XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Reports have revealed that Apple could potentially ramp up work on a pair of augmented reality (AR) smart glasses that could support the release of the company’s Vision Pro headset. With the proposed smart glasses, Apple fans may tether the devices to their iPhones similarly to others like its Watch and AirPods wearables.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

Apple Inc has reportedly bought out US headset manufacturer Mira following its Vision Quest headset debut on Monday, a Verge report revealed on Tuesday. According to the Verge report, Apple acquired roughly 11 Mira employees. In the post, Taft said: “Excited for Mira’s next chapter, at Apple :).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2023

Apple’s mixed reality (MR) headset is set to delay again amid its upcoming Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) from 5 to 9 June, a series of tweets has found this week. Reports have revealed that this may block Apple from unveiling the device at the key event.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In it, Microsoft filed the display technology patent, which continues innovations from US11688333B1 , which Microsoft filed in June and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) approved on 19 October. The backplane substrate includes a plurality of pixel logic hardware modules.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The meeting took place after the latter visited the United States and met with executives at the Menlo Park-based office. Meta’s initiative to boost the production of its metaverse hardware is expected to tap into new markets as the company pushes towards building the next iteration of the internet.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 9, 2023

This week has circled Apple, the legacy consumer hardware innovator shocked audiences in many ways when it debuted the Vision Pro, fairly stealing headlines as hyped ramped during the event’s leading months. Apple Debuts Vision Pro This week the news finally broke. Perhaps Apple will go the way of Meta’s reputation.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Apple to Release Vision Pro in March According to Bloomberg’s senior tech analyst Mark Gurman , Apple plans to introduce its Vision Pro MR headset in March 2022, despite previous plans to launch the head-mounted display (HMD) in January. The impact of the Metaverse is real, and it’s happening today, right now. –

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

PICO will continue to invest in hardware, core technologies, and enhance the user experience of current and new consumers." In 2023, Pico 4 just barely passed that original Quest in raw usage numbers on the SteamVR hardware survey. Pico 4 has never been sold in the United States.

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TechCrunch VR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Apple’s highly anticipated mixed reality headset may now have a name, according to a Bloomberg report earlier this week. and global markets related to the device that were filed by Apple-affiliated firms. Filing trademarks under a different company name is not uncommon for Apple. Can Apple keep the AR industry alive?

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 16, 2022

Last week, I talked about Apple and crypto. This week, we’re talking about Apple clashing with Meta over their metaverse taxes. It goes to show that while they seek to use Apple’s platform for free, they happily take from the creators and small businesses that use their own.”.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

To deliver the best software experience for watching movies in Bigscreen , we also had to build the best hardware with Bigscreen Beyond.” Preorders, which are fully cancellable and refundable up until shipping, are set to ship in the United States sometime in Q3 2023. Bigscreen Beyond is slate to ship in waves based on region.

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ARPost

MAY 5, 2021

The event was attended by representatives from over 70 universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and was attended by representatives from dozens of companies providing VR and AR education solutions. The Education Forum toed a close line when it came to hardware. Debating the Importance of Headsets.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 31, 2023

A media report has come out swinging against Apple’s Vision Pro headset, stating it has failed to innovate the mixed reality (MR) market. The author wrote, “But as with generative AI, Apple is not exactly the first to the game. And don’t just burden them with this massive price.”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Since the 2019 debut of the Index VR headset, Valve has remained quiet concerning a long-term immersive hardware portfolio. But also from just establishing relationships with part suppliers, hardware partners, and that kind of stuff. However, the firm has revealed small insights into its next potential headset across the past year.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In June 2022, Valve filed a patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), which gave fans a first look at the Deckard device. The move again mirrors attempts by Meta and Apple to create an immersive home space for users to access applications via a landing page dashboard. Valve Deckard Headset Incoming?

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Virtual reality (VR) startup Bigscreen revealed its first major hardware offering: the world’s smallest headset, the Bigscreen Beyond. Custom Comfort, Bigscreen Beyond Customers pre-ordering the headset will receive a Bigscreen app invitation to 3D scan their faces via an Apple iPhone Xr or later.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This Court must act to protect the citizens of the United States from this abusive and anticompetitive behavior," the document reads. AEI was planning [on] putting the app on Apple's headset," Elijah's lawyer wrote to UploadVR. "To Prencipe told UploadVR over text message. Elijah is seeking roughly $353 million. Andre Elijah v.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The piece of news that made people hope for a close release is the recent radio certification that Valve has obtained in Korea for its new unknown hardware device. I hope to be wrong, of course: maybe Valve has just accelerated to launch its device before Apple may finally release its one.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

pic.twitter.com/FJIhvV4hQO — MediaTek (@MediaTek) November 16, 2023 The technologies the two companies will provide will not be offered to other tech companies and signals a hallmark collaboration between companies from the United States and China. Meta chose MediaTek’s silicon for our expertise in optimizing power and performance.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Using holocake [lens], using multi-view eye tracking, using reverse passthrough, with hardware components that exsist. Mirror Lake can potentially provide a lighter form factor, therefore matching Meta’s reinvigorated focus on designing appropriate workplace XR hardware and the industrial Metaverse software.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 20, 2023

Workers in the United States will be the first affected. The news comes after numerous firms, including Microsoft, Apple, Meta Platforms, Snap, Alphabet, and many others, have faced similar layoffs due to the looming economic recession.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Recently, Apple announced they were going to be leveraging this technology in a big way. Up until recently, AR technology demanded dedicated hardware and therefore was more suitable to specific markets like the medical industry. Today, with Apple’s ARkit and Android’s ARcore, the technology is available to all end-users Click To Tweet.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

Recent advances in computer hardwares and AI assistants are charting a path for AR devices to to re-emerge into a more technology-savvy generation. Another survey conducted mid-June 2019, 4 years since the debut of the Apple Watch, showed that roughly 1-in-5 U.S. adults (21%) regularly wear a smartwatch or a fitness tracker.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

However, with 2024 shaping up to be a monumental year for XR, with Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon, and Apple all putting major stakes and investments into the space, what companies do today could greatly influence the future of work. The firm saw little success with its AR hardware ambitions.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 28, 2022

That was, of course, a piece of hardware that necessitated a gaming PC and was one with close competitors at similar price points. Raising prices of tech hardware product in the middle of its lifecycle certainly suggests a fundamental miscalculation and one the company is less likely to repeat.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Smart Glass Vendors Rise and Fall The significance of this strategy is that it comes as global tech giants across the United States temporarily suspended their smart glass products to focus on leaner, more conservative research and development (R&D) strategies for mixed reality (MR) products.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 16, 2022

Credit: Screenshot / Apple. Today, Audible, now owned by Amazon , is the United States' largest audiobook producer and retailer. Audible is available for download on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. Credit: Audiobooks / Apple. Credit: Screenshot / Apple. Credit: Screenshot / Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2021

It is very interesting that because of this recall, Facebook shared some data about how many facemasks were affected : it says 4M in the United States, around 170K in Canada. Facebook is evaluating the integration of Oculus Move with Apple Health. I think they handled all this situation in the best way possible.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Conversely, Meta has also shelved development on its Project Nazare smart glasses to develop key hardware needed for enterprise markets. This reflects actions taken at Google, Snap, Microsoft, and Apple over the last few months regarding their respective smart glass offerings.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 23, 2018

The United States is well-known for instances where civil juries award massive damages to aggrieved parties in court matters. An inevitable consequence of most any computer hardware is a desire to make it wireless. 1 – Apple Lays Groundwork for AR. 9 – ZeniMax v. 6 – Rise of wireless VR headsets.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2023

Despite its dominance (or perhaps because of it), Meta has continued to make very good hardware while struggling deeply with its software. Granted, the company has yet to formally bring its headset to the United States—Meta’s home turf. Look for UX Innovation, Not a Hardware Breakthrough. On the Horizon for 2023.

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ARPost

MARCH 20, 2023

With key developments in VR technology, hardware, and software driving the market forward, VR game revenues are projected to increase sixfold in five years , from $0.5 In the United States, sales in 2022 dropped by 2% , from a year earlier, to $1.1 billion in 2019 to $3.2 billion in 2024. billion in December 2022.

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Anand Tech

APRIL 23, 2021

Q: Do I need to be located in the United States to work for AnandTech? A: Besides offering a paying job, of course, working for AnandTech is a chance to look at the cutting-edge of hardware, inform an audience of millions about what's new in the world, and help shape the tech industry for the better.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

We’re speaking with Nick Cherukuri, founder of ThirdEye, about their all-in-one AR glasses hardware and software solution for enterprise in logistics, manufacturing, and engineering and how these tools are revolutionizing how we work. So we’ve been developing a lot of AR hardware and software applications for the military.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

We’re speaking with Nick Cherukuri, founder of ThirdEye, about their all-in-one AR glasses hardware and software solution for enterprise in logistics, manufacturing, and engineering and how these tools are revolutionizing how we work. So we’ve been developing a lot of AR hardware and software applications for the military.

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Upload VR

JULY 17, 2023

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that the dedicated team at Apple working on Vision Pro will continue to operate as its own division, working largely independent from the company's wider teams that manage multiple product lines at once.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

We're speaking with Nick Cherukuri, founder of ThirdEye, about their all-in-one AR glasses hardware and software solution for enterprise in logistics, manufacturing, and engineering and how these tools are revolutionizing how we work. So we've been developing a lot of AR hardware and software applications for the military.

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