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Device Announcements
Occipital launches Dev Kit to turn your iPhone into a room-scale tracked VR headset (TechCrunch)
Best Buy lists Pebble 2 pre-orders with October 15 date (MobileSyrup)
Samsung’s Gear VR will soon feature XBox One Controller support (MobileSyrup)
Major Milestones
HTC launches Viveport App Store globally (MobileSyrup)
Android Wear 2.0 launch delayed to 2017 (MobileSyrup)
Google’s Tilt Brush getting multi-player support (Engadget)
Udacity launches VR developer nanodegree with Google, HTC & Upload VR (VentureBeat)
Shopify launches Thread for HTC (MobileSyrup)
Insurer Aetna will subsidize a “significant portion” of the Apple Watch (Engadget)
Rumours
Huawei may be considering switching its smartwatches from Android Wear to Tizen (9to5 Google)
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