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MAY 11, 2023

During its I/O 2023 conference, Google said it will share more about its 'Android collaboration' with Samsung on 'immersive XR' later this year. Samsung revealed in February that it was partnering with Google and Qualcomm to develop XR hardware, with Qualcomm providing the chipset and Google handling "the software".

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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. Especially Apple and Google, which are the dominant players in the smartphone industry, are both launching headsets this year.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 31, 2023

HTC Vive has been doing it for a while” He later quotes D an O’Brien, President, Americas, HTC , stating use case data from the Taoyuan-based firm. Biting into the Apple Demond Cureton, Senior Journalist, XR Today , analysing the commentary from HTC’s chief on the Apple Vision Pro. USD in 2023, up $866.04

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2023

Groups like Microsoft are leveraging a collapsing military contact to keep its IVAS device lineup alive for further funding, and HTC VIVE took note to explain the importance of enterprise end-users in discussion with the World Economic Forum. Meta’s Q2 Earnings, Startup Program, and Quest Security Upgrades It was a busy month for Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

As I said a few months ago , we are in the middle of a paradigm change: the cycle that started with the Quest is arriving at an end, and a new cycle driven by new technologies (mixed reality headsets) and new players (Apple, Google) is starting. Google and Samsung Prototype of the Samsung XR headset. None of them made XR to skyrocket.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 4, 2024

The chipset also helps boost consumer and enterprise-grade XR use cases on headsets and smartglasses by leveraging partnerships with Samsung, Google, Tobii, and Goertek to provide visual clarity for gaming and productivity applications. A leading selling point of the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset is the hardware’s ability to unlock 4.3K

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2022

Since the hardware is almost ready, the company is now ramping up the development of the actual rOS (Reality OS) operating system, for the launch that may happen in 2023. Google launches “Immersive Stream for AR”. Chinese giant Baidu (The Google of China) has announced its XiRang platform aimed at building the metaverse.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

While events such as CES 2023 highlighted some of the best immersive innovations, caution loomed across the industry following the hard holiday period of 2022. For example, Snap is seeing an upturn in success following immersive hardware blunders, and Google is going on strong despite significant layoffs.

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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. Samsung was one of the first truly massive tech companies to develop VR hardware.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

Moreover, in 2023, Meta sees partnerships with various large-scale companies to scale its immersive solutions, notably through a Ray-Ban collaboration over smart glasses and a recent alliance with LG to create unconfirmed AI-ready XR products. In the final quarter of 2023, Meta secured $7.8 While the Reality Labs division did lose $4.65

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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. Magic Leap is developing an AR industrial hardware solution that projects immersive imagery on real-world locations to assist end clients with various tasks.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

Carmack seems to have gotten the performance he wanted out of VR hardware, but not from Zuckerberg’s organization. ” “While we will continue to find ways to work more efficiently, what won’t change in 2023 is our vision and the long-term research effort we’re undertaking to get there,” Bosworth wrote.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Who doesn’t want to do that can still use his/her Oculus account to log in until 2023 , but he/she won’t be able to use all the social functionalities of the device (like Venues, Horizon, etc…). After 2023, the devices won’t be guaranteed to work with an Oculus login. The same on Twitter. Other relevant news. Image by Epic Games).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 17, 2023

Veteran analyst Ming-Chi Kuo tweeted earlier in April that Apple would push back the headset’s launch to later in 2023. Depending on its product price point, it could push into the growing mixed reality headset space, competing with the Meta Quest Pro, HTC VIVE XR Elite, Pico 4 Enterprise, and many others.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The firm’s first XR headset is due soon, and with it comes a spatial computing ambition that draws similarities and differences to Lenovo, Microsoft, Meta, HTC VIVE, and other XR headset vendors. On the other hand, Apple is not the only XR firm pushing for interoperability and cross-pollination of hardware and software.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

There are many limitations to this mod, plus the application is not on sale anymore so only existing players can mod it, but it made me smile the idea that the community managed to restore the game in a way More info Meta Reality Lab’s revenues dropped in Q3 In Q3 2023, Meta had its lowest revenues for Reality Labs.

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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. Don’t miss them!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Image by HTC Vive). HTC teases a new headset. HTC has started the usual marketing operation it does for the launch of every new device. We don’t have further details about it, and if you try to enhance the above image, you just get a “Nice try” trolling label coming to view (gg HTC for that). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

2020 has been a good year for the sales of VR devices : Half-Life Alyx and the launch of the Quest 2 have created a big spike in the sales of VR hardware and software. I expect all these trends to continue in 2021, for a year that will see the growth of the technology on all its sides (software and hardware).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The glasses, codenamed Orion, should be made to replace smartphones and are slated for a release date of 2023–2025, that seems very reasonable, considering that no present tech is able to create truly consumer AR. HTC has a new CEO: Yves Maitre. All of this seems cool, but also very confused. The Oculus Connect 6 is coming!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Horizon game is coming for this new headset, and some rumors talk also about Half-Life: Alyx potentially be available in the future; HTC has announced the Vive Wrist Tracker, a 6 DOF tracker for the Vive Focus 3. Let me quote the article: “We were giving away the hardware but making money on the data,” he said.

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APRIL 3, 2023

The most technically impressive VR demo I tried at GDC 2023 felt familiar. The software from Google’s Owlchemy Labs ran on Quest 2. “This demo that we’re giving you here feels a lot like what 2015 HTC Vive at GDC demo was.” technology with Owlchemy’s fine tuning layered on top. ” Eiche asks.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Here below I’m posting for you the best offers I’ve found: for instance, HTC is discounting basically every piece of hardware (including Vive Trackers that can be useful for all the VRChat fans out there), while Pico is offering one of the best deals with €100-worth-of-content given for free with every purchased Pico 4.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Google revealed Glass the same year the first Oculus prototype hit the scene. The following year, Google introduced Cardboard, a super cheap and extremely clever smartphone accessory. Image Credits: TechCrunch When HTC began imagining life after the smartphone, it looked a lot like VR. They were slick, they were robust.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Read on for my breakdown of the Vision Pro hardware and software and the experience they enable. That Damn Battery Arguably the fiercest hardware debate right now in the industry is what to do with the damn battery.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google killed its AR glasses Project Iris Do you remember the name Project Iris? Various reports indicated it as the internal codename in Google for a project meant to build augmented reality glasses. It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Its huge investments are also attracting all the other major tech companies to enter the metaverse field, and Apple and Google will surely release some XR devices in the upcoming years because of that. We can object to lots of things about Meta, and you can also say that it is doing the right things but for the wrong reason (i.e.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. What was your biggest challenge?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. What was your biggest challenge?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

This openness reflects also on the hardware side, where Pico has just announced a partnership with Ultraleap to bring its hand-tracking device to Pico via an adapter. In case there is another platform involved, e.g. Android, 30% will go to Google, and 25% of the remaining money (i.e. Apple glasses may have been delayed to 2023.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. What was your biggest challenge?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

So Snap is a company to keep an eye on for what concerns glasses, and it is cool that is working on a new version of its hardware. HTC releases eye and face tracking for Vive Focus 3. HTC doesn’t want to lose the VR train, so it has just found a creative way of competing with Meta Quest Pro. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

According to the rumor, the collaboration should end in 2023, with the first product launched in 2024, a year that is compatible with a consumer-prosumer release of an XR device. This gives more power to Google Glass, that are not doing that bad in the enterprise environment after a total disaster as a prosumer device. It is very cool.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Meta has not explained why it was removed: some people suspect it was because it could have been used “to see through some clothes”, but I don’t know if the truth is actually some software/hardware incompatibility. Most probably Meta is bringing the hardware, Microsoft the platform (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The event has not featured any important hardware announcement, because it was all focused on declaring the new shift of focus of Facebook. He stressed many times how he wants to empower creators, and how he wants to provide free tools for content creators and cheap hardware for the users. Are you ready?

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