XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

Industry conversation on the Metaverse and XR has also fuelled discussions across the Augmented World Expo (AWE) USA 2023. Speaking on the upcoming Apple Reality Pro headset, he explained how Lucky Palmer, Founder, Oculus said Apple’s device was “excellent.”

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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.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Will Google Incubate AR Inside Search? Is Google Building an ‘Internet of Places?’ ’ Is Oculus Quest VR’s ‘iPhone Moment?’ 5 Million AR Headsets by 2023? Billion by 2023. Billion by 2023. Has Oculus Sold 333,000 Quest’s So Far? Begun, The Wearables Wars Have.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2024

It is not the first time Meta partnered with an external company for a new device and in most cases this choice paid off: both the Gear VR (Samsung) and the Oculus Go (Xiaomi) were pretty good products. But will it be enough now to beat Apple?

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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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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. The Oculus Connect 6 is coming! All of this seems cool, but also very confused. Other relevant news.

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JANUARY 14, 2023

” Sometime I wonder what the path to consumer VR would have looked like if Palmer Luckey & Brendan Iribe hadn’t sold Oculus to Facebook. What if Oculus hadn’t hired researchers like Abrash from Valve? If you can’t onboard people quickly you can’t have a mass market product.” ” Yup. Got fired today.

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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. Let me tell you why.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

I’m overly happy to announce to you that today we of New Technology Walkers have launched our VR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded on Oculus App Lab ! Regarding the controllers, we know that they are similar to the Oculus Touch but with force-feedback triggers and more nuanced haptic sensations. Google Tensor chip is made for AI and AR.

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AR Insider

MARCH 10, 2020

And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. billion by 2023. That makes the smartphone installed base 700x our 2023 projection for AR glasses’ installed base (5 million in-market units). This is true if counting Apple (ARkit) and Google (ARcore) compatibility. billion by 2023. Mobile: The Near Term Play.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In 2018 it partnered with Google on the $400 Mirage Solo , the first standalone headset with positional tracking launched outside China – though it was overshadowed by Facebook’s $200 rotation-only Oculus Go. And in 2019 it partnered with Facebook on Oculus Rift S. Lenovo has a relatively long history in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Facebook is reportedly working on its AR glasses (made with Luxottica) that should be released in 2023. Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. This has been a great week for all Oculus Quest users and developers. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook). This is something we already knew.

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JUNE 6, 2023

On June 5, 2023, Apple seemed to be doing it again. In 2014, Facebook acquired Oculus and planted a flag in virtual reality. Inarguably, Meta in 2023 is the leader in VR with combination of Quest 2 and Quest 3 likely to make it one of the hottest selling game consoles in the world. Then Tim Cook said "One More Thing".

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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.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The report, which hasn’t received comment from either Facebook or Luxottica, maintains that the device should launch to consumers sometime between 2023 – 2025. Notably, Luxottica partnered with Google in 2014 to design and distribute additional frames for Google Glass in effort to make the smartglasses a high fashion item.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

AR is a widely used feature on smartphones now, while smart glasses are slowly growing, waiting for the big shots of 2023 (yes, Apple, I’m looking at you). The interest towards Oculus has grown up during the Holidays. More info (Subscriber count of subreddits) More info (Google searches for “Oculus”).

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Microsoft, Google and Apple all have their own approaches to augmented reality and virtual reality, but the race for the face is particularly critical to Facebook and Amazon, because they have yet to establish computing gateways. Meanwhile, heftier VR products from Facebook’s Oculus and Magic Leap have mostly been for gamers.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The launch of Apple Vision Pro is in some ways the most significant event for the XR industry since the acquisition of Oculus by Meta back in 2014. Alas, Vision Pro was announced in 2023 and shipped earlier this year. At the time Nepveu left Apple, the headset was “supposed to ship in 2019.”

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2023

VR is already here VR is here to stay This talking again if VR is dead or is the new 3DTV in 2023 is just utter nonsense because VR is already here. Think about what happened to VR: we had the Oculus devkits, which interested only us developers. It is not a continuous line, but there are many jumps. I was so young and naive.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

In December 2012 I published my first in-depth article after a demo with a hand-built Oculus VR prototype. A decade later, Oculus VR is gone “ for now ” and the earliest faces to rally developer and enthusiast support for the imminent consumer revival of virtual reality have moved to other startups.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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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. Top news of the week. Mechanical IPD is confirmed.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus brands disappears. And most importantly, the Oculus brand will disappear and will just become Meta : Oculus Quest will be the Meta Quest (yes, it sounds terribly, I know). He says that “We all have a strong attachment to the Oculus brand, and this was a very difficult decision to make”, but I don’t believe him at all.

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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. We can expect so all big tech companies to comply with it in 2023.

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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. Oculus Quest introduces multi-tasking in Runtime v30. The update pace of the Oculus Quest is impressive. News worth a mention. Image by Telecomwaring).

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 31, 2019

And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. billion by 2023 according to our projections. This is dominated by AR lenses in social channels, but other formats like visual search will gain share over time as Google pushes the technology. But there are also confidence signals. billion in 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

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. It’s been another interesting week in immersive realities, so let’s see what happened in our field in the past few days!

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ARVR

MAY 13, 2021

BigQuery from Google Cloud has many powerful features that allow users to view their data in real-time, providing continual up-to-date information to help guide business decisions. It integrates seamlessly with the Google Cloud AI platform and other tools like Data Studio. The device uses Google’s Cloud Healthcare API.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 27, 2020

SEE ALSO New Oculus Users Required to Use Facebook Account Starting in October, Existing Users by 2023. Before I thought about it much, when it came to privacy, I was roughly in the camp of ‘what’s to worry about if you have nothing to hide? ” My answer is a definitive yes , and I think any honest person would agree.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

This week, the analysts Ming-Chi Kuo has teased that Apple Glasses are coming in 2022 at the earliest (2022–2023 timeline). The rumors also talk about a headset coming in 2022 with AR/VR and another one coming in 2023 as a smartglass. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0. This is another thing that will help indies.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

After announcing $3 million in seed funding from investors including The Venture Reality Fund and Oculus founder Nate Mitchell, AstroBeam says its focus will be on creating "more comfortable, more accessible, and more human ways to hangout and have fun with friends in VR." In 2017, Google acquired Owlchemy Labs.

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TechCrunch VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Despite short-term questions, games software/hardware to top $200 billion by 2023. Facebook has talked about its long-term potential to launch smartglasses, but in 2020, its primary presence in the AR market is as a mobile AR platform (note: Facebook is also a VR market leader with Oculus ). Apple ARKit, Google ARCore ).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 14, 2023

Araujo also said that the firm will set up a dedicated organization for immersive product planning and R&D while collaborating “closely” with affiliate companies and partners – including “a mid-to-long-term collaboration with leading partners like Google and Qualcomm.”

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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. Oculus hardware vs software.

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JUNE 9, 2023

Google chickened out , Microsoft got distracted , and it's totally understandable if you lost interest in VR when they did. Yes, Google might still be resurgent with Android, powered by Owlchemy's insights and Samsung's hardware , and other companies might surprise with a novel strategy too. This is happening.

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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.

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