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The XR Week Peek (2024.10.12): AI models generate 3D scenes, Samsung may unveil its smartglasses in January, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Top news of the week (Image by Google) AI models to generate 3D scenes start to surface This week we had the announcement of two AI models dedicated to the generation of 3D worlds. These glasses should be built in partnership with Google and Qualcomm and have a similar form factor to the successful Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

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YouTuber Brings VR To Commodore 64

VRScout

By utilizing just three separate components, a $10 plastic VR goggle, a $26 304 x 200 pixel LCD screen and a cheap power transformer, Jim was able to mirror what players would see on a standard CRT television (if you’re under 17, google it) onto a VR headset. Oh man, I’m getting some serious Vietnam flashbacks of the Virtual Boy….

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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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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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Will Meta-MediaTek Partnership Advance AR Smart Glasses?

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MediaTek is a key challenger to companies like Qualcomm, Intel, Apple, Google, and others, with the latter two also branching out with their own chipsets such as the M2 and Tensor G3, respectively. Meta and MediaTek: Chip(sets) off the Old Block?

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Temple Run: CyArk Taps GPUs to Capture Visual Records of World Heritage Sites

NVidia VR

To jumpstart things, CyArk, in conjunction with Google — which has provided cloud computing resources, funding and technical support — has released a virtual tour of the ancient city of Bagan , in central Myanmar, that shows off what’s possible. Taste of What’s to Come.

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Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

And we were able to do that, for example, with– there was a– Larry Hodges and Barbara Rothbaum developed a virtual Vietnam — back in the early 90s — that was very effective at treating post-traumatic stress disorder for Vietnam vets, some of who had been suffering from PTSD for decades.