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Spatial Beats: Oculus, Google & Snap

AR Insider

This week, we look at tech stocks, Quest 2’s continued rise, Google’s VR sunsetting, and horsing around with Snapchat See the full roundup below. What is up with Google and XR? You can join virtual environments for festival mingling or join Q&As and drop into post-premiere parties.

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TapID Uses Bone Conduction To Deliver A Better Typing Experience In VR

VRScout

Developers have explored potential solutions in the past, such as Google Daydream’s ultra-fun Drum Keys or Logitech’s VR compatible keyboards. Those sensors are used to detect the rapid touch of your fingertips hitting a physical flat surface to provide haptic feedback as you type out words on a virtual keyboard.

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Glossary: The Metaverse and its Key Components

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Efforts to construct and expand the Metaverse were sparked by Meta Platform’s major pivot in October, which saw Microsoft, NVIDIA, HTC VIVE, Qualcomm, Google, Varjo, and dozens of other tech giants enter the race for prime positioning to build the virtual and connected world. Decentraland. Immersive Media.

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Man Proposes In Zero Latency’s VR Zombie Arena

VRScout

The crew strapped on their headsets and haptic feedback equipment and began their round of Zombie Outbreak , one of Zero Latency’s free-roam co-op experiences. Little did she know that dozens of her friends and family were secretly waiting in the shadows ready to surprise her after Alex proposed while in-game.

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Spatial Beats: Facebook, VR Training & SXSW

AR Insider

This week, Facebook Reality Labs goes haptic, VR training and SXSW updates. For AR smart glasses to work as an all-day everyday device, AI and haptics need to be work with advanced optics within a new OS and user interface. STYLY launches support for 3D models made with Google Tilt Brush. W elcome back to Spatial Beats.

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Cloudhead Games CEO: Apple Vision Pro is an AR Headset Wearing VR Clothes

Road to VR

Inputs and Haptics are incredibly important to Virtual Reality as a major tenant in reinforcing immersion and tactile interaction with virtual objects. There is a comfort in understanding the topological landscape of a controller and a physical touchpoint within the virtual environments themselves.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.12.28): Flight Simulator VR released, a new hack lets you use Quest without Facebook, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Google lets now everyone contribute to StreetView. If you have an ARCore-powered Android device, you can now contribute to Google StreetView. To carry out this research, t he researchers have built a mini VR setup for flies , with a mini treadmill and a projection of a virtual environment around them. More info.