ARPost

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In 2019, the demand growth for augmented reality and virtual reality engineers skyrocketed 1400% from the previous year, surpassing the demand for blockchain engineers (the most in-demand skill in 2018). A company still in stealth, but with founder pedigree from Apple. Startups Hiring for Augmented Reality Jobs.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

Apple has killed its AR glasses project… maybe. A piece of unexpected news has shaken the XR communities this week: according to a report on Digitimes Taiwan, Apple has abandoned its AR/VR glasses project and all the members of the team have been re-allocated in other teams. AR is still alive, Apple will still release its AR glasses.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 10, 2020

That includes mobile AR, headworn AR, and subsegments like advertising, commerce, gaming and enterprise productivity. For example, its recent mobile AR forecast quantified smartphone-based AR such as advertising and location-based gaming. The result is its report, Headworn AR Global Revenue Forecast, 2019 – 2024.

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AR Insider

APRIL 29, 2021

At a high level, headworn AR revenue is projected to grow from $822 million in 2019 to $13.4 Headworn AR Revenue Forecast, 2019-2024. Specifically, AR headsets are projected to grow in unit sales from 170,000 in 2019 to 3.9 Specifically, enterprise accounts for 159,000 units sold in 2019, growing to 2.3 percent CAGR.

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Road to VR

MARCH 1, 2019

Magic Leap is giving away serious cash to developers this year through their Independent Creator Program , which has earmarked an “eight-figure” number destined to fund app developers working in gaming, entertainment, collaboration, productivity, and more. Resolution Games. Productivity. Funktronic Labs. BadVR, Inc.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 25, 2021

It’s worth remembering that the ranking is by revenue ; to put things into perspective, each Index kit sold costs the same as about 17 games at $60 each. Still, it seems quite impressive that the headset’s revenue is ranking alongside some of the world’s best selling games.

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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). For sure, as someone pointed out on Reddit, that number includes people in every kind of role, from game developers to customer support not to mention researchers. Apple AR headset may have been delayed to 2025. It’s believable.

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ARPost

JANUARY 29, 2020

See Also: AR and MR Headsets and Glasses 2019 and 2020 Overview. Apple is planning on diving into the AR market in 2022 with a speculated launch of its very first AR headset. Apple has acquired many AR-related firms which stipulates AR glasses might be the next big thing from them. Future Developments for AR Glasses.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

OpenXR includes all the major companies in the space such as Meta, Sony, Valve, Microsoft, HTC, NVIDIA, and AMD – but notably not Apple. It officially released in 2019. It was developed by Khronos, the same non-profit industry consortium managing OpenGL.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

It has also launched similar projects for enterprise, consumer, and industrial devices with Microsoft. The latest MR Glass headset comes after subsequent iterations, including a proof of concept (PoC) and OPPO AR Glass in 2019 and 2021, respectively. OPPO also launched two OPPO Air Glass products in recent years.

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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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Charlie Fink

JUNE 7, 2019

RealMax's AR and VR device with hand tracking by Leap Motion and an epic 102-degree field of view, was used for a multiplayer AR game which involved grabbing fish and knocking over boxes. AWE is a snapshot of a developing industry, though it does not have participation from major players with developer conferences of their own.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

XRDC interviewed 5 innovators in art, science, game development and design, education, and R&D. Consequently, AI is improving as well, which makes it easier for developers and studios to make games and applications that benefit different fields. The conference will have topics on games, entertainment, healthcare, and more.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 8, 2020

billion online in 2019, representing more than 1 in every 10 dollars of total retail spending. Microsoft used projection mapping to bring its NYC flagship windows to life, causing crowds to stop and watch. Selfridges and Apple are great examples of retailers who have combined AR with art to create large-scale in-store installations.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Oculus wants to trade exclusive games with Sony. The bombshell comes directly from Jason Rubin, that interviewed from Kotaku, has clearly said that he wants to trade exclusive games with Sony. This would mean that some great Oculus exclusive games (e.g. Echo VR) could be ported to PSVR and some amazing PSVR games (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

With a tweet on its account, Valve has announced that the most awaited VR game of the year, Half-Life: Alyx is going to be released on March, 23rd. The game will be available only on Steam, but it will be compatible with all PC VR headsets. The price is €50, but the game is free for Index owners. I’m hyped, and you?

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ARVR

OCTOBER 7, 2020

However, AR is so much more than the gaming and entertainment industry. Big names such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google are rapidly developing the technology, making it accessible to many industries. Apple and Google played big roles in this. Apple recently introduced ARKit 4.0

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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. Hard to StarBoard.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Today at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain Mozilla announced a collaboration with Microsoft to bring the Firefox Reality web browser to the recently revealed Microsoft HoloLens 2. Image courtesy Mozilla. SEE ALSO 3 Impressive WebVR Examples Worth Checking Out With Firefox's New Support for Vive and Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The Game Developers Conference , a big event where there have been in the past many announcements about VR, has been canceled after all the major brands withdrew from it , leaving the organizers with no choice. Is this really what Apple wants? (Thanks Robert Scoble for this news!). Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

At the very first event in Steve Jobs Theater at its new headquarters, Apple Inc. The new iPhone X has its screen, 3-D sensors, and dual 60fps cameras designed for AR video games and other more-practical uses such as measuring digital objects in real world spaces.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 10, 2019

SEE ALSO Apple AR Headset FOV, Codename, and Stereoscopic Rendering Mode Reportedly Found in iOS 13.1. — Rony Abovitz (@rabovitz) December 9, 2019. .” — Rony Abovitz (@rabovitz) December 9, 2019. Some of this talk of sales numbers undoubtedly comes down to how Magic Leap positions their technology.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Horizon game is coming for this new headset, and some rumors talk also about Half-Life: Alyx potentially be available in the future; HTC has announced the Vive Wrist Tracker, a 6 DOF tracker for the Vive Focus 3. New rumors on Apple and Meta devices. Cooking Simulator VR is the best VR game of 2021 on SteamVR.

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AR Insider

JULY 15, 2021

One VR developer who had originally signed up to include ads in their game reversed their decision due to the controversy. Bottom line: earning a percentage of game sales won’t be enough, unless the headsets also earn a meaningful profit per unit. Facebook probably doesn’t even know its own end-game yet. 2023+: Ads Evolve.

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He believed China would have its own augmented and virtual reality giants, just as how the domestic smartphone industry birthed global leaders like Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi that rival Apple today. ’ However, China has the mass production and supply chain capabilities necessary for taking things from ‘one to n.'”

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

This would be a very good move to come to the market before Apple , that will likely announce its AR glasses from Q4 2019 on; The announcement of a new generation of VR devices that will also be capable of providing AR , a bit like the VRVANA headset (whose company has been acquired by Apple as well). Magic Leap is suing nReal.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

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 Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. Sony closes its game studio in Manchester. Fun stuff: this studio never actually launched a game.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 8, 2019

It is something that I say since the beginning of 2019 : nReal is one of the most interesting AR startups out there. nReal has been sued by Epic Games for the name too similar to Unreal and by Magic Leap that claims that nReal CEO Chi Xu has stolen the technology of the American company while working there. Expected price.

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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. Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft).

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AR Insider

APRIL 15, 2020

Why is Apple Buying NextVR. Two such companies apparently found ports in the storm last week: NextVR reportedly is being acquired by Apple, and 6D.ai Apple and NextVR. NextVR failed to close a Series C investment in late 2018, leading to layoffs of 40% of their staff in January 2019. by Devon Copley.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In Q1 2019, Magic Leap will let all developers develop immersive applications using a modified version of Javascript , called Magicscript. Coming later on in 2019… this could really add intriguing possibility to augmented and mixed reality applications. The popular Angry Birds game, but for immersive augmented reality.

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CraneMorley

JANUARY 3, 2019

2019 looks like the year that virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality go mainstream as learning and on the job performance tools. By midyear, the big surprise will be Mixed Reality (MR), with the Microsoft Hololens, but not because of its similar media capabilities to VR and AR. 2019 is the year to do it.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. Now they find themselves without a market, and the pivot to enterprise is too little too late considering that Microsoft has enterprise features that are much better than the ones of Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

This week I have been pretty busy working on our mixed reality fitness game that is very close to launch and in preparing some amazing articles for next week (I will publish a review of the Valve Index and a super-amazing interview to Jeri Ellsworth, the creator of TiltFive augmented reality glasses!)

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The total revenues on the Quest Store alone had been $1B since its foundation in 2019, and this shows that many people are enjoying Quest games. This is good news also for the developers: 120 titles on Quest store have made more than $1M , and 8 even more than $20M, proving once more that some studios can make a living out of VR games.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. You can see this in today’s AR products (and despite what Microsoft or Magic Leap call their devices, they really are augmented reality devices that you wear on your face).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Besides that, it is also hiring key figures to make this AR dream a reality : the operating system project will be supervised by Mark Lucovsky, a former Microsoft engineer who co-developed Windows NT. They couldn’t describe the game, but they revealed that it is astonishing on the graphical side and UX.

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