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Meta Wants to Beat Google at its Own Game with Horizon OS

Road to VR

Meta announced it’s licensing its XR operating system to select OEMs in a bid to become a more open alternative to Vision Pro, marking a monumental shift in the company’s XR strategy. Apple vs. Microsoft. Apple vs. Google. And you know what, it just might win. It’s a tale as old as time.

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Editorial: This VR cycle may take more time than expected

The Ghost Howls

As I said a few months ago , we are in the middle of a paradigm change: the cycle that started with the Quest is arriving at an end, and a new cycle driven by new technologies (mixed reality headsets) and new players (Apple, Google) is starting. They are Apple AR glasses!” I have this impression for a few reasons.

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Facebook Surges in U.S. Patent Rankings Due to Mounting AR Strategy

Road to VR

patents done by Fairview Research reveals that Facebook has made a significant surge in its year-over-year ranking for patents granted in 2019, something partly owed to its increased number of patents surrounding augmented reality. patents, which in 2019 tallied a total of 989. 2019 Grants. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.

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Google Tried To Get Meta To Kowtow To Its Upcoming XR Platform

Upload VR

The Meta Quest operating system is a fork of the open-source core of Android (known as AOSP), a similar strategy to Amazon's Fire OS for its Fire tablets. But less than two years later in late 2019 Google abandoned the Daydream platform, and no other standalone headset ever used it.

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Report Casts Doubt on HoloLens 3, Microsoft Says AR Headset is “doing great”

Road to VR

This comes alongside an alleged partnership with Samsung that would see the development of a wholly new consumer AR device that is rumored to tether to a Samsung smartphone. In any case, Samsung’s reported partnership with Microsoft sounds like very familiar territory for the South Korean tech powerhouse.

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Can Wearables Set the Stage for AR Glasses? Part II

AR Insider

They ’re each building wearables strategies that support or future-proof their core businesses, where tens of billions in annual revenues are at stake. For example, Apple’s wearables offset iPhone sales declines. Speaking of direct consumer touchpoints, Amazon blitzed the wearables market in 2019 as a delivery system for Alexa.

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JOLED Files for Bankruptcy: Set to Transfer OLED IP to JDI and Close Down Two Plants

Anand Tech

It also supplied OLED displays for Apple's smartwatches. The company's OLED panels production facility in Nomi started operation in 2019, and it began making OLED display modules at its site in Chiba in 2020. JDI has agreed to acquire JOLED's OLED IP, know-how, and engineers, as part of its growth strategy.

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