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The XR Week Peek (2022.08.01): Quest 2 price raise, PSVR 2 passthrough, Pico 4 leaks, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Zuck envisions that by 2030 the “metaverse” may be as profitable as advertising for Meta, but it is a prediction that is uncertain and it is expected 8 years from now. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony releases some details about PSVR 2 runtime. Sony releases some details about PSVR 2 runtime. Upload VR).

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The State of Extended Reality in Gaming

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It accounts for a significant share of the XR market, which is set to reach a value of $300 billion by 2030. For instance, the Oculus Quest 2, one of the world’s top gaming headsets, sold 15 million units after 20 months on the market, even during a pandemic. Let’s take a closer look at XR’s impact on the gaming world today.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.07.04): Big tech companies perform budget cuts, Mojo tests its smart contact lens in-eye, and more!

The Ghost Howls

It’s incredible how we will have the first smart contact lens product before 2030… it seems like hardware coming from a sci-fi movie! Then, PSVR Without Parole has reported that Sony has learned from the errors of the PSVR 1, and so it has made the cable of the PSVR 2 detachable. We are still waiting for in-device tools, though.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.01.16): CES is coming, Abrash predicts AR to substitute smartphones in 2040 and more!

The Ghost Howls

But as far as I know, nothing disruptive for the industry : Oculus has already shots all its bullets, and HTC for the first time isn’t announcing anything. Some surprises may arrive from Sony (I hope so, but I don’t believe so), but for the rest, I’ve mostly heard about news from secondary operators. Image by Oculus).

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The XR Week Peek (2020.04.13): iPhone 12 adds depth camera, StarVR One is back to the market and much more!

The Ghost Howls

This week Sony has showcased the new DualShock controller for the PS5, dubbed DualSens. PSVR2 will surely have its dedicated controllers, but since Sony is trying to guarantee retro-compatibility of games (especially gems like AstroBot), this headset should also be able to work with the DualSens controller.

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VR is dead, the metaverse is dead. Maybe.

The Ghost Howls

Think about what happened to VR: we had the Oculus devkits, which interested only us developers. So whenever I see market predictions about immersive realities that arrive to 2030, I think they have the same reliability as the horoscope. I nnovation usually doesn’t follow a linear route, but goes through sprints and disruptions.

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The New 3D Apple Arriving at WWDC

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That said, I’m very bullish about Apple and expect it to be a lot bigger by 2030 than it is today, because of this strategical shift underway. In front of you will be two 8K Sony chips, I hear. But I hear it is years ahead of what Facebook is building in its Oculus Quest standalone VR headsets.

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