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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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The 5 most important XR-related pieces of news from Google I/O 2023

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Last week, Google delivered its most important event of the year, the Google I/O. Of course, AI has been the star of the show , with the public release of Google Bard and the announcement of a new language model, but there have been also interesting pieces of news about XR.

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VR-Eval Program Helps Survivors Of Human Trafficking Deal With Trauma

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” Chance Glasco, Dr. Brook Bello and Miami States Attorney Katherin Fernandez-Rundle / Image Credit: More Too Life Foundation. According to research conducted by The International Labour Organization, human trafficking is currently a $150 billion global industry, with over 40.3 victims for every 1,000 people, 25% of whom are children.

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NFL Producing VR Series Exclusively for Google

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Later this year, episodes will also be available via the NFL’s VR app designed for Daydream View, Google’s mobile VR headset that works with its new Pixel phones set to begin shipping Nov. NFL Films is currently in production on the series, which is being shot using Google’s Jump 360 camera system.

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IGS 2022 Miami: XR Today Expert Round Table

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The Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 took place in Miami 5 to 7 December, and concluded its final days in the sunny backdrop of Miami Beach’s historic Fontainebleu Hotel. Such platforms provided live data for face tracking, including facial expressions, eye movement, and other features.

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Media Maven, Carrie Able, Enchants With AR-Enabled Visuals To Match Her Music Releases

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“To create my augmented reality experiences, I use Google Tiltbrush and then collaborated with ARIZE to launch the experience for users and fans.” As most everyone is experiencing restrictions due to the pandemic I wanted to create an experience that would be accessible for anyone anywhere.”

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The XR Week Peek (2024.01.16): Apple prepares the launch of Vision Pro, Sony announces MR headset, and much more!

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More info (HTC Face Tracking add-on — Road To VR) More info (HTC Face Tracking add-on — Upload VR) Google lays off people in the AR Hardware division Like many tech companies lately, Google is performing a round of layoffs in its hardware teams. This does not mean that Google is not still committed to AR, though.

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