AR Insider

JANUARY 21, 2020

We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. More importantly, this aligns with the timeframe that followed its 2014 Oculus acquisition. Q4 2014 R&D spend increased to $1.1 608 billion.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The team has demonstrably thinned out over the last few months, with HoloLens veterans such as principal optical architect Bernard Kress leaving the company recently for Google Labs. There’s some ostensible background radiation related to employee attrition here too.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Yesterday Apple held a keynote presentation to update the world on their latest products. It’s too early for Apple to jump into the AR/VR game. That much was made clear on stage at the company’s latest keynote where they revealed the iPhone 7 and the Apple Watch Series 2. Here’s how we know. Acquisitions.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The most valuable companies in the world own the metal on which their software applications run: Apple and Microsoft have had their fingers in the hardware pie for years, and even Google was able to build a robust OS business with Android. The “metaverse” already exists in Fortnite and Roblox.

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ARVR

APRIL 15, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including As seen in the Google Glass era, cultural acceptance and comfort levels for face-worn hardware (with a camera, no less) is an uphill climb. it’s probably Apple. or at least catalyze the process?—?it’s

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

There’s a rumor going around that Nintendo is making a VR headset in partnership with Google. Lateral Thinking with ‘Withered’ Technology Much of Nintendo’s market strategy can be attributed to Gunpei Yokoi, the prolific Nintendo designer best known for pioneering the company’s handheld segment.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this weekly VRScout Report, we cover NFL’s new VR series, Intel buying Voke, indigenous languages living on with VR, Unity’s big developer updates, Microsoft’s line of VR headsets, Apple using VR to develop self-driving car, money & funding, and more.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

At the very first event in Steve Jobs Theater at its new headquarters, Apple Inc. Few months ago, Apple released a development tool called ARKit that enabled developers to add AR capabilities to their apps. That came as a surprise considering how many years Google has spent researching their AR options.

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ARVR

MARCH 29, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including Apple integrated the technology in the iPad Pro last year, signaling that it would soon arrive at an iPhone near you. This aligns with Apple’s AR master plan but more immediately has photography benefits?—?a

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I’m Chen, General Manager and Chief Editor of VRTUOLUO , also a senior media expert who has dug and studied deeply the XR industry since 2014. This is the main reason why we separated VR from our game industry media and started to focus on VR and AR industries in 2014 and registered our brand in 2016.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” Measures taken in the initiative included consolidation strategies for its real estate to “sublease, early terminate, or abandon” some offices under lease. This reflects actions taken at Google, Snap, Microsoft, and Apple over the last few months regarding their respective smart glass offerings.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Google is going to buy North. A report says tha t Alphabet, the company behind Google, is in the last stages of the acquisition of North, the Canadian startup that makes the Focals smartglasses. Google adds depth APIs to ARCore. Apple adds spatial audio to AirPods. Other relevant news. Image by North). Become a supporter!

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion. Google revealed Glass the same year the first Oculus prototype hit the scene. The following year, Google introduced Cardboard, a super cheap and extremely clever smartphone accessory. Image Credits: Apple Magic Leap is far from alone in those struggles.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

” And at the time — that was at 2013, 2014 — there was no scalable way to do that. Dirk: That’s like the Apple strategy, right? But it is like that, coming back to what we what we discussed earlier; you need to have that Netflix and Apple experience to have a good work result. Dirk: Exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

” And at the time — that was at 2013, 2014 — there was no scalable way to do that. Dirk: That’s like the Apple strategy, right? But it is like that, coming back to what we what we discussed earlier; you need to have that Netflix and Apple experience to have a good work result. Alan: Exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

And at the time -- that was at 2013, 2014 -- there was no scalable way to do that. Dirk: That's like the Apple strategy, right? But it is like that, coming back to what we what we discussed earlier; you need to have that Netflix and Apple experience to have a good work result. Alan: Exactly. Dirk: Exactly. So I use that.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there. My first VR headset was just a [garbled] headset I imported from the States in 2014. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. I do a lot with Apple technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there. My first VR headset was just a [garbled] headset I imported from the States in 2014. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. I do a lot with Apple technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there. My first VR headset was just a [garbled] headset I imported from the States in 2014. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. I do a lot with Apple technology.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

I started working in VR in 2014, and if you asked me what the XR landscape could have been in 2024 , I would have totally missed the predictions. All the elusive XR analysts have almost guessed nothing, and they were not even able to predict the launch of the Apple Vision Pro until the date got pretty close. And our field, too.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Managing partner Teppei Tsutsui drops by to share some of his investing strategies. And we look at something like Altspace — which is a direct competitor to VRChat — and it doesn’t seem like it’s moved or changed since it was released in 2014, 2015. So it’s more like AR on a Google map.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Managing partner Teppei Tsutsui drops by to share some of his investing strategies. And we look at something like Altspace — which is a direct competitor to VRChat — and it doesn’t seem like it’s moved or changed since it was released in 2014, 2015. So it’s more like AR on a Google map.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Managing partner Teppei Tsutsui drops by to share some of his investing strategies. And we look at something like Altspace — which is a direct competitor to VRChat — and it doesn’t seem like it’s moved or changed since it was released in 2014, 2015. So it’s more like AR on a Google map.

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