The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The hype for the Apple Pro is starting to deflate and it is possible to see that from some cues: for instance, there are more critics of the headset and fewer articles are talking about it. The release of this headset is expected for the first half of 2025. It’s still the gadget of the moment, but a bit less shiny than before.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Now, a CNBC report contends that Facebook has struck a deal with Luxottica, the Italian parent company to Ray-Ban and many others, to help design some form of immersive wearable. SEE ALSO iOS 13 Code Suggests Apple is Testing Its AR Headset Internally.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Scientists predict that by 2025, nearly 2 billion of the population will consist of the Generation Alpha or the iGeneration. They can’t imagine life without Apple, Google, and apps, so education must adapt to their new perception patterns. See Also: Developing AR Apps with Google's ARCore. Guest Post.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

The Vision Pro bring Apple’s branding into the space and, with it, many eyes. Now, it appears that various major firms are joining suit by developing immersive workplace solutions. The device is expected to hit the market in 2025. MWC 2024 was a valuable insight into the mainstream XR market.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

According to CBINSIGHTS , tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) have all been acquiring AI startups aggressively in the last decade. Apple leads when compared with other giants in terms of acquisitions made. billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 63.01% between 2019 and 2025.

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ARPost

JANUARY 29, 2020

Past attempts have been unsuccessful, such as Google Glass, due to reluctance and concerns over ethical issues such as privacy and security of AR glasses. Fast-forward a few years from the failing Google Glass, and now it turns out the popularity of smart-glasses has increased again, thanks to numerous new developments.

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AR Insider

JUNE 8, 2021

After accomplishing deep and frequent user engagement levels , Snap has attracted brand advertisers that want to expose their products and messaging with the same degree of immersive depth. billion by 2025. Apple AR glasses could accomplish this by both propping up and succeeding the aging iPhone. More from AR Insider….

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

We are vulnerable on mobile to Google and Apple because they make major mobile platforms. From a timing perspective, we are better off the sooner the next platform becomes ubiquitous and the shorter the time we exist in a primarily mobile world dominated by Google and Apple.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2024

This week, smart glasses manufacturer XREAL announced a successful funding round of $60 million in a strategic round to launch the firm as a competitor to the Apple Vision Pro. This goal will allow XREAL to expand production of its AR smart glasses product ready for 2025 onwards, readying the firm for a new wave of potential customers.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

They will then receive a one-time $5 USD credit on their statement, along with the immersive experience. The report comes as American Express aims to contribute roughly $100 billion USD in consumer spending to small businesses and enterprises between 2021 and 2025. This trend has continued since its inception in 2010.

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ARVR

AUGUST 28, 2020

Startups like Osso VR, make it possible to train doctors on highly realistic, immersive VR platforms with hand based interactions. Companies like Tesla and Google are heavily investing in self-driving cars that can completely reduce risks of accidents due to unsafe driving. So, is shutting yourself indoors the only safe alternative?

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ARVR

JUNE 11, 2021

After accomplishing deep and frequent user engagement levels , Snap has attracted brand advertisers that want to expose their products and messaging with the same degree of immersive depth. billion by 2025. it’s probably Apple. Wild Card Apple’s track record in mainstreaming emerging tech?—?also

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ARVR

JANUARY 21, 2022

Analysts predict that the AR market will reach $198 billion in 2025. APPLE ARKIT 5 The latest version of Apple’s open source mobile augmented reality development toolset, ARKit 5 , offers significant improvements from ARKit 4. This past year, Google introduced a few new features for ARCore such as recording and playback APIs.

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XROM

MARCH 2, 2023

Meta plans to release its first pair of smart glasses with a display in 2025 alongside a neural interface smartwatch designed to control them. Apple is expected to announce a high-end virtual reality headset sometime this year, while Sony just released the well-received PSVR 2 for console gamers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Besides, an “XR Latest devices experience area” will be set up at FBEC2022, where attendees could take an immersive experience on more than 20 pieces of XR hardware, including Quest Pro, PS VR2 Nreal Air, Rokid Air, and so on. Also, It will be a great chance to communicate with them directly.

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ARVR

MARCH 14, 2022

3D and immersive AR-based app development ? According to the PwC research, it is estimated that the on-demand economy will soar to reach a whopping $335 billion by 2025. For instance, mobile banking apps and digital wallets like Apple Pay use facial recognition to unlock the app. Seamless IoT integration ? High performing GPS ?

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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. VR is about immersion. They do NOT do immersion, or, if they do, they don’t do it well. The tech industry is gearing up for a new paradigm shift.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

And it’s not over on the content side: they are going to launch the Pico Video app with 600+ videos on day 1 , and are partnering to have immersive concerts with Wave. Image by Google). Meta and Google announce layoffs. This week we had the announcement of both Meta and Google laying off people. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Yes, it’s a lot of time, but these are realistic projections.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So really, the lessons that we learned out of XR Collaboration is this new, immersive, remote way of connecting digitally online. But the future is really taking a plunge into these immersive collaboration platforms and really honing in on that word, collaboration. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. Golf, I think.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So really, the lessons that we learned out of XR Collaboration is this new, immersive, remote way of connecting digitally online. But the future is really taking a plunge into these immersive collaboration platforms and really honing in on that word, collaboration. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. Golf, I think.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 10, 2019

And I would think that Facebook, Snapchat, maybe Apple, those the main ones. In terms of who’s on the flip side of that marketplace, actually– we’re about to launch our first SDK and that’s– we think of it much more at a Unity level, than necessarily as an Apple or a Google level. Dominic: Oh, yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 10, 2019

And I would think that Facebook, Snapchat, maybe Apple, those the main ones. In terms of who’s on the flip side of that marketplace, actually– we’re about to launch our first SDK and that’s– we think of it much more at a Unity level, than necessarily as an Apple or a Google level. Dominic: Oh, yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 10, 2019

And I would think that Facebook, Snapchat, maybe Apple, those the main ones. In terms of who's on the flip side of that marketplace, actually-- we're about to launch our first SDK and that's-- we think of it much more at a Unity level, than necessarily as an Apple or a Google level. But you also need to get the AR platforms.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So really, the lessons that we learned out of XR Collaboration is this new, immersive, remote way of connecting digitally online. But the future is really taking a plunge into these immersive collaboration platforms and really honing in on that word, collaboration. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. Golf, I think.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

She was at Ford for 30 years, and ran their immersive technology lab for 20 of them, I think. That’s sometimes still a little bit of the work of VR and AR I have to look at, versus it’s immediately clear what you’re trying to do with it; the utility, the immersion. You see them now everywhere in the street.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

She was at Ford for 30 years, and ran their immersive technology lab for 20 of them, I think. That’s sometimes still a little bit of the work of VR and AR I have to look at, versus it’s immediately clear what you’re trying to do with it; the utility, the immersion. You see them now everywhere in the street.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

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 be fair to everyone else, Apple’s very tightly coupled to the hardware. To learn more about Torch, you can visit torch.app. Alan: Oh, my God. Paul: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

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 be fair to everyone else, Apple’s very tightly coupled to the hardware. To learn more about Torch, you can visit torch.app. Alan: Oh, my God. Paul: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

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 be fair to everyone else, Apple's very tightly coupled to the hardware. To learn more about Torch, you can visit torch.app. It's all very fragmented by the tool.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. You have Apple, with ARKit. So those huge breakthroughs are actually being applied and deployed into these immersive technologies. Or in Canada, USDZed.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. You have Apple, with ARKit. So those huge breakthroughs are actually being applied and deployed into these immersive technologies. Or in Canada, USDZed.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. You have Apple, with ARKit. So those huge breakthroughs are actually being applied and deployed into these immersive technologies. Or in Canada, USDZed.

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