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Microsoft’s partnership with Facebook Gaming could mean future VR support for Xbox

Posted byby Jason Wilson
July 5, 2020
4 min

Earlier this week Microsoft revealed it was shutting down the Mixer streaming platform and partnering with Facebook Gaming instead. Could this potentially mean big things...

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Microsoft: VR is big on Windows, but Xbox would need ‘a bunch of work’

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 10, 2020
2 min

Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality initiative may have brought multiple VR headsets and a substantial quantity of VR software to the PC platform, but the...

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Apple delaying AR glasses until 2022 would be bad for XR, but no shock

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 11, 2019
4 min

Years ago, an Apple loyalist claimed the company was being unfairly criticized for delaying products that had been widely reported to be on the...

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WaveOptics closes $39 million investment to scale AR display technology

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 10, 2019
2 min

WaveOptics, a company that develops core optical components for augmented reality (AR) displays, has closed its “oversubscribed” series C round of funding at $39...

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Remote AR will make it so we can work — or play — anywhere

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 7, 2019
4 min

Augmented reality has been something of a trailblazer in the gaming industry in recent years. The technology has been hovering around the periphery of...

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Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, and Kim Libreri, CTO.

Epic CEO on 250 million Fortnite players, digital humans, and $100 million dev fund

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 20, 2019
16 min

Epic Games dumped a bunch of news about the state of the Unreal Engine at its keynote talk at the Game Developers Conference today....

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Microsoft's Alex Kipman with the new HoloLens 2.

Microsoft unveils the $3,500 HoloLens 2 AR headset built for comfort and immersion

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 24, 2019
2 min

Microsoft has officially unveiled the second incarnation of its HoloLens mixed reality headset. Presenting to a packed auditorium at MWC 2019 in Barcelona, Microsoft...

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Are the AR/VR platform wars already won?

Posted byby GamesBeat
November 28, 2018
3 min

The AR/VR industry seems to have made its mind up on platforms, based on responses to Digi-Capital and AWE’s Global AR/VR Industry Survey (full details in...

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An HTC Vive VR demo at the Microsoft Store.

Survey: AR/VR startups are leaving international money on the table

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 13, 2018
5 min

The bulk of AR/VR startups aren’t selling outside their own backyards, at a time when growing revenue and extending financial runways have become critical...

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Magic Leap One Creator Edition up close.

Magic Leap chief content officer: ‘We recognize how important independent developers are’

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 12, 2018
10 min

Rio Caraeff’s job is to see that there is enough fun and engaging stuff on the Magic Leap One Creator Edition augmented reality glasses....

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