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XR Talks: Behind Facebook’s Spatial Strategy

AR Insider

We’ve estimated that its annual XR R&D spend — not including its $2 billion Oculus acquisition — approaches $10 billion. That includes both AR and VR, the latter being more tangible today, given Oculus’ in-market status. It’s playing a long game and is firmly committed.

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Celebrate Earth Day With These Nature Themed VR Experiences

VRScout

The Stanford Ocean Acidification Experience —available via SteamVR , Viveport , and Oculus —does a wonderful job of breaking down the complex chemical processes that have resulted in permanent damage to various marine-based ecosystems. GOOGLE EARTH VR. NATURE TREKS VR.

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Which XR Firms Are Leading the Charge for Interoperability? 

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

billion by 2030, XR is attracting the attention of not just countless consumers but endless business leaders too. For instance: Meta: Meta’s Oculus devices not only work alongside a wide range of different hardware solutions, but they’re also designed to support countless different types of software too seamlessly.

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The XR Week Peek: Facebook abandons BCIs, VR grows fast, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

This is confirmed also by a previous prediction by the CEO of Unity, which foresees that in 2030 VR headsets will be as popular as gaming console: that is mainstream, but still not as TV, for instance. Inside this growing VR market, the headset that is selling the most is the Oculus Quest 2. Facebook totals now 60.2%

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Remote assistants in combination with AR or VR in US 2022

ARVR

In 2020, the AR market was worth around $7 billion, and experts predict that this number will rise to $152 billion by 2030. As for Virtual Reality (VR), it’s a complete immersion into a virtual world, shutting off the physical world entirely through special VR devices like HTC Vive, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Rift.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.20): Oculus ready to manufacture the Quest S, Pico doubles-down on 3DOF, and more!

The Ghost Howls

(Image by Oculus). Oculus could be starting the production of a new Quest at the end of July. Multiple reports seem to confirm that Oculus is actually starting the production of a new Oculus Quest headset, with an expected release date in 2021. Google’s investment for a 7.7% of units more produced annually.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.06.28): Blaston retreats on ads, Vive Focus 3 ships with positive reviews, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Unity CEO predicts in 2030 XR headsets will be as popular as gaming consoles. Unity CEO John Riccitiello has made new predictions on AR and VR , and this time he talked about the projections for XR headsets in 2030. We all wondered what Adobe was thinking to do with Oculus Medium, after its acquisition from Facebook some years ago.

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