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Microsoft Reaffirms No Plans to Compete Against PSVR 2 on Xbox

Road to VR

Amid mounting pressure from Sony with the recent launch of its PSVR 2 headset for PlayStation 5, Microsoft again affirmed that it’s still waiting for the technology to mature before offering any sort of dedicated VR software or hardware for Xbox. “I think for us, it’s just a bit of wait until there’s an audience there. .”

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Microsoft’s Meandering XR Strategy Could Lead to Another Zune Moment

Road to VR

At least from the outside, it appears Microsoft isn’t actively competing for a seat at the XR table, which is fairly odd coming from a company that pioneered enterprise AR while simultaneously wrangling some of its top OEM partners to make a fleet of PC VR headsets for consumers in 2017. If Microsoft goes in half-cocked, maybe.

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Apple Joins Pixar, NVIDIA, & More to “accelerate next generation of AR experiences” with 3D File Protocol

Road to VR

Today, big tech companies including Apple, Pixar, Adobe, Autodesk, and NVIDIA, announced the formation of the Alliance for OpenUSD ( AOUSD ), which is dedicated to promoting the standardization and development of a 3D file protocol that Apple says will “help accelerate the next generation of AR experiences.”

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Meta and the next 24 months crucial for its leadership

The Ghost Howls

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Let me show you what are some of them.

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Is this the end of the metaverse?

Hypergrid Business

Since its launch in 2016 , the platform has hosted big names and quickly became the go-to platform for virtual concerts, stand-up specials, and other metaverse happenings. Plus, it was a proprietary system, owned by Microsoft, and didn’t play well with other metaverse platforms. ” And it’s making money.

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Spatial Beats: Facebook, Rec Room & Looking Glass

AR Insider

Founded in 2016, the company is made up of eight subsidiary companies focused on XR. The streaming giant is going head to head with Microsoft, Sony, Google and Apple. Facebook was completely blindsided by the subversion of its platform by malign foreign actors in 2016. They have to.

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

Road to VR

2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. billion in 2016 to $18.6 IDC themselves predicted in 2011 that by 2015, Microsoft’s then new (and now dead) Windows Phone platform would overtake Apple’s IOS as in the mobile phone market.

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