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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JUNE 8, 2023

Apple confirmed Vision Pro's display refresh rate. In a WWDC23 developer talk, Apple confirmed that the display refresh rate is 90Hz for most content. So why does Apple Vision Pro use 96Hz for 24fps content? This is also why Oculus chose 72Hz as the refresh rate for Oculus Go and Oculus Quest - 72 is also a multiple of 24.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 29, 2021

F ollowing our analysis yesterday on the drivers for Apple’s rumored VR play, we continue the narrative in this week’s XR Talks. First, to level set, Bloomberg reported last week that Apple plans for a VR headset to release next year. A bigger question is what Apple’s headset will be and do.

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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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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). This week both Zuck, the CEO of Meta, and Boz, the CTO of Meta, expressed their opinions on the Apple Vision Pro.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Apple officially revealed the Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. Some other headsets like Meta Quest Pro and Pico 4 have their battery in the rear of the strap, but Apple's design takes it off your head entirely with an external battery tethered to a magnetic connector on the left arm. hours (video) 1.5-2.5 5 GHz) 6E (2.4+5+6

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This could bring over services like Netflix, Disney+, Max, Prime Video, Apple TV+, Hulu, Paramount+, and VUDU with no extra developer effort required. Samsung handled the hardware for Gear VR, Oculus Go was manufactured by Xiaomi, and Oculus Rift S was co-designed and manufactured by Lenovo.

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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? Timberman VR aims at bringing the popular game Timberman to Oculus Quest 2. Other relevant news.

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JULY 6, 2023

The report says the original production target was early 2024, but the new target is 3-6 months later. The report cites "an official familiar with Samsung's internal circumstances" as saying the delay is caused by a redesign and specs upgrade prompted by the reveal of Apple Vision Pro. A year later Facebook formally abandoned Gear VR.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Despite Apple’s insistence that I do not wear Apple Vision Pro with my prescription glasses, I wanted to know if I could , so I could determine if I should. Some headsets like the Oculus Go and original PSVR seemed to be built specifically to handle glasses of many shapes and sizes due to its roomy face box size.

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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. This led to a growing importance of Oculus, until with the Quest it started dominating the market in a way no one was able to face.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

For example, several sources suggested Quest Pro would be named "Quest 2 Pro" and that Apple Vision Pro would be called "Apple Reality Pro". Oculus Go was manufactured by Xiaomi, and Oculus Rift S was manufactured and co-designed by Lenovo. How LG's branding will appear on the reported 2025 headset is not yet known.

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AR Insider

APRIL 6, 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

JUNE 13, 2022

Image by Apple). Apple has not announced any glasses at WWDC. Every year, we have the same ritual: we wait for an event by Apple, hoping to hear some news about an upcoming XR device, then nothing happens in this sense, we are disappointed and so we hope for a new reveal next year. Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Following funding via COVID-related investments, the region gained the support required to kick off the VR immersive learning program, starting with just 50 Oculus Gos, before reaching its current hardware figure. ” A new wave of XR influence emerges with the Apple Vision Pro recording sales figures of roughly 200,000 headsets.

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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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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The question on everybody’s mind is AR glasses…, particularly what Apple will end up doing. Many signals indicate that we won’t see Apple AR glasses in 2021, but we’ll see the ball moved forward from other companies like Vuzix which just unveiled its MicroLED smart glasses at CES. billion by 2024. Other takeaways?

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JANUARY 4, 2024

It's a more premium option for higher-priced headsets, including those designed to take on Apple Vision Pro. Samsung’s Google-Powered Headset Set To Launch Late 2024 Samsung’s Google-powered XR headset is set to launch, in very limited quantities, in late 2024. Details here: UploadVR David Heaney

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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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MARCH 1, 2024

Meta has been working on it for at least seven years, as it first arrived in 2018's Oculus Go. Google + Lenovo’s Standalone Daydream VR Headset, Mirage Solo, Is On Sale Now For $399 Oculus Go isn’t the only major standalone VR headset launching this week: Lenovo’s Mirage Solo just went on sale too.

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AR Insider

APRIL 6, 2020

units by 2024, which is a compound annual growth rate of 81.5 Within VR, IDC projects the greatest growth for standalones like Oculus Quest and VIVE Focus. Oculus Quest — the fastest growing standalone — sold about 425,000 units in 2019 according to our calculations. million units, up 23.6 percent from 2019.

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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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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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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 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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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. But by 2019, Gear VR was dead as standalone headsets like Oculus Go took over, and a year later Facebook formally abandoned it.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 10, 2024

Apple has always been a trendsetter, with hopeful competitors copying everything from the company’s iconic marketing campaigns to its unique industrial design language. Hall-walkers at CES 2024 this week noticed a headset that looks awfully familiar. hours of video playback,” Apple says.

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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. The “Applification” The Apple Vision Pro Since Meta is scared by Apple, I’m sure that Zuck will try to copy the same use cases Apple showed for its Vision Pro.

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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."

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Quest 3 Lite Should Expand The Mixed Reality Market A leaked Meta roadmap last year revealed Meta planned to release a new headset after Quest 3 in 2024 "at the most attractive price point in the VR consumer market", a project called Ventura. And of course, it's in black and white, which just isn't appealing.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

billion by 2024, a five-year CAGR increase of 54%. One-year price performance for MSFT as of 2/3/20 Apple Inc. AAPL) As we previously detailed in depth, Apple has been discreetly working on a number of AR/VR products for several years now and is planning to release its own AR smart glass and AR/VR hybrid headset.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Is there a new Pico headset planned for 2024 based on the XR2 Gen 2? Oculus Studios has a nearly decade-long track record of following through on significant funding projects and, just this season, Meta's VR gaming team ships Asgard's Wrath 2 bundled with all new Quest 3 headsets alongside Assassin's Creed Nexus joining the lineup.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Developer Platform spoke to XR Today during GTC 2024 to highlight how NVIDIA plans to scale spatial computing solutions for the workplace. Now, an Oculus Quest, which couldn’t compute this [Omniverse] model, can now compute this model by streaming it from the cloud, and that’s great.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

The game is still in full development, aiming for a release in 2024. We’re already seeing Meta and Apple come out with mixed reality emulation tools of their own, letting developers test their apps in a simulated virtual environment, even without a headset. If you’d like to sign up for playtesting Laser Dance, you can do so here !

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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. Facebook’s cut).

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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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