Upload VR

JULY 3, 2023

Apple is reportedly cutting its production forecasts for Vision Pro. Last month South Korean tech news outlet The Elec reported Sony, the supplier of Vision Pro's ultra high resolution OLED microdisplays, can't manufacture more than 900,000 displays per year at most - and Apple needs two displays per headset.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Qualcomm is seemingly planning to reveal a new XR chipset early next year that could be for Apple Vision Pro competitors. XR2 Gen 2 is the successor to the original XR2 from 2020, and it's based on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip used in high-end Android phones like Samsung's Galaxy S23 series. Vision Pro Competitors From Samsung & LG?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

As I said a few months ago , we are in the middle of a paradigm change: the cycle that started with the Quest is arriving at an end, and a new cycle driven by new technologies (mixed reality headsets) and new players (Apple, Google) is starting. They are Apple AR glasses!” I have this impression for a few reasons.

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JUNE 13, 2023

Apple reportedly can't make more than half a million Vision Pro headsets per year. This corroborates earlier reporting from The Information's Wayne Ma last month, and could be a major reason for Apple's $3500 price point. The Elec's report claims Apple asked Sony to expand production but was refused.

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Anand Tech

MAY 8, 2023

The head of Samsung's semiconductor unit acknowledged last week that the company's current mass production, leading-edge process technologies are a couple of years behind TSMC's most advanced production nodes. But Samsung is working hard to catch up with its larger rival in five years. "To

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Mashable VR

MAY 17, 2022

Apple’s first foldable device is likely still a few years away, but that won’t stop the rumor mill from churning out juicy info about it. According to Kuo, Apple is testing the Electronic Paper Display (or EPD) technology developed by Chinese firm E Ink for the outer display on the rumored foldable device.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is Zuckerberg's first publicly-known trip to South Korea since 2014, when he visited Samsung to finalize the Gear VR smartphone-holder headset partnership. This could bring over services like Netflix, Disney+, Max, Prime Video, Apple TV+, Hulu, Paramount+, and VUDU with no extra developer effort required. Quest Pro 2?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2024

With Q1 reports incoming, XR firms are reflecting on success and failure to achieve a market lead by 2025. Meta’s open approach contrasts Apple’s walled garden ecosystem, which supports its spatial computing vision. Apple WWDC ’24 to be an XR Showcase? Apple has not yet confirmed any Vision Pro-related news for WWDC.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It is understood that the headset aims to compete with the Apple Vision Pro, which comes with an eye-watering price tag of $3,499. Furthermore, Meta has struck several joint ventures with companies like Lenovo, Samsung, and Xiaomi for the company’s Oculus Rift S, Gear VR, and Oculus Go, respectively.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 15, 2024

Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 Announced For Samsung Headset & More Qualcomm just announced Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, a higher-end variant of the chipset used in Quest 3. Meta Reportedly Partnering With LG For 2025 Quest Pro 2 Meta is reportedly partnering with LG to launch a Quest Pro successor in 2025, priced around $2000.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 22, 2022

Intel, Samsung, and TSMC fight an endless race to reduce the size of their chip nodes, increasing transistor density, which results in faster and more efficient processors. When it comes to chip-making, smaller is better. Right now, TSMC’s customers are lining up to be the first to get a taste of its latest… Read more.

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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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Upload VR

JUNE 27, 2023

So it's unclear whether Google's canceled glasses were actually full AR, or just smart HUD glasses of the kind Meta reportedly plans to ship with Luxottica in 2025. In February Samsung officially announced it was working on an XR headset, with Google handling "the software".

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Apple may announce its headset at WWDC 2022. A new week, a new rumor about Apple. This time it comes from Bloomberg, which predicts that Apple will announce its MR headset in June 2022 during WWDC , to launch it some months later, probably during the holiday season. (Image from the web). Learn about the m**averse in Japan.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The collaboration between Microsoft and Samsung is now over. The later departure of Alex Kipman seemed to be the final nail in the coffin for the AR glasses, but a new rumor brought a bit of hope: Microsoft seemed to work together with Samsung to design consumer-oriented AR glasses. Anyway, things have not gone as we all hoped.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 12, 2024

Google Reportedly Killed Its AR Glasses Project Google reportedly killed AR glasses project, will instead provide Android XR platform for manufacturers like Samsung. Google confirmed the statement to UploadVR, but declined to comment further when asked to specifically confirm this meant the end of its first-party AR glasses.

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Anand Tech

APRIL 22, 2022

years, which may pose some challenges to the foundry's key customer, Apple. In fact, N3 and its evolutionary iterations will remain TSMC's leading-edge offerings till late 2025 because the company's N2 (2 nm-class) schedule looks quite conservative. N2: Expect First Chips in 2026. That is our schedule." Transistor Type.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

I have been talking with hundreds of people across the industry and have discovered that the changes coming to Apple are deeper than just a VR/AR headset. This is the fourth paradigm shift for Apple. So, what is Apple getting ready to announce over the next year? Arrives in 2022, with glasses to follow sometime before 2025).

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Upload VR

MARCH 1, 2024

It runs all the games and experiences that UploadVR Jamie Feltham Flash forward to early 2023, and Samsung announced that it was working on XR hardware, with Google handling the software. Google and Meta's XR strategies could end up remarkably similar, with the two companies vying to entice hardware companies to adopt their platform.

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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. Major Firms Enter the XR Market During a launch event at MWC 2024, Samsung showcased a new XR headset developed in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm. The device is expected to hit the market in 2025.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2023

More info (Quest has sold 20 M units) More info (Opinion on VR not mainstream) More info (My editorial on Quest 2 sales and the problem of retention) More info (Editorial on The Verge about Quest being a gaming console) Samsung trademarks “Galaxy Glasses” We may have a name for the upcoming AR glasses by Samsung.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Apple is still working on a cheaper Vision Pro Meta is not the only company working on a cheaper device. Apple is doing the same with its Vision Pro, hoping to release in the next years a headset with a price that makes it affordable for more people. More info — Use Google Translate!

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This week has seen its fair share of tricks and treats ahead of the Halloween season, where companies like Warpin Reality, HTC VIVE, Google, Shopify, and Apple, among others, have offered a powerhouse of insights to XR Today on their latest innovations. Here are the top stories from this week’s news stories.

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Anand Tech

JULY 26, 2023

Interestingly, the company aims to serve world's leading tech giants, challenging TSMC, IFS, and Samsung Foundry. 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. "We are looking for a U.S.

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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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Upload VR

JULY 19, 2023

Apple reportedly postponed its full AR glasses “indefinitely” earlier this year, and Google reportedly killed its internal glasses project this year in favor of making the software for third parties instead.

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ARVR

AUGUST 28, 2020

The VR industry is predicted to hit a revenue of 9–10 Billion Dollars by 2025! Major tech giants like Samsung, Google, Apple and Nvidia are the chief contributors to VR market and at the same time the chief researchers that can help explore more versatile use cases of this impactful technology within the next few years.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 20, 2022

Marco Nobili, executive VP and international general manager of Paramount+, told The Hollywood Reporter the company aims to commission 150 international originals by 2025. Here's a list of the best shows streaming on the U.S.

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Bernard Marr

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Health and fitness technology is big business – the market for fitness tracker devices alone is forecast to come close to $100 billion by the end of 2025. Thoughts inevitably start to turn towards fixing some of the damage and, particularly for the geeks among us, how technology might be able to help us to do it.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area. There is some news in China recently, like rumors said Tecent is in talks with Meta to sell Quest VR headsets in China, Apple is going to release its MR headset in Q2 and etc.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The Meta Quest 4 Pro should be released in 2025 and be produced in partnership with LG Electronics. Meta plans to fight Apple thanks to the help of LG, a company that has deep expertise in manufacturing hardware and displays. If this strategy is confirmed, by 2025 Meta would have a cheap $200 device (Quest 3 Lite?),

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

OK, so since we've kind of come from 2015 to 2020, what do you think is going to be the trend moving forward to, let's say, 2025? And it's great that Apple is pushing this pretty hard. There's a lot of rumors [that] Apple's working on that. Though I do think that's like-- I don't know if it'l have wide adoption by 2025.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

OK, so since we've kind of come from 2015 to 2020, what do you think is going to be the trend moving forward to, let's say, 2025? And it's great that Apple is pushing this pretty hard. There's a lot of rumors [that] Apple's working on that. Though I do think that's like-- I don't know if it'l have wide adoption by 2025.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

OK, so since we've kind of come from 2015 to 2020, what do you think is going to be the trend moving forward to, let's say, 2025? And it's great that Apple is pushing this pretty hard. There's a lot of rumors [that] Apple's working on that. Though I do think that's like-- I don't know if it'l have wide adoption by 2025.

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XROM

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In a move to challenge Apple's dominance in the augmented reality (AR) market, Meta Platforms Inc., According to reliable IT sources, Meta and LG Electronics have signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to develop these state-of-the-art headsets, with plans to unveil them in 2025. to develop cutting-edge Mixed Reality (MR) headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

It will also be a defensive move against Apple. Apple could announce its headset. Apple could announce its headset. Concept render of the upcoming Apple headset (Image by Antonio DeRosa). And there is still the possibility that Apple cancels the project, something that wouldn’t be new to it.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

And a Samsung. Alan: It’s interesting that Apple is taking a longer approach to bring their 5G device to market. So it’s funny, I took this 10-year approach, I was like, “OK, by 2025, these things will happen.” Well, it’s not 2025, it’s 2019, and things are being rolled out now at scale.

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