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The XR Week Peek (2024.01.23): Apple Vision Pro preorders have been opened, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

It is not clear what this device will be, but a previous rumor talked about a collaboration between Meta and LG for the release of the Meta Quest Pro 2, which the same rumor set for 2025. I guess we will have to wait until 2025 to discover what LG has in the works. In any case, the launch of this device is expected for Q3 2024.

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Editorial: This VR cycle may take more time than expected

The Ghost Howls

PSVR 2 Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment) I had big hopes for PSVR 2. I’m pretty sure that Sony is waiting the next few months to make some moves, there’s still the Black Friday and the Christmas Holiday that have to happen, but at the moment I do not see this device as disruptive to our ecosystem.

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Meta Reportedly Downgrading Key Specs Of Its In-Development AR Glasses

Upload VR

While most major electronics companies are actively researching microLED – including Samsung, Sony, and Apple – no company has yet figured out how to affordably mass manufacture it for consumer products. LCoS microdisplays were used in HoloLens 1 and are used today in Magic Leap 2.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.09.04): Meta may be working on the next Quest Pro with LG, Meta Avatars get legs, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The Meta Quest 4 Pro should be released in 2025 and be produced in partnership with LG Electronics. If this strategy is confirmed, by 2025 Meta would have a cheap $200 device (Quest 3 Lite?), This would mean that Meta would start doing like Pico and having the “Pro” models with the same numbers as the standard models.

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Mark Zuckerberg and I are confusing the market about VR and AR and the future of all computing: here’s why we need to stop doing that

Robert Scoble

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. Literally everyone in the industry other than Magic Leap and Apple uses Qualcomm’s spatial computing tech stack). focused on “utility.”

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The New 3D Apple Arriving at WWDC

Robert Scoble

Arrives in 2022, with glasses to follow sometime before 2025). In front of you will be two 8K Sony chips, I hear. If you haven’t seen a Microsoft Hololens or a Magic Leap you probably have no clue about how amazing this will be. A new kind of programmatic surround sound (Spatial Audio is just the start).

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Big XR News from Magic Leap, LG, Meta, and Lenovo

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Firms like Sony, NVIDIA, XREAL, Qualcomm, PIXO VR, and Dimension X showcased the latest in spatial computing innovation , which may alter the future of work and life. Magic Leap is currently working with major enterprise end-users such as Siemens to leverage its highly competitive XR display. That’s where the value is derived.