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 23, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement… including lots of ups and downs in the intervening years. Picking up where we left off in the last installment in this series, AR’s headworn endgame is still years away. These aren’t necessarily AR active devices.

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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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AR Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, AR Advertising Deep Dive, Part I: The Landscape. Prominent sectors include industrial AR , social , gaming , and shopping. But existing alongside all of them is AR advertising. But existing alongside all of them is AR advertising. billion by 2024.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Meta delays its plans for AR glasses. A report this week shows how these changes have been quite important: The first version of the “Project Nazare” glasses will be still released in 2024 as originally planned, but it will be targeted only at developers (a bit like today’s Snap Spectacles). Other relevant news. Image by Meta).

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Upload VR

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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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. billion by 2024.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

billion in 2024. The biggest factor driving that hardware base today is Facebook’s VR investments , most notably the Q4-launched Oculus Quest 2. It’s making little to no margin on Oculus Quest so that it can get the price down and get more people into VR. million in 2024. Breaking it Down. billion in 2019 to $12.19

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 18, 2020

billion in 2024, a 19.6 Thanks to the release of the Oculus Quest 2 , consumers are hopping aboard the VR train. Facebook’s investing heavily in the Oculus Quest 2, sacrificing margins to build market share and get more people into VR. VR revenue is predicted to grow from $4.98 billion in 2019 to $12.19 ”

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AR Insider

APRIL 20, 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.” Spatial Cousin.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

What we call the intersection that these tech giants arrive at is branding, but it is time we be real about the overall shape of our future and realize Meta and Apple are building the same destination. VR: Starting With Meta Quest Meta started with VR as Facebook in 2014 by acquiring Oculus.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 28, 2020

— Topgolf Pro Putt passed $1 million in sales, selling more than 50,000 units in the Oculus Quest app store. More than 30 percent of owners are frequent players. million in 2024 (with a pandemic dip in 2020). million in 2024. — 15 percent of Star Wars: Squadrons Owners played in VR. million last year to $12.2

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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

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. AR glasses.

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AR Insider

MARCH 2, 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.” Bright Spot.

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Upload VR

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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AR Insider

JANUARY 5, 2021

Though there are lots of developments and new insights, the topical containers that house those insights are beginning to coalesce into standard buckets. We’re talking mobile AR engagement & monetization; AR cloud development; enterprise AR and the gradual march of VR. billion in 2024, a 19.6

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 20, 2023

In April 2012, Oculus hit Kickstarter with the Oculus Rift developer kit , and the tech world whipped itself into a “this is the future” frenzy. Even the cheapest mainstream headset out there, the Meta Quest 2, has a passthrough feature, meaning it’s got AR capabilities. But today, as it stands, VR is all but dead.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

And Ars Technica evaluated its use to replace a TV : unsurprisingly, the result of the analysis is that Vision Pro can be a good replacement for some TV setups (but with a few caveats). Mozilla will shut down its demo server residing at hubs.mozilla.com, subscriptions, and community resources on May 31, 2024. A must-read article.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 has been leaked. The famous leaker WalkingCat did it again, leaking this time a new model of the Oculus Quest , in the beginning with some renders, and then with true pictures of a pre-production device (that had been originally shared by redditor CallThePlumber). worldwide in 2019–2024 to reach $136.9

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ARVR

OCTOBER 31, 2022

billion USD in 2024. Once again, experts in this field are in a constant attempt to install its elements in the software systems, especially in the ones that will find wide use in the entertainment and media industry. VR and AR-based media apps can make media streaming more vibrant and intuitive, offering users a life-like experience.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

billion in 2024. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. How Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) can transform Education 3. the year of AR glasses? How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are Revolutionizing Healthcare Another way to subdivide these figures is hardware versus software. million in 2024.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 29, 2021

Codenamed N301, it’s rumored to be a high-end headset (more Valve Index, less Oculus Quest). Our theory is that its mission is at least partly to pave the way for Apple’s AR plans. Diving right in, Heaney starts with a historical recap of Apple’s AR and VR moves (mostly the former) in the past few years.

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Oculus

JANUARY 31, 2024

Today, and fresh off its win as Best AR/VR Game at the 2024 New York Game Awards, we’re excited to share the fruits of their labors with the launch of the game’s second Cosmic Event: Into the Multiverse! The dev team has been hard at work cooking up some new content for the fans.

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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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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 forecast Meta will announce the death of the PC Store which will be closed maybe at the end of 2024. It’s a big bet, and I think Zuck doesn’t want to make it wrong.

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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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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.

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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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ARVR

JUNE 18, 2021

With large tech players like Facebook with Oculus Quest 2 , Varjo with Varjo VR-3 , HP headset HP Reverb G2 , launching their new VR headsets. As well as growing numbers of VR users, with the expected number of installed base worldwide, to surpass the 34 million mark by 2024. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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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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AR Insider

JUNE 30, 2021

“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. “This is fine for now because we are still very early in the market and most of these users are early adopters. More from AR Insider….

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Oculus Rift users also grew only 0.3 percent have the Oculus Rift. Grand View Research also reports augmented reality alone will be a $100 billion industry in 2024. But there are challenges getting to that flush market, namely content. According to a Steam survey , HTC Vive users increased merely 0.3 percent in August.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2024

The streaming of data for development purposes must be unlocked in the Meta Quest Link app on your computer (previously known as the Oculus app), or it won’t work. And I’m not even exaggerating, this is literally what you need. the sofa, the desk, the window in your room). A big deal, I'm surprised they didn't mention it!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Let’s start this week with a bunch of cool news about the past week in AR and VR! The best news of the week has not been the release of a new fantastic VR headset or AR glass, but of a technology that will make a new generation of XR headsets possible: I’m talking about the XR2 chipset by Qualcomm. Goood Monday everyone!

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

Augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) are technologies that overlay or replace physical environments with virtual content. While AR enhances surroundings by incorporating digital components into live view, VR is an experience that replaces the actual world with a computer-generated simulation. percent up to 2028.

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