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Report: Meta & LG’s Rumored Vision Pro Competitor Set to Launch in Early 2025

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According to a report from South Korean outlet The Korea Economic Daily (Korean), Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be in-country this week to finalize a deal with LG regarding a previously rumored competitor to Apple Vision Pro, which is reportedly set to be jointly built by the two companies for release in early 2025.

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Meta's CTO Shot Down The Prospect Of A Quest 3 Eye Tracking Add-On

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Meta's CTO shot down the prospect of a Quest 3 eye tracking add-on. For eye tracking, you need to have this illumination all the way around the eyes - you're talking about replacing the eye cups. You need to have cameras in multiple positions, which are in kind of quite tight and sensitive areas.

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Mark Zuckerberg Was Interviewed In VR With Prototype Photorealistic Avatars

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Zuckerberg and Fridman were both wearing Quest Pro, which features built-in face tracking and eye tracking. The widely ridiculed Meta Avatars today have a basic cartoony art style that couldn't be further from photorealism, and Quest 3 has neither eye tracking nor face tracking sensors.

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Samsung Enters XR Device Marketplace, MWC 2024

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Today at MWC 2024, Samsung unveiled an upcoming XR headset the firm created alongside partners Google and Qualcomm, with a scheduled release window coming in 2025. However, reports suggest the device will have a microOLED display, eight tracking cameras, a ToF sensor, voice commands, eye tracking, and hand tracking.

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Zuckerberg: Neural Wristband For AR/VR Input Will Ship "In The Next Few Years"

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Occlusion-free finger tracking of this quality and reliability could enable precise control of complex interfaces with incredibly subtle movements of your hand resting on your lap, making it an ideal input method for headsets and AR glasses. 0:00 / 0:31 1× Meta concept of AR glasses interface driven by neural wristband input.

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Editorial: This VR cycle may take more time than expected

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This is because the sales have not been enormous, and the content for it is not exploiting completely its new features (there are some cool uses of eye tracking, but that’s it). The rumors from Mark Gurman talk about a new cheaper version, which can have a more mass market appeal, forecasted for 2025-2026.

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Report: Apple’s MR Headset Could Come as Soon as This Summer

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That cheaper version is said to target a 2024 or early 2025 launch window. None of the below has been confirmed by Apple, so please take anything you read here with a large grain of salt: Reported Apple MR Specs Resolution : Dual Micro OLED displays at 4K resolution (per eye) FOV : 120-degrees, similar to Valve Index Chipset : Two 5nm chips.

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