AR Insider

JANUARY 21, 2020

For an indexed library of spatial computing insights, data, reports and multimedia, subscribe to ARtillery PRO. We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. He separately broke down the math for us as follows.

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AR Insider

MARCH 17, 2020

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, Spatial Computing: 2019 Lessons, 2020 Outlook. It includes some of its data and takeaways. 2019 was more of a “table-setting” year for our spatial future and there’s momentum building. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 6, 2022

Consumers worldwide have downloaded Meta’s Oculus app , the mobile companion for Oculus VR devices including the Quest 2, roughly 2 million times globally since Christmas Day, according to new data from third-party app intelligence firms, Apptopia and Sensor Tower. million installs, Sensor Tower’s data indicates.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, Spatial Computing: 2019 Lessons, 2020 Outlook. It includes some of its data and takeaways. 2019 was more of a “table-setting” year for our spatial future and there’s momentum building. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side.

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AR Insider

APRIL 6, 2020

Data Point of the Week is AR Insider’s dive into the latest spatial computing figures. It includes data points, along with narrative insights and takeaways. For an indexed collection of data and reports, subscribe to ARtillery Pro. percent from 2019. percent in Q1, followed by 24.1 percent in Q2. Augmented Outlook.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 16, 2019

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, Spatial Computing: 2019 Lessons, 2020 Outlook. It includes some of its data and takeaways. 2019 was more of a “table-setting” year for our spatial future and there’s momentum building. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side.

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AR Insider

MARCH 3, 2020

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, Spatial Computing: 2019 Lessons, 2020 Outlook. It includes some of its data and takeaways. 2019 was more of a “table-setting” year for our spatial future and there’s momentum building. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2020

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, Spatial Computing: 2019 Lessons, 2020 Outlook. It includes some of its data and takeaways. 2019 was more of a “table-setting” year for our spatial future and there’s momentum building. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 31, 2019

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, Spatial Computing: 2019 Lessons, 2020 Outlook. It includes some of its data and takeaways. 2019 was more of a “table-setting” year for our spatial future and there’s momentum building. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

Plus it’s even weirder that HTC needed 2 years to bring it to the market (it was announced in 2019). Apple already made hardware, so it already had the infrastructure to build it and just added XR people on top of this infrastracture, while Facebook could not). Apple AR headset may have been delayed to 2025. Absolutely Not.

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AR Insider

MARCH 20, 2020

2019 was a “table-setting” year for our spatial future as momentum builds. Confidence signals include Brand spending on sponsored lenses and indicators for Apple’s eventual AR glasses. On the VR side, Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope in both quality and consumer traction. Apple’s AR Fate.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 25, 2021

From a unit standpoint, it’s unlikely that the $1,000 Valve Index is selling all that many headsets compared to cheaper headsets like Oculus Quest. We can see large gaps in the headset’s top 10 appearance for 6 weeks right after its release in mid-2019, as well as a 12 week gap at the start of 2020, and a 4 week gap in mid-2020.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2019

3 music pack is now live on all supported platforms, which includes Steam (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Valve Index, Windows VR headsets), the Oculus Store ( Rift , Quest ), and the PlayStation Store (PSVR). 3 from multiple services, including Apple Music, Google Music, Amazon, Spotify, and more. The OST Vol. Original Soundtrack Vol.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 24, 2019

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, Spatial Computing: 2019 Lessons, 2020 Outlook. It includes some of its data and takeaways. 2019 was more of a “table-setting” year for our spatial future and there’s momentum building. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The question on everybody’s mind is AR glasses…, particularly what Apple will end up doing. Many signals indicate that we won’t see Apple AR glasses in 2021, but we’ll see the ball moved forward from other companies like Vuzix which just unveiled its MicroLED smart glasses at CES. Let’s dive in… 1.

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Upload VR

MARCH 1, 2024

Meta has been working on it for at least seven years, as it first arrived in 2018's Oculus Go. But less than two years later in late 2019 Google abandoned the Daydream platform, and no other standalone headset ever used it. In a post on X today Bosworth said Google could even bring over its own apps, if it wanted.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Oculus has teased the OC6. Oculus has just announced the dates for the Oculus Connect 6. Oculus is going to announce something not only about VR but also about AR. For sure some surprises: we don’t know anything about the 2nd gen of XR that Oculus has in mind. Other relevant news. Image by Upload VR).

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Microsoft, Google and Apple all have their own approaches to augmented reality and virtual reality, but the race for the face is particularly critical to Facebook and Amazon, because they have yet to establish computing gateways. Meanwhile, heftier VR products from Facebook’s Oculus and Magic Leap have mostly been for gamers.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

What progress did we see in 2019? We are fundamentally visual creatures who think in three dimensions and live in a physical world […] As Kevin Kelly penned in his article entitled Mirrorworld in 2019, we are entering the photonic era, an era shaped by light.” Other signals abound if you consider all the AR action in 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. In a post summarizing the results obtained in 2019 and talking about the future projections for 2020, Valve has teased interesting news for next year, saying that SteamVR 2.0 I really hope so. No availability.”

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Apple’s AR Glasses are Hiding in Plain Sight. With all the phone and watch and TV and game and chip and other chip news coming out of Apple’s big event, it was easy to forget the company’s longest-running background process: an augmented-reality wearable. by Peter Rubin, WIRED. PHOTOGRAPH: CARSTEN KOALL/GETTY IMAGES.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 5, 2023

According to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal, Meta is preparing to re-enter China by selling the Oculus Quest VR headset in China. If Tesla can sell cars and Apple can sell phones in China, why isn’t Meta present there? In 2019 , the Californian gaming platform Roblox teamed up with Tencent to enter China.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Zuck also didn’t address much the theme of privacy and how much data harvesting in VR could be dangerous. Probably the sentence “five years from now people will primarily think about us as a company harvesting data on the metaverse, rather than doing it on mobile phones” wouldn’t have sounded much sexy, so he avoided speaking about this.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

According to CBINSIGHTS , tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) have all been acquiring AI startups aggressively in the last decade. Apple leads when compared with other giants in terms of acquisitions made. billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 63.01% between 2019 and 2025. Source: CBINSIGHTS.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 18, 2019

Image by Oculus). He was the last Oculus founder to still work at Oculus. From now on, nothing of the old Oculus remains at the new Oculus. Oculus is no more, there is only Facebook. Mitchell left with a heartwarming letter on the Oculus subreddit. Apple may be working on an MR visor.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Apple now lets add you add “buy” button to AR Quick Look. A piece of simple news, but a very important one, has hit the AR industry this week: Apple now lets companies add custom buttons (usually the “Buy” one) to AR Quick Look. More info (Acer ConceptD OJO canceled) More info (Acer still interested in exploring XR).

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AR Insider

JUNE 30, 2021

Data Dive: VR Finishes Q2 Strong. To put some numbers behind that, 75 percent of apps in Apple’s App Store’s first year were paid apps — similar to VR today. VR Global Revenue Forecast, 2019-2024. The short version: there are several pros and cons on both qualitative and quantitative levels. Critical Mass.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Yes, I finally cut my very last tie to Facebook/Meta, gleefully packing up my old Oculus Rift headset, and uninstalling all traces of the Oculus software from my former PC before it goes on to its next owner! An HTC Vive Pro 2 headset, bought last month to replace my work Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

New rumors on Apple and Meta devices. I know it may sound weird to you, but we have new rumors on Apple headsets and also about the future Meta Project Cambria and Quest 3. Regarding Apple, the super-reliable analysts have stated that the headset may feature three displays because just two are for losers. Other relevant news.

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AR Insider

JUNE 30, 2021

Data Dive: VR Finishes Q2 Strong. To put some numbers behind that, 75 percent of apps in Apple’s App Store’s first year were paid apps — similar to VR today. VR Global Revenue Forecast, 2019-2024. The short version: there are several pros and cons on both qualitative and quantitative levels. Critical Mass.

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2020

According to Business of Apps , Zoom had 10 million meeting participants in December 2019, exploding to around 300M in April 2020. In our own data at RE’FLEKT, we see an increase in the MAU of about 300 percent for remote support tools across all industries. The best example is Zoom. Monthly Active Users (MAU) rose from 10.7

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Apple Vision Pro Specs, Features & Details Apple officially revealed the full Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own. But does it deliver?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Regarding the glasses, I have not big hopes for true AR glasses, but I think that thanks to Facebook and Apple, finally we’ll have some important smartglasses entering the market , making the mainstream think about wearing something on their face to enjoy notifications from the phone. Phone AR will be always more popular.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Four years after the original Oculus Quest headset arrived, the Meta Quest platform offers an impressive range of experiences that caters to all interests. We played on Oculus Quest 2, but it’s crossplay between Quest 1, Quest 2, and PC VR headsets with cross-buy on Rift and Quest. Looking for the best free Quest games and apps?

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Going into 2019, the industry eagerly awaits HoloLens 2 and Glass Enterprise Edition 2, as rumors swirl around the possibility of AR glasses from Apple and/or Facebook in the near future. Just three months ago, the company revealed it’s putting 17,000 Oculus Go headsets in Walmart stores for employee training. Body-worn.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

This year, I’m not going to make an exception, also because my predictions for 2019 performed pretty well. Me wearing the Oculus Quest. 2019, after a false start, has been a very good year for VR , and we had the arrival on the market of very interesting VR devices that have driven adoption. The reasons?

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