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The XR Week Peek (2024.11.26): Valve Roy controller leaked, VR Black Friday deals, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The trip to Finland left me with a bad cough, but especially with many sweet memories of the experiences I had there and the amazing people I spent my time with. The specifications on paper look nice, and for sure the one between Google and Samsung looks like a strong partnership. I’m back in Turin, Italy!

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PSA: You Don’t Need Xbox Game Pass to Play ‘Fortnite’ for Free on Quest

Road to VR

It’s true, all you need to play Fortnite on Quest 2/3/Pro with Xbox Cloud Gaming is a free Microsoft account , that and be in a supported region. You can find a list of officially supported controllers here , although many other non-listed Bluetooth controller also work, like an old Google Stadia controller.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

AR headset distribution is much more dramatic, as students are mainly developing on Microsoft HoloLens (43%), with Google Glass, Vuzix AR headsets, Epson Moverio, Meta AR Dev Kits making up the rest of the pie chart. Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, Finland. Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.11.27): Discover XR Cyber Monday Deals, Sam Altman returns to OpenAI, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

And talking about “cool” things (pun intended), today I’m traveling to Helsinki, Finland, where I hope to have a great time at MatchXR. If OpenAI wanted to slow down to have time to understand the consequences of this new type of AI, Microsoft would already ready be to hire all the talents of OpenAI and carry on AI developments by itself.

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Holographic Waveguides: What You Need To Know To Understand The Smartglasses Market

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. Dispelix of Finland has not only produced a surface relief waveguide, they’ve made a significant contribution to the manufacturing process. Near-eye Optics Basics. Lumus has more recently been the OEM supplier to both Daqri and Atheer.

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Dress for Success: Talking Headsets and Haptic Suits with Skarred Ghost Antony Vitillo

XR for Business Podcast

or Finland? Antony: Varro is from Finland. Alan: Finland, sorry. You’ve got a ton coming out, now; you’ve got the Hololens, Hololens 2, Magic Leap, nreal, Realmax, Vuzix, North glasses, Epson MOVERIO, Google Glass. There is a demo by Microsoft, that you are reading a text. It’s also the eyes.

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Letting Workers Qualify Themselves in AR, with AR Expert’s Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger

XR for Business Podcast

I mean, we have access to the world’s information — I can Google pretty much any details — but it just gives me the information. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. Now, I don’t even have to pull my phone out; I can just ask Google and every answer is there.

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