Tech Trends VR

APRIL 9, 2018

The report published today by global analyst company CCS Insight shows the worldwide market for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) head-worn devices growing by an average of 50 percent annually over the next five years. In 2022, a total of 121 million units will be sold, with a value of $9.9 billion in 2022.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Dispelling Common VR Myths and Misconceptions Despite the relatively widespread acceptance and use of virtual reality technology, there are still some myths and misconceptions that surround it. The Park Playground’s Vindevogel adds that virtual reality will increasingly grow to become a part of our daily lives. “

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ARVR

DECEMBER 23, 2022

That will take years due to technological and cultural hurdles, but could be accelerated by Apple’s rumored entrance. Apple could launch an entertainment-first VR device in 2023, followed in later years by AR-oriented smart glasses. The latter could make or break the AR market. We saw this with smartphones and tablets.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Apple CEO Tim Cook has stated that in his view, augmented reality and not virtual reality holds the ticket for commercial success in immersive technologies in the future. This is what Apple has always done for the most part, and they’ve done very nicely as a result.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2021

The Epic vs Apple trial makes interesting documents come to light. The Epic vs Apple battle over Fortnite and the 30% cut on all the transactions on the Apple Store has just had its first round, and thanks to it, many secretive documents have come to light. Apple continues its investments in AR. Take the survey!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (Varjo launches XR-4 headset) More info (Varjo’s launch on Road To VR) More info (Varjo opens up waiting list for consumers) Other relevant news Quest 3 is selling well, but Quest 2 much better Quest 3 sales are not going bad, and the headset, after Black Friday , has now already 5% of the shares of devices on the SteamVR survey.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

More info News worth a mention (Image by The Information) Let’s have realistic expectations on the Apple headset We are all very excited about Apple joining our industry, but we must have realistic expectations about the headset that is going to come. The Upload Showcase (Summer Edition) is coming back on June this year.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2021

“Metaverse is an embodied Internet where you don’t just look at content, you’re inside it and experience it directly via virtual reality”?—?Mark Photo by Patrick Schneider on Unsplash Virtual reality , as the name suggests, allows users to immerse themselves in an artificially created world that appears real.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

If I had to choose the most common question I’ve received in these 4 years on the blog, social media, and Quora, I would surely pick “How do I get started with virtual reality?” How I got started with virtual reality. This is how I got started with Virtual Reality development.

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ARVR

JULY 9, 2020

Augmented Reality Trends (Part 2) Brief history Some important AR facts: 60s : Engineer Ivan Sutherland, created the SketchPad project, a system based on what is now known as computer graphics, and created a see-through to present 3D graphics (Krevelen, 2010)(Jaimini, 2016). Evolution of Augmented Reality (Craig, 2013) by fernanda rodríguez.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

The Smart-Accessory Revolution A Pew Research Center survey conducted at the beginning of 2013 showed that only 51% of adults in the United States owned a smartphone, 6 years after the launch of the 1st-generation Apple iPhone. Virtual Reality: Do We Live In Our Brain’s Simulation Of The World?

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Tech Trends VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Most of us are lucky enough not to have experienced urban conflict first-hand, but VR can give us a sense of what that looks – and feels – like for people on the ground who have to actually live that reality. Virtual Reality has been used many times to show the dreadful consequences of the Syrian conflict.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Apple Vision Pro may have a very slow start The same Ming-Chi Kuo, who probably woke up with a lot of pessimism that day, has also expressed doubts about the widespread success of the Apple Vision Pro. This would mean that Apple’s XR offering should rely for 3 years on a very expensive headset with very low sales.

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ARVR

AUGUST 23, 2022

In that light, its appeal will lie in elegant integration with other Apple hardware and wearables. Beyond Apple’s speculative entrance, current players continue to define shifts in the headworn AR market. “Moreover, its V1 design will target larger markers by prioritizing style and wearability over graphical immersiveness.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Sadly, none of your choices lead to a truly positive outcome, an unfortunate reality for many civilians caught in the center of war. . Virtual reality transports viewers from the comfort of their homes to the horrors of the battlefield in a visceral and powerful way,” he adds. Image Credit: Red Cross.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

LONDON, September 15, 2019 — VR Intelligence, a leader in senior level conferences and content for the extended reality (XR) industry, announced today the release of the XR Industry Insight Report 2019-2020. Virtual Reality Intelligence is a trading name of FC Business Intelligence Ltd. Kathryn Bloxham. VR Intelligence / VRX.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

In the middle of this, of course, the Apple Vision Pro was also an iPhone moment, without forgetting Half-Life: Alyx in the mix. So let’s make a big online survey, a classic Google Form, and let’s agree on what to hype next so that we can pretend to be experts in time. 1 reason why VR is not getting into the mainstream.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

Apple has killed its AR glasses project… maybe. A piece of unexpected news has shaken the XR communities this week: according to a report on Digitimes Taiwan, Apple has abandoned its AR/VR glasses project and all the members of the team have been re-allocated in other teams. AR is still alive, Apple will still release its AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2022

According to the Steam Hardware Survey, Pico 4 now represents 0.67% of the player base on Steam. Valve has decided that Virtual Reality doesn’t deserve a dedicated sidebar, and has moved all the VR information about an application into the “System Requirement” section. What I think about the Apple XR headset Funny link.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 7, 2023

In a survey, we found that 55 percent of our customers don’t have a VR headset yet. We can make it compatible with other headsets like the Apple Vision Pro. .” The CEO also explained that a large proportion of the Virtuix customer base “don’t even have VR today.” For example, we would love to do that.

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ARVR

MARCH 14, 2022

Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality 2. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Snapchat and Instagram filters turning the human face into funny characters is nothing but the integration of AR. The trend of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality is marking rapid growth and is nowhere to go in the near future.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

But I hope you’ll enjoy this newsletter coming from the world of the undead anyway… Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple starts accepting applications for Vision Pro devkits Apple has started accepting applications from interested developers to get a Vision Pro to develop XR experiences.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

On the corporates’ end, market leader Apple has recently made significant privacy-focused changes like limiting apps’ tracking capabilities on iOS 14 and launching App Store privacy labels. So much so that only 6% of surveyed Americans felt safe sharing this information with apps. But the real issue is far deeper than that.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 30, 2023

I’ve read a lot of articles and XR news this week, but actually, at the end of the day, nothing relevant has happened, except for the usual rumor about Apple… so you can close this roundup now… no ok, I’m kidding! This doesn’t sound to me very “Apple”. And by the way, on the personal side, things are going well for me!

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Haptical

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

VR Intelligence, a network of the leading decision makers in virtual, augmented and mixed realities recently released an industry report titled as XR Industry Insight Report 2019–2020.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Apple MR headset may feature iris detection and legs tracking. A new week, a new set of rumors about the Apple headset. Ahah I love the nonsense of the rumors about Apple! More info (Report about Apple visor?—?Mac Mac Rumors) More info (Report about Apple visor?—?Upload Other relevant news. Image from the web).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2024

April’s hardware survey of VR headsets on Steam. And in the end, the beginning of June is a good opportunity to answer whatever Google had announced mid May at Google I/O and at the same time to put pressure on Apple for the WWDC conference in mid-June. This would let Meta launch the Quest 3S in time for the holidays.

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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. Apple has performed very strategic acquisitions as well, and the news of the week is that Snap has acquired Compound Photonics to gain a key supplier of LCOS and Microled displays. Apple may have delays for its headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2024

Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3: Which is the best headset? Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3: Our Quick Verdict The Apple Vision Pro feels like the beginning of a new era for mixed reality headsets. A couple of weeks after the Apple Vision Pro was released, Zuckerberg shared his review.

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The reasons are plentiful, but all tend to circle around the idea that it’s too early for software and too expensive to try to take on Apple or Facebook on the hardware front. Tipatat Chennavasin, The Venture Reality Fund. Jacob Mullins, Shasta Ventures. Gigi Levy-Weiss, NFX. Brayton Williams, Boost VC.

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TechCrunch VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Moreover, personalization holds high appeal, with 80% of survey respondents indicating they are more likely to do business with a company if it offers personalized experiences and 90% indicating that they find personalization appealing, according to a survey by Epsilon.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

More info Some news about Apple Vision Pro The news and rumors about Vision Pro never end. In these two weeks, we got to discover that Apple is planning to organize demo sessions of Vision Pro inside the Apple Store venues and that in the beginning, the only way to buy a Vision Pro will be going to an Apple Store.

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ARVR

AUGUST 12, 2021

Breathtaking virtual realities now exist, as isolated universes with little or no access to each other or to the outside world. It is also not clear what exactly counts as a virtual reality, or more properly, a virtual reality platform. I just went through my day the way it was scheduled?—?which

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2020

We see this development in technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Blockchain. An MIT study about embracing digital technology reports that 63 percent of surveyed managers said the pace of technological change in their workplaces is too slow, primarily due to a “lack of urgency.”

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

He also is aware of Apple entering the market, and said his employees that the battle between Meta and Apple is a battle between open ecosystems vs closed ecosystems. He even said that “some employees” shouldn’t work at the company because they are not productive enough, and this has caused some internal backlash. Upload VR).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 5, 2017

Sadly, we don’t know which company is really in the stronger position because their data comparisons are apples and oranges. He said that 59 percent of virtual reality developers are using Unity, according to a survey by VisionMobile. More people build an Apple with Unity than anyone else.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Facebook has always had the problem of distribution of its hardware (Apple has its stores, for instance, Facebook has not), and with this partnership, it immediately has the opportunity to showcase this and its future devices in all glasses shops thanks to Luxottica. Apple Event is tomorrow 14th September. Other relevant news.

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