Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Google has announced the date of its next hardware event -- to be held on September 30. From the Pixel 5 to a new Chromecast, here's everything we expect.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

After a mixed year for VR hardware sales in 2016, two new separate reports are painting a more optimistic outlook for the VR market going forward. In a new consumer VR report just released by SuperData Research , the findings show that global VR hardware revenue is expected to hit $3.6 billion in 2017, up 142% year-over-year.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The most notable updates came from Google, Apple and Facebook, in order of recency. This includes Google’s updates to its visual search efforts; Apple’s Lidar-powered iPhone 12 Pro; and Facebook’s developments in Live Maps, experimental AR glasses … and of course Quest 2. Let’s dive in… Google .

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Samsung Partners With Google & Qualcomm For New XR Hardware During today’s Samsung Unpacked event, Samsung announced plans to create new ‘Extended Reality’ (XR) hardware in partnership with Google and Qualcomm. In late 2017, Samsung launched Odyssey , a Windows PC VR headset, and a year later the successor Odyssey+.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

It inherits all the advantages of the base XR2 Gen 2 architecture, including the hardware acceleration for camera passthrough that is said to reduce end-to-end latency to around 12 milliseconds. It's a more premium option for higher-priced headsets, including those designed to take on Apple Vision Pro. Details here: UploadVR David Heaney

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Daydream, Google’s mobile-focused virtual reality platform, is losing official support from Google, Android Police reports. Google’s hardware business is already peanuts compared to their search and ads business, so it probably wasn’t clear what the point was.

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MAY 11, 2023

During its I/O 2023 conference, Google said it will share more about its 'Android collaboration' with Samsung on 'immersive XR' later this year. Samsung revealed in February that it was partnering with Google and Qualcomm to develop XR hardware, with Qualcomm providing the chipset and Google handling "the software".

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

And what can we expect in 2020? Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments.” So we need some hardware innovation here too.” Google learned this the hard way with Google Glass. Who are the top players? What progress did we see in 2019?

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Road to VR

MARCH 5, 2024

Along its quest to own a sizeable chunk of the XR space, Meta may be getting ready to show off some of its prototype AR hardware at the company’s upcoming Connect developer conference later this year, which up until now has been tightly under wraps. Find out more about the difference between AR and smartglasses in our handy primer.

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Road to VR

APRIL 18, 2023

The interview wasn’t widely shared in the English-speaking side of the Internet until it landed on Reddit , Google-translated to English. That’s especially so since the last time Valve released any VR hardware was its enthusiast-grade PC VR headset Valve Index in 2019.

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ARPost

JANUARY 21, 2022

We’re talking, of course, about Google Glass. Google Glasses were the first arguably-AR glasses on the consumer market, coming out in 2013. After all, it was a Google product and a lot of people expected the world. Google Glass retired to the enterprise sector and much of the public gave up on AR glasses.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Australian financial service provider and consumer protection group Compare The Market used Google Trends and SEMRush to look at how internet users are searching terms like “virtual travel”, “virtual tourism”, “VR travel”, “virtual reality tours”, and “virtual reality travel.” Why all of the interest in VR hardware and virtual travel?

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2016

billion in 2016 to more than $162 billion in 2020. More than half of the revenue will come from VR/AR hardware sales. Most revenue through 2020 will come from the US. The United States will pull well ahead of the other two regions by 2020. HTC Vive most talked about headset on social media.

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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. working on AR/MR. in the VR for enterprise segment. said the same for AR/MR.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The XR Headset With Google? In February Samsung officially announced it was working on an XR headset, with Google handling the system software via a new variant of Android and Qualcomm providing the chipset. So what else might Samsung Glasses be? Smart Glasses? The segment was downright bizarre.

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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. As of November 2020, they’re hiring for both New York and San Francisco positions. See Also: Choosing the Right AR SDK: Mobile AR App Development Toolkit for 2020.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2022

VR AR Assicuation Global summit 2020 Between 1st and 3rd of June 2020, we had the annual summit of the VR AR Association. This is something Google doesn`t yet have. link] New Hardware Pico Neo 2 eye : eye tracking, vr and ar, hand tracking. Obviously it was virtual as well, as the rest of Covid affected events.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 11, 2016

But it still believes that consumer VR software could grow from $407 million in revenue in 2016 to $14 billion by 2020. She didn’t include numbers for Google Cardboard since so many of those units are simply given away for free and used for demo purposes only. With hardware revenue added, the forecast hits about $28 billion by 2020.

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VRScout

MARCH 21, 2020

The Verge has also retrieved information from a Google cache of developer portal pages which add additional details. . Seems to show up to certain folks randomly at [link] pic.twitter.com/IZgUc2cHVO — Gerald McAlister (@gemisisDev) March 19, 2020. Looks like a new Oculus headset is in the works?

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This was the topic of the latest ARtillery report, Spatial Computing: 2020 Lessons; 2021 Outlook. As shown in the Google Glass era, cultural receptivity and comfort levels for face-worn hardware (with a camera, no less) will be a years-long uphill climb. So where is spatial computing now, and where is it headed?

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VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Some of the biggest names in social impact will be in attendance, including: Participant Media, Conservation International, the Rainforest Alliance, Connect for Climate/World Bank, and the Milken Institute, as well as tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Oculus. ” Feature Image Credit: Kaleidoscope, Vulcan.

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AR Insider

JULY 1, 2021

billion in 2020 to $26.05 Drilling down, our latest Behind the Numbers installment looks specifically at the mobile AR hardware base. Mobile AR Global Revenue Forecast, 2020-2025. Compared to the uphill battle that AR glasses face , mobile AR — though challenged in its own ways — has an easier climb due to ubiquitous hardware.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In the wake of MR headsets and software coming soon, Google and Samsung quickly reacted – internally – in a bid to create a competing device with an apparent lack of direction. RPR is leveraging Google’s Geospatial Creator and Adobe Aero to secure the location-based AR customer experience.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Estimates based on this data suggest between 500,000 and 1,000,000 Quest 2 units sold in Q4 2020 alone. Million New VR Users in 2020, 71% Increase in VR Game Revenue. million new VR users on Steam in 2020. 104 million VR sessions on Steam in 2020. December 2020 revenue grew 60% year-over-year. Valve: Steam Saw 1.7

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Our research arm, ARtillery Intelligence took a deep dive in its latest report on 2019 lessons & 2020 predictions. And look forward to more daily spatial computing coverage in 2020. Will Google Incubate AR Inside Search? Is Google Building an ‘Internet of Places?’ What’s the outlook for 2020?

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Road to VR

JULY 2, 2020

Facebook researchers say that methods like DLSS however either introduces “obvious visual artifacts into the upsampled images, especially at upsampling ratios higher than 2 × 2, or rely on proprietary technologies and/or hardware that may be unavailable on all platforms.”. Oculus Varifocal Prototypes, Image courtesy Oculus.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Facebook wants to be the social layer to the spatial web, while Amazon wants to be the commerce layer and Apple envisions a hardware-centric multi-device play. Where does Google fit in all of this? That includes its “search what you see” Google Lens , and Live View 3D navigation. Level-Setting.

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Upload VR

JULY 6, 2023

In February Samsung officially announced it was working on an XR headset, with Google handling the system software via a new variant of Android. Google is handling the software for Samsung's hardware. In 2020, China’s intellectual property office awarded Samsung a patent for a successor, but no product came of it.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 31, 2020

See Also: Must Read AR/VR Books in 2020. Pesce identifies these technologies as Microsoft Kinect, Keyhole (a forerunner of Google Maps), and the smartphone by way of Google Cardboard. AR Hardware as Surveillance.

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AR Insider

APRIL 6, 2021

This is the topic of ARtillery’s recent report, Spatial Computing: 2020 Lessons, 2021 Outlook. Spatial Computing: 2020 Lessons, 2021 Outlook. As seen in the Google Glass era, cultural acceptance and comfort levels for face-worn hardware (with a camera, no less) is an uphill climb.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

So three years and several months later, halfway to 2020, how has adoption of VR/AR in education progressed? Several companies including MergeVR, Curiscope, zSpace, Google Expeditions , QuiverVision and others couple these teacher resources with physical hardware or tactile tools to further engage learning. #3

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VRScout

JANUARY 16, 2017

percent between 2016 and 2020, according to a new industry research report from TechNavio. “Market research analysts at Technavio predict that the global virtual reality (VR) in gaming market will grow steadily during the next four years and post a tremendous CAGR of more than 84% by 2020,” the report summary said.

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AR Insider

MARCH 30, 2021

This is the topic of ARtillery’s recent report, Spatial Computing: 2020 Lessons, 2021 Outlook. Spatial Computing: 2020 Lessons, 2021 Outlook. Google is meanwhile motivated toward wearables to maintain direct touchpoints to users. This was the same strategy that drove Google’s Android OS years ago. Warming Up .

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AR Insider

MARCH 16, 2021

This is the topic of ARtillery’s recent report, Spatial Computing: 2020 Lessons, 2021 Outlook. Spatial Computing: 2020 Lessons, 2021 Outlook. Just as Google began indexing the web 20 years ago, the next evolution could be for someone to index the physical world in potentially more valuable ways. Foundational Principle.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

But did you know that before there was Pokémon GO , Niantic launched a sci-fi-based AR game called Ingress Prime that used OpenStreetMap and Google Maps to create a citywide geocaching game of capture the flag?

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ARVR

AUGUST 8, 2022

Detractors dismissed the Focals as just another re-spin of Google Glass, with the Verge dubbing it a ‘smartwatch for your face’. The doomed Google Glass, circa 2013, had a more stable display with over twice the resolution. After a prolonged absence, Google seems to be interested once again in developing a consumer AR product.

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VRScout

JANUARY 22, 2022

“Big tech companies, rather than smartphone manufacturers, are leading XR devices because they have the necessary content and platforms,” said Kim Gwang-soo, an analyst at eBest Investment and Securities, adding, “Google has an operating system Android, Microsoft has Xbox and Sony has PlayStation.

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