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The XR Week Peek (2024.03.04): Meta and LG confirm their partnerships, Meta to unveil some AR glasses at Connect, and more!

The Ghost Howls

It is not the first time Meta partnered with an external company for a new device and in most cases this choice paid off: both the Gear VR (Samsung) and the Oculus Go (Xiaomi) were pretty good products. Given the production timeline, this Vision Pro successor could launch in the first half of 2026.

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A Complete Guide to Virtual Reality

XR Today - Virtual Reality

percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2021 and 2026. Form factors have improved dramatically since then, and most people are familiar with the first commercially-available VR headset, then-Facebook’s Oculus Rift. Interest in VR is rapidly increasing with a forecasted 48.7 billion USD in 2021 to $84.09

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The time to harvest for us VR people is now

The Ghost Howls

A few weeks after I officially entered VR, the technology started being overhyped after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus. He makes the miracle of transforming your data into his money (Image by Tweaknology). If you follow the story described above, you can see that the hype for VR in 2014 was caused by Facebook buying Oculus.

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Meta bad, metaverse bad

The Ghost Howls

I totally want them to care more about our privacy, and I’m all in with Avi Bar-Zeev in having better management of eye tracking data on the Quest Pro. That’s why its greatest bet is AR glasses that are coming from 2024 or 2026. I’m not a huge fan of Zuck, and I ‘ve always criticized Meta when needed.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.02.14): SteamVR headsets go beyond 3M, body-tracking leaked for Quest SDK, and more!

The Ghost Howls

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. Copy-pasting a message from Cognitive 3D: We are Cognitive3D, a spatial analytics platform built specifically for collecting, measuring and understanding user behavior data from 3D environments.

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5 Case Studies showing the ROI of AR/VR in Industrial Manufacturing

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Augmented Reality (AR) allows the user to view augmented elements or data in real-world space. Billion by 2026. The Oculus Rift headset allows employees to enter the vehicle and feel the facilities. Virtual Reality (VR) , an advanced technology, places the user in a virtual environment or simulated space. Billion in 2020.