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MARCH 4, 2024

MWC 2024 wrapped up for another year. The event always wows spectators with a rich lineup of technology vendors and innovations; however, in 2024, XR took centre stage with many firms highlighting major products, addressing device debuts, and entering the market. MWC 2024 was a valuable insight into the mainstream XR market.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 5, 2024

The XR Awards 2024 has set up a panel of judges from various AR/VR/MR industry sectors, who will pick the finalists and winners of the XR Awards 2024 in categories such as Best Virtual Reality Solution, Best Enterprise/Industrial Metaverse Solution, and Best Training Solution. Apply to the XR Awards Today!

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here are some of the VR vendors making waves in the industry as of 2024: RealWear Meta Apple Goertek Pimax Pico HP HTC Vive Samsung Varjo Lenovo Valve Index Vrgineers RealWear Exploring various aspects of the immersive technology landscape, RealWear produces sensors, apps, and hardware for the XR space.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

ISE 2024 is wrapping up, and visitors are heading home. At ISE 2024, visitors to its exhibition hall could visit Igloo Vision’s booth and see its solution that augments work by immersing employees in a space that surrounds them with XR visualisations. All together, creating a multi-use product.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The XR Awards are back for a third year in a row for its 2024 edition, showcasing a diverse range of end-users, individuals, and companies leading the enterprise XR space. This year, there are various categories for vendors to compete in.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 1, 2024

This week, MWC 2024 stole the headlines. Following a busy CES 2024 for XR, the much-touted MWC event proved that XR is gaining crucial ground at broader innovative technology events. Firms such as AWS, Samsung, and HTC VIVE took to the event to showcase the future of work and paradigm-shifting immersive technology.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

There's no mention of gaming, PlayStation 5 or the PlayStation VR2 brand in connection with the upcoming device, which is slated to release in 2024. Sony is Qualcomm's 5th partner building a headset based on the XR2+ Gen 2 chipset. Instead, it is developed around a "spatial content creation" platform made in partnership with Siemens.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Samsung plans to launch its XR headset in limited quantities in late 2024. South Korean newspaper The JoongAng reports Samsung is planning to announce the headset at an event in the second half of 2024, then launch it in December with a limited initial quantity of just 30,000 units. A year later Facebook formally abandoned Gear VR.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

In 2024, the space saw far less sophisticated XR devices with older products like early Oculus or Google Glasses. At the same time, XR’s enthusiasts were well aware of other players in the headset space, like Microsoft, Varjo, HTC VIVE, and others. Initially, Meta remained the key leading champion in the XR space.

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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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XR Today - Big XR News tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

H2 of 2024 was an exceedingly busy time for the XR market. However, the industry quickly flipped mid-year, with significant XR players turning dwindling promises into new products and a fresh outlook for 2024. 2024 looks to be chock-full of products, announcements, and potentially paradigm-shifting future of work technologies.

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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. In 2024, as competing vendors roll out heavier and bulkier systems like the Apple Vision Pro , demand for lightweight and ergonomic headsets is beginning to increase.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

Ultraleap Tobii Varjo Meta Platforms Manus Spectre XR Rokid Contact CI Emerge HTC VIVE OpenBCI Ultraleap Dedicated to transforming the way users interact with XR solutions and applications, Ultraleap has produced a powerful technology for the hand-tracking sector. So, which companies are paving the way for the next generation of tracking?

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Ryan Schultz

MARCH 7, 2024

VenusSX, one of the participants, sent me a press release about this series showcasing the state of the art in VR, taking place on the sidelines of the actual SXSW 2024 conference taking place in Austin, Texas this week and weekend (I will assume that this series is not part of the official SXSW event).

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JANUARY 9, 2024

HTC today announced the launch of a new Full Face Tracker accessory for Vive XR Elite. HTC says the Face-tracking add-on for Vive XR Elite is available staring today, priced at $200. Image courtesy HTC According to HTC, eye-tracking is captured at 120Hz while mouth-tracking is captured at 60Hz.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 22, 2024

HTC Boosts Developer VIVEPORT Capital VIVEPORT, the HTC store for XR games and apps, has increased the revenue share for developers to 90 percent, considered the highest in the XR industry. This move is a significant step towards supporting the XR developer community.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

Qualcomm indicated that XR2+ Gen 2 will power Immersed's Visor , Samsung's upcoming Google-powered headset , a yet-to-be-announced new HTC Vive headset, a YVR headset in China, and a fifth headset from a currently undisclosed company. Details here: UploadVR David Heaney

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 24, 2024

Hopefully, with more eyes on XR via Apple, other firms in the sector can flourish. Moreover, with Apple’s dive into XR, it seems other giants like Samsung, LG, and Google are placing sights on the market, perhaps watching Apple closely to see if their XR gamble pays off.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2023

We had The Witnes s running on Valve’s pre-production hardware [prior to HTC Vive]. ” Blow says development of his new VR game is expected to begin in earnest starting in 2024, so it will be some time before we see a formal announcement. . “I have been interested in VR for a long time. He says the hardware is ready.

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JULY 28, 2023

Groups like Microsoft are leveraging a collapsing military contact to keep its IVAS device lineup alive for further funding, and HTC VIVE took note to explain the importance of enterprise end-users in discussion with the World Economic Forum. ” Even though Meta faced a tough Q2, Zuckerberg is notably optimistic.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

Holoride , an Audi co-founded startup, partnered with HTC to hook its standalone Vive Flow headset into cars using a retrofitting device which accounts for the vehicle’s relative motion, letting users engage with a handful of licensed apps. Is it really not possible to use Quest 3 in passthrough mode on a plane?

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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.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 16, 2024

Moreover, with the recent Quest 3 from Meta and XR Elite from HTC VIVE, the marketplace is adopting MR solutions within industry-wide product portfolios. Thomas Dexmier Enterprise XR had a very strong 2023 and is shaping up to have an even better 2024. However, the industry should not forget the importance of VR solutions and hardware.

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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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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

More info (Meta’s losses in 2023) More info (Meta expecting even higher losses in 2024) Quest 3 enters the Steam chart at 0.15% Meta Quest 3 appeared for the first time in Steam’s Hardware Survey, with a 0.15% share of the market. The book is coming in March, 2024, but can already be preordered on Amazon.

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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 book they talk about XR and AI , and how they could impact our future, for the good and the bad.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Notably, the headset doesn’t include the requiste SteamVR tracking base stations or SteamVR-compatible controllers like the Valve Index controller or HTC Vive wand—you’ll have to purchase those separately. The company says Beyond will be available in more countries and regions in 2024. Valve Index, HTC Vive).

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AUGUST 8, 2023

The company has released a trial version of its technology through a plugin that works with Pico 3 Neo Pro Eye, HP Reverb G2 Omnicept, and HTC Vive Pro Eye. This video demonstrates the pupil swim correction: The plugin, which anyone can use until January 2024, aims to demonstrate the company’s claims.

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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. To these, you have to add the companies that are already competing, like for instance HTC or HP. No one can compete now.

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MAY 2, 2022

A report by The Information today, citing an internal roadmap, claimed that Meta is planning to release four new VR headsets by 2024. HTC’s Vive Focus 3—which is aimed at enterprise customers—is priced at $1,300. The first would be Project Cambria, the report says, priced around $800.

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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 billion in December 2022.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

From iFixit's extended teardown. iFixit measured the size of each pixel at just 7.5μm, the size of a human red blood cell. iFixit says this means you can fit 54 Vision Pro pixels into the space of a single iPhone 15 Pro Max pixel, which is truly remarkable. inch diagonal and has an aspect ratio of roughly 5:4.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Lenovo has introduced the AI-powered laptop with a transparent display at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

billion in 2024. We also see HTC continue to lean into the enterprise with Vive PRO, Cosmos, and Focus (and their many variants). million in 2024. It also breaks down findings in the latest episode of ARtillery Briefs (video and takeaways below). Breaking it Down. So what did the forecast uncover? billion in 2019 to $12.19

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JANUARY 12, 2024

Here's what you may have missed: It's been a busy week across the board as 2024 settles in. Right as CES 2024 got underway, Apple told the world to " get ready " after confirming the Apple Vision Pro release date. The winners will be announced on February 15, 2024. Looking for more VR updates?

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JANUARY 31, 2023

million units between April 2023 and March 2024. Granted, Sony has to think more in the long-term for its VR headsets than, say, standalone manufacturers like Meta, HTC, and Pico Interactive. Only Aiming to Meet PSVR (2016) Unit Sales?

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

The past rumors talked about the end of 2024, but it seems that lately that development has been accelerated. Wi-Fi 7 specifications will be finalized by the end of the first quarter of 2024. May it be something that HTC is going to announce at CES? More info Are you ready for Wi-Fi 7? improvement over the already fast Wi-Fi 6.

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