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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2024

And Quest 2 is much cheaper (especially now that has been put at $199): during the last holidays, it outperformed the Quest 3 by a factor 3:1 on Amazon US. but this does not always mean delivering the most compelling game that technology allows for. I would wait a bit more, probably until the second half of 2025.

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Anand Tech

JULY 26, 2023

Modern fabrication technologies are expensive to develop in general. Rapidus itself projects that it will need approximately $35 billion to initiate pilot 2nm chip production in 2025, and then bring that to high-volume manufacturing in 2027. The endeavor is both extremely challenging and tremendously expensive.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Another leak regarded the release date: an Amazon listing put the availability date of the Quest 3 starting from October, 10th. Development is taking its time, and no glass based on Micro XR is expected to hit the market before 2025. More info Is Apple working on the Vision Pro since 2007?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

At the end of the day, I understand that Unity needs to monetize more because the economic conditions are s**t and Apple is killing its Unity Ads cash cow with its privacy shield. Some developers I know are already switching to Godot or Unreal because they say that Unity can’t be trusted anymore. As an entrepreneur, I understand.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. Qualcomm told me that by the end of 2020 we will see a ton of them announced (Qualcomm makes the core technology that Facebook’s Oculus Quest uses.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 18, 2023

Apple’s extended reality (XR) product lineup faces additional setbacks after reports revealed it indefinitely postponed augmented reality (AR) smart glasses. Apple stated the smart glasses face technical issues, forcing Apple to delay the launch of the device until further notice. Product Innovation, Interoperability.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

I expect all these trends to continue in 2021, for a year that will see the growth of the technology on all its sides (software and hardware). We all know that AR and VR will merge in a single glass sooner or later, and the trend of mixing the two technologies has already started more than one year ago.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

Waiting until now would mean that next VR game by Valve would come out in 2024–2025… do you really think they don’t want to make the ecosystem to grow now? Apple ARKit 3.5 It is no mystery that Apple is currently the best mobile augmented reality company, and the latest update to ARKit confirms this. More info (ARKit 3.5

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

They have different brands, and they use the technology differently. We had a lot of legacy in the car world, and of working with interactive technology, with all the different console and PC cycles, always having to take the bleeding edge out of what was available. But in the end, it turned out it’s the other way.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

They have different brands, and they use the technology differently. We had a lot of legacy in the car world, and of working with interactive technology, with all the different console and PC cycles, always having to take the bleeding edge out of what was available. But in the end, it turned out it’s the other way.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 – since before the interwebs! At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies. To learn more about Torch, you can visit torch.app.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 – since before the interwebs! At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies. To learn more about Torch, you can visit torch.app.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 - since before the interwebs! At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies. To learn more about Torch, you can visit torch.app.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

In this half, the two VR podcast hosts discuss the ethics of XR, building a strong economic ecosystem for emerging technologies, the AR Cloud, and more. And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. We pick up where we left off, with Part 2 of Alan’s interview with Kent Bye, host of the Voices of VR Podcast.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

In this half, the two VR podcast hosts discuss the ethics of XR, building a strong economic ecosystem for emerging technologies, the AR Cloud, and more. And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. We pick up where we left off, with Part 2 of Alan’s interview with Kent Bye, host of the Voices of VR Podcast.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

In this half, the two VR podcast hosts discuss the ethics of XR, building a strong economic ecosystem for emerging technologies, the AR Cloud, and more. And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. We pick up where we left off, with Part 2 of Alan's interview with Kent Bye, host of the Voices of VR Podcast.

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Robert Scoble

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Here is our first analysis (located at: [url]) on why we should all be paying attention to what is happening in humanoid robots and consumer electronics, which include autonomous vehicles that are now arriving to people’s garages and, soon, Augmented Reality devices from Apple and others. The robot brings other robots.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

We all know the Gartner hype cycle of emergent technologies: they are initially overhyped, then undervalued, and finally, they fulfill their potential and become popular and useful. No one still knows how to build the necessary technologies to make it happen. It will also be a defensive move against Apple.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

And in the last decades, it has been focused on technology. And looking to the applications that can be built with 5G, quite a lot of them are actually going to be enabled by XR technologies. Now, there’s other features of 5G that make it a unique technology to power XR. It’s a company that was founded 150 years ago.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

And in the last decades, it has been focused on technology. And looking to the applications that can be built with 5G, quite a lot of them are actually going to be enabled by XR technologies. Now, there’s other features of 5G that make it a unique technology to power XR. It’s a company that was founded 150 years ago.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

And in the last decades, it has been focused on technology. And looking to the applications that can be built with 5G, quite a lot of them are actually going to be enabled by XR technologies. Now, there's other features of 5G that make it a unique technology to power XR. It's a company that was founded 150 years ago. Alan: Okay.

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