XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 3, 2024

Apple Vision Pro’s latest update optimises the device’s persona remote immersive communication feature, further boosting the device’s potential of bringing immersive conferencing features to the productivity-focused device. Apple first noted the Avatar system would upgrade during its Vision Pro 1.1 In version 1.1,

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

North Dakota Deploys 300 HTC VIVE Devices The news comes as educators in the North Dakota region distribute roughly 300 HTC VIVE Focus Plus headsets in collaboration with CareerViewXR to boost career learning for young students and adults.

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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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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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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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple Vision Pro may be out in January According to the latest report on Bloomberg, Apple is still on track to release the Apple Vision Pro at the beginning of this year. The past rumors talked about the end of 2024, but it seems that lately that development has been accelerated.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

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. Render of the possible upcoming Apple device (Image by Antonio DeRosa). No one can compete now.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (Quest 3 going ok in Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Quest 2 selling much better than Quest 3 on Amazon) HTC announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker Finally, HTC has officially announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker, its standalone inside-out tracker unit. This would show the level of polish of the upcoming Apple headset.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 16, 2024

The head-mounted display/headset marketplace may be approaching a broad shift as Apple unveils its Vision Pro headset next month, with the device promising to advance screen-based productivity into a third dimension, leveraging traditional MR technologies to achieve a spatial computing future.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Strivr also noted that an increase in XR hardware options, such as those available via Apple, HTC VIVE, Meta, and others, is creating a “resurgence” of enterprise interest in immersive training – painting another optimistic forecast for workplace XR in what may be a momentous 2024 for the industry.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 14, 2023

Meanwhile, headset enthusiasts are awaiting Apple’s debut in the headset market. The firm’s efforts may halt as Apple drops a technology partner, switching to a fresh partner. headsets that Microsoft will deliver in 2024. Reports suggest Apple is now working with Luxshare Precision Industry Co.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

Most probably the idea is to sell it at a lower cost so that it can attract more people to XR In 2024 release a new headset codenamed Ventura, which is cheaper than Quest 3. HTC has made its moves at MWC, too. Well, considering its high cost, it seems very reasonable to me.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 25, 2023

Following such a fruitful year packed with industry innovation, the next 12 months will hold further chances for immersive firms to excel in immersive reality solutions for enterprises. As 2024 approaches, major industry events could occur that flips the XR industry on its head.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The firm is debuting a device with spatial computing features similar to the Apple Vision Pro. Moreover, Immersed is debuting its Visor product at a lower price than the Vision Pro, perhaps creating a wild card in XR competition alongside significant players such as Meta, Microsoft, HTC, Lenovo, Xreal, and Varjo.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

More info Some news about Apple Vision Pro The news and rumors about Vision Pro never end. In these two weeks, we got to discover that Apple is planning to organize demo sessions of Vision Pro inside the Apple Store venues and that in the beginning, the only way to buy a Vision Pro will be going to an Apple Store.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2022

For sure he knows that pros will be Apple’s target and hopes to beat Apple with his device (AHAHAHAH). Image by HTC Vive). HTC is keeping on its strategy of releasing whatever stuff metaverse-related. Intel CEO says chip shortages will end in 2024. I can’t wait for this company to manage the metaverse. Learn more.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JANUARY 31, 2024

When HTC VIVE started teasing the HTC VIVE Flow way back in 2021 , it left some consumers a little confused. The virtual reality “glasses” looked nothing like the headsets we were already familiar with from vendors like Meta. Still, they managed to earn a decent amount of attention.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

We have lots of non-news about Apple’s XR efforts. The hype around Apple glasses is huge , and everything that gets shared about Apple and XR gets many views. We already knew that Tim likes AR and “what we have to offer” may also be a potato with an Apple brand costing $400. Other relevant news. Image by The Information).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 27, 2023

We expect Reality Labs operating losses to increase year-over-year in 2023” The statement also noted it 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.”

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

One of the consequences of the launch of Unity 6 is that Unity also finally released to the public the Unity beta package to develop for VisionOS, so that finally all of us Unity developers can start developing for the Apple Vision Pro, trying our prototypes on the emulator. Great job, Vuzix.

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ARPost

MARCH 20, 2023

billion in 2024. Or it could be the excitement about new headsets coming from Sony, Apple, Pico, and HTC that is keeping potential buyers on the sidelines. Despite the seemingly downward trend, a flood of new VR headsets is coming from Sony, Pico , Apple, HTC, and more. billion in 2019 to $3.2

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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

Waiting until now would mean that next VR game by Valve would come out in 2024–2025… do you really think they don’t want to make the ecosystem to grow now? The same day of the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Hewlett-Packard has announced its new virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2 , made in collaboration with Microsoft and Valve.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

As the Meta Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, HTC VIVE XR Elite, Pico 4 Enterprise, Lenovo VRX, and, most recently, the Varjo XR-4 walk the extended reality (XR) runway, a gradual but measurable uptick in renewed consumer interest in all things immersive builds momentum. 2024: The Year of XR Learning? billion USD uptick.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers. Alan: HTC’s got their enterprise division. Dean: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers. Alan: HTC’s got their enterprise division. Dean: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You've seen it from pre-DK1 days -- where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape -- and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that's not even connected to computers. You've written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers. Alan: HTC’s got their enterprise division. Dean: Yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It’s refreshing to see Pimax continuing to develop high-end virtual reality hardware, whilst other players have scaled back their plans, canceled projects, or just offered… radio silence. There is now a good chance we could see something towards the end of this year, with a potential release to consumers in 2024.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

That’s where I got started with augmented reality. Part of all of this is merit of Jeri (Image by HTC). Let me compare it to virtual reality. The Vive Wands. One quick question… do you know something about Half Life VR? ( I don’t know anything about Half-life 3 or Half-life VR (laughs).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple announces the release date of the Apple Vision Pro During the last few days, the rumors about possible release dates for the Apple Vision Pro have intensified , and someone talked about January, 27 as the day of the launch. The headset will be available for purchase in the U.S.,

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2024

Before we start, in case you missed my post with my predictions for XR in 2024, you can still read it at this link !) This seems to hint that the two companies are going to build a new XR headset together, which according to the rumors will be the Quest Pro 2, which would be aimed at competing directly with the Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

A few years ago I was interviewing Alvin Wang Graylin , the HTC Executive (or “Mister President” as I like to call him), and we were talking about the book Our Next Reality he’s written together with Louis Rosenberg. In the middle, we had various winters where the technology and the market slowed down.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

He complained about having to obey platforms and their taxes (clearly hinting at Apple), saying that he had a different vision. This has even been underlined by Apple itself which called out Meta’s hypocrisy after the announcement of the creators’ fee on Horizon. Meta plans AR glasses for 2024.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

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. Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset. Well, it seems that our hope has died.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

The product is still being built, and the expected release date is 2024. The new update for Oculus Quest brings with it some interesting features, like the tracking of the Apple Magic Keyboard, some updates to the UI, and a new menu for hand tracking. HTC discounts its headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The fact that the studio behind such a popular game has decided to have a VR port is the sign that Virtual Reality has started to become interesting for famous indie studios. And the fact that there will be a VR version of this important game will give virtual reality even more awareness and popularity inside the gaming community.

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