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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TechCrunch VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Despite short-term questions, games software/hardware to top $200 billion by 2023. Yet Facebook , Microsoft and others are arguably more important to where the market is today. Apple ARKit, Google ARCore ). VR/AR startup valuations reach $45 billion (on paper). Let’s see what this could mean for the future of AR. OS-based (e.g.

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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 22, 2021

Using their public projections from Q1 2021, we might reasonably expect they spend about $6 billion on XR this year for salaries, hardware and overhead. Hardware development costs more than software, especially when you have to outsource all of the fabrication and parts and you’re not at the top of the stack. per employee.

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ARPost

JANUARY 29, 2021

Incredibly secular and in need of the right software and hardware components to get off the ground, AR as we know it wouldn’t see major leaps in the public sector until the mid 2010s. In 2014, Google Glass launched–to much fanfare, and nascent jokes online–quickly followed by the original Microsoft HoloLens.

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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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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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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 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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Not only is Meta’s Connect event coming up quickly, but Apple and Microsoft are also working towards establishing XR productivity tools. 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.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Google isn’t as acquisitive for AR cloud endeavors (“ Internet of Places “), which build from existing Google Images and Street View data. Once the device recognizes where it is or what it’s looking at, it can overlay things like navigation ( Live View ) or informational overlays ( Google Lens ). Full-Stack Approach.

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ARPost

JANUARY 29, 2020

The nature of AR technology gives us the ability to experience and create exciting new opportunities, dramatically impacting the way we interact and communicate with one another, giving birth to new applications and hardware. See Also: AR and MR Headsets and Glasses 2019 and 2020 Overview.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Apple is also adding hardware to its iPhones that hint at a headset-based future. High-end iPhones released in 2020 include advanced Lidar sensors embedded in their camera. Where is Spatial Computing in its Lifecycle?

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 25, 2023

Plus, it was a proprietary system, owned by Microsoft, and didn’t play well with other metaverse platforms. In its blog post, the company said that it will be focusing on other metaverse-related efforts, such as the launch of Microsoft Mesh , an enterprise-focused metaverse platform. What about Meta, Google and Apple?

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 17, 2019

But for any of that to happen, the hardware installed base has to come first, as it goes with emerging tech. As often happens when premium players lead early markets, commodity hardware follows to fills demand gaps down-market, thus accelerating aggregate sales. This correlates to AirPod unit sales of 25.2 million this year and 99.7

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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. Google Trends indicates a smaller impact for the term “Augmented Reality,” while “Remote Support” shows much stronger relevance. AR will benefit more from the urgency in 2020 than VR.

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

Miesnieks has been around the AR block a few times but is probably best known for leading 6D.ai, an AR cloud program developer that was acquired by Niantic in 2020. Early on day two, Khronos Group ’s Neil Trevett is joined by Microsoft ’s Aysegul Yonet and Epic Game ’s David Morin. Niantic (and 8th Wall ). Autodesk Inc. Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on. In China, the main leaders in the industrial VR ecosystem are startup companies in the early phase , such as some VR hardware brands, like PICO, Shadow Creator, 3Glasses, DPVR, and PiMAX.

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ARVR

JUNE 9, 2021

billion in 2020 and is expected to reach USD 7.96 Microsoft Microsoft is one of the few companies that has approached augmented reality wearables more successfully. We expect to see Microsoft still at work for a long time in this area and we think it can succeed where it has failed with mobile devices.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Google VR SDK is popular for building virtual reality applications for Android and iOS. WebVR is also becoming a formidable force for those who love HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, in a web browser. With it, learners gain skills on designing VR applications with Unity 3D, OpenGL, and VR hardware. EON Reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. Of course, it will exploit the already awesome Microsoft platform.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 4, 2017

billion last year to more than $162 billion in 2020. over the 2015–2020 forecast period in any sector other than digital reality. With HTC at the forefront, the VRVCA has set aside US$12 billion to grow VR, with investments in both hardware and software startup developers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Menlo Park-based firm plans to expand its investments in data centres, non-artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-linked hardware, and other solutions. This triggered massive layoffs and project closures across companies like Meta, Microsoft, Google, Snap, Salesforce, and many others.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 5, 2022

However, AOSP is not compatible with Google Mobile Services (GMS), which is what most Android-based MDM solutions operate on. Just as internal software will determine how hardware functions, these platforms will help organizations manage their deployments remotely, scale faster, onboard new users, and roll out more innovative applications.

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ARVR

APRIL 5, 2021

This is the topic of ARtillery’s recent report, Spatial Computing: 2020 Lessons, 2021 Outlook. Trojan Horse 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. Key questions include, what did we learn in the past year?

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ARVR

MARCH 24, 2021

This is the topic of ARtillery’s recent report, 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. In fact, Google is a natural candidate to build this physical-world index.

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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 New Steam hardware survey highlights that the number of VR headsets has grown again, and now according to Road To VR there are 1.6M Valve teases SteamVR 2.0.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2020

One of them is Lenovo , one of the most prolific (if not the most prolific) hardware company for what regards building AR and VR glasses, that according to some images leaked by the popular leaker WalkingCat is going to release new AR glasses, probably at CES. 18, 2020, and will ship starting in late January. News worth a mention.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

’… So if we count from the June 2017 launch of ARkit, three years from there is June 2020. Boland and McDowall run through each of these players — Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft — to compare and contrast their AR ambitions. The big question that follows is what will those killer apps be.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Some Automotive firms have leveraged XR much earlier than other consumer-facing brands – Like BMW, which first employed XR in 2020 to promote the Concept i4 electric car. Following its success in 2020, BMW leveraged XR again to showcase many of its upcoming vehicles.

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AR Insider

JULY 31, 2019

’… So if we count from the June 2017 launch of ARkit, three years from there is June 2020. Boland and McDowall run through each of these players — Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft — to compare and contrast their AR ambitions. Header Image Credit: Microsoft.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

Not so long ago, if you wanted a cheap VR headset, you’d be limited to phone-based devices like Google Cardboard. For instance, the Meta Quest 3 comes with virtual keyboards and similar tools that are ideal for use with collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

A patent filed by Valve in 2020 and granted some days ago shows the work that Valve is doing towards wireless/standalone headsets. Image by Microsoft). After the news went viral, Microsoft has clarified that it was just “a translation bug” and that Xbox is not adding VR support at the moment. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

More info (Use Google Translate). For this, it has just started Access Hardware, a program that gives for free Magic Leap glasses plus dedicated support to all developers that are planning to do interesting applications using the Magic Leap 1, especially in the enterprise sector. Google Chrome now supports WebAR. Learn more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 10, 2017

By contrast, Schell believes that Digi-Capital’s oft-quoted prediction that VR would be $30 billion and AR would be $90 billion by 2020 (later revised to a combined $108 billion by 2021) is “very very wrong.” Schell thinks that parasite VR systems, or lame experiences like Google Cardboard, are likely to be in the minority.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Silicon Valley’s advent calendar clearly marks September as the traditional time for Apple to talk finished hardware, not secretive projects. Not long after, on the day of the hardware event, Apple released Xcode 11, the newest version of the company’s macOS development environment. That’s by design.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And the price of the wireless add-on is even more suspicious: speaking with a hardware manufacturer, they told me that ONLY THE ANTENNAS of a Wi-Gig connection for VR streaming (like the one of the Vive Pro) costs around $100… so how can the whole wireless streaming device cost just $50?? Learn more.

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