The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

1, 2027 for commercial customers, Windows Mixed Reality will no longer be available for download via the Mixed Reality Portal app, Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR, and Steam VR beta, and Microsoft will discontinue support.” More info Google has to open its operating system to more stores As part of a settlement with the U.S.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. Especially Apple and Google, which are the dominant players in the smartphone industry, are both launching headsets this year.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. It seems that most of the rumors are aligning on the launch of an Apple Vision Pro 2 in 2026–2027. What a time to be alive!

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

Amazon, Tesla, Google, Facebook, and others, including most autonomous vehicle companies, are building the same for various purposes. ” He said “I learned Google is learning faster than we are.” ” “We instrumented Google and discovered that its AI systems are learning faster than ours are.”

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. In 2027, it should launch its first AR glasses for consumers, codenamed Artemis. Ah no, not even that because also Twitter is dead. Now it’s called X and aims at becoming the Western WeChat.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2024

The next edition of the glasses, codenamed Artemis, is instead meant for commercial distribution, but this should not come before 2027, according to some leaked documents. Google has great expertise in building operating systems, plus its Google Play store would have let Meta Quest become compatible with all its Android Apps out of the box.

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