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Google Reportedly Plans To Provide System Software For AR Glasses From 2025

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Google reportedly plans to provide AR glasses system software for hardware companies from 2025. In June Business Insider's Hugh Langley reported that Google had cancelled its own glasses hardware project amid the mass layoffs at the company and the departure of its AR/VR chief Clay Bavor.

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Meta Reportedly Partnering With LG For 2025 Quest Pro Successor

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The first product from the partnership is reportedly slated for 2025, priced at around $2000. How LG's branding will appear on the reported 2025 headset is not yet known. Samsung announced in February it is building a headset, with Google handling the software.

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Analyst: Vision Pro Demand Fell “sharply beyond expectations,” Leading Apple to Reduce Shipments for International Debut

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Kuo also previously reported that a second-generation Apple headset was expected to go into mass production in 2025 , which is said to come in both a high and low-end version. However, now, Kuo maintains Apple is “reviewing and adjusting its head-mounted display (HMD) product roadmap, so there may be no new Vision Pro model in 2025.”

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Google Tried To Get Meta To Kowtow To Its Upcoming XR Platform

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Google reportedly asked Meta to partner and "contribute to" its upcoming XR platform, but Meta said no. 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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LG-Made Quest Pro 2 Will Reportedly Ship In The First Half Of 2025

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Last year Samsung announced it was building a headset with Google handling the software, which it plans to ship later this year. With Meta reentering segment with LG and Google entering it with Samsung, the high-end headset market currently only served by Apple could become a three horse race next year.

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Meta is Reportedly Partnering with LG to Create Apple Vision Pro Competitor

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South Korea’s Maekyung (Korean) is reporting on two new Meta headsets: a low-cost Quest model that will be priced at “less than $200” coming in 2024, and a high-priced model in a joint venture with LG in 2025, which is supposedly set to take on Apple Vision Pro.

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Google All But Confirms It's No Longer Working On Its Own AR Glasses

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Google is eliminating hundreds of roles in its hardware division, mostly from its first-party AR hardware team. Here's the statement Google provided to news outlet 9to5Google : "A few hundred roles are being eliminated in [Devices & Services] with the majority of impacts on the 1P AR Hardware team.

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