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Report: TikTok Parent Lays Off Hundreds at VR Subsidiary Pico Interactive, Tencent Scraps VR Plans

Road to VR

Seen a direct competitor to Meta Quest 2, Pico 4 still isn’t officially sold in the US; the headset is currently only available across Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, and most countries in Europe. This follows a widening trend of layoffs which have affected nearly every big name in tech, including Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft.

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Chinese Headset With XR2+ Gen 2 Is An Apple Vision Pro & Quest Pro Crossover

Upload VR

When Qualcomm announced Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 in January, a higher-end variant of the chipset used in Meta Quest 3, the company told UploadVR that it will power Immersed's Visor , Samsung's upcoming Google-powered headset , a yet-to-be-announced new HTC Vive headset, a YVR headset in China, and a fifth headset from a currently undisclosed company.

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St. Giles Hotels Giving Gear 360 Cameras To Guests for Campaign

VRScout

With hotels located in major cities in the United Kingdom, United States, Malaysia, Philippines, and Australia, the St. The final cut of the VR content will be turned into a digital and social campaign launching in September with the hotel brand also launching a mobile app so the content can be viewed through a Google Cardboard headset.

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Eido Inoue tells us everything we need to know about HADO and location based augmented reality

The Ghost Howls

Between that, I worked on consumer cloud software with Google for five years… managing engineering teams for Gmail, Japanese mobile, Google Labs, and social (Blogger etc.) At Google, the change was rapid but much easier to control , as everything from the software to even the servers were designed in-house. teams for Japan.

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Virtual Reality in Retail: Types, Use Cases and Real Business Benefits

ARVR

The solution features multiple department stores based in Malaysia and even a virtual cinema. It is meant to be used with Google Cardboard?—?one For example, Vera Bradley (a popular American bag company) released a virtual shopping project on Google Daydream that lets customers preview its products (beds, quilts, etc.)

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Play For Dream Launches Kickstarter To Bring Its Apple Vision Pro & Quest Pro Crossover To The West

Upload VR

Play For Dream MR was announced back in June , but at the time the company only confirmed it was launching in China soon, Singapore and Malaysia in October, and then Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Japan sometime in 2025. Play For Dream MR doesn't run Horizon OS , or even Pico OS or Google's upcoming Android XR.

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PenPal Schools launches a VR field trip for students to promote Pakistan

Hypergrid Business

Pakistan is one of the six Muslim countries targeted in an attempted travel ban by the Trump administration, and many people see it as unstable.