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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. Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? Top news of the week.
Road to VR
JANUARY 24, 2024
It was only on the platform for a few years however, and was gone long before Microsoft shut down Altspace VR in March 2023. Wizards of the Coast partnered with now-defunct social VR platform Altspace VR in 2015 to bring the actual D&D tabletop game to VR for the first time officially.
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TechCrunch VR
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Despite short-term questions, games software/hardware to top $200 billion by 2023. Yet Facebook , Microsoft and others are arguably more important to where the market is today. VR/AR startup valuations reach $45 billion (on paper). Facebook Messenger , Instagram , TikTok , Snapchat , Line ).
The Ghost Howls
JUNE 13, 2022
This WWDC has not been an exception in this sense, and now all the Apple analysts (including Kuo and Scoble) already envision a reveal of the Apple headset for January 2023. Rumors already talk about a new AR headset produced by Microsoft in collaboration with Samsung that should substitute it, but we have no sure info about it.
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.
The Ghost Howls
DECEMBER 23, 2019
Facebook is reportedly working on its AR glasses (made with Luxottica) that should be released in 2023. Besides that, it is also hiring key figures to make this AR dream a reality : the operating system project will be supervised by Mark Lucovsky, a former Microsoft engineer who co-developed Windows NT. Top news of the week.
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. Oculus Quest introduces multi-tasking in Runtime v30.
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