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Who’s Waging the Wearables Wars? Part IV: Bose

AR Insider

For example, Apple’s wearables are seeing strong revenue growth and offsetting smartphone revenue deceleration in the near term. After examining Amazon , Microsoft , and Google , it’s time to zero in on Bose. Think of it like primitive iPhone apps circa 2008, before we got Waze, Foursquare and Uber.

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What Does Tech History Tell Us About AR’s Future?

AR Insider

And it wasn’t till a year later in 2008, that there was even an app store…. Boland and McDowall run through each of these players — Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft — to compare and contrast their AR ambitions. And a constellation of wearables fits another key Apple M.O.:

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The AR Show: What Does Tech History Tell Us About AR’s Future?

AR Insider

And it wasn’t till a year later in 2008, that there was even an app store…. Boland and McDowall run through each of these players — Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft — to compare and contrast their AR ambitions. And a constelation of wearables fits another key Apple M.O.:

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic).

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Lumus ‘Sheds Light’ on Future of AR, Apple Vision Pro

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

We discussed his company’s waveguide and materials research, using AR for medicine and surgery, and the Apple Vision Pro. This is due to several “false starts” with Google Glass , Microsoft HoloLens2, and Magic Leap, although the companies remain potential customers.

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

If I was Google and Apple, I would make some sort of Pokémon Go game that took you inside and made you kind of chase these things up and down the walls, and while they 3D map the whole interior space of everywhere. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?].

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

If I was Google and Apple, I would make some sort of Pokémon Go game that took you inside and made you kind of chase these things up and down the walls, and while they 3D map the whole interior space of everywhere. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?].

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