ARVR

APRIL 5, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.” ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2020

billion since its initial Series A financing in 2014, garnering cash from the likes of Google, Alibaba, Qualcomm, and Andreessen Horowitz over the years. A wider launch is said to come a some point in 2021. Other options reportedly under consideration are potential partnerships and a stake sale.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Image by Oculus). Facebook is working on a new version of the Oculus Quest. According to a report by Bloomberg, Oculus is working on a new Oculus Quest model, and it has already done prototypes that are lighter and more powerful than the current device. In my opinion, 2021 is a better year to talk about a new Quest.

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ARVR

APRIL 15, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.” ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

In his report, he states that Taiwanese lens manufacturer, Yujingguang is working on next-generation lenses, and these could be installed in the upcoming next-gen PSVR and next-gen Quest (Quest 3 or Quest 2 Pro, depending on Facebook’s strategy). Apple announces minor XR news at WWDC 2021.

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ARVR

JUNE 2, 2021

They’re each building wearables strategies that support or future-proof their core businesses, where tens of billions in annual revenues are at stake. Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 Master Plan Picking up where we left off last week, what’s Facebook’s wearables play? Social Experiment That brings us back to wearables.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Original image by Oculus). Oculus kills the Go and opens to content on Quest. In the end, the time of the Oculus Go has come. Devices like Oculus Quest , Pico Neo 2 , and Vive Focus Plus have proven that 6DOF VR is more interesting and has far more retention. Google is going to buy North. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It was in the air in the last weeks and finally, the time has come: Facebook is being sued for monopolization and anticompetitive strategy. The actions coming from the US are not much related to VR and Oculus, but mostly to the social space. In Germany, instead, the legal action regards the mandatory Facebook login for Oculus Quest 2.

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ARVR

MARCH 29, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.”

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Through comprehensive media services (mainly including media coverage, expert consultation, data research, and event and public relation management), it helps entrepreneurs with idea incubation, financing, strategy consultation, and publicity. Pictures from FBEC 2021 (Image from VRTUOLUO) Who will be the most important speakers?

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AllThingsVR

JANUARY 12, 2017

But now the market has actually launched, and we’ve got 12 months of real-world performance and major tech players’ strategies emerging. Facebook (Oculus Rift) and HTC (Vive) had growing pains at launch, whether slower than expected shipping or order cancellations. And that’s changed our views on VR/AR growth.

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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. Coming in May 2021 , with first units sents to reviewers in January 2021, because the product is almost ready. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on. PS5 + PSVR2.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. Oculus fixes two of the greatest issues of Oculus Link.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 4, 2019

The Apple Privacy Wall/Strategy Analysis of How Apple will Come at Oculus Next Year. Contact Irena Cronin or me if you need business strategy help to enter the Spatial Computing world. Since Oculus has such a head start, especially with its $400 Quest, how could Apple crush it? Same with Google. VR IS UNSAFE.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2023

I was looking back at my 8+ years in the field, and I could identify already a few cycles of consumer XR: The devkit cycle: it’s the era of the good old days of Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2. This era ended with the launch of the first consumer-oriented PC VR headsets: the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift CV1. The big dogs are all coming.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

” Measures taken in the initiative included consolidation strategies for its real estate to “sublease, early terminate, or abandon” some offices under lease. This reflects actions taken at Google, Snap, Microsoft, and Apple over the last few months regarding their respective smart glass offerings.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. The VR ecosystem can end 2021 with a big smile on its face. The sales of Oculus Quest 2 have been great during the holidays , and the Quest has been a Christmas gift very much appreciated by kids (but wasn’t there an age limit?). A look back at 2021. (Image from Reddit).

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

That’s around 67% of the $1 trillion it was said to be worth at its peak in 2021. More recently, the company was sued for creating and storing face-recognition profiles of millions of users without their permission, leading to a $650 million settlement in 2021. There will still be a next iteration of the internet, or a web 3.0.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Meta’s earnings report for 2021 has both lights and shadows. We were all waiting for it, and then it finally arrived: Meta has finally released its earning reports for 2021, and for the first time it treated its Reality Labs division as a separate entity, so we know how well it is performing. Top news of the week. Image by Meta).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

score on the Oculus App Lab now. In the meanwhile, if you can, go giving 5 stars to the cube on App Lab … who knows if Facebook may consider promoting it on the main Oculus Store…. As for the controllers, they look like a mix of the Oculus Touch and the controllers of the Vive Focus Plus, with some important ergonomic adjustments.

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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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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The first Oculus Rift prototype reignited the conversation when it arrived in 2012. In 2014, the social media giant purchased Oculus for nearly $3 billion. Google revealed Glass the same year the first Oculus prototype hit the scene.

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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. And where do you see XR going in 2021? So I want to just start with that.

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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. And where do you see XR going in 2021? So I want to just start with that.

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ARVR

JANUARY 29, 2021

Top 17 Augmented Reality Statistics, Facts and Trends for 2021 and Beyond 3. Tech analyst Jon Prosser has already leaked that Apple is working on a set of AR glasses, currently set to be released in 2023 at the earliest (though some industry insiders claim that initial small-volume production of the glasses will start as early as 2021).

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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. And where do you see XR going in 2021? So I want to just start with that.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Everyone of us already knew that Gear VR was a platform almost abandoned when Oculus announced the Oculus Go. Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. Original image by Oculus). Xiaomi disbands the Mi VR team, with unknown effects on Oculus Go. Gear VR is dead.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 keeps showing impressive sales stats. And the result is that, according to SuperData , in Q4 2021 the Quest has sold 3x units than all the other headsets combined. Since the game works through the Oculus Store, it can exploit all the features of the Oculus SDK (e.g. Top news of the week. easy updates).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Oculus and Respawn Entertainment teased it in 2017 at OC4 describing it as an AAA war game. Throughout this year, we got always more info about it: at first the name, then the setting (WWII), then compatible platforms (both Oculus Store and Steam), and finally, this week, even some info on the multiplayer modes. More info.

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