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The XR Week Peek (2019.14.09): a new powerful Vive Focus appears, Facebook Connect is coming, and more!

The Ghost Howls

If you remember well, this platform is based on a modified version of the Snapdragon 865 (3 generations after the 835 of the Oculus Quest) and supports features like eye tracking, high-quality passthrough AR, and 5G. Oculus Connect is starting and a new Facebook AR/VR logo appears. Other relevant news. But let’s see in a few days….

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Exclusive: First-Ever Impact Reality Summit Announces 2020 Lineup

VRScout

Some of the biggest names in social impact will be in attendance, including: Participant Media, Conservation International, the Rainforest Alliance, Connect for Climate/World Bank, and the Milken Institute, as well as tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Oculus. ” Tree USA | 2017 | 9 Min | Creator: Milica Zec, Winslow Porter.

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Facebook steps into cloud gaming — and another feud with Apple

TechCrunch VR

Rubin, who co-founded the game development studio Naughty Dog in 1994 before it was acquired by Sony in 2001, has been at Facebook since he joined Oculus months after its 2014 acquisition was announced. Virginia and West Virginia.

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Apple Mum on AR/VR for iPhone 7, but Here’s How We Know They’re Still Working on It

Road to VR

It was as far back as 2014 that we spotted apple hiring an ‘App Engineer’ who would “create high performance apps that integrate with Virtual Reality systems for prototyping and user testing.” See Also: 3 Moves Oculus is Borrowing from Apple’s Marketing Playbook. Acquisitions.

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How Climbing Mt. Everest in VR Helped Me Treat My Crippling Fear of Heights

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

It was one of our many family trips up the Eastern Seaboard after we had moved from Boise, Idaho to Alexandria, Virginia. VR therapy, or VRT, has been in use since the mid-90s but now that VR headsets such as the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR have mostly caught up with the ambition, it now has more practical applications.

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U.S. Olympic And Paralympic Committee’s Launch VR Concussion Education Series ‘CrashCourse’

VRScout

According to research conducted by West Virginia’s Brain Injury Research Institute , an estimated 1.6 – 3.8 CrashCourse Brain Fly-Through and CrashCourse Football are available free on the Oculus Rift/Rift S , Oculus Go , and YouTube. Brought to life by ?

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Attending Digital Concerts in XR with The Boolean’s Anne McKinnon

XR for Business Podcast

So Miro Shot is a band and we’re touring a virtual reality live concert around the world. Anne: Yeah, it’s really– Alan: Stack of phones charging while you’re swapping it out, whereas if you’re using something like an Oculus Go, you’ve got to take the whole machine away. Anne: Yeah, they are.