The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by VRTUOLUO) A leak shows a prototype of the Samsung XR headset We finally have a leak of the Samsung headset that makes us see something about it. The report talks about Samsung wanting to target the $1000–2000 range, which in my opinion risks being neither expensive nor affordable.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

So get ready to read some interesting XR news… Top news of the week (Image from Brad Lynch) Meta to launch Quest 3 in 2023, despite the layoffs During the latest earning calls, Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that Meta is going to launch a new device, the Quest 3, in 2023. But now some data about it is starting to be found.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

We all joked about Samsung waiting for the Apple Vision Pro announcement to copy it, but according to some rumors, this is exactly what is happening. This means that the release of this headset may not happen before the end of 2023 for sure. The survey takes about 15 minutes and covers VR, AR, and mixed reality sectors.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2024

The time has finally come: on the last day of 2023, Praydog has released to the world his first version of UEVR, a universal VR mod for all games made with Unreal Engine. Last week I’ve already told you about two new chips that Samsung has built and that may be used in this headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

It’s been another interesting week in immersive realities, so let’s see what happened in our field in the past few days! Top news of the week (Image by Google) Samsung XR headset may have been delayed The new rumor in town is that Samsung has delayed its upcoming headset that it is building in partnership with Google and Qualcomm.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2024

Trace has come out of stealth following its successful pre-seed funding round in which it raised two million dollars to support its location-based augmented reality (AR) creation platform. We’ve invested early because we believe they’re poised to make waves in the augmented reality and spatial computing industry.

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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. More info (Reality Check on 5G?—?1) 1) More info (Reality Check on 5G? Top news of the week. Cool to know!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Sony Interactive Entertainment has finally announced that PSVR 2 will be launched on February 22nd, 2023 for $549. The collaboration between Microsoft and Samsung is now over. According to a new leak, Microsoft scrapped the plans for a HoloLens 3, and also the collaboration with Samsung has been brought to an end.

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ARPost

JUNE 15, 2020

Augmented reality is rapidly becoming more popular. According to Statista research , projects for 2023 place AR technology value at more than 18 billion US dollars, while mobile AR user growth should hit 2.4 If you want to embrace this new technology in 2020, one way to do so is to create an augmented reality mobile application.

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Bernard Marr

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Take virtual and augmented reality, for example. Wearables becoming more sophisticated and powerful Fitness trackers such as the Fitbit wristbands, as well as smartwatches like Apple, Pixel, and Samsung models with inbuilt fitness tracking capabilities, have been with us for a while. Don’t forget mental health too!

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TechCrunch VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Despite short-term questions, games software/hardware to top $200 billion by 2023. Apple is seen by some as critical to the future of augmented reality, despite limited traction for ARKit so far and its absence from smartglasses (again, so far). More posts by this contributor.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

While virtual and augmented reality headsets have grown relatively commonplace in today’s landscape, mixed reality is an area that’s only just beginning to flourish. In fact, immersive headsets are becoming a commonplace investment for brands in the health, manufacturing, and construction sectors.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2023

The Reality Labs division’s revenue plummeted by $3.7 The firm expects losses to “increase meaningfully year-over-year due to ongoing product development efforts in augmented reality/virtual reality and investments to further scale our ecosystem.” percent from last year to $1.4

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

Hearables with augmented reality features are becoming ubiquitous thanks to the overall spread of wearables, the contribution of tech giants, and the growing demand for emerging technologies. How Augmented Reality Works. See Also: What Is the Difference between Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

While virtual and augmented reality headsets have grown relatively commonplace in today’s landscape, mixed reality is an area that’s only just beginning to flourish. In fact, immersive headsets are becoming a commonplace investment for brands in the health, manufacturing, and construction sectors.

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2023

Believers in virtual and augmented reality found themselves sleepless and stirring on the eve of Apple's keynote address at WWDC23. On June 5, 2023, Apple seemed to be doing it again. Augmented Reality. In 2014, Facebook acquired Oculus and planted a flag in virtual reality. Apple Vision Pro. Validation.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 8, 2020

Augmented Reality Experiences Will Save Brick and Mortar Retail. Retail is changing and Augmented Reality(AR) is playing a critical role in its evolution. By 2023, online spending will reach $969.70 And Augmented Reality is already proving to help physical retail fight back. by Tom Emrich.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Rumours of renewed work on Google’s Project Iris augmented reality (AR) smart glasses have surfaced on the internet, according to reports. This came as Meta and Microsoft began to work on their own augmented reality projects at the start of 2022, just before turmoil erupted across the global tech industry.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This Month, augmented reality (AR) solutions provider VIRNECT entered a strategic partnership to integrate its enterprise-grade immersive software onto the DigiLens ARGO smart glasses product. The move enables VIRCENT to offer its customers improved user experience, performance, and affordability.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Both plan to debut the joint effort at the Consumer Electronics Show 5 January 2023. The former offers motion commands to wireless robot arms, and the latter augments human strength. Samsung researchers recently published a report on augmented reality (AR) wearable devices which use artificial muscle actuators.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

So here’s an overview of some of the top trends on the radar for 2023: Hybrid and omnichannel customer journeys. This could be through innovative technology enabling personalization or virtual and augmented reality solutions (see below for more on all of these). Conscious consumers continue to define retail habits.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

More info (CREAL announcing its new lightfield innovation) More info (Video showing the technology in action) Samsung acquires eMagin Samsung has just acquired eMagin, an American manufacturer of OLED microdisplays for AR/VR headsets, for $218M.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 21, 2023

Google’s venture into Augmented Reality has been steeped in problems practically from day one. Google wanted to capitalize on the mystery and excitement around augmented reality. Once again, however, the Google Glass failure streak continued, with Google officially shutting down enterprise production in March 2023.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Augmented reality (AR) is becoming increasingly common in everyday life. We see evidence of augmented experiences on social media through 360-degree photos and videos. 2023: Enter Google ARCore Google’s convenient and easy-to-access ARSDK facilitates the development of WebAR experiences for cross-platform delivery.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

The most affected by this “restructuring operation” is the “1P AR Hardware” team, the one working on augmented reality devices. The Big-G is in fact focusing on strategic partnerships like the one with Qualcomm and Samsung to try to impose itself as the provider of the runtime for XR headsets.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

20 for 2020: Augmented Reality Trends and How They May Play Out This Year. What can we expect for augmented reality as we enter the first year of this brand new decade? Originally anticipated for 2020, the debut of a pair of AR glasses that would win over the masses is now being pushed out as far as 2023 for some.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. with Xiaomi, Oppo, Samsung, etc…) to convince hardware manufacturers to create headsets powered by Android XR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

According to this report, this is the plan that Meta has for the upcoming years in VR: Release Quest 3, focused on Mixed Reality, in 2023. I’m pretty excited by these growing rumors about Samsung because Samsung has always proposed interesting XR devices.

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VeeR VR

MARCH 16, 2018

Today, I have for you the top 5 predictions of the future for the virtual and augmented reality industry. According to John Carmack , Oculus CTO noted that the Oculus Go will perform "significantly better" than the Samsung Gear. I wrote another feature on VeeR of the 6 Best Standalone Virtual Reality (VR) Headsets in 2018.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

This made sure investors gained some trust for immersive reality startups again, something that will be beneficial for our whole industry. I think that the upcoming release of Quest 3, and the increasing rumors about Samsung are going to improve our situation even more. Let’s all hope so. Great job, Magnopus!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

The only possible explanation is that according to Sony’s projections, the VR market may truly become profitable for a console manufacturer around 2022–2023. Together with this piece of news, Bloomberg also reported that PSVR 2 will feature an OLED display manufactured by Samsung.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Samsung’s 2023 Unpacked event was all about the company’s Galaxy S23 hardware, although at the end of its hour-long presentation the South Korean tech giant announced it was working with Qualcomm and Google to develop an XR device. HoloLens), virtual reality (e.g. Meta Quest 2), and mixed reality (e.g.

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ARVR

JULY 26, 2022

Do you remember the excitement back to 2021… At any moment, both Apple and Meta were poised to launch full-blown AR headsets for the consumer market, Samsung teased a compelling AR glasses video, Snap was actually starting to ship an AR device, (albeit only for developers), and even Niantic was said to be working on glasses of their own.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. This is huge because we know that Samsung is able to always deliver good hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

Image by Samsung). Samsung is close to launching an XR device, or maybe two. Last month, we got to know that (according to a rumor) Samsung is working together with Microsoft on new AR glasses, most probably powered by a Qualcomm chipset. Samsung has apparently completed a prototype, and “is deciding the release date”.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 17, 2023

Maybe that would account for 3% of your users on one Samsung device. The founder believes that “ in general, you’ll see advances come out either sponsored by companies like Samsung specifically for their phones” to support native immersive application development. AR is very processor intensive. Apple does.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

According to the news outlet DigiTimes, Apple will use Taiwan-based Pegatron as its sole assembly manufacturer for it, and mass production of the device is set to begin “at the end of the first quarter of 2023”. The famous journalist Charlie Fink has had an amazing experience trying Augmented Reality on a small combat plane.

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