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Apple Tails Meta Into The Metaverse – Plans To Launch Reality Pro VR Headset This Fall

Apple is ready to launch its first mixed reality headset after years of development, as the tech giant follows Meta's Oculus.

Figmin XR is proof you can still have fun in "professional" VR

Figmin XR is proof you can still have fun in "professional" VR

This tool for creating mixed reality experiences for the Quest Pro is weird in all the right ways and a breath of fresh air amongst all the VR productivity apps.

Quest Pro review: Weak software holds back excellent hardware

Quest Pro review: Weak software holds back excellent hardware

The Quest Pro costs $1,500 and offers Meta's most advanced VR features yet, but it might not have the software experience to make just anyone more productive.

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Microsoft HoloLens headsets used to connect remote patients with metropolitan doctors

Once known only for immersive gaming, mixed reality is now being used to connect patients in remote parts of Australia to specialists located hours away.

Technology: Apple's Virtual Reality XR Headset Could Have 'Face ID' Like Tech To Make Payments Using Eyes

Seems like Apple is upping the ante in the mixed reality competition by offering iris-scanning technology as the tech giant's forthcoming XR device. Read more on Dynamite News:

Apple VR headset: price, release date, and specs

With the release of Meta's Quest Pro VR headset, rumors about Apple’s rivaling VR/AR headset are heating up.

Meta Quest 3 — price, specs and latest news

The Meta Quest 3 is out right now — starting at $499. Here's everything you need to know.

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Meta Quest Pro: release date, features, and price

Meta Quest Pro: release date, features, and price

The Quest Pro is Meta's next VR headset with an all-new design, brighter screens, and better controllers, and a big focus on mixed reality experiences.

Amazon is building the anti-metaverse with 'ambient intelligence'

Amazon is building the anti-metaverse with 'ambient intelligence'

Amidst an hour of product updates, Amazon suggests pervasive access to Wi-Fi and Alexa is an alternative to the tech industry's obsession with mixed reality.

Meta’s Quest Pro headset may actually make mixed reality mainstream

Meta’s Quest Pro headset may actually make mixed reality mainstream

The Quest Pro VR headset improves on Meta's Quest 2 with three external high-res cameras for rendering crisp mixed reality.

Six benefits that the metaverse offers to colleges and universities

Six benefits that the metaverse offers to colleges and universities

Even though it’s unclear what exactly the metaverse is and whether it even exists, colleges and universities have jumped onto the metaverse bandwagon. They have augmented in-person and remote video learning with features such as gamified interactive virtual worlds, virtual reality and mixed reality.

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Mobile app offers new learning tools for anatomy students. But tech isn't a silver bullet

Mobile app offers new learning tools for anatomy students. But tech isn't a silver bullet

For most people who finished school or university even a decade ago, the idea of virtual reality in the classroom probably seems like the stuff of science fiction. But immersive technologies like virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality – which all aim to marry the physical and…

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UK medical students training on hologram patients in world-first

UK medical students training on hologram patients in world-first

The students at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge are using a new mix-reality training system called HoloScenarios.

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Meta, Microsoft, Alibaba, Others Form Metaverse Governing Body; Apple's Name Missing

Meta, Microsoft, Alibaba, Others Form Metaverse Governing Body; Apple's Name Missing

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META), Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT), Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA), and other tech giants striving to build the emerging metaverse concept have formed a group to foster the development of industry standards. The initiatives look to make the companies' nascent digital worlds compatible. The Metaverse Standards Forum includes leading companies working in the space, from…

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Microsoft’s mixed reality gets a black eye

The talent exodus and the organisational rejig has dealt a blow to Microsoft’s vision of a mixed reality, making it reroute resources and people at a time when the market for AR/VR is heating up.

Microsoft Revamps MR Unit As Key Exec Said To Step Down Over 'Toxic Behavior' Complaints

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has reportedly lost a key tech talent who was overseeing the development of the HoloLens mixed reality (MR) headset.

How the Apple Watch is influencing Apple’s future

Apple is giving iPhones and cars elements of watchOS' glanceable UI. This kind of bite-sized ambient computing could be crucial for a mixed reality headset.

Apple’s AR headset was hiding in plain sight at WWDC 2022

At WWDC 2022, there were signs of Apple's mixed reality headset future everywhere in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura.

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Apple is reportedly jamming 14 cameras into its mixed reality headset

Apple's headset won't require the use of a separate base station, somehow.

Jony Ive had one wacky idea for Apple's mixed reality headset

A new report details Apple's internal conflicts over its long-rumored mixed reality headset and the odd features it might ship with.

Meta Looks To Cutback In Reality Labs In Its Quest For Metaverse

Facebook parent Meta Platforms, Inc (NASDAQ:FB) is preparing cutbacks in its Reality Labs division to refocus on hardware products and the "metaverse," Reuters reports. Meta was not planning layoffs as part of the changes. The division could not afford to do some projects anymore and postponed others. According to Reuters, Reality Labs lost…

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