ARPost

JANUARY 9, 2023

VIVE XR Elite is a stand-alone headset that supports downloadable apps and games as well as wired or wireless streaming from a PC. That’s also more than $600 more than the Pico 4 which seems to be in a similar ring in terms of hardware but also shows no signs of launching in the States any time soon. First Look at the VIVE XR Elite.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Facebook has supposedly abandoned their plans for a next-gen Rift headset in favor of minor hardware updates. According to a new report by TechCrunch , Facebook has abandoned their plans for a next-gen Oculus Rift headset in favor of minor hardware updates to the original model.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Companies like Meta and Pico don’t reveal hardware sales figures, so the Steam Hardware Survey has been the most reliable indicator of PC VR’s adoption. If you accept, it uploads your PC specs and peripherals to Valve. PC VR headset usage growth continues to stagnate relative to the wider PC gaming market.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This moving target is the case for all kinds of immersive experiences but it’s most evident in gaming, given the category’s early popularity (especially in VR). The game parlays lovable IP into a narrative-driven game that’s part Job Simulator , part adventure game, and part category unto itself.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2018

Over the last year, Oculus’ public hardware ambitions have mostly centered around their upcoming standalone headsets (Oculus Go and Santa Cruz), with little to say about what’s next for the company’s PC VR headset, the Rift. “I want to be really really clear here: PC is vital to the VR business. .

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ARVR

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Consumer spending (hardware and software) holds a leading share of VR revenues with an estimated $7.25 This is driven by gaming’s dominance as a VR use case but will broaden to other categories over time, including entertainment and communications. including consumer and enterprise spending. billion in 2022.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Qualcomm, maker of chips and technologies for mobile devices, today announced a reference design for a tethered AR headset which is tethered to a phone or PC but also contains its own chips to handle some onboard processing. The only downside, it seems, is greater expense due to the added processing hardware. Image courtesy Qualcomm.

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

Companies like Meta, Valve, & HTC don’t reveal hardware sales figures. Historically the Steam Hardware Survey has been the most reliable indicator of PC VR’s adoption. If you choose to accept, it uploads your PC specifications and peripherals. The overall Steam users with VR Headsets figure increased, from 1.9%

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Canon announced a new entry into its AR headset hardware category called MREAL S1. ” MREAL S1 requires a PC tether to function (ie. The company’s latest enterprise-focused headset provides passthrough AR and can be strapped to both a head mount for hands-free viewing, or a housing meant for handheld interactions.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Brendan Iribe was among the founding members of Oculus, and held the role of CEO from the 2012 inception of the company, through the 2014 Facebook acquisition, until the end of 2016 when he stepped down to head the PC division of Oculus as Hugo Barra took over as head of Oculus. Now Iribe says he’s departing Facebook entirely.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

Towards the end of 2021, the year approaching looked set to be packed with new hardware and headset releases, with a large shadow of big games and software releases hanging over the schedule. Nonetheless, there’s been some interesting developments, engaging releases and compelling new hardware. Best New VR/AR Hardware.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Valve says it fixed “collection and analysis” issues with the Steam Hardware Survey’s VR section. Last week we published an article outlining r ecent anomalies in the Steam Hardware Survey ’s VR section, including large unexplained jumps in the key ‘Steam users with VR Headsets’ figure.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The analysis is segmented into several revenue categories and the methodology can be seen here. That includes lots of moving parts and sub-sectors including consumer, enterprise, hardware, software, advertising and LBVR. Drilling Down on VR Hardware. Drilling down into one of those areas, how does VR hardware revenue look?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Then he ended the video by saying that Apple has a closed ecosystem model, while Meta is open, and sometimes an open model won, like in the PC case. The Quest 3 has inferior resolution but no motion blur in its visuals. The analysis that Zuck did is correct and all the points he brings to the table are valid.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 2, 2023

Today it was the first day at AWE in which the show floor opened, and I could start going hands-on with many interesting pieces of XR hardware. As you can see, the headset is black and elegant and features most buttons and ports that many other headsets in its same category have.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Both Apple and Google already have very popular stores , they have full suits of tools (think about the Google Docs suite) and entertainment channels (think about Apple TV), and they have enormous expertise in building hardware and operating systems. And they are entering it to dominate it. This is the moment of the truth for Meta.

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VRScout

JULY 14, 2017

Oculus seeks to bridge the gap between PC and mobile VR with a mid-level headset. Now the company is teasing brand new hardware in the form of a mid-level VR headset that, while not as powerful as the Rift, still manages to ditch the smartphone. Oculus is all up in the news lately.

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Anand Tech

JULY 19, 2023

ASUS and Intel late on Tuesday announced that they had agreed to a term sheet involving Intel's NUC business, ensuring the continued support of existing NUC hardware as well as the development of new designs. In any case, licensing Intel's NUC business should greatly strengthen ASUS's position within the compact PC market.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2022

At AWE 2022 I had the opportunity of having a very short hands-on with the Shiftall MeganeX glasses, one of the most awaited pieces of hardware in the XR community. The device’s full name had become Shiftall MeganeX and the headset was converted to a headset for PC. Brad Lynch trying the device at CES 2022.

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MARCH 30, 2023

IDC (International Data Corporation) is an analyst firm that sells reports detailing its estimates of market size, market share, and unit sales of popular product categories. PlayStation VR2 launch sales have been disappointing, analyst firm IDC claims.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest gain PC VR market shares. The latest Steam Hardware Survey showed some interesting trends happening in the PC VR market (at least the Steam VR market, since we have no info on the Oculus Store market). The first one is that PC VR usage is not dropping after Half-Life: Alyx.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Today, we are introducing a new section with our top picks for hardware-focused YouTube channels. These will generally lean toward PC gaming, but the ways that they approach PC gaming and hardware will differs depending on the channel. Categories: Old/Obscure Hardware Configs, Performance Benchmarks and Analysis .

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Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2018

One of the current barriers to immersion for high-end VR headsets is being tethered to a powerful PC. For now, there are two options if you want to eliminate that pesky cable: a special wireless adapter, or a backpack PC to let the rendering happen directly on your person. HP Omen X Compact Desktop – $2,300. Image courtesy HP.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2016

It would seem that the category of ‘Backpack PC’ for VR is rapidly becoming a “thing” With announcements from HP, MSI , and Zotac earlier this year, now followed by Alienware. A back-mounted PC for VR of course means that everything can be self-contained on the player, eliminating the restrictions of cables.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Yes, it is a sign that Facebook is all in for XR , as someone made me notice, but hiring 10,000 people and losing billions every year in R&D and hardware sold under cost wasn’t already a clear sign of it? It is the last great PC VR exclusive (at least from Facebook), and it marks the end of an era for VR.

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OCTOBER 8, 2016

VR will be a PC. During the same presentation Zuckerberg also announced a standalone prototype of an Oculus headset that would combine the best parts of the mobile Gear VR and PC-based Rift. “PC is how can we make the best possible experience and push hand presence and other things like that forward. ”

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Road to VR

JANUARY 7, 2020

Qualcomm has been using its heft as a mobile chip maker to accelerate the development of AR and VR devices because it believes the ‘immersive compute’ category is the long term future of the smartphone. Indeed, on the PC side of the market, Nvidia GPUs absolutely dominate the VR landscape.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

More info (PwC research) More info (Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Counterpoint Research) More info (Moss and Gorn selling more than 1M units). But at the same time, the hardware has not been developed with VR in mind , so it could be difficult to configure, it could overheat, and it couldn’t have the performances to run all VR games.

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 3, 2023

As free promotion for hardware startups go, one would be hard pressed to point to something better than a $175 million Spielberg film. “It Early versions of the Austin, Texas hardware startup’s product were on writer Ernest Cline’s radar well before the film’s pre-production began. It was actually Warner Bros.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

From the statistics that I’m reading online, most users of VR systems are millennials, because they have enough money to afford to buy an expensive tethered VR headset plus its related VR-ready PC. It targets the category of people for which VR is already more appealing… with a game of the franchise they love.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2018

For some reasons obscure to this employee, Oculus started the production of the Rift CV1 without removing all this special tracking hardware. Connect your Oculus Rift to the PC and open Oculus application; Open the system registry (Win+R, then type Regedit). Restart your PC for the new settings to take effect. LAUNCHER 1.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Sony’s newly released Joshua Bell VR Experience falls into the VR video category, and it’s among the best VR video productions you can find today on any VR headset, despite the PSVR’s somewhat lower resolution and less powerful hardware compared to PC VR headsets.

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ARVR

MARCH 3, 2021

The game parlays endearing IP into a narrative-driven arc that’s part Job Simulator , part adventure game, and part category unto itself. Of course, there are hardware comfort issues being hammered out, but session lengths are still favorable versus AR. But it was smart in that the experience is native to standalone VR….which

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Released last year, it’s a rather unique headset selling in a category of its own; it has an onboard chip for all computing tasks (including rendering and tracking) but is powered via a USB cable. HTC rarely sells products with a thin margin and doesn’t really have the cash to subsidize mass-market hardware.

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Anand Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Underscoring the fast-paced nature of the computer hardware market, Micron this week has decided to discontinue all of its current Crucial Ballistix memory products. The move to end-of-life (EOL) these products covers the entire Ballistix lineup, such as the vanilla Ballistix, Ballistix MAX, and Ballistix MAX RGB series.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The Vive Cosmos is the latest PC VR headset announced by HTC at CES 2019. Thanks to it, the Cosmos is nominally the headset with the best-in-class tracking hardware. I think that the Cosmos is a device for who doesn’t want “the best” in a certain category, but wants “a very good headset” in most things. Vive Cosmos.

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MARCH 17, 2017

This essentially means that Alloy can find its precise location in a room without requiring a separate PC and external sensors — a key feature that would make VR more convenient. The upshot for Intel is a new product category powered by internal hardware provided by Intel. ” Tagged with: alloy , Intel.

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