fan Zhang call a “new approach to hand perception.” in palm detection, researchers claim.

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Hot Chips 2021 Live Blog: Machine Learning (Esperanto, Enflame, Qualcomm)

Anand Tech

Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday for our regular AnandTech Live Blogs. This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited.