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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

That’s why even Microsoft took Epic’s stances : Microsoft uses UE4 to develop some products also for Apple devices, and this decision hurts also its business. More info (Apple threatens Epic) More info (Microsoft files an official support for Epic). The same on Twitter. Other relevant news. Image by Epic Games).

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How Can Businesses Prepare for Enterprise VR?

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Even governments are turning to immersive platforms to showcase tourism, security, and travel opportunities. Multinational XR firms like Lenovo, ByteDance’s Pico Interactive, HTC VIVE, Varjo, and Microsoft are leading the charge for immersive transformations.

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Meta and the next 24 months crucial for its leadership

The Ghost Howls

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. To these, you have to add the companies that are already competing, like for instance HTC or HP. No one can compete now.

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7 pieces of advice if you have to remotely work as a VR developer from China

The Ghost Howls

While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. The problem is that in my case the “proxy” was the Great Firewall, and it was a bit difficult for me to call the government to ask what parameters to put in my Git configuration.

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VRTUOLUO talks about its FBEC event and the VR ecosystem in China

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But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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Microsoft to Cut Back Staff for US Army’s IVAS Headset amid Layoffs

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Microsoft has reportedly planned to reduce the number of employees working on its US Army mixed reality (MR) headset. Microsoft began reducing staff headcounts on Wednesday across the company’s extended reality (XR) division and plans to finalise the full 10,000 by late March. trillion funding package backed last month.

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Glossary: The Metaverse and its Key Components

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Efforts to construct and expand the Metaverse were sparked by Meta Platform’s major pivot in October, which saw Microsoft, NVIDIA, HTC VIVE, Qualcomm, Google, Varjo, and dozens of other tech giants enter the race for prime positioning to build the virtual and connected world. Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO).