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The XR Week Peek (2023.08.28): Quest 3 unboxing leaked, Samsung+Google headset situation is blurry, and more!

The Ghost Howls

First of all, Google has to keep the work on the headset very secret also internally , because Samsung is afraid that Google will steal its expertise to build a competing product. Development is taking its time, and no glass based on Micro XR is expected to hit the market before 2025. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers!

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Editorial: This VR cycle may take more time than expected

The Ghost Howls

The main one regards the 4 devices we were waiting for this year , which in our opinion should have changed everything: Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google-Samsung Headset, and PSVR 2. The Unity Beta to develop for the Vision Pro is still not available, so many devs like me can’t even play with the emulator.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.10.17): Quest 3 has been shipped, Quest 3 Lite to come in 2024, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info John Riccitiello steps down from its role as Unity CEO The last chapter of the drama about Unity’s pricing change is that John Riccitiello has left his role of CEO at the company. According to the latest rumors, the device is expected to be launched either at the end of 2024 or the beginning of 2025.

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The Brighter Reality of Virtual Reality

ARVR

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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VRTUOLUO talks about its FBEC event and the VR ecosystem in China

The Ghost Howls

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). We think the AR consumer market will start in 2025 , and in the beginning, AR glasses will work in coordination with smartphones.

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My predictions for virtual reality in 2019

The Ghost Howls

Samsung has also teased to be interested in releasing a new AR/VR standalone device. The only exception to this rule seems to be the Samsung Odyssey+, that offers features somewhat comparable to the ones of the Vive Pro, but costs only $500. Samsung will do the same. You just turn them on and they work. Mobile headsets.

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Creating Synthetic Photography, with ThreeKit’s Ben Houston

XR for Business Podcast

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? Though I do think that's like-- I don't know if it'l have wide adoption by 2025. What is the difference between workflows on Threekit, versus Unity or even Unreal? So that would be very cool.

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