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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.26): WMR gets discontinued, Meta to showcase an impressive AR prototype, and more!

The Ghost Howls

PS Remember that there is an ongoing giveaway of physical copies of the Sam&Max game for PSVR for all people in North America! But unluckily, their tracking performance was bad, especially for what concerns controllers, the manufacturing quality was debatable, and especially Microsoft never invested enough into dedicated content.

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Does this Mark the End of the HoloLens?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

With the debut of Vision Pro and spatial computing hitting the mainstream, audiences could reasonably assume that firms with established XR projects and products, such as Microsoft or Snap, would re-establish their investments in XR. Profoundly suggesting that Microsoft is dropping support for the two products.

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Does this Mark the End of the Windows Mixed Reality?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

With the debut of Vision Pro and spatial computing hitting the mainstream, audiences could reasonably assume that firms with established XR projects and products, such as Microsoft or Snap, would re-establish their investments in XR. Profoundly suggesting that Microsoft is dropping support for the product.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.10.11): Meta Quest 3 ships now, a cheaper model may come in 2024… and more!

The Ghost Howls

But not all the applications work well with hand gestures: for instance, most action games would suck with it. And a Vision Pro 2 wouldn’t be shipped until 2027. So a Vision Pro 2 in 2027 seems to me the most logical option , instead of a downgrade of an original plan. I’m honestly finding this report a bit too pessimistic.

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Trends and predictions for XR in 2024

The Ghost Howls

The last cycle before this one was the Quest one, which started to make virtual reality known to the mainstream audience for what concerns games and fitness. Mark Zuckerberg has been incredibly smart in entering this field before all the others, so now he already has a strong headset with a great content catalog around gaming.

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Industrial XR Market to top $60bn by 2030, ABI Research Reveals

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Analysts predict that more than 16 million industrial XR devices will ship in 2027 at current adoption rates. Along with NVIDIA, Unity and Epic Games, the world’s largest gaming engines, have also joined efforts to build the industrial metaverse. Compound annual growth rates (CAGR) for the same period would reach 33.09

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Meta, Tencent in Talks to Sell Quest Headsets in China

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

The news comes after Tencent, the largest global video game publisher, aimed to develop its own metaverse unit in June last year. It had hired 300 employees, but later shifted its company strategy back to the gaming industry. The company also aimed to acquire Black Shark, a Chinese gaming phone manufacturer.

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