Ryan Schultz

APRIL 28, 2024

Many people are already talking about the death of the Apple Vision Pro…what’s the real story? This report ignited no shortage of opinions on the matter, both pro and con, with some even going so far as to say that the Apple Vision Pro was “dead.” And the Apple Vision Pro memes were in abundance.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

For example, several sources suggested Quest Pro would be named "Quest 2 Pro" and that Apple Vision Pro would be called "Apple Reality Pro". Oculus Go was manufactured by Xiaomi, and Oculus Rift S was manufactured and co-designed by Lenovo. How LG's branding will appear on the reported 2025 headset is not yet known.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 29, 2017

For every Nintendo there is a Sega and for every Apple there is a Microsoft. There are a handful of major players already cutting their teeth in VR including Google, Sony and Samsung; but the two titans sitting at the top of the heap are Oculus and HTC. Oculus/Apple . For every Facebook there is a Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. T his standard, dubbed OpenXR, was about the interoperability of different VR hardware and software together. Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

This week we had another report from supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, that is said to very reliable in rumors about Apple (even if he only made wrong predictions about Apple Glasses, but this is none of my business). More info (Report by Kuo) More info (Report about Apple Glasses). Apple announces minor XR news at WWDC 2021.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2022

VR has come a long way since the launch of the Oculus DK1 in 2013. The standalone VR headset, developed by Meta (formerly Facebook), was one of, if not the hottest item of the holiday season, with the Oculus companion app becoming the #1 download on the Apple App Store. Meta Quest 2. Who saw this coming except everyone?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

You can buy headsets at a discounted price, or accessories, or even lots of games on Steam, Viveport, and Oculus Store! Apple XR headset may have great processing power. This week I’m so desperate that there is no news to write about that I’m even sharing a rumor about the Apple headset. Read the postmortem of Eye Of The Temple.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus sells battery packs and prescription lenses for the Quest. Sony makes some of the coolest VR accessories of any company out there. By “dumb” we mean, they affect how the glasses fit the user or the use case, but they don’t expand the functional software offerings. ?. The Future Comes in Pieces.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2021

Sony has sold 10M PS5 worldwide. Sony Interactive Entertainment, the only company revealing the numbers of its sold devices, has publicly announced that it has already sold more than 10M Playstation 5 consoles worldwide. So he said that if you want to attach to it an Oculus Quest, technically you can.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Original image from Oculus). Oculus Rift and Gear VR have sold 10M units. At the beginning of the week, Jack McCauley, one of the founders of the Oculus startup, had claimed in an interview with CNBC that Facebook VR will never succeed. Of course, he was not only talking about Oculus but about VR in general.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The flexible Oculus environment has already become the platform for a range of virtual museum, gallery and concert experiences hosted around the globe. Meta’s Oculus team have already partnered with leading companies like Sony Music to give fans an immersive way to explore music videos and unique content.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT as of 2/3/20 Apple Inc. AAPL) As we previously detailed in depth, Apple has been discreetly working on a number of AR/VR products for several years now and is planning to release its own AR smart glass and AR/VR hybrid headset. One-year price performance for SNAP as of 2/3/20 Sony Corp.

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AR Insider

JULY 19, 2021

Counterpoint’s Global XR (VR & AR) Model Tracker reveals Oculus Quest 2 Cumulative Sales. The streaming giant is going head to head with Microsoft, Sony, Google and Apple. The company has also standardized the hardware to run on its companion software HoloPlay Studio. They estimate Facebook has sold 4.6 They have to.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In December 2012 I published my first in-depth article after a demo with a hand-built Oculus VR prototype. A decade later, Oculus VR is gone “ for now ” and the earliest faces to rally developer and enthusiast support for the imminent consumer revival of virtual reality have moved to other startups.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Of course for some ad-based tech companies, the current economic situation is not the only problem, but there is another big one which is Apple and its new privacy features embedded into iOS. 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.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The most valuable companies in the world own the metal on which their software applications run: Apple and Microsoft have had their fingers in the hardware pie for years, and even Google was able to build a robust OS business with Android. This is when Facebook struck.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

It also shows that at the moment the idea of subsidizing the cost of the hardware with the software sold in the store is not working, so probably the Quest ecosystem is less healthy than we initially thought. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony releases some details about PSVR 2 runtime. Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Image by Sony). Sony officially states it is going to launch the PSVR 2. PlayStation VR has been the most successful headset until now (if we exclude the crappy mobile viewers), but now it is pretty dated and people were wondering what Sony was going to do. Some people started to think that Sony could have abandoned VR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Thanks to Snapdragon AR2 , the glasses are very slick , and thanks to Niantic software, they offer many possible multiplayer interactions. Sony is finally accepting preorders for the PSVR 2 headset. Black Friday is getting close , and it’s time for some amazing deals on XR hardware and software! PSVR 2 preorders are now open.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So at least the collaboration with Valve is true, but notice that it has not been on the headset, so they got no reference design from Valve, it has just been on the software integration. While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. Doug Lombardi, Valve. Other relevant news.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

When the acclaimed Tilt Brush ‘VR paint’ app launched alongside the HTC Vive in early 2016, it made sense for the program not to support the Oculus Rift as only the Vive at that time had motion-tracked VR controllers. We redesigned interactions to take advantage of the Oculus Touch controllers.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

With the technology advancing every year, the hardware is getting cheaper and the software base is growing steadily. In other words, virtual reality becomes affordable and thanks to massive price drops and discounts on hardware and software bundles, now is the perfect time to get your own VR headset and discover what all the hype is about.

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VRWorld

MARCH 21, 2017

As is often the case, Apple users have been forced to watch from the outside in recent months. Unless you’ve opted for mobile VR and some unsupported apps, the entire Apple ecosystem is excluded from VR. “A lot of people have Apple hardware, especially in the laptop space. Mac Users Can Still Enter New Realities.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The same has happened with Apple, which is now offering bonuses to employees to keep them inside the company. Meta is well-known for having performed some key acquisitions related to hardware, but also to software (e.g. Image by Sony). Apart from talents, the other sector in which Meta & Co. Beat Games). Other relevant news.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 23, 2018

This came to the VR industry in a big way, when an intellectual property lawsuit saw Oculus on the hook for some $500M in damages in a February ruling. 8 – Sony dominates VR gaming. 8 – Sony dominates VR gaming. 5 – Oculus vs. HTC price war. 2 – Oculus Go Announced. 9 – ZeniMax v.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

According to Gajsek, “Anyone that decided to buy from the Oculus store or use Meta’s products essentially becomes a ’subscriber‘ in Meta’s user base. He goes on to share that the success of the Quest 2 will fuel interest in the new Quest 3, which should will be released in 2023.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area. Since Meta made the acquisition and took over Oculus, VRTUOLUO began to write original and in-depth articles on the XR industry.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

He wants that people start trusting Facebook , following a route similar to the one followed by Microsoft, that went from a company that no one trusted security-wise (Windows Me was a virus disguised as an operating system) to a company that is considered good in making software (Windows 10 and Azure are very good solutions).

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2023

The end of 2022 marks more than a decade since the Oculus Kickstarter sparked the modern era of VR. Despite its dominance (or perhaps because of it), Meta has continued to make very good hardware while struggling deeply with its software. Regardless of various missteps, Meta is undoubtedly doing the most to keep VR afloat right now.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. New rumors on Apple and Meta devices. For every dollar of hardware, we were making three dollars on software and data sales.”

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

With the technology advancing every year, the hardware is getting cheaper and the software base is growing steadily. In other words, virtual reality becomes affordable and thanks to massive price drops and discounts on hardware and software bundles, now is the perfect time to get your own VR headset and discover what all the hype is about.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. Oculus fixes two of the greatest issues of Oculus Link.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

Streaming services Netflix and Hulu have been in the VR space for a while (Netflix announced their app for Gear VR all the way back in the fall of 2015), and Sony-owned Crackle is attempting to catch up. Well, a recent announcement addresses that very problem– Facebook is releasing 360 video recording software to developers.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg talks about the future of VR and AR at Facebook’s recent Oculus Connect conference. It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. The tech industry is gearing up for a new paradigm shift.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

2020 has been a good year for the sales of VR devices : Half-Life Alyx and the launch of the Quest 2 have created a big spike in the sales of VR hardware and software. I expect all these trends to continue in 2021, for a year that will see the growth of the technology on all its sides (software and hardware).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

Apple announces ARKit 4, amongst new rumors of XR headsets. The story goes on telling that Apple VR headset had realistic visuals and sound, it was super-cool and probably we’ll see a release date of 2022/2023. More info (New rumors about Apple and XR) More info (Apple ARKit4). We all can’t wait. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). I like everything that we know on the PSVR 2 device because it is visible that Sony Interactive Entertainment is putting a lot of effort into releasing a high-quality headset that is on par with what the competition is offering. Roblox CEO hints at the Oculus Quest as a future platform.

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