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JUNE 9, 2021

WaveOptics is a manufacturer of displays for smart glasse, both for the optics and projection part and it is the same technology already used by Snap in its smart glass Spectacles 2021. Again, as of 2021, we just have rumors. The smart glass market was valued at USD 3.89 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach USD 7.96 ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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AR Insider

MAY 3, 2021

While Burning Man announced it’s throwing in the towel on a live 2021 event, the world’s largest trade show, CES, will be back in Las Vegas the first week of January, 2022. Trainees can use Oculus or Google Glasses to learn in a virtual rendering of the facility from almost anywhere around the world. Lumeto Inc.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 1, 2024

Now, it appears that a wider breadth of vendors and service providers will populate the XR marketplace, building a future shy from Meta’s 2021/22 hold on the market. Reports suggest the firm’s new device will have a microOLED display, eight tracking cameras, a ToF sensor, voice commands, eye tracking, and hand tracking.

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AR Insider

JULY 15, 2021

2021: Get any Advertising Objections Flushed Out Early. 2021+: Drive VR Costs Below All Competitors. Facebook reportedly has a deal with Ray-Ban, which is part of eye-wear giant Luxottica, which also owns LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, prescription lens makers and many of your favorite brands. 2023+: Eye Tracking and beyond.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 15, 2018

His predictions for headset capabilities in the year 2021 were 4K × 4K resolution per-eye, a 140 degree field of view, and variable depth of focus. SEE ALSO Google & LG Detail Next-Gen 1,443 PPI OLED VR Display, 'especially ideal for standalone AR/VR'. Optics & Displays. Image courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

The Quest 2 is quite powerful and so Facebook has confirmed tha t in 2021 there won’t be the need for a Quest 2 Pro as some people were supposing. NVIDIA doubles down on Cloud Rendering and Omniverse at GTC 2021. Google is hiring waveguide developers for AR. Other relevant news. Image by NVIDIA).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Per se, this is not a surprising news (all companies are working on next iterations of their devices), but what is surprising is the timing that the report suggests: a new Oculus Quest should have been announced at the end of 2020, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, it will come in 2021. Or eye tracking?).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 25, 2023

According to a September 2021 Insight Partners report , the AR retail market is expected to grow at a 24.8 percent compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2021 to 2028. This allows digital objects to interact with users via planing, light detection and ranging (LiDAR), and hand and eye tracking. This will surpass $17.8

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 3, 2023

Additionally, significant technology and extended reality (XR) firms like Google and AT&T have provided Magic Leap funding since the company’s debut in 2010. Head pose and eye-tracking. Previously, Saudi Arabia gave Magic Leap roughly $400 million in a 2018 funding round. 120 Hz refresh rate. 260g headset weight.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

If you recall, Zuckerberg specifically got Meta into XR because he wanted to free his company from the grip of Apple and Google (the prevailing gatekeepers of the smartphone era). The headset has some wholly unique capabilities not seen on other consumer VR headsets, like eye-tracking, head-haptics, and adaptive triggers.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2018

They also acquired various startups (like VRVana that made AR/VR glasses and SMI that made eye-tracking) to create that. But Ian Hamilton of UploadVR remembers how Michael Abrash (someone that has some knowledge over AR and VR), predicted 4Kx4K per eye displays for 2021. My reaction reading it has been. We all know it.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. This is the 150th Week Peek!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

And in fact, after the converence, Facebook told Road To VR that the Rift line will be discontinued in 2021. ARIA is a glass mounting 2 IR external cameras, 2 IR internal cameras (for eye tracking), 1 RGB camera, 7 microphones, 2 IMUs. It was to be expected, but I can’t avoid saying that I’m a little moved by this.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

Counterpoint research confirms both trends, saying that headsets shipment has tripled with regard to 2020, and highlighting how in Q1 2021, Quest 2 has represented 75% of the whole shipments of VR headsets. Facebook totals now 60.2% of the devices used on the gaming platform. This is impressive and smells like monopoly.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

I was expecting a PSVR 2 launch in 2021, but then suddenly Jim Ryan in an interview with The Washington Post has commented on VR with these exact words: PlayStation believes in VR. Three things about their latest report caught my attention: They estimate that the Quest 2 will sell 3M units before the end of 2021. Image by Sony).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

The latest phones produced by Google and Samsung are still compatible with Daydream View and Gear VR headsets, but there has not been any new release of a mobile VR headset. If we look at the above graph, the moment when there is the true spike of XR technologies is around 2020/2021 , but this year we should start seeing some acceleration.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Facebook has not done well in the past in guaranteeing user privacy and I’m afraid of what it can do with my data, especially when in the future there will be eye tracking, emotion tracking and such. But it will come in 2021 , and two years is a long time to survive. Google ARCore now adds depth detection.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

For example, XR firms like NeuroSync have incorporated their eye-tracking PRO-SYNC solution to monitor gaze, pupil measurements, and other metrics. Biker deaths fell from 585 in 2004 to 310 in 2021, the 2020 UK report added. This prevents them from looking down at mounted smartphones, leading to breaks in road concentration.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A piece of very interesting news about this headset, which has been reported by few people, is that the Chinese company 7Invensun has already developed an eye-tracking module for it, making Vive Flow even more interesting for enterprise uses. Lone Echo 2 is one of the best games of 2021, but…. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. It will be the first consumer headset with eye-tracking and foveated rendering, and also the first one to feature haptics directly on the headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

They “will incorporate some of the key features found in the DualSense wireless controller, along with a focus on great ergonomics”; There will be a “new generation” of games and experiences for it; It is still under development and won’t launch in 2021. MWC Shanghai 2021 showcased some XR technologies. More info (Qualcomm AR Viewer?—?Road

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

I think I’ll miss the joys of summer (and all the trophies that Italy has won), but at least I’ll be able to enjoy again some delicious hot chocolate Before leaving you to the news of the week, I’m happy to announce to you that I’ve been selected as a speaker for AWE US 2021 ! And are also good for data harvesting cough cough cough.

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ARVR

JANUARY 21, 2022

Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 ARCORE The Android equivalent of ARKit, ARCore provides the open source native tool set needed for developers to create augmented reality apps on Android devices. This past year, Google introduced a few new features for ARCore such as recording and playback APIs. billion in 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Rendering of the 2021 version of the Panasonic VR glasses. The first one is from Panasonic : the windshield features an eye-tracking system, and can so detect where are the eyes of the driver. They looked quite cool (Image by Panasonic). It is very interesting.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google. Image by Acer).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And moving on, I want to say that 2021 is looking pretty damn amazing to begin with for the XR world. Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. But I think we're all looking forward to 2021, and what it's going to mean for all of us.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And moving on, I want to say that 2021 is looking pretty damn amazing to begin with for the XR world. Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. But I think we're all looking forward to 2021, and what it's going to mean for all of us.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 2, 2023

percent from 2021 to 2028. This is due to several “false starts” with Google Glass , Microsoft HoloLens2, and Magic Leap, although the companies remain potential customers. With DeepOptics, Lumus integrated eye-tracking with transparent, liquid crystal displays that “rotate the molecules in real-time.”

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And moving on, I want to say that 2021 is looking pretty damn amazing to begin with for the XR world. Our VP of Marketing and Strategy, Alex Colgan, will turn the tables and interview me on what happened in 2020 and what we can expect from 2021. But I think we're all looking forward to 2021, and what it's going to mean for all of us.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

For example, if you’re in downtown San Francisco, and you’re calling an Uber, you’re going to have to manually place on the Google map where you are almost every time, because it’s going to be off by half a block or more as to where your real location is. Google, about a month ago, announced their AR navigation system.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

For example, if you’re in downtown San Francisco, and you’re calling an Uber, you’re going to have to manually place on the Google map where you are almost every time, because it’s going to be off by half a block or more as to where your real location is. Google, about a month ago, announced their AR navigation system.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

Google searches are very revealing. Pimax 8K Kickstarter campaign (Image by Pimax on Kickstarter, provided by Rob Cole). Following an extremely successful campaign, the project reached $4,236,618 from 5,946 backers (the initial funding goal was $200,000) but as with many Kickstarter projects, there were some delays and other issues.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

To summarize, these are its specifications: Qualcomm XR2 chipset 4K low-persistence 90 Hz Curved Display 3664 x 1920 resolution, 773 PPI 72Hz with support for 90Hz 98° FOV 6GB RAM (2133 Mhz) for the Pro model, 8GB for the Pro Eye Model 256GB storage Wi-Fi 6 connectivity USB-C 3.0 The expected sales for 2021 are in the 1–2M ballpark.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

And the result is that, according to SuperData , in Q4 2021 the Quest has sold 3x units than all the other headsets combined. At the end of 2021, we will discover what will be the fate of Magic Leap. The community has not stopped working on TiltBrush , the popular VR drawing app that has been open-sourced by Google.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Facebook Connect, the most awaited VR event of 2021, happened, and it was not as we expected it to be. Yes, something like Gear VR, but in 2021. Google is still into XR. Even if Google is quite silent about AR and VR lately , the company is still into immersive technologies. Google is still into XR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2020

They also feature eye tracking, hand tracking and now the XR-3 version has also added a Lidar camera for environment scanning and a custom-made inside-out tracking algorithm. Google shuts down Google Poly. Nreal Light launches in Europe in Spring 2021. More info.

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