AR Insider

MARCH 30, 2021

Beyond consumer demand, tech giants are embracing wearables as they align with road maps and growth strategies. Wearables also represent a long-term strategy to future-proof Apple’s multi-device ecosystem approach, consisting of Watch, AirPods, and (soon) smart glasses. But wearables have been resilient , as noted.

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AR Insider

APRIL 8, 2020

Like in our ongoing “ follow the money ” exercise, they’re each building wearables strategies that support or future-proof core businesses where tens of billions in annual revenues are at stake. After examining Amazon , Microsoft , and Google , it’s time to zero in on Bose. Hardware Blitz. Next up: Apple.

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AR Insider

MARCH 11, 2020

Like in our ongoing “ follow the money ” exercise, they’re each building wearables strategies that support or future-proof core businesses where tens of billions in annual revenues are at stake. After examining Amazon and Microsoft , it’s time to zero in on Google. Highly Motivated. Sound Investment.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Amazon and Microsoft launched wearables lines in the past quarter and smaller players like Bose and Snap are planting seeds for a wearables-heavy future. Google meanwhile acquired Fitbit to accelerate its lingering WearOS platform with some hardware in the game. It’s leaning into a hearables strategy with its BoseAR platform.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

Vision Pro isn’t exactly revolutionizing XR hardware (though the external display is pretty cool), but its real advantage stands to be a mature software platform that’s easy to use and easy to develop for. If that’s true, at a minimum we’re looking at a serious reboot of its strategy that will take time to unfold.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Cloud-based gaming has been seen by the industry at large as a way to make games more widely accessible by making them playable on less powerful hardware. For the purposes of our beta, that includes genres like sports, card, simulation, and strategy games.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Sometimes we from Europe or the US don’t realize how is it difficult in other regions to get access to hardware. It’s a royal pain to get hardware in Chile. Your best bet is Amazon and dealing with the international shipping charges. What’s really complicated is that getting the hardware is only half the battle.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Its strategies and best practices were recently unpacked on more granular levels in an ARtillery Intelligence report. It also extends beyond lenses altogether with things like visual search, to identify products ( via Amazon ), or do things like solve math problems. “And that’s because we have so much engagement.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 14, 2020

Like in our ongoing “ follow the money ” exercise, they’re each building wearables strategies that support or future-proof core businesses where tens of billions in annual revenues are at stake. The story is similar for Amazon , Microsoft and Bose (kind of), and the 800-pound gorilla in wearables, Apple.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

For Apple , it’s all about hardware and making its devices more attractive. For Amazon , it’s selling us stuff. Starting with Apple, it has several AR balls in the air and is cultivating near and long-term strategies. Amazon meanwhile wants to be the commerce layer. Last but definitely not least is Microsoft.

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Anand Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

According to Reuters , NVIDIA has initiated discussions with leading tech companies, including Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI, to investigate the potential for developing custom chips. This strategy enables them to cut costs as well as tailor capabilities and power consumption of their hardware to their particular needs.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 26, 2022

Brian reviewed the third-gen Oura Ring back in December, but today Kyle reports that the existing hardware picked up a new trick along the way and can now measure blood oxygen levels , with more fitness features to come. Startups and VC. Our Found podcast had a particularly interesting episode this week — Nikki Pechet joins as a guest.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2024

The library of Quest 2 grew rapidly, also because finally, the hardware was good enough to make decent games. And Quest 2 is much cheaper (especially now that has been put at $199): during the last holidays, it outperformed the Quest 3 by a factor 3:1 on Amazon US. April’s hardware survey of VR headsets on Steam.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Advancements in Hardware and Wearables Spatial computing solutions rely on a combination of intuitive hardware and powerful software. One of the major spatial computing trends we’ll see in the years ahead revolves around developing more advanced hardware. It’s not just wearable hardware that’s evolving, either.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The Quest 3 will have the following specifications: Resolution (per-eye) : 2064 x 2208 Display Type : LCD Refresh Rate: 120Hz Lens type: Pancake Processor : Snapdragon XR2 Gen2 RAM : 8GB-12GB (not clear from the leaks) Battery Life : 2–3 hours Field of View : 97° horizontal, 93° vertical IPD Adjust : hardware-based.

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Road to VR

MARCH 15, 2022

Still, over the years getting a Quest or Rift in Russia wasn’t like buying one in Germany or Mexico (both unsupported regions), where you can simply login to Amazon and purchase with one click. Unsupported, Unwanted Business.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Advancements in Hardware and Wearables Spatial computing solutions rely on a combination of intuitive hardware and powerful software. One of the major spatial computing trends we’ll see in the years ahead revolves around developing more advanced hardware. It’s not just wearable hardware that’s evolving, either.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Xiaomi attended this year’s event amid the company’s push for its Go Global strategy. We’re very excited to be here in Barcelona to reach a wider audience, and turn possibilities into opportunities for success” The strategy comes on the heels of reported revenue growth of 17.2 percent year-on-year, or 1.7

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, Mobile AR Strategies & Business Models. Of course, there are more AR business models such as hardware sales (AR glasses). This democratizes advanced AR capabilities like graphics creation and includes tools like Unity , Amazon Sumerian and 8th Wall.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 5, 2023

” Doing so would offer “suggestions to develop regional strategies to help businesses prosper.” Snap has since pivoted from its hardware development cycle and moved towards marketing, where it can leverage its massive user base for income streams.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The headset didn’t come with many surprises and these have been the specifications : Resolution (per-eye) : 2064 x 2208 Display Type : LCD Refresh Rate: 120Hz Lens type: Pancake Processor : Snapdragon XR2 Gen2 RAM : 8GB Battery Life : 2–3 hours Field of View : 110° horizontal, 96° vertical IPD Adjust : hardware-based.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The first good sign was when in Helsinki I saw that Finland has now a long-term metaverse strategy , which means that it is going to pour money into its XR ecosystem for the next 10 years at least. This way every user can have decent full body tracking without having to buy external hardware and without having to wear anything.

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ARVR

APRIL 5, 2021

Beyond consumer demand, tech giants are embracing wearables as they align with road maps and growth strategies. Wearables also represent a long-term strategy to future-proof Apple’s multi-device ecosystem approach, consisting of Watch, AirPods, and (soon) smart glasses. Amazon is motivated for similar reasons?—?a

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Road to VR

JULY 10, 2017

With VR hardware prices dropping , more people outside of VR enthusiast’s will be looking for guidance on solid hardware purchases for their new VR gaming PC – so we put together this short cheat sheet. Check Amazon for NVIDIA GTX 1070 prices. Check Amazon for AMD Radeon 580 prices. NVIDIA GTX 1070.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2023

These are the most important points he said, IMHO: Immersed, like Bigscreen, is entering the hardware field because there is no ideal headset for the productivity use case, and the major XR manufacturers are not caring enough to produce a device for it, because they have other priorities.

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EON Reality

AUGUST 7, 2023

It’s our responsibility to provide proactive strategies, mitigating its impacts while amplifying its benefits,” said Dan Lejerskar, CEO and Chairman of EON Reality. Moreover, EON Reality has Cloud Infrastructure, hosted by Amazon Web Services. “AI brings a new wave of opportunities and challenges.

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ARPost

MAY 3, 2021

If you want to emulate the likes of Google, Amazon, and Facebook, or more correctly, avoid being kicked out of business by them, it is imperative you at least consider the use cases of AR that fit into and can improve your business model. How do these impact our customers, our products, and our competition? Which brings us to….

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Upload VR

JUNE 13, 2022

The hardware is remarkably similar to Meta’s Quest 2, with some minor differences such as a native DisplayPort PC VR mode and included hard strap. Neo 3 Link’s “beta program” European launch remains very limited – it’s not even sold by Amazon or other major retailers.

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2019

However, the newly-released Moverio application is only compatible with Moverio smartglasses, which are available through Amazon and Best Buy. See Also: How To Smoothly Incorporate AR Into Your E-Commerce Strategy. “We Epson Moverio features include video and audio sharing and a cloud-based portal and usage tracking and analytics.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 21, 2020

We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. It’s also worth noting that hardware companies generally rank higher on this list, such IBM — basically the Duke University of the list.

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ARVR

JULY 1, 2020

Image : Street artist KAWS just launched a global AR art gallery that changes how we think about both the museum, space, and the nature of street art With the onset of 5G’s mobile edge computing (MEC) networks, the internet is getting some serious new hardware. You’ve probably already experienced the Spatial Web without knowing its name.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 18, 2023

Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Snap, Amazon, Twitter, and other major tech giants have not been immune to mass layoffs and budget cutbacks. Notwithstanding Apple’s big reveal of its M1 chipset, Apple has struggled to enter the extended reality (XR) hardware market. Apple AR Smart Glasses and the UX, Hardware Choices.

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Bernard Marr

JULY 25, 2023

Our business models– the unique combination of products, strategy, and processes that served us well under one set of conditions may very well not work for the next. Some are digital natives, like Amazon, and some switched to e-commerce models or adopted them to augment “traditional” retail models, such as Walmart and Tesco.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 7, 2019

The CES is going to start tomorrow, but today HTC has already made its great announcements, showing to the world the upcoming new hardware Vive Pro Eye, Vive Cosmos and software solutions Viveport Infinity and Vive Reality system. I think that to see if this strategy will pay off, we’ll have to discover the price of such headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 8, 2024

Immersive Spaces, built with software like Microsoft Mesh and extended reality hardware, allow companies to build highly adaptable digital environments for productivity. For instance, companies like Siemens and Amazon are already using augmented reality to help employees manage stock and create products.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 8, 2018

Its intelligent cloud and intelligent edge strategy is a much more compelling proposition for developers which will continue to define its corporate strategy for the next several years.”. The whole world is becoming a computer Click To Tweet. Alice Bonasio is a VR Consultant and Tech Trends’ Editor in Chief.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 31, 2023

AWE 2023: Meta Quest for Bussiness to Launch this Year This month is proving pivotal for Meta’s current wave of XR hardware. AWE 2023: Lenovo on its Enterprise First XR Strategy Lenovo is working hard within the busy XR marketplace to debut a product portfolio of enterprise-grade immersive hardware.

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