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. “This flows from Facebook’s aggressive pricing strategy that’s part of a larger play to build market share and cultivate a network effect,” he added. . VR revenue is predicted to grow from $4.98

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Road to VR

MARCH 1, 2024

Back in the Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2 days (circa 2014), the studio was already thinking about how to design games for VR motion controllers, despite no headsets on the market shipping with motion controllers until 2016. “Part of our growth strategy [after Pistol Whip ] was to split our team into two distinct lanes.

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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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Oculus

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Coming to Meta Quest 2, 3, and Pro in 2024, Mannequin is the brand-new title from us at Fast Travel Games, makers of Vampire: The Masquerade - Justice, Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife, and Apex Construct—and it’s our first ever in-house multiplayer project.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The latter stems from Facebook’s long-term VR strategy that lets it sacrifice margins to build a network effect and win market share. — Topgolf Pro Putt passed $1 million in sales, selling more than 50,000 units in the Oculus Quest app store. million in 2024 (with a pandemic dip in 2020). million in 2024.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Samsung handled the hardware for Gear VR, Oculus Go was manufactured by Xiaomi, and Oculus Rift S was co-designed and manufactured by Lenovo. All three headsets bore both the partner company's logo and Oculus branding. William Cho, Mark Zuckerberg, and Park Hyoung-sei earlier today at LG headquarters in Seoul.

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Upload VR

MARCH 1, 2024

The Meta Quest operating system is a fork of the open-source core of Android (known as AOSP), a similar strategy to Amazon's Fire OS for its Fire tablets. Meta has been working on it for at least seven years, as it first arrived in 2018's Oculus Go.

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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.” billion in 2020).

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Upload VR

APRIL 28, 2024

Editor's Note: Amanda Watson joined Oculus VR in 2015 and took a cubicle outside John Carmack's office in Dallas where she worked late nights on the mobile SDK. Later in California, she worked on Oculus Link and Air Link before leaving Oculus in 2022. In early 2024, Watson released CitraVR on Github. But not Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

I started working in VR in 2014, and if you asked me what the XR landscape could have been in 2024 , I would have totally missed the predictions. Absolutely not, I still think it’s a good exercise to make and that’s why I myself wrote some predictions for XR in 2024. Then is it totally useless to think about the future?

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AR Insider

JANUARY 5, 2021

billion in 2024, a 19.6 Facebook’s VR strategy is best embodied in its latest hardware: Oculus Quest 2. Its long-term VR strategy lets it sacrifice near-term margins to build a network effect and win early market share. Has Oculus Quest Sold One-Million Lifetime Units? billion in 2019 to $12.2 billion in 2020).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 14, 2024

In April 2024, Meta announced a new “open ecosystem strategy” This means developers and device manufacturers can leverage the operating system to create virtual, mixed, and augmented reality experiences. In a blog post published on April 22, 2024, Meta shared its vision for a new era of mixed reality development.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2022

Meta to launch four VR headsets before 2024. One is probably the Quest 3, while the other is not clear if it is a higher-end version (Quest 3 Pro) or a lightweight one (Quest 3 Lite, maybe without controllers) In the end, there is the successor of Cambria, codenamed Funston, to be released in 2024. Other relevant news.

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Upload VR

MAY 17, 2024

At SID Display Week 2024 LG Display unveiled a micro-OLED display with "4K" resolution and 10,000 nit brightness. Illustration from Oculus of Low Persistence, which necessitates illuminating the display only a fraction of the time.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Studies show that around 68% of organizations are ready to plunge their company into the metaverse soon, but few feel they have the right security strategies. Is Meta Quest for Business the Same as Oculus for Business? Back in 2017, Meta introduced “ Oculus for Business ”.

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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

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”. As for Meta, while he appreciated the efforts of the people working there, he said that doesn’t agree much with its strategy.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 29, 2024

Its strategy is more akin to wanting to be a second Apple than what Google did with Android. But Meta's strategy also harms its reported own long-term goal of being an Android-like player. The Meta Quest platform on the other hand is exclusive to Meta's own devices.

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Upload VR

MAY 25, 2024

Microsoft is bringing volumetric apps to Quest , Oculus Go owners are reporting errors with launching apps and the Quest v66 public test channel has been datamined. As for UploadVR, we recently announced a revised approach to our reviews strategy that includes more reviews-in-progress.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2022

More info (Meta’s reported financials) More info (Some graphs on Meta’s financials) More info (Meta may have to slow down some investments) More info (All the official financial numbers by Meta) More info (Zuck commenting Meta’s strategy) More info (11–12M Quests estimate). Goodbye Oculus brand. Other relevant news. Image by Snap).

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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. ” Kids will be an important part of the strategy to sell a lot of headsets during the holiday season , so I expect that some features and some games will be announced specifically for them.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 14, 2023

For example, a real-time strategy game like Command & Conquer might feel amazing on the hardware. ” Sometime I wonder what the path to consumer VR would have looked like if Palmer Luckey & Brendan Iribe hadn’t sold Oculus to Facebook. What if Oculus hadn’t hired researchers like Abrash from Valve? ” Yup.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Ever since Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus in 2014, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has poised the move as a strategic bet on a technology that would eventually change the way we communicate. So we’re committed to Oculus and virtual reality for the long term.” Photo courtesy Mark Zuckerberg.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

The product is still being built, and the expected release date is 2024. I think that Zuck is now all-in with XR, and all these games are not relevant to Facebook’s current strategy, so the deal has not been completed. The operating system should be Android, but it seems that Google is also building an operating system specific for XR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2022

The startup plans to scale its content creation, releasing new VR concerts weekly by 2024 to both in-theater and at-home viewers. THE HOTTIEVERSE… I think I have found a word that is more questionable than “metaverse”… When my turn arrived to try the experience, I put the Oculus Quest 2 standalone headset on.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Now as Meta ships its newest headset, Asgard's Wrath 2 from Oculus Studios' Sanzaru joins Assassin's Creed Nexus from Ubisoft as the Quest platform's 1-2 punch of major new content exclusives of 2023. AW2 is bundled with all Quest 3 purchases through January 2024. Then, Facebook acquired Sanzaru before launching Quest 2 in 2020.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 18, 2023

According to the VRARA and its Global Executive Director Kris Kolo , Meta’s renewed dive into the business world – following the Quest Pro and other delves during the Oculus era – may be rife with issues. Notably, as the industrial Metaverse wave of 2024 approaches, many firms like Microsoft, AWS, and Meta are attempting to lead it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously.

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Training San Jose Oculus AR 78

XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys -- Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously. well, failing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go. Facebook is still investing in Oculus, obviously.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In virtual reality, you have to do this reprojection, Oculus calls it timewarp, and that means that your video card and your computer has to be running at a really high frame rate to correct for your head motion and we’ve rolled that all into the headset. That’s where I got started with augmented reality. The Vive Wands.

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