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Android Watch App WowMouse Offers Hand Pointing & Gestures Without Camera Tracking

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A quick demo offered by Doublepoint at the Augmented World Expo in Long Beach brought across the concept. I could see WowMouse's approach being one day integrated by Apple Watch for use with future Apple smart glasses, and in Wear OS by Google for use with Android Micro XR.

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First Impressions: Sony's Standalone Headset For Creatives Disappoints

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UploadVR Ian Hamilton I tried a brief hands-on with the headset and its unusual controllers at the Augmented World Expo conference in Long Beach. Sony Announces XR2+ Gen 2 Standalone Headset For Enterprise Sony is the previously undisclosed fifth company building a headset using Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset.

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Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Strategy Driven By Pioneer Who Helped Launch VR’s Renaissance

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Bolas previously directed USC’s Mixed Reality Lab at the Institute for Creative Technologies, where he hired a teenager from Long Beach before the young man co-founded Oculus.

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This is How Fake News Happens: The Reporting of Palmer Luckey and Nimble America

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If things were different, and you didn’t have the money to fund a community of trolls who want to elect Trump, maybe you’d be like any other Long Beach college dropout, spending your student loans on novelty shot glasses at Urban Outfitters.”. You have a very silly, very white name…You have a sister named Ginger. Oculus doesn’t.

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