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Samsung Unveils More Smart Glasses Designs from Gentle Monster & Warby Parker Ahead of Fall Release
Samsung today teased a new slate of smart glasses designs, which includes two new frames from eyewear partners Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. The News When Samsung and Google finally unveiled their jointly-developed smart glasses at Google I/O in May, US-based Warby Parker and South Korean eyewear brand Gentle Monster showed off their initial designs, […]
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Xbox Game Pass Now Included with Quest’s Horizon+, Gamepad Emulation Coming Soon
Meta announced it’s partnering with Microsoft to bring a “starter edition” of its cloud-based XBOX Game Pass to Horizon+, Meta’s own VR game subscription service. In the coming weeks, Meta also says it’s pushing out Xbox gamepad emulation for Quest’s Touch controllers too. The News The new Xbox Game Pass addition brings a library of 50+ […]
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Can Augmented Reality Unlock Assistive Reality?
By fusing AI, computer vision, and real-time digital overlays, can AR glasses help people navigate surroundings, communicate, and complete everyday tasks with greater independence? The goal is to extend AR from augmented to assistive.
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Reader Feedback Wanted: Thoughts on Our New Article Format
We at Road to VR have been asking ourselves: how do we offer the most value to our readers? That question led to an experiment over the last few months that changed the way we structured each article, with the goal of making them more useful to you. Now, we’d like to hear your thoughts. […]
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Gentle Monster Plans Massive North America & Europe Retail Expansion Amid Smart Glasses Rollout
South Korean eyewear brand Gentle Monster is set to launch its first pair of smart glasses this fall, and it’s hoping to make waves with a rash of new physical retail locations across North America and Europe. The News As reported by Maeil Business Newspaper, Gentle Monster is set to dramatically increase its overseas stores […]
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Is XR Funding on the Rebound?
After a few years of declines – mostly due to the hangover from circa-2021 „metaverse mania,“ XR venture funding grew 117 percent last year. What’s behind the rebound? We examine the latest data from our research arm.
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Smart Glasses Don’t Need an App Store
Smart-glasses development is genuinely fragmented today, including platforms from Meta, Snap, and others. This raises barriers for developers, which in turn could diminish smart glasses demand and sector growth. What’s the solution?
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Magic Leap Cuts Nearly 200 Jobs as AR Pioneer Pivots Into Waveguide Supplier
AR unicorn Magic Leap is again pivoting its core business, this time to serve as a waveguide supplier to other companies making AR glasses, something that we’ve learned comes amid a mass lay off nearly 200 of its core engineering and product development staff. According to a formal WARN Act notification letter to US government […]
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Valve Drops Big SteamVR Update Ahead of Steam Frame Launch
Valve has dropped a sizeable update to SteamVR, paving the way for what appears to be imminent launch of its long-awaited standalone VR headset, Steam Frame. Valve’s latest update brings a good slate of Steam features to SteamVR, which seems to be shaping up to be a proper VR-based operating system, now including a new […]
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AI/XR Beats: OpenAI Hardware Rumors, EssilorLuxottica Doubles Down
OpenAI’s hardware plans look like a smart speaker, while EssilorLuxottica buys Lynx and Lenovo backpedals from XR. We have these and other items from AI and XR worlds, through the lens of Charlie Fink.
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