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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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Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google acquires HTC Vive engineers for $250M Completely out of the blue (at least from our eyes), Google decided to acquire some XR-related engineers from HTC Vive (together with a non-exclusive license on some HTC IP) for the whopping amount of $250M.

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Google Confirms Android XR Allows Passthrough Camera Access: an Important Tool for MR Devs

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Now, Google has confirmed that Android XR includes access to passthrough cameras, letting developers fine tune their mixed reality experiences from the get-go. On the other hand, Google confirmed Android XR app devs can make use of its various APIs, including Camera2 and CameraX.

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The 2025 Samsung/Meta Ray-Ban AR Smart Glasses Competition Begins

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In 2024, Meta made its commitment clear by highlighting its related success via its EssilorLuxottica partnership , and on the other hand, Samsung spent the year teasing audiences with an XR device to rival Meta’s and others, while the device is still yet to hit the market, Samsung appears ready to debut the product in 2025.

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Augmented Reality and Hearables: Where the Two Technologies Meet

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But AR/VR solutions are not limited to Google Glass, mobile apps for trying on shoes or accessories, and AR-based games. Additionally, engineers train Deep Learning algorithms to accurately detect markers in live video data. Natural language processing (NLP) algorithms make machine translation from one language to another possible.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.08.15): Samsung XR prototype leaked, Meta 2024 glasses are only for internal use, and more!

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Top news of the week (Image by VRTUOLUO) A leak shows a prototype of the Samsung XR headset We finally have a leak of the Samsung headset that makes us see something about it. The report talks about Samsung wanting to target the $1000–2000 range, which in my opinion risks being neither expensive nor affordable.

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Big XR News from Google, Microsoft, Samsung Qualcomm

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Today’s news will determine tomorrow’s leaders, so keep your ears on the ground to learn about tomorrow’s XR champions. Samsung Eyes XR Director Hire This week, an interesting job opportunity surfaced at Samsung, coinciding with its push into augmented reality and mixed reality headsets.

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Big XR News from Samsung, AWS, Pimax, Varjo, Pico

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

New Samsung Headset Details Revealed Patentlyapple has revealed a new patent application from Samsung, which highlights the company’s ongoing development of an upcoming XR headset for the Galaxy ecosystem. Additionally, reports suggest that Samsung aims to debut the headset in 2025, as an outlook header indicates.

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