The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

The release date should have been early 2024, but it seems that the Korean company has informed its suppliers that this date may have been moved forward of “one to two quarters”. But the bad news is another one: it seems that the release schedule of the Apple Vision “had to be pushed back”, probably into 2026.

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AR Insider

APRIL 6, 2020

Data Point of the Week is AR Insider’s dive into the latest spatial computing figures. It also includes VR’s immersion and escapism (entertainment); and AR’s applications in workplace collaboration and home services (utility). units by 2024, which is a compound annual growth rate of 81.5 Drilling Down.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Meta and Apple are building from different directions a path to the same future with virtual worlds to visit, spatial calling with hyper-realistic avatars, and all day augmentation. VR: Starting With Meta Quest Meta started with VR as Facebook in 2014 by acquiring Oculus.

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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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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Held in Altspace VR, the talk boiled down the top-5 trends and predictions, which are included below through narrative takeaways and embedded video. AR Glasses’ 2021 Fate. The question on everybody’s mind is AR glasses…, particularly what Apple will end up doing. Mobile AR Reaches 800M Users.

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ARVR

APRIL 15, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.” billion in 2024.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Many people are analyzing the Apple Vision Pro… including the ones at Meta Here you are with the usual huge roundup of news about the Apple Vision Pro (a roundup in a roundup). And now let’s dig into the most relevant pieces of XR news of the week! A must-read article.

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MARCH 27, 2024

On March 25, 2014 the world learned Mark Zuckerberg purchased Oculus VR for over $2 billion. Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, for example, tried and failed to ship better PC VR headsets than the Rift as standalone VR became Zuckerberg's focused strategy. Facebook had around 10,000 employees when it acquired Oculus in 2014.

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Ryan Schultz

APRIL 28, 2024

Many people are already talking about the death of the Apple Vision Pro…what’s the real story? This report ignited no shortage of opinions on the matter, both pro and con, with some even going so far as to say that the Apple Vision Pro was “dead.” And the Apple Vision Pro memes were in abundance.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

There are so periods during the evolution of a tech with a certain group of leaders, who change over time. In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

We plan to continue maintaining the system software with critical bug fixes and security patches until 2024. Some selected developers have received the Apple headset. Could this really be the year of the Apple headset? DigiLens has unveiled its first AR headset. We won’t be delivering new features to Quest 1.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Apple officially revealed the Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. It's an ultra high-end "spatial computer" packing in the highest resolution and most sensors ever in an AR/VR product. Apple says the battery will last for 2 hours of general use or 2.5 hours (video) 1.5-2.5 5 GHz) 6E (2.4+5+6 hours (video) 1.5-2.5

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL, SNE, and NVDA According to the latest report from Statista , the global augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) markets are rapidly growing and are forecast to reach a total of $72.8 billion by 2024, a five-year CAGR increase of 54%. the year of AR glasses?

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Alas, there is no word yet on when we non-Americans will be able to order this device, although at least one VR YouTuber, Brian Tong, has heard (via his unofficial, internal sources) that Apple is planning to expand access to the U.K. Apple has announced in a Feb. And yes, I do mean expensive. On the U.S.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (HTC Vive Ultimate Tracker — Road To VR) More info (HTC Vive Ultimate Tracker — Upload VR) Valve releases its own version of Quest Link Out of the blue, Valve has launched Steam Link, which basically is… Oculus Air Link offered directly by SteamVR. This would show the level of polish of the upcoming Apple headset.

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MAY 17, 2024

Quest 2 Is On The Way Out, And Meta Needs A Direct Replacement Quest 2 launched at $100 lower than the original Oculus Quest, so Meta discontinued it immediately. Meta Reportedly Plans Cheaper Headset For 2024 Quest 3 Lite? Meta plans a cheap “accessible” headset for 2024, according to a Meta roadmap leaked to The Verge.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

You can see that the user is holding a Touch Plus controller (with the Oculus logo on the home button as some devkits have) confirming this. I bet that Meta will do the second, showing use cases also for productivity and other stuff, because gaming is proving to be just a niche for XR and mixed reality indoor games are usually not that fun.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Meta is reportedly optimistic about the release of Apple Vision Pro, seeing itself as the future Android of the market. The Wall Street Journal cites "people familiar with their thinking" as saying that Meta executives believe Apple's entry into the market will "validate Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble and draw more consumers".

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It is understood that the headset aims to compete with the Apple Vision Pro, which comes with an eye-watering price tag of $3,499. Media reports suggest that Meta’s budget-friendly headset, codenamed Ventura, will be released in 2024, The Verge leaked in March.

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MAY 11, 2023

Last year The Verge reported Google was working on its own headset for 2024 codenamed Project Iris, also running a new variant of Android but powered by a Google chipset. Google also said it started testing AR glasses in public last year, after acquiring North and its Focals smart glasses platform in 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2022

Snap launched a drone and various AR services. Apart from the usual announcements of millions of users and billions of AR filters created, the company has revealed some cool news. Snap is doing a very interesting job in AR. Goodbye Oculus brand. More info (Meta stores) More info (Oculus website disappearing).

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AR Insider

JUNE 30, 2021

To put some numbers behind that, 75 percent of apps in Apple’s App Store’s first year were paid apps — similar to VR today. “Today, there are only about 18 percent of applications in VR stores such as Steam and Oculus which are free,” said Admix CEO Samuel Huber at an AWE EU event.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The hype for the Apple Pro is starting to deflate and it is possible to see that from some cues: for instance, there are more critics of the headset and fewer articles are talking about it. So at the beginning of next year, we may have huge players like Apple, Google, and Meta battling for the high-end XR sector.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

During the event, NVIDIA introduced CloudXR, which lets standalone devices stream enterprise-ready AR/VR/MR content, such as digital twins, to less powerful computing devices like a Quest or smartphone. Developer Platform spoke to XR Today during GTC 2024 to highlight how NVIDIA plans to scale spatial computing solutions for the workplace.

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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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AR Insider

JUNE 30, 2021

To put some numbers behind that, 75 percent of apps in Apple’s App Store’s first year were paid apps — similar to VR today. “Today, there are only about 18 percent of applications in VR stores such as Steam and Oculus which are free,” said Admix CEO Samuel Huber at an AWE EU event.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. These are the conditions specified on the website: We’ll loan you a Vision Pro developer kit to prepare your app for the launch of the new App Store on Vision Pro.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 14, 2023

Some are saying that once the XR devices become widely penetrated, it would bring fundamental change to the way people live beyond what had happened by the smartphone. For example, in 2022, the firm shared an experimental AR-Haptic artificial muscle actuator and a range of digital twin technology solutions.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The reserve pass-through cameras also enable Meta to take another direct shot at soon-to-be market competitor Apple; the firm is equally providing a reserve pass-through feature in its upcoming Vision Pro device. 2024: What are the Next Steps for Meta? 2023 started off with scepticism.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

There’s a lot of hardware on the horizon, with confirmed and rumored AR and VR headsets abound — PSVR 2, an Apple mixed reality headset, the Lynx R-1 and more. Apple Headset. Apple has yet to officially confirm the existence of its mixed reality headset. There’s also new (and bundled) Sense controllers.

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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. Apple Vision Pro Specs, Features & Details Apple officially revealed the full Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own. But does it deliver?

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JANUARY 10, 2024

There's already a Chinese knockoff of Apple Vision Pro, and we tried it on at CES. EmdoorVR's AX162 It's clearly designed to resemble Apple Vision Pro as closely as possible, to ride the wave of Vision Pro's reputation and popularity. A to-scale 3D render of the real Apple Vision Pro at a very similar angle.

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JUNE 4, 2024

The S here is being used in the same sense as Xbox Series S, to mean a cheaper model, not in the same sense Apple used to use for iPhones. Quest 2 launched at $100 lower than the original Oculus Quest, so Meta discontinued it immediately. Meta Reportedly Plans Cheaper Headset For 2024 Quest 3 Lite?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Jeri has been in the R&D of Valve Software when Abrash was still there, so she knows a lot about AR and VR. After Valve, I started an AR company called CastAR where we were doing augmented reality very similar to the technology we’ll be talking about today. So what is this is TiltFive AR headset? ( The Vive Wands.

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JANUARY 14, 2023

If AR & VR glasses are on parallel paths for the foreseeable future, as Meta’s top researcher Michael Abrash recently suggested , when will we see the first hit consumer AR product? In Las Vegas last week Jeri Ellsworth carried the consumer packaging for Tilt Five’s AR glasses. And can Tilt Five get there first?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, our particular vertical focuses are artificial intelligence on the tech side, and then the whole game sector. And then, I guess as far as getting into VR and AR, I’ve really followed the news. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, our particular vertical focuses are artificial intelligence on the tech side, and then the whole game sector. And then, I guess as far as getting into VR and AR, I’ve really followed the news. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go.

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