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Our play recap: As Sony prepares for PSVR launch, Microsoft cuts XR capacity.

Microsoft kills AltspaceVR, an XR interface team, and reduces enactment connected subject Hololens

Microsoft plans to chopped 10,000 jobs by the extremity of March. VR and AR projects volition besides beryllium affected: The once-hyped societal VR level AltspaceVR is shutting down successful March, and the full squad down the XR Interface Mixed Reality Toolkit, fashionable with developer studios, is being fto go. In addition, the Hololens squad volition beryllium further decimated and enactment connected the subject Hololens volition beryllium scaled back.

After years of nary important quality connected commercialized Hololens hardware, rumors that determination won’t beryllium immoderate successful the adjacent future, and Microsoft offering its Office bundle connected Meta headsets without a 2nd thought, it seems Microsoft is bowing retired of the Metaverse contention earlier it’s adjacent truly started.

Sony gears up for PSVR 2 launch

Meanwhile, Sony is gearing up for February 22, erstwhile the Playstation VR 2 hits store shelves. And the archetypal buyers volition privation the close bundle for their caller VR headset. In summation to the already announced VR games for the Playstation VR 2, Sony presented 10 much titles this week. None of them are new, but Sony says they volition look and tally amended connected the PSVR 2 than ever before.

Nreal Air seems similar a large Steam Deck accessory

Chinese shaper Nreal has been selling compact AR and show headsets with smartphone connectivity much oregon little successfully for years. So far, determination has not been a truly convincing exertion script for the tech headsets.

With the Steam Deck, the axenic show Nreal Air headset mightiness person recovered thing similar a cleanable gaming partner: You tin beam the Steam Deck representation to a 130-inch TV 4 meters away, anytime, anywhere. Now that’s something.

OpenAI CEO dampens GPT-4 expectations

In the coming months, OpenAI’s highly touted substance AI GPT-4 volition beryllium released. If the expectations connected Twitter and Co. are thing to spell by, it volition outshine everything and adjacent amusement the archetypal signs of becoming a wide AI. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman calls the existent rumors astir GPT-4 “bullshit” and tampers down expectations: “People are begging to beryllium disappointed – and they volition be.”

Meanwhile, Google is reportedly preparing for a monolithic AI year: As galore arsenic 20 AI products are said to beryllium successful the pipeline, including a caller Google chatbot search. For more AI news, cheque retired our sister work THE DECODER.

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