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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.01): HP Reverb G2 launched, Qualcomm goes bullish on 5G and Wi-fi 6 and more!

The Ghost Howls

They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. I don’t see this device stealing the scene from Oculus, since Oculus is cheaper, but I’m quite sure this new headset will be able to grab a good market share.

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2016’s Proto Award Winners Revealed, Tilt Brush Receives Top Honour

Road to VR

Now in its 3rd year, the annual Proto Awards have shadowed Oculus’ developer conference Connect since the first event, with an aim to celebrate the best that this new immersive industry has to offer. Blocks – Leap Motion. FIREBIRD: La Peri (Book 1) – Innerspace VR. But who else made the grade? The Lab – Valve.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

When you’re “wearing” in Vernor Vinge’s 2006 book Rainbow’s End, contact lenses and computers woven into clothing serve up an assortment of competing realities and overlays. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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Myst Meets H.P. Lovecraft: Behind the Design of Deify

Leapmotion

It’s now available free for the Oculus Rift on the Leap Motion App Store. The storyline is also heavily influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos book of Donald Tyson, Necronomicon: The Wanderings of Alhazred. Do you have any UX design tips for other developers who want to build open-world experiences with Leap Motion?

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Why VR Will Transform How We Learn About the World and Ourselves

Leapmotion

You can download the Windows demo free for the Oculus Rift: frooxius.itch.io/world-of-comenius. In the age of “learning” by rote memorization of Latin passages from books for the rich and privileged, he suggested that education should be accessible to anyone, regardless of wealth, social position, or gender. world-of-comenius.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

He’s authored two books: Opening the XBox, and The XBox 360 Uncloaked. I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

He’s authored two books: Opening the XBox, and The XBox 360 Uncloaked. I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go.