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These are the weeks that were
The highlights, biggest news and hottest topics from the world of VR, AR and MR business in the last seven days.
Apple iPhone 8 and X; VINDICTA! On Rift; Advrty VR advertising launch; MotoGP AR; Meta 2 and Steam; WMR; Magic Leap funding.
Cut-price Vive; Magic Leap images; The cost of VR; Star Wars AR; Prototyping; Facebook’s new head of hardware.
iPhone AR leak; Firefox WebVR; Unreal ARKit; London VR workspace; nVidia live 360 stitching; Coldplay live; EVE: Valkyrie Oculus Touch; VR Awards; MakeVR Pro; 360 video investment.
Apple iGlasses; Sansar beta; AltspaceVR closes; iPhone 8 September?; HP Backpack PC; nVidia Edge winners; Brain-Computer Interfaces; Best ARKit videos; Making money from XR; XR Connects Helsinki.
$1m XR games; AltspaceVR to close; Lenovo standalone AR; VR Connects San Francisco videos; HoloLens 2.0; Ready Player One trailer; New PS VR games; All-in-one Vive for China; Within’s $40m funding.
VR eSports; Star Wars AR; AR multiplayer FPS; New awards; Oculus Connects 4; Jaunt launches in China; Marvel game; Ready Player One; HTC hiring; Leap Motion $50m investment; Apple’s AR future dominance.
Rift price cut; Facebook’s $200 Standalone HMD?; Dunkirk experience; Unity update; Nordic VR Startups; Oculus horror series; British And Irish Lions; VR’s cool, but AR’s sexy; High end development growth.
Standalone Samsung; Google in-VR modelling; 360 video; BBC VR Taster; Rift MR; $800m Q2 investment; Funding for ‘Smell-O-VR’; Interview – Tommy Palm; Zero budget games development.
Magic Leap; VR Indie Pitch Winners; Luckey funds Revive; New York VR AR Lab; Google Ads; Bait! 2m downloads; Queen concert; Vive Studios’ new game; CastAR closes; Bjork; Knuckles controllers.
New Vive controllers; 70x HMD resolution; Tokyo arcade; Mario Kart; MIT accelerator; Rémy Martin HoloLens marketing; Future of VR narrative; E3 highlights.
E3; Skyrim; VR eSports; The Walking Dead; Gran Turismo Sport; Ace Combat 7; Arizona Sunshine; PS VR R&D secrets; Sony; Ubisoft; Bethesda; Microsoft; Farpoint; CCP Games; Raw Data; VR & AR World; Xbox – where’s console WMR?
WWDC: Apple AR and VR; $1m dev fund; Opera in VR; Angry Birds 2 Social VR; New titles for Viveport Subscription; Rift in Cali libraries; AR dating; Gear VR on TV; London dev competition; Smaller HMD, higher res; VR arcades.