ARVR

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Metaverses are in line with the tech trend Oculus Quest reported sales growth, which indicates higher accessibility of VR equipment for the general audience. Centralism If we take a look at metaverses developers, the list will mostly consist of the ‘big guys’: Microsoft, Meta, Epic, etc. It’s so exciting to see where it all goes.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2022

What’s more, the company is also responsible for one of the most powerful and affordable VR headsets available – the Oculus Quest. Microsoft already stands as one of the biggest gaming companies in the world, thanks to the development of the Xbox ecosystem.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Apple has been prototyping headsets for years, and recent reports from The Information and Bloomberg suggest that Apple could release a headset as early as 2022 that could cost as much as $3,000. All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

For instance: Meta: Meta’s Oculus devices not only work alongside a wide range of different hardware solutions, but they’re also designed to support countless different types of software too seamlessly. As Meta continues to build out its version of the ”metaverse”, we will likely see new partnerships emerge.

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

Increased Adoption of AR in E-Commerce According to a recent survey, 38% of marketers reported using AR in 2022. Companies like Google, Microsoft, Lenovo, and Vuzix are developing smart glasses to enhance the AR experience. It’s a significant increase from the 23% reported in 2017. See Also: Should You Buy a Quest 2?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

— VR Nima (@NimaZeighami) January 5, 2022. I’ve seen what companies are doing nowadays to use tracked props on the Oculus Quest: they have to add bulky mounts to install the even bulkier Touch controllers on them. Oculus Quest 2 ) to know the pose of the fingers. Now let’s dig into the best news!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Image leaked from Oculus runtime). The design of Oculus Quest 2 Pro and controllers has been leaked. The negative reputation could stick with the social network, but not influence products like Oculus headsets, for instance. Facebook releases the Oculus Go unlocked runtime. Now the super-reliable release date is Q4 2022.

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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. The new holographic displays will ship with a number of standalone demos on them, including one from Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios.

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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. Since Meta made the acquisition and took over Oculus, VRTUOLUO began to write original and in-depth articles on the XR industry. Screengrab of the VRTUOLUO website.

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ARVR

JUNE 9, 2021

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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AR Insider

JANUARY 18, 2021

You’re going to need them in the new normal and, hopefully, at CES back in the real world, 2022. The experience will debut this winter on PSVR and Oculus. The company is currently developing an email service to compete with Google and Microsoft. Hot topics included Healthtech, foldable screens and 5G (yes, again).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Average prices per ad dropped 22 percent YoY but a jump of 18 percent YoY for 2022. Revenues for Q4 and 2022 totalled $32.17 billion for 2022. Meta currently has 86,482 employees across its workforce as of the end of 2022. billion and $116.61 billion, respectively. Revenues would have reached a further $2.01

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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 ]”. Image by Microsoft). News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. 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! 2022 could be the key year for XR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. And the same holds for Google, which is applying similar restrictions.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The news of the week is that Meta is poaching talents from all the other companies : in particular, it has been able to “steal” 100 employees from the HoloLens team in Microsoft. PlayStation VR2 is not confirmed for 2022, yet. PSVR 2 is one of the most awaited headsets of 2022. The most bullish of them is, of course, Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

More info (Use Google Translate). Google Chrome now supports WebAR. More info (Google Chrome 81 supports AR) More info (Nicolò Carpignoli’s initiative). Image by Microsoft). Add custom environments to your Oculus Quest… if you can. The problem is: it seems that in latest update Oculus has removed this feature….

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

It’s been ten years since Meta – then Facebook – bought emerging VR start-up Oculus and, in turn, formed its Reality Labs division. Since the Oculus purchase in 2014, the firm has released numerous headsets, most notably the Quest range, which now includes mixed and virtual reality products. But the race is on.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

For example, the two firms teamed up to present an immersive broadcast of the Tour de France in 2022. Moreover, last year, Nreal partnered with University researchers and Microsoft to leverage its smart glasses technology as a medical device. Firms like Orange are working with NReal to enhance broadcasts with AR visuals.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

Arrives in 2022, with glasses to follow sometime before 2025). When I worked at Microsoft I got in trouble with the lawyers over patents so they made me sleep with a lawyer (true story, that was my punishment). ” He said “I learned Google is learning faster than we are.” New 3D experiences for inside cars.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 4, 2019

The Apple Privacy Wall/Strategy Analysis of How Apple will Come at Oculus Next Year. Irena and I are hearing that one of the devices, er, AR/VR head-mounted displays, Apple is considering launching next year could go directly after Oculus Quest and the rest of the VR space. Go after Oculus Quest as “not capable enough.”

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. The device will be sold exclusively as an enterprise device, starting from 2022. At the event, it should just tease the new device, to then announce it formally at CES 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. 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?). But it is anyway great news and makes us hope for a great 2022 for the whole XR ecosystem. (Image from Reddit).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

Tender Claws and Google ARCore. As extended reality gaming experiences continue to take the world by storm, leading cloud and technology vendors like Google are offering game creators and developers an easy avenue into the ecosystem. RoboRaid and Microsoft HoloLens. Alta VR, AWS, and Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Sounded good.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Not to mention the millions spent on marketing , especially in the US (Oculus was one of the sponsors of NBA, for instance).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Before leaving you to the news of the week, let me just tell you two things that may interest you: If you missed them, don’t forget to read my predictions about augmented reality and virtual reality in 2022; This Thursday at 5 pm CET AWE Nite Florence comes back! It’s basically a monopoly. But there is also bad news to talk about.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

I think that from the results of this battle, which will happen most probably in 2022, we will understand the trends that will drive the VR gaming market in all the upcoming years. Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. You can now use consumer devices inside Oculus For Business.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

According to Youtuber Sadly It’s Bradley, Project Cambria should come half of this year (Q2 2022) and have MiniLED screens and pancake lenses. More info (Apple XR headset to feature three displays) More info (Quest 3 and Project Cambria leaks) More info (Social Oculus Home is coming) More info (Meta to unify its social VR experiences).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook). References found in Quest 2 firmware hint to Quest Pro features.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

PSVR 2 is probably coming in 2022 and with a slow transition. So, PSVR2 probably won’t launch before 2022 : Sony can afford that also because it has no competition in the console VR space , so there is no need to rush. And don’t worry, your favorite ghost will keep haunting you with VR news all over the year, not only during Halloween!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

If it keeps this pace, it could go beyond the 10M mark in 2022. Oculus official side distribution platform is coming soon. Last year, Facebook announced that it was going to release in 2021 a new side content distribution platform for the Oculus Quest. Google makes Tilt Brush opensource. This is both bad and good news.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

The story goes on telling that Apple VR headset had realistic visuals and sound, it was super-cool and probably we’ll see a release date of 2022/2023. Ready At Dawn was already collaborating with Oculus since various years, so this is not surprising. Google experiments on Lightfields streaming. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

Image by Google). Project Iris is the codename of Google’s AR glasses. According to a report on The Verge, Google is working on AR glasses. The operating system should be Android, but it seems that Google is also building an operating system specific for XR. Image by Microsoft). What about yours?

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Billion ad spend by 2022. While not swapping anything out, Google is attempting to make the world an ad through its visual search app–Google Lens. Chatbots are expected to power 85% of all customer service interactions by 2020 and result in a cost savings of $8B annually by 2022.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 1, 2019

We have already seen some devices like Google Glass that gave us a taste of how they would improve the world, even while introducing new problems, deepest amongst them was that they didn’t provide enough benefit to offset the real social costs of wearing a computing device and the weight that a computer put on our face.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. I’d say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. And we also look at consumer software numbers as a whole.

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