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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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JUNE 4, 2024

Palmer Luckey says he will announce that he's working on a new headset at AWE 2024, which is taking place June 18-20. Luckey was the public face of Oculus until 2017 when he was fired by Facebook, the company he sold Oculus to for over $2 billion in 2014. Oculus previously open-sourced the two Rift development kits.

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APRIL 1, 2024

Following the deletion of Oculus account data, Meta has now removed several features from its virtual meeting room tool Horizon: Workrooms in a proclaimed effort to provide a “more streamlined and reliable experience.” Meta Connect 2024 will come up quickly as the year continues.

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MAY 2, 2024

The historical moment of the launch of Quest 1 (Image by TechCrunch) Oculus Quest 1 launched in 2019 for $399. but this does not always mean delivering the most compelling game that technology allows for. As for the sales, Meta is used to launch headsets at Meta Connect, so probably preorders can start in Autumn 2024 at Meta Connect.

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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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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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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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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Moreover, the fusion of Meta’s diverse core technological elements with LG’s cutting-edge product and quality capabilities promises significant synergies in next-gen XR device development." 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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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

AR and VR are two of the most promising technologies of the modern era. However, these technologies have taken a long time to reach their full potential. billion by 2024. Virtual Try-On Technology Virtual try-on technology to see how products look on shoppers like on the Sephora Snapchat page.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

Photo by XR Expo on Unsplash We are only a couple of months away from 2023 and the tech world is already buzzing with technological trends that are most likely to dominate the upcoming year. As usual, it’s going to be a year full of technological innovations, experiments, and upgrades. billion USD in 2024.

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MAY 7, 2022

The evolution of technology. The evolution of VR is usually compared to the one of other technologies, like the web or mobile. Years pass by and technology shifts and market changes lead to a shuffle of the cards, and new market leaders arise. Let me show you why. Meta has clearly won the first round of the VR match.

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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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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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APRIL 27, 2022

Today during Meta’s Q1 2022 earnings call CEO Mark Zuckerberg told shareholders that they should buckle up for the long haul because the company’s steep investments in XR and metaverse technologies aren’t expected to flourish until the next decade. But in Zuckerberg’s eyes that timeline may have slipped considerably.

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MAY 17, 2024

At SID Display Week 2024 LG Display unveiled a micro-OLED display with "4K" resolution and 10,000 nit brightness. Micro-OLED displays are manufactured with a very different process to regular OLED, and offer much higher pixel density than any existing production-ready display technology. Currently 2.5K

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the years since, Google also brought YouTube VR to the Oculus Store on Samsung Gear VR in 2018 , then Oculus Go later that year , and was a launch title for the Quest Store. That may be the result of agreements long in the works though, so we'll be keeping a close eye on Pico's health through 2024.

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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. That same year, Lenovo launched a standalone headset running Daydream, Google's own VR OS that included its Google Play Services, Play Store, Google apps, and VR core technology on top of AOSP.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

To put some numbers against that, Apple could inflect the market with a classic Apple Halo effect, and ARtillery projects almost 4 million AR glasses sold in 2024 (see below). billion by 2024. This means the battle for enterprise AR is fought on internal-communications and change-management levels, rather than technology levels.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

In a recent thread on X about the Quake 3 Arena VR mod from Team Beef , one replier asked John Carmack, former Oculus CTO and former lead programmer at id Software, whether there's been any progress getting these mods to the official Quest store.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Mozilla will shut down its demo server residing at hubs.mozilla.com, subscriptions, and community resources on May 31, 2024. Among these projects, there is Mozilla Hubs, the most popular WebXR social VR space.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Oculus Rift users also grew only 0.3 percent have the Oculus Rift. And 20 percent voiced newfound interest in VR after learning a bit more about the technology, but still said they didn’t plan to buy one. “Like many new technologies, it seems that VR has more fans than experts,” the Nielsen report says.

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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. This involves the more scalable manifestation of the technology that’s activated through the smartphone camera. This is projected to grow to 1.73

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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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MARCH 29, 2024

The leading computing firm seeks to scale emerging technology to boost industrial and enterprise workflows. Developer Platform spoke to XR Today during GTC 2024 to highlight how NVIDIA plans to scale spatial computing solutions for the workplace. This is a technology that’s here now, and everybody can use it.

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MAY 3, 2022

Meta will reportedly give users more doors to the metaverse by expanding its Quest VR headset selection with four additional models arriving in the next few years. Read more.

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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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JUNE 18, 2021

Amongst spatial technologies VR has the largest number of available both enterprise and consumer grade devices. Virtual Reality technology has gone a long way with its transformation, providing users with unique possibilities to submerge into a completely new or recreated reality. billion by 2025.

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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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AR Insider

JANUARY 5, 2021

The short version of VR’s state of the union is that it represents a promising technology in gaming and entertainment, but its traction continues to be slow and steady. billion in 2024, a 19.6 Facebook’s VR strategy is best embodied in its latest hardware: Oculus Quest 2. Has Oculus Quest Sold One-Million Lifetime Units?

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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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AUGUST 14, 2023

This week, reports emerged claiming that Chinese news publication Gyro Technology leaked the design specifications of Samsung’s upcoming MR headset. A “key purpose” of Samsung’s acquisition of Imagine is to enhance “technology preparedness” for the firm’s entry into the XR marketplace.

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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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OCTOBER 9, 2023

VR: Starting With Meta Quest Meta started with VR as Facebook in 2014 by acquiring Oculus. AR: Starting With Apple Vision Pro Apple begins in 2024 with Vision Pro as an AR-first device starting at $3500. In fact, Zuckerberg thinks their neural wristband technology will be faster than typing on keyboards in just a couple years.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

"PICO will continue to invest in hardware, core technologies, and enhance the user experience of current and new consumers." Is there a new Pico headset planned for 2024 based on the XR2 Gen 2? Why should someone buy a Pico 4 now? Will developers be removing their games from release on Pico's platform?

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

A major plus to the exclusive partnership is that Meta can leverage LG’s microLED and microOLED microdisplay technologies. 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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APRIL 28, 2024

In other words, don’t compare the 2024 Apple Vision Pro to the 2024 iPhone, or 2024 iPad, or 2024 MacBook Pro. Throughout the history of technology, early adopters are usually among those willing to pay a steep price to be among the first.)

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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.”

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