Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

In a new Virtual Reality Industry Report, Greenlight Insights forecasts modest VR industry growth in the short term, growing into a major global content marketplace by 2021. Anticipating modest growth in the short term, Greenlight Insights expects the VR industry to grow into a major global marketplace by 2021, reaching $74.8

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Anand Tech

APRIL 15, 2021

In the lead-up to the current chip crunch, equipment sales to South Korea and China noticeably spiked, with fabs in the former buying 61% more gear than in 2019, while China has risen to become the largest fab tool customer of all of the nations. billion for 2020. Overall, sales of fab equipment surged 19% from $59.75 South Korea.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). 2021 is going to be an interesting year for AR. In this sense, 2021 will be a very important year, because we’ll start seeing how the mainstream is interested in wearing electronic glasses on their face.

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Anand Tech

OCTOBER 25, 2023

With storage product demand from both the client and datacenter businesses down well off of its highs in a notoriously cyclical business, we've already seen the big three memory manufacturers – SK hynix, Samsung, and Micron – significantly cut back on NAND production.

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Anand Tech

APRIL 22, 2022

Taiwanese authorities approved the construction plan in mid-2021 and that plan included breaking ground in early 2022 (earlier this year TSMC's board of directors indeed accepted capital appropriations for a new fab construction), so we believe that the shell is being built as we speak. Logic Area. Reduction %. >37%. -. ~17%.

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Anand Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Qualcomm yesterday has announced a slew of new 5G communication platforms, representing their next-generation modems, and RF front-end solutions that will be powering the next flagship devices later in 2021 as well as 2022. The new 5G modem solutions and their RFFE companion chips are set to hit the market in late 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Facebook could sell all its devices undercost now, subsidizing the cost of the hardware with software and data collection, so that to compete with brands like Samsung and XiaoMi. Steam officially arrives in China. Steam and PlayStation 5 arrived in China. I will also have a little part in it…. Have a project they should feature?

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Anand Tech

APRIL 26, 2021

Early this year TSMC significantly boosted its 2021 CapEx budget to a $25 – $28 billion range, further increasing it to around $30 billion as a part of its three-year plan to spend $100 billion on manufacturing capacities and R&D. Confidence. Logic Area. Reduction %. >37%. -. ~17%. 1.8x). -. ? Manufacturing.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Actually, the first launch has happened in China with the Vive Focus at the end of 2017, but we had the full development of the ecosystem now. Samsung has also teased to be interested in releasing a new AR/VR standalone device. Standalone headsets. 2018 has been the year of standalone headsets. You just turn them on and they work.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Preorders are open now with just a little deposit of $10, shipping in 2021. At WCVRI, China shows its strategic interest for VR. And while China always moves chaotically, I think that the push of the government is helping its VR companies. Stanford and Samsung create a super-high-resolution display.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. He says that Apple AR glasses will come in 2021 and that he has seen them. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. Standalone 5G headsets are coming in 2021. Yes, Airpods.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Qualcomm-Oppo MR Glass Collaboration Additionally, the company aims to “drive the growing ecosystem of VR and MR developers in China.” The latest MR Glass headset comes after subsequent iterations, including a proof of concept (PoC) and OPPO AR Glass in 2019 and 2021, respectively.

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Anand Tech

MARCH 28, 2023

Essentially, the company only began to produce its OLED products in high volumes in 2021. By that time, such companies dominated the market of OLED panels, including BOE Display, China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT), LG Display, and Samsung Display, so it has not been easy for JOLED to establish its presence in the market.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Boz instead clarified that the passthrough MR mode will take a bit of time to be made of the proper quality and we must be patient (I think this means that it will be released in 2021). So probably he was told about a possible launch in 2021 and now this is not true anymore. PSVR 2 may have been delayed. News worth a mention.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The industry has been experiencing a boom in recent years with hundreds of startups and heavy investment from tech giants including Google, Apple, Samsung, and Facebook. UBI Research expects total shipments to exceed 65 million units by 2021 and International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts a five-year compound annual growth rate of 108.3%

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Anand Tech

AUGUST 27, 2020

Current known public EUV processes from the big fabs include TSMC’s 7+ and N5, as well as Samsung’s 7LPP (and anything below), with Intel’s EUV efforts only entering in its own 7nm portfolio next year. SMIC Details Its N+1 Process Technology: 7nm Performance in China. 9. -. -. -. Target. -. -. -. Related Reading.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2024

China-based XR company Xreal (previously Nreal) announced its newest pair of glasses at CES 2024, marking the company’s return to augmented reality right as Apple is prepping its $3,500 Vision Pro for its upcoming launch. Snapdragon processor), Samsung S23 (OneUI 5.1/6.0, mm, Width: 48 mm, Height: 161.5

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Road to VR

MAY 7, 2021

Historically, the company has pitched its VR headsets more as smartphone accessories à la Samsung Gear VR. We’ll be keeping our eye on Huawei in the coming months as live events like MWC 2021 inevitably pick back up in the wake of the prolonged pandemic. Image courtesy CNIPA, ITHome.

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Anand Tech

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion deal to acquire Tower Semiconductor foundry due to a lack of regulatory approval from China, the two companies announced on Wednesday. Still, the company says it is not dropping its plan to become the world's second-largest foundry by 2030, thus replacing Samsung from the No. billion in 2021. Intel Corp.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Multiple reports seem to confirm that Oculus is actually starting the production of a new Oculus Quest headset, with an expected release date in 2021. Finally after China and United States, also India has entered the AR race with the launch of the Jio AR glasses. According to Samsung, it should come in 2028.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

It will be forced to do that, because on one side, the Quest is stealing it the gamers’ customers, and on the other side, the new Pico Neo 2, more powerful and less expensive than the Focus+, is stealing its enterprise customers (also in China). So, personally, I bet on a PSVR 2 in 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

A rumor talks about iPhones becoming 5G compatible in 2020 , and this increments the credibility of the other rumors talking about an Apple AR headset for 2020/2021 , that will work attached to an iPhone, and that will exploit its 5G connection. Samsung gets a patent for an AR contact lens.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Image by Samsung). Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. But at the presentation of the latest Samsung Note 10, for the first time after the Note 4, Samsung has dropped support for Gear VR in its latest flagship device. And Samsung is not abandoning XR for sure.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

In 2020, we will so discover how many people already want AR glasses : the nReal glasses will be a testbed for consumer augmented reality and I guess that Apple, Facebook, Samsung and all the other major companies will be at the window watching what happens so that to decide how to change their plans accordingly to the sales of nReal.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

I think that in 2022 we’ll mostly see in AR the growth of the same trends that we saw in the second half of 2021. If they will prove to be successful, I can imagine also other brands entering the field , like Samsung (that until some years ago was interested in hybrid headsets) or some Chinese brands like Shadow Creator.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

This is not a tweet, it is a #metaverse message… #VirtualReality #VR #AR pic.twitter.com/f9aDJ2mbc3 — TonyVT SkarredGhost (@SkarredGhost) July 25, 2021. If it manages to enter the European market, it means that Meta can sell many millions of headsets more than in 2021. The metaverse hype will cold down. truestory.

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