VRScout

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This past October, TF International Securities analyst and veteran Apple researcher Ming-Chi Kuo released research indicating that Apple would be launching its long-rumored AR headset during the second quarter of 2020 and would be partnering third-party eyeglass brands, hinting at a modular design. Image Credit: Apple.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 25, 2021

How many XR headsets is Apple working on, and when can we get our hands one them? Between the $299 Oculus Quest, the death of the movie theater, and the COVID stigma on shared headsets, you’d think we wouldn’t be hearing much about this right now. Apple headset to be a pricey, niche VR precursor to eventual AR headset.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 14, 2021

The result is the report, Spatial Computing: 2020 Lessons, 2021 Outlook, and the latest episode of ARtillery Briefs (video and takeaways below). Meanwhile, leading mobile AR business models are in-app-purchases in mobile gaming, and advertising. The Spatial Spectrum. And the underlying hardware continues to evolve, such as LiDAR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. Apple glasses are coming. The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. (Image by Techgenyz). I find this pretty funny.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. In the end, technologist Jon Prosser has revealed the main details he knows about the Apple Glasses. Well, on another website, I’ve been able to find someone that reading some Apple’s documents has found pictures of strange colored circular tags that may act as QR Codes for Apple devices.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The Oculus Connect 6 is approaching. Next week, on 25th and 26th, Oculus will hold its main yearly event , and as always, it will talk about the milestones reached by the company and then it will show future hardware and software. What will Oculus announce? This is the homepage of Oculus website (Image by Oculus).

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

There were a bunch of game reveals , insights into new research into AR, and the revelation of Oculus Quest 2 , the company’s latest and greatest standalone. The company says it will be rolling out Oculus Move late this year to “select users on the Quest Platform.” Maybe a Facebook fitness band?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The rumors on the Apple Glasses are intensifying. It is not a secret that Apple is working on an XR device: the mystery is when it is going to release it and what it will actually be. The hype is rising, and Apple is playing with it. (My usual terrible image to wish you Happy Easter, if you celebrate it). Top news of the week.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

LONDON, September 15, 2019 — VR Intelligence, a leader in senior level conferences and content for the extended reality (XR) industry, announced today the release of the XR Industry Insight Report 2019-2020. Get the XR Industry Insight Report 2019-2020 here. said the same for AR/MR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Image by Epic Games). Sony invests $250M in Epic Games. Sony has announced that it has made a big investment of $250M in Epic Games through one of its subsidiaries. The long-term results of these partnerships are unforeseeable, but we can still play the speculation game. Rockstar is working on AAA VR open world game.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 19, 2024

Apple officially revealed the Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. Some other headsets like Meta Quest Pro and Pico 4 have their battery in the rear of the strap, but Apple's design takes it off your head entirely with an external battery tethered to a magnetic connector on the left arm. hours (video) 1.5-2.5 5 GHz) 6E (2.4+5+6

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2024

Meta is once again reducing the price of Quest 2, this time bringing the 128GB version of its 2020-era standalone VR headset to just $200. Notably, the deal on Walmart includes $50 digital credit to use on games and apps. That could suggest we’re not getting a restock, or price change from its $300 MSRP.

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Upload VR

MAY 6, 2024

The headset sold from 2019 to 2020 when it was replaced by Quest 2. Facebook bought the studio behind the game in 2019, with Beat Games kicking off a series of VR gaming acquisitions in the push toward Horizon.

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Ryan Schultz

APRIL 28, 2024

Many people are already talking about the death of the Apple Vision Pro…what’s the real story? This report ignited no shortage of opinions on the matter, both pro and con, with some even going so far as to say that the Apple Vision Pro was “dead.” And the Apple Vision Pro memes were in abundance.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Last week at Oculus Connect 6 there were major AR and VR announcements made. Oculus Quest and Rift News. At the OC6 keynote, Mark Zuckerberg shared Oculus’ goal was to have forward compatibility on all future devices. The first big reveal was the upcoming Oculus Link add-on. Most notably, with the Quest. Hand Tracking.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Meta and Apple are building from different directions a path to the same future with virtual worlds to visit, spatial calling with hyper-realistic avatars, and all day augmentation. VR: Starting With Meta Quest Meta started with VR as Facebook in 2014 by acquiring Oculus.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 21, 2020

It’s our last XR round up of 2020, a year like no other. And Apple hasn’t yet played its hand. Funds will be used to expand to more gaming platforms. The goal of the company is to translate the most popular and classic real-world games into immersive VR experiences for all ages. Oculus is shipping the Elite Strap again.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 2, 2021

Covid-inflicted supply-chain impediments caused shipments to decline an estimated 10 percent in 2020, but that could have been worse if not for Quest 2’s Q4 performance. Facebook’s Q1 non-advertising revenue — where Oculus revenues are categorized — was $497 million as noted. By “Oculus,” we mean hardware and software.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The actions coming from the US are not much related to VR and Oculus, but mostly to the social space. This could also mean splitting the Facebook Reality Labs into a separate company (a new Oculus?), In Germany, instead, the legal action regards the mandatory Facebook login for Oculus Quest 2. Well, we were wrong.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

It can be a game-changer for the whole digital world, so I thought it was worth sharing my thoughts about what it could mean for XR. For instance, Apple is an example of a gatekeeper, since it is a trillionaire market leader, and acts as an intermediary between app developers and their users. Concept of a future AR glass by Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Original image from Oculus). Oculus Rift and Gear VR have sold 10M units. At the beginning of the week, Jack McCauley, one of the founders of the Oculus startup, had claimed in an interview with CNBC that Facebook VR will never succeed. Of course, he was not only talking about Oculus but about VR in general.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Image by Oculus).

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

billion in 2019, with many billions more being invested in R&D by the likes of Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and many more. Their Oculus app allows real-time collaboration without ever leaving your home. As of November 2020, they’re hiring for both New York and San Francisco positions.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2022

VR has come a long way since the launch of the Oculus DK1 in 2013. The standalone VR headset, developed by Meta (formerly Facebook), was one of, if not the hottest item of the holiday season, with the Oculus companion app becoming the #1 download on the Apple App Store. Meta Quest 2. Who saw this coming except everyone?

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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. Launched in April 2018, the Oculus app saw 1.2

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AR Insider

MAY 10, 2021

Covid-inflicted supply-chain impediments caused shipments to decline an estimated 10 percent in 2020, but that could have been worse if not for Quest 2’s Q4 performance. Facebook’s Q1 non-advertising revenue — where Oculus revenues are categorized — were $732 million. By “Oculus,” we mean hardware and software.

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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. 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.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 27, 2021

During Facebook’s Q4 2020 earnings call today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Quest 2 is “on track to be the first mainstream virtual reality headset,” noting that the device drove a 156% increase in the company’s non-advertising revenue. Image courtesy Oculus. So we need 10 million people on [one] platform.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

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 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).

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement… including lots of ups and downs in the intervening years. This is the topic of ARtillery’s recent report, Spatial Computing: 2020 Lessons, 2021 Outlook. All of the above is what we learned in a volatile 2020.

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The reasons are plentiful, but all tend to circle around the idea that it’s too early for software and too expensive to try to take on Apple or Facebook on the hardware front. We’re seeing some progress in VR and some of that is happening because of the Oculus ecosystem. Tipatat Chennavasin, The Venture Reality Fund.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Oculus Go price cut down to $150. Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. I believe that in 2020 the Go will finish its existence. Top news of the week. Image by Engadget). Let’s see…. Other relevant news.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 26, 2016

Apple is Playing The Long Game With VR – And It May Work Opinion: Slow and Steady Might Win the Race A lot of VR fans may be focused on the big guns, like the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Playstation VR, but the real pioneer in marketing virtual and augmented reality to the masses is mobile VR, such as the Samsung Gear VR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

This has been a hectic week for the leaks on the upcoming new Oculus Quest Pro device. Marky Z hinted that the device should feature eye and face tracking, and recent findings in Oculus Quest 2 runtime confirm this. I also thank everyone of you that supported me in this journey! Top news of the week. Image from Imgur).

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TechCrunch VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Despite short-term questions, games software/hardware to top $200 billion by 2023. Apple is seen by some as critical to the future of augmented reality, despite limited traction for ARKit so far and its absence from smartglasses (again, so far). Apple ARKit, Google ARCore ). Tim Merel is managing director of Digi-Capital.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2020

Many Oculus Rift and even Quest owners know well that SteamVR supports both headsets seamlessly. I spoke with a source with direct knowledge of the Oculus SteamVR integration who told me that the integration is solely the work of Valve. SEE ALSO Platform Politics: Inside the Oculus and 'Revive' Dilemma. Image courtesy Valve.

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AR Insider

MARCH 10, 2020

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, Spatial Computing: 2019 Lessons, 2020 Outlook. At the precipice of 2020, that leaves the question of where we are now? Brand spending on sponsored mobile AR lenses is a bright spot, as is Apple AR glasses rumors. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side.

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