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XR Today - Virtual Reality
DECEMBER 2, 2022
The VR industry has skyrocketed immensely, with immersive headset shipments spiking 92 percent in 2019 and 70 percent in 2020. Affected companies include Meta Platforms, Amazon, and the global cryptocurrency community. According to IDC data, VR headset shipments are expected to increase 42.88 percent YoY for 2023.
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 22, 2021
Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. Sounded good.
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The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 20, 2021
From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Me trying Huawei VR glasses at WCVRI 2019. I can’t imagine what company can steal Facebook’s thunder.
The Ghost Howls
MARCH 2, 2020
With a surprise move, Facebook has acquired Sanzaru Games, the company behind the best VR game of 2019, Asgard’s Wrath. Image by Microsoft). Microsoft has released more specifications for its upcoming XBOX Series X, and from these data is clearly possible to see that it will be compatible with VR headsets. News worth a mention.
The Ghost Howls
JULY 28, 2019
Do you remember when the Valve Index was finally launched and some lucky people got it immediately while the other ones could only preorder it with an estimated shipping date of September 2019? Amazon Prime Video comes to Oculus mobile devices. Amazon streaming services come to VR. Microsoft has released an OpenXR demo.
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 25, 2022
If developers of PC games want to invest more time to create a VR version of them (like it happened for No Man’s Sky, or Microsoft Flight Simulator, for instance), this could help a lot the PCVR market. Epic has implemented it, and Unity is doing that too. I am a Unity developer, and I can tell you that now Unity.XR
The Ghost Howls
DECEMBER 1, 2019
If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. The report also highlights that one of the regions where VR may grow more in 2019–2023 is Western Europe. affiliate link).
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