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Report Predicts AR and VR Headsets Shipments to Approach 100 Million by 2021

Road to VR

In a new report from IDC (International Data Corporation), the market research firm predicts a near 10 fold increase in the shipments of augmented and virtual reality headsets in the next 4 years, bolstered by a plethora of new devices and “expanding array of content for both consumer and enterprise users.”

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2016’s Record Breaking VR/AR Venture Funding Totals $1.8 Billion

Road to VR

Both median deal size and total number of deals in 2016 outpaced those in 2015, with a 58% increase in average deal size and 30% more deals, according to year-end analysis from Greenlight Insights of individual deals back to 2011. “In Encouragingly, there is a growing list of notable investors committed to the space.

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Magic Leap Could be a Great Strategic Acquisition

VRWorld

Since Magic Leap’s inception in 2011, there has been great innovation in the technology sector focused in the virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality (MR) space with Magic Leap trying to create a new hardware interface designs. Enter Magic Leap. What Lead to VR/AR/MR.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. There’s one, you need to get data in somehow, right? First of all, we’re getting data in. But if you do that, you lose a lot of data. So it’s– or scan data.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. There’s one, you need to get data in somehow, right? First of all, we’re getting data in. But if you do that, you lose a lot of data. So it’s– or scan data.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality's Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. There's one, you need to get data in somehow, right? First of all, we're getting data in. But if you do that, you lose a lot of data. It's also if you want MRI device or you have GIS data, BIM data.

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Retraining for a Post-Retirement World with VRVoice’s Bob Fine

XR for Business Podcast

In 2011, Bob launched the only printed magazine covering social media, The Social Media Monthly. There’s been quite a lot of studies done in the last couple of years, and data developed, where the time for immersion — at this stage with the technology — is under 60 seconds. Which is all good and necessary. Alan: Yeah.