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Report: VR and AR Device Market to hit $1.8 billion in 2018

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“We expect stand-alone headsets like the Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus to ignite a new wave of growth that will help broaden the appeal of virtual reality, particularly with businesses and in education,” says George Jijiashvili, CCS Insight’s senior analyst for wearables. billion in 2022. billion Click To Tweet.

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Augmented Reality 2021 trends and predictions

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We expect to see even more Mobile AR adoption in many industries because, unlike wearable devices, smartphones and tablets are widely available and that makes mobile AR a great tool for B2C applications. tendency to reduce low added value business trips and higher attention to safety issues both in public and working environments).

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Augmented Reality and Hearables: Where the Two Technologies Meet

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Hearables with augmented reality features are becoming ubiquitous thanks to the overall spread of wearables, the contribution of tech giants, and the growing demand for emerging technologies. While visual forms of AR communicate with screens or glasses, smart hearables as a subset of wearable technology introduce audio augmented reality.

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AR Smart Glasses: Expert Roundtable

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

XR devices are all over the headlines this month; the release of the Apple Vision Pro has brought spatial computing/mixed reality wearables to the forefront of emerging workplace and consumer-based digital solutions. Two areas where we see great potential with AR glasses are cultural tourism and education.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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Getting started with Augmented Reality (AR)

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ARKit  — ARKit is one of the powerful AR SDK released by Apple on 2017 to build AR solutions using iOS devices. Wearable devices such as Heads-Up Displays (HUD) and AR glasses are expected to be widely adopted with nation-wide 5G installations. Travel and Tourism  — AR can be used to augment the travel experiences.