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Google Announces Android XR Operating System Alongside Samsung MR Headset

Road to VR

Samsung’s newly announced headset, codenamed Project Moohan, will be the first MR headset to launch with Android XR next year. Gemini on Android XR is a conversational agent which allows you to have free-form voice conversations about what you see in both the real world and the virtual world.

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Beyond the Joystick: Companies Building the Future of VR Locomotion

VRScout

How is modern technology setting us up to move around the virtual worlds of the future? It wasn’t long ago that the best method of moving around games and virtual worlds were two joysticks or a set of keyboard keys and a mouse. No longer is a joystick or a button needed to move your head around. With the SteamVR 2.0

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Project Moohan: The Latest Details on Samsung’s XR Headset

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Weve been eagerly awaiting some genuine news about Samsungs impending XR headset for months now ever since the company announced its partnership with Google and Qualcomm. The Moohan (Infinity in Japanese) headset is still definitely in its early stages, but Samsung has already allowed a handful of journalists to test out a prototype.

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How and Why Brand Engagement Is Driving XR Development

ARPost

This summer, 8th Wall released their 17th major platform update , which expands world effects with a focus on AR portals. These portals open up new virtual worlds for users to walk through or otherwise interact with. Once a portal has been opened, the user needs only to walk through it to enter a 360-degree virtual environment.

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How Eye Tracking is Driving the Next Generation of AR and VR

VRScout

The industry has been experiencing a boom in recent years with hundreds of startups and heavy investment from tech giants including Google, Apple, Samsung, and Facebook. The long-range goal for AR/VR is full immersion—the ability to deliver a user from the real to the virtual world without sensory interruption.

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What is Metaverse Real Estate: Building Digital Property 

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Essentially, it’s a form of digital real estate, which provides buyers with access to packages or parcels of land in virtual worlds, often managed on decentralized, blockchain ecosystems. Though the environments companies and investors can build in the metaverse don’t occupy a physical space, they can offer phenomenal value.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.05.14): New rumors on the Vision Pro 2, Ultraleap Hyperion, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Chinese manufacturers BOE and SeeYA may provide cheaper displays in higher quantities than Sony is doing now, while Samsung may be supplying the DRAM components. Go to SideQuest Sponsored Area Do you need a virtual world? It seems that most of the rumors are aligning on the launch of an Apple Vision Pro 2 in 2026–2027.