ARPost

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In the first part , I dealt with investing possibilities in hardware that will take us to the metaverse. There are and will be games for PCs, consoles, mobile devices, VR, and AR. Roblox (Nasdaq: RBLX) for Decentralized Gaming Creation. Roblox owns a platform on which anyone can devise and publish their own game.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Lenovo first released its smartphone-powered Mirage AR headset last year alongside its sole title, Star Wars: Jedi Challenges (2018) , a collection of short AR games that let you do things like fight Darth Vader & Co. Now, Lenovo is returning with a new AR game, MARVEL Dimension of Heroes , and a pair of 6DOF controllers too.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

Meta announced interesting games at its Quest Gaming Showcase. On April, 20th, Meta had its Quest Gaming Showcase , an online event where it announced the most important upcoming games for Quest for the next 12 months. Half-Life 3 for Quest) and not even updates on the most awaited games for Quest (e.g.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

billion in 2019, with many billions more being invested in R&D by the likes of Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and many more. Venture capital investment in augmented reality and virtual reality hit $4.1 See Also: New Guidelines for Developers: XR Software Should Be Accessible for Users With Disabilities.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

Vision Pro isn’t exactly revolutionizing XR hardware (though the external display is pretty cool), but its real advantage stands to be a mature software platform that’s easy to use and easy to develop for. The company will now have an equally large peer whose moves in the market can’t be ignored.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Google meanwhile acquired Fitbit to buttress its wearables play. Amazon and Microsoft launched wearables lines in the past quarter and smaller players like Bose and Snap are planting seeds for a wearables-heavy future. Google meanwhile acquired Fitbit to accelerate its lingering WearOS platform with some hardware in the game.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Companies like Ikea, Target, and Amazon have already used ARKit, mostly for placing virtual furniture in a room to see if it fits. Apple is also adding hardware to its iPhones that hint at a headset-based future.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2024

He claimed that the announcement of “Alien: Rogue Incursion”, the first big-budget VR game that is compatible only with Quest 3 , marks the beginning of the end for Quest 2 and Quest Pro. So it was hard for us devs to make visually compelling games. April’s hardware survey of VR headsets on Steam.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Skin in the Game. After examining Amazon last week, it’s time to zero in on Microsoft. In addition to standard audio fare like music and phone calls, they’ll integrate natively with Microsoft products like Office. ’ It turns out that its motivations are similar to Amazon’s. Next up: Google.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

This means that PCVR people can play the game again. 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. It seems the journalist liked them.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

HTC is teasing a new piece of hardware again, and this time most probably it will be a VR headset. If you are a game developer, contact Pico now (or ask me for an introduction) to discuss this potential opportunity. As Mr. President highlighted, this brain-controlled Pong game is already possible with BMIs (e.g.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

For Apple , it’s all about hardware and making its devices more attractive. For Google , it’s all about search, and boosting query volume with more user touchpoints. For Amazon , it’s selling us stuff. Continuing with the “layer” analogy, Google wants to be the information layer for the spatial web.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Looking at the cached page on Google of its Quest 3 listing, it is possible to see that they have written all the specs on their website. We often complain about the potato quality of Quest games, and I want to see how big will be the jump in visuals with this headset. Top view of Quest 2 (left) and Quest 3 (right).

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The games Meta is lining up for Quest 3 and beyond are likely the cornerstone of the company’s approach in VR gaming in the coming years. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Assassin’s Creed VR were nowhere to be seen and the company had just one major game reveal — Iron Man VR coming soon to Quest 2.

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Anand Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The new division aims to address a wide range of sectors including automotive, gaming consoles, data centers, telecom, and others that could benefit from tailored silicon solutions. This strategy enables them to cut costs as well as tailor capabilities and power consumption of their hardware to their particular needs.

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ARPost

JANUARY 29, 2020

The nature of AR technology gives us the ability to experience and create exciting new opportunities, dramatically impacting the way we interact and communicate with one another, giving birth to new applications and hardware. Gaming With AR Technology to Go Beyond the Realm of Smartphones. To Infinity and Beyond AR Glasses.

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AR Insider

APRIL 8, 2020

After examining Amazon , Microsoft , and Google , it’s time to zero in on Bose. In Bose’s case, that’s a leading position in high-end audio hardware. Hardware Blitz. Bose also knows that hardware penetration is the first step to audio AR, and it’s blitzing the market from a few angles.

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AR Insider

MARCH 16, 2021

Just as Google began indexing the web 20 years ago, the next evolution could be for someone to index the physical world in potentially more valuable ways. In fact, Google is a natural candidate to build this physical-world index. The AR Location Wars, Part I: Google. Yet another analogy is the “Internet of places.”

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The video game industry is a source of constant innovation, with many of its breakthrough technologies being adopted by the business world. The concept of the metaverse is not new to gamers either – persistent, avatar-driven digital environments and even digital currencies have long been accepted as part of mainstream gaming.

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VRScout

MAY 29, 2019

When Facebook acquired Oculus in 2014, many were curious as to why a social media company, whose track record with hardware included a phone that failed just a year prior to the Oculus purchase, would be interested in buying the plucky VR startup for over $2 billion dollars. Image Credit: Benjamin Formaker-Olivas.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For now, the best gift that I can give to you is telling you what have been the best pieces of news of the week in XR… Top news of the week (Image by Upload) Upload had its usual cool gaming showcase Upload , with the sponsorship of Perp Games, has just had its usual Winter Gaming Showcase. Great job, Upload friends!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

More info (Getting started with VR) More info (Best 5 Quest games to start with). It is also the time when all magazines create a list of “best of” the year and give awards to the best content and hardware … about which there is always someone that doesn’t agree. Somnium Space gives detail on its new hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond is one of the most awaited VR games of 2020. Oculus and Respawn Entertainment teased it in 2017 at OC4 describing it as an AAA war game. The game may work also on inferior hardware, but glitches may happen. But actually, we had in the last 2 days much negative info, too.

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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. The piece of news that made people hope for a close release is the recent radio certification that Valve has obtained in Korea for its new unknown hardware device.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

That monthly fee brings streaming fitness classes, social features, and progress tracking to whichever Peloton brand of hardware you're using. (A Insider's story about the current state of Stadia names Peloton as a potential destination for the re-dubbed Google Stream technology.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 17, 2019

But for any of that to happen, the hardware installed base has to come first, as it goes with emerging tech. As often happens when premium players lead early markets, commodity hardware follows to fills demand gaps down-market, thus accelerating aggregate sales. This correlates to AirPod unit sales of 25.2 million this year and 99.7

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Game developers are also preparing for it: popular games like SuperHot, Red Matter , and Arizona Sunshine will publish new updates to take in count the new horsepower of the Quest 2. Unreal Engine and Photoshop), as it happens in Google Docs when many people edit the same document at the same time. Image by Google).

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ARPost

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In the last couple of years, AR has experienced tremendous growth and popularity as big technology giants like Google, Amazon, Apple have adopted the technology. This will be possible when exact data around the player’s position and ball on the ground is available throughout the game.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

This is super cool for us Youtubers to record gameplay video and comment them on the fly Ability to apply a live overlay of yourself taken from the camera of your phone superimposed on the images of the game you are recording (at the moment only for iPhones). Google unveils Starline communication solution.

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2019

Whether you need to spice up your presentation, make a training exercise or simulation come to life, or enhance a game – modern VR creation tools allow you to dive into the world of VR development, minus the years of specialized schooling. Image Credit: Amazon. Sumerian by Amazon. Image Credit: Varwin.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Quest has an enormous catalog of games with which a startup can’t compete, but Lynx could start dominating a particular niche for which this headset may be optimal. DLCs and IAPs are two new ways that indie developers that are on App Lab can use to monetize their games. could add DLCs with new training levels to earn some money.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Constantly seeking the rush of engaging with new material, consumers aren’t gripped by their hardware – phones, TVs, or laptops – but are drawn in by unique, well-crafted content. . Now, the hardware cycle is drawing to a close. Making hardware is incredibly hard, expensive, and time consuming,” continues Fink.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

So while hordes of dedicated tech enthusiasts and aggressive parents are busy shoving each other into walls trying to snag discounted Google Home devices, why not take advantage of the incredible savings being offered on this years hottest virtual reality gear, all from the comfort of your own home? PS VR BUNDLES GALORE! VIVE PRO DISCOUNTS!

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 Highly Motivated As background for Facebook’s training wheels play, one of its motivations traces back to its failure to build and market a hardware device in the smartphone era. Long Game All of the above is to say that Facebook is playing a long game with AR and VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

Meta is well-known for having performed some key acquisitions related to hardware, but also to software (e.g. Beat Games). It is becoming always more difficult for a new company entering the field: the key hardware suppliers of displays and other components are all being bought by Meta, Apple, Snap, Google, and other big players.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

Major Firms Enter the XR Market During a launch event at MWC 2024, Samsung showcased a new XR headset developed in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm. Additionally, as Samsung and Google have partnered with Qualcomm, it is reasonable to assume that the device will use the Qualcomm XR2+ Gen 2 Platform, which supports AI-ready wearables.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Now at a discount, Viveport subscription brings together a specially curated collection of apps and games. Shop on Amazon. Google Daydream View Sale. Google’s Daydream View VR headset is expected to get a discount on Black Friday as well. Be on the look out at Google or Verizon. Sold on Samsung and Amazon.

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