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The XR Week Peek (2025.01.29): Google acquires HTC engineers, Meta plans to release Oakley smartglasses, and more!

The Ghost Howls

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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61% of Mobile AR Users Share Ads

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Also notable in Superdata’s figures — generated from survey responses — is that 41 percent of AR users see ads. Superdata’s survey indicates that AR users are 30 years-old on average. This involves lots of computer vision, object recognition and machine learning to contextualize items you point your phone at.

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The Future of VR in Education: Full Immersion in Learning

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Many generations have learned according to this “golden” formula. The results of studies on the VR impact on student engagement in the learning process show that in more than 60% of cases, students have increased attention, and interest in the subject. They provide educators with equipment to develop their own learning content.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.04.13): iPhone 12 adds depth camera, StarVR One is back to the market and much more!

The Ghost Howls

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google. Image by Acer).

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.07): Meta has invested more than $10B on XR, Hololens 3 may have been canceled, and more!

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These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. Vox Machine is going to add a single-player campaign to its mech multiplayer game; Virtual Virtual Reality 2 , the sequel to the very popular VVR (that was a Daydream game!) Learn more.

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Organizations have security concerns as they prepare to enter the metaverse

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 A single unified metaverse is more of an idea than a reality, but that’s not stopping tech giants like Meta, Microsoft, and Google from pouring big money into it. Only 48 percent of survey respondents are very confident in their organizations’ ability to curb cyber threats in the metaverse.

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Augmented Reality in the Rail Industry: Benefits and Use Cases

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The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a series of complications in the management of infrastructure security that AR technologies , in close combination with those of machine learning , allow to manage in an optimal way. On Android devices alone, the application has been used by over 10,000 travelers.