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JUNE 27, 2023

Google reportedly killed its glasses hardware project. Business Insider's Hugh Langley cites "three people familiar with the matter" as saying the hardware, which resembled standard glasses, was canceled earlier this year amid the mass layoffs at Google and the departure of Google's AR/VR chief Clay Bavor.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Samsung plans to launch its XR headset in limited quantities in late 2024. South Korean newspaper The JoongAng reports Samsung is planning to announce the headset at an event in the second half of 2024, then launch it in December with a limited initial quantity of just 30,000 units. We've emailed Samsung seeking comment.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

So, here you are how I envision this 2020 in virtual reality! (I’ll I see 2020 as a good year of consolidation, where VR will grow linearly before the expected explosion around 2022. In 2020 this trend will continue, and the more content will get released, the more people will start entering VR. The reasons?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

After having written my predictions for virtual reality in 2020 , let’s see what will be the trends for this year in augmented reality. This means that I’m not expecting many new hardware announcements, but I’m expecting new AR enterprise platforms, applications and solutions. nReal glasses (Image by nReal).

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JULY 6, 2023

Samsung is reportedly redesigning its in-development headset. 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. A year later Facebook formally abandoned Gear VR.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Image by Samsung, taken from Upload VR). Samsung may launch a next-gen Samsung Odyssey. A recent filing at the Chinese IP offices makes us speculate on a new PC VR headset in the works by Samsung. As I’ve written in the VR predictions for 2020 , I guess that the device will be discontinued this year.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 13, 2024

Google has a long-storied history of working on enterprise and consumer-grade AR/VR/MR solutions—notably hardware solutions like Google Glass and developer frameworks like ARCore. The firm has recently partnered with Samsung and Qualcomm to work on an upcoming XR headset. Could Google release smart glasses?

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JULY 28, 2020

According to the CTA, CES 2020 drew in an incredible 171,268 attendees as well as 4,419 exhibitors, including high-profile companies such as Panasonic, Samsung, and Sony just to name a few.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

I think that this CES is the emblem of the whole 2020, that probably won’t show big disruptions in the XR field, but will make AR and VR grow linearly, exploiting the successes of VR in 2019 (when Quest and Valve Index went sold-out). pic.twitter.com/HXkmJmSh5u — KAJI / MESON CEO (@kajikent) January 7, 2020.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

The first Windows MR headsets arrived in late 2017 from Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung, aiming to compete with the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive that had launched a year earlier. On the Steam Hardware Survey Windows MR peaked at around 10% of SteamVR usage share, and now sits around 5%.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

Google is eliminating hundreds of roles in its hardware division, mostly from its first-party AR hardware team. Here's the statement Google provided to news outlet 9to5Google : "A few hundred roles are being eliminated in [Devices & Services] with the majority of impacts on the 1P AR Hardware team.

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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.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2021

HTC also released and new hype video on its Instagram , showing a quick flash of Flow’s hardware. We’ve seen similar hinges and on the Vive Proton prototype standalone first revealed in February 2020, although we’ve never seen it in action. Image courtesy HTC.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Citing sources familiar with the matter, the report maintains Apple has definite plans to produce a dedicated AR headset, and could ship a product as early as 2020. The post Report: Apple Could Release an AR Headset as Early as 2020 appeared first on Road to VR. Nor do I think the vast majority of people would be satisfied.”.

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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. Oculus will hit 355,000; HTC Vive will be 420,000, and the Samsung Gear VR on mobile will be 2.3 By 2020, that percentage will fall to about 41 percent as enterprise, media, and other categories rise.

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APRIL 23, 2020

So, what are the arguments against VR commonly seen in 2020? Arguably the best consumer-focused headset out there, Valve Index , does cost $1,000 for new customers who don’t already have any VR hardware. “VR Headsets Cost $1,000” Image courtesy Oculus. VR headsets can be expensive.

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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

This review discusses the performance and characteristics of Western Digital's latest offerings (2020 catalog) supporting USB 3.1 In 2020, we have seen the market move en-masse to NVMe SSDs behind a USB 3.2 Samsung Portable SSD T7 Touch 1TB. Gallery: WD My Passport SSD (2020) Teardown. Gen 2 (10 Gbps) speeds.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

XR2 Gen 2 is the successor to the original XR2 from 2020, and it's based on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip used in high-end Android phones like Samsung's Galaxy S23 series. Vision Pro Competitors From Samsung & LG?

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AR Insider

JULY 6, 2020

This is notable given that all-things hardware are constrained during Covid-era lockdowns. It sees wearables both offsetting near-term iPhone revenue deceleration; and future-proofing its hardware-heavy profit machine. For an indexed library of data, reports, and multimedia, subscribe to ARtillery Pro.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The company also convinced a handful of its major PC partners—Dell, Lenovo, Acer, HP, Samsung, and Asus—to launch VR headsets attached to the platform. Windows VR headsets peaked at 11.13% of the share of headsets in use on Steam in June 2019, but have been slowly declining since then, down to 8.05% as of January, 2020.

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

Moreover, a recent report from Juniper Research says that the number of hearables in use will grow to more than 970 million units by 2024 (an increase of 270% compared to 2020). Typical hearable ecosystems rely on four common components to function — hardware, software, infrastructure, and mobile applications. Back-end Infrastructure.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

20 for 2020: Augmented Reality Trends and How They May Play Out This Year. 2020 has arrived! Despite how perfect it would have been to see a huge win in consumer AR smartglasses in 2020 (20/20 vision, get it!), Hardware. #2 Source: Samsung. Find out more or contact us to participate here. by Tom Emrich.

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 2, 2020

After aggressive product rollouts in 2016 and 2017, Google quickly abandoned its VR efforts, which, much like the Samsung Gear VR, allowed users to drop a compatible phone into a headset holster and use the phone’s display and compute to power VR experiences. It still isn’t clear what VR’s future looks like.

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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 Image Credit: Samsung.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Vision Pro isn’t exactly revolutionizing XR hardware (though the external display is pretty cool), but its real advantage stands to be a mature software platform that’s easy to use and easy to develop for. With the base model originally launched at $300 in 2020, its price was later raised to $400 in 2022.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

In 2020, the AR marketplace was valued at US$14.7 The leading OEMs such as Samsung and Apple are expected to contribute to manufacturing more AR devices. There have also been improvements in both hardware and software that most developers have begun to take advantage of. billion and was estimated to touch US$88.4

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area. Also, Mobile Phone manufacturers like Vivo and OPPO have rumored plans to release VR hardware in the future. The characters who are involved in the industrial chain.

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MAY 26, 2020

Like Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Go, the headset only includes a single remote, which appears to have a touchpad and button array for basic input. Hardware specs are still not entirely clear, however Mova is said to offer 5G, LTE and Wi-Fi connectivity built on the back of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chipset. Mova Specs. RAM – 6GB.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The first one is the usual SteamVR hardware survey. Just a little parenthesis to say that Zuck has also said that Facebook is working hard on AR hardware and operating system ) ARtillery Intelligence , an analytics company, still provides good news, but it wants to stop our enthusiasm. Statistics show that VR is continuously growing.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

But Samsung isn’t stopping there… THE NEXT GENERATION OF GEAR VR MAY COME WITH CONTROLLER. Although not yet officially confirmed by the Korean company, a recent FCC filing indicates that the next version of the Samsung Gear VR will boast its own controller. The popular Gear VR has moved 5.5M The popular Gear VR has moved 5.5M

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DECEMBER 21, 2019

Valve let Tested’s Norman Chan and Will Smith into their headquarters recently for a multi-hour session with Half-Life: Alyx , the studio’s famed flagship VR game coming out in March 2020. Rotational teleportation also lets you select your ‘landing’ position, ostensibly the same movement scheme seen in Oculus Home.

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JULY 7, 2021

Lakefield came to market in June 2020 in two products: the Samsung Galaxy Book S 13.3-inch Battery life sounded good, although we have never tested it at AnandTech due to lack of access to review samples from Samsung, Lenovo, or Intel. Samsung Unveils Intel-based Galaxy Book S: Intel’s Lakefield Inbound.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

Steam has just published an overview of VR in 2020, affirming that: There have been 104M SteamVR sessions; 1.7M Everyone knows about VR, there are TikTok influencers that talk about VR games, but there’s not the right combination of affordable hardware and compelling games that makes people run to buy headsets. billion U.S.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Blippar blew our minds with their virtual product launch of the Nord OnePlus phone in 2020. The company does work with other big-name brands including AT&T, Samsung, Chase, USAA, Pepsi, and Coke. In May of 2020, the AR powerhouse partnered with Solucan , a Canadian beverage packaging company.

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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. The insiders noted how the partnership led to Samsung taking over product feature design decisions, creating a standstill in development.

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