The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2024

And Quest 2 is much cheaper (especially now that has been put at $199): during the last holidays, it outperformed the Quest 3 by a factor 3:1 on Amazon US. As for the sales, Meta is used to launch headsets at Meta Connect, so probably preorders can start in Autumn 2024 at Meta Connect.

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Anand Tech

MAY 2, 2024

So much so that SK hynix this week is very publicly announcing that the company's high-bandwidth memory (HBM) production capacity has already sold out for the rest of 2024, and even most of 2025 has already sold out as well.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 29, 2024

Any phone maker can integrate the open-source core of Android for free and without permission, and can integrate Google's services and the Google Play Store by agreeing to certain compatibility criteria and preinstalling Google's suite of apps. Further, Google itself is seemingly preparing to be the Android of XR with.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

But, to me, the saddest of the shutdowns arrived this month, when Mozilla announced in a blogpost on February 15th, 2024 : On February 13, 2024, Mozilla announced an organization-wide restructuring impacting a number of products housed within the Mozilla Corporation. April 1st, 2024: A tool to download your data will be released.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

New leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt have revealed that probably the headset will be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. This headset should feature pancake lenses, mixed reality capabilities, and micro-LED displays by Raxium , a startup owned by Google. In a few weeks, there will be a free alpha test open on SteamVR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2024

Auidences are watching, developers are already working on realityOS applications, and XR device vendors are making a move towards the spatial computing trend of 2024. It is early 2024, and the year could flip. However, as the years progress, it appears that the space is expanding.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2023

More info You can do full body tracking in VR using your phone A guy published on YouTube a guide on how to use a body-tracking algorithm (based on Google MediaPipe) running on the phone to trigger full body movements in VRChat. Of course, it is not as accurate as using Vive Trackers, but it still looks like an interesting solution.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 27, 2023

The news comes amid a massive wave of layoffs across the tech industry, with Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, and many others launching a second round of job cuts. billion USD to provide severance packages up to 2024. News of the job cuts boosted share prices for the firm 6.4 percent at the same time.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

More info (Meta’s losses in 2023) More info (Meta expecting even higher losses in 2024) Quest 3 enters the Steam chart at 0.15% Meta Quest 3 appeared for the first time in Steam’s Hardware Survey, with a 0.15% share of the market. The book is coming in March, 2024, but can already be preordered on Amazon.

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Imagine being able to relive those days, with the benefit of hindsight – having the chance to build your business into the first Google, Facebook or Amazon. Additional use case assets will be available in early 2024. Or if you’re a little older, when computers were new? That would be a pretty good opportunity, right?

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

But AR/VR solutions are not limited to Google Glass, mobile apps for trying on shoes or accessories, and AR-based games. Moreover, a recent report from Juniper Research says that the number of hearables in use will grow to more than 970 million units by 2024 (an increase of 270% compared to 2020). Sponsored content. Mobile application.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

He has tweeted “I’m very excited about our upcoming announcements next week, and all that we have planned for 2020–2024”. The Quest has dominated the searches on Google and it has gone sold out quite soon, and people that really wanted to buy it had to buy it from some online resellers that offered it at higher prices.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 2, 2024

Now, Nvidia is anticipating an equally impressive 2024, with a possible 231% revenue growth for 2024. But why is Nvidia stock going up so aggressively, and will it grow in 2024, or has the chip maker finally reached its peak? Additionally, another 300,000 GPUs will likely be deployed by the end of 2024.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 25, 2021

percent compound annual growth (CAGR) for hearables through 2024, and a 14.3 Though Google/Fitbit and Amazon are making headway, Apple continues to hold the largest market share with an estimated 66 million AirPods sold in 2020 ( ARtillery Intelligence ) and 80 million Apple watches ( Above Avalon ). IDC meanwhile projects 14.1

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. Meta is reported to launch a devkit of AR glasses, codenamed Orion, in 2024. Ah no, not even that because also Twitter is dead. Now it’s called X and aims at becoming the Western WeChat.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 18, 2024

The press release announcing Blackwell includes endorsements from Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Dell CEO Michael Dell, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison, and Tesla and xAI CEO Elon Musk.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

On Quest you can bring up the browser without minimizing the immersive app, so you could be standing next to a friend in a VR game while you quickly Google something. To legally download movies on Quest you have to sideload the Android phone APKs of Netflix or Amazon Prime Video from your computer. But Google said no, he claimed.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

Waiting until now would mean that next VR game by Valve would come out in 2024–2025… do you really think they don’t want to make the ecosystem to grow now? If you’re interested in these devices, have a look at Amazon and Oculus websites. Valve says that it was waiting to see the reception of Alyx before developing other games.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Worldwide, spending by businesses on cloud computing infrastructure is forecast to top $1 trillion for the first time in 2024. This is because, in 2024, businesses are looking beyond the time-and-money-saving opportunities of cloud migration. Here’s my overview of what will be the most significant trends in this field.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Google uses it to find the information we need; Amazon uses it to suggest things we should buy; Netflix uses it to recommend movies; Spotify uses it for music – it’s all powered by AI. What makes generative AI different and special is that it puts the power of machine intelligence in the hands of just about anyone.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

According to the rumor, the collaboration should end in 2023, with the first product launched in 2024, a year that is compatible with a consumer-prosumer release of an XR device. This gives more power to Google Glass, that are not doing that bad in the enterprise environment after a total disaster as a prosumer device.

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Building the Metaverse

APRIL 12, 2022

Composing a webcomic about composability into my composability article (source: xkcd 2024 ) In nature, the Red Queen hypothesis poses that the emergence of sex was to speed-up the evolutionary response to organisms in the face of parasites and viruses. It’s why we have nuclear envelopes for our DNA, immune systems and blood-brain barriers.

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