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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.02): Meta predicts the metaverse for 2030 and beyond, Snap launches a drone, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I’m getting better, but I’ll need days to fully recover, I still feel like if I was hit by a train. Zuckerberg sets the Metaverse for 2030 and beyond. Zuck has explained to them to be patient because the Metaverse, which no one knows what actually is, is happening beyond 2030. Goodbye Oculus brand. Send me hugs.

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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. of units more produced annually. Other relevant news. Image by Pico).

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Skarredghost does not exist, he has always been an artificial intelligence

The Ghost Howls

A market of 87 trillion dollars by 2030. We picked as his role the one of a tech expert because it was a field that we know very well ourselves, but as its main expertise we didn’t pick the too obvious AI field, but virtual reality, because it was a growing field of interest in 2014 after Facebook acquired Oculus.

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Learn how to write an article about the metaverse in 9 minutes

The Ghost Howls

In any case, when 2030 arrives and the numbers will be wrong (like all the ones predicted by the analysts, which make the predictions throwing dice), people will have anyway forgot that article you wrote 8 years ago. Ah, and Zuckerberg bought Oculus for 4 billions. Remember: checking data is for losers. Mix all together. Be prepared.

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VR is dead, the metaverse is dead. Maybe.

The Ghost Howls

If we talk about XR in general (including so also AR headsets and smartglasses), we have lots of use cases like training, maintenance, remote assistance, psychology, etc… where headsets and glasses are already used every day. Think about what happened to VR: we had the Oculus devkits, which interested only us developers.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.16): HTC launches Tracker 3.0, Facebook has 10,000 people working on XR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

for training), and also for full-body tracking by all people performing in VRChat. In September, the new Facebook Avatars will come and substitute the current Oculus avatars. The very accurate analyst ended his forecast with the last theatrical shot, saying that by 2030 Apple will also have its AR contact lenses. Some XR fun.

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MeetinVR tries to make VR meetings feel more real with better avatars

Hypergrid Business

“Since the release of Oculus, we noticed that the demand from enterprise has increased significantly,” said Budrys. trillion boost to the global economy by 2030,” said a PwC report studying the benefits of VR to industries including manufacturing, healthcare, energy, retail, and training and development.

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