XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Furthermore, Meta has struck several joint ventures with companies like Lenovo, Samsung, and Xiaomi for the company’s Oculus Rift S, Gear VR, and Oculus Go, respectively. This would allow Apple to release cheaper designs of the premium-priced device, which currently leverages Sony’s microOLED displays.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Facebook s very own CEO, Mark Zuckerberg introduced a new $199 headset, Oculus G o, and permanently cut the price for the flagship Rift to $399 as he talked up VR’s potential. In January, Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey said that even at the initial $599 price tag, the Rift headset didn’t offer Oculus a profit.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Worldwide revenues for the augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) market are forecast to increase by 100% or more over each of the next four years, according to the latest update to the Worldwide Semiannual Augmented and Virtual Reality Spending Guide from the International Data Corporation (IDC).

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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. Mark Zuckerberg has been talking a lot about augmented reality and investing a lot, too. “Mixed reality,” “extended reality,” or something else that some marketer will come along with.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Facebook’s billion-dollar acquisition of Oculus in 2014 more than showed Zuck’s hand, though it would be another seven years until the pivot actually happened. In the years directly after the Oculus acquisition, there was a flurry of investment in VR across the industry. This is when Facebook struck.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

A new OS for wearable, on face, computers. As they spin the lasers inside “cut up” the world into little virtual voxels (volumetric pixels, think of them as virtual cubes that you can see with Augmented Reality glasses — sort of like how Minecraft or, really, any video game works).

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VRWorld

JANUARY 23, 2018

Oculus has reduced the price of the Rift headset to $399, matching that of the PlayStation VR, and this allowed it to ship 210,000 units of the product in the third quarter of 2017. Dominating the market is Sony’s own take on virtual reality: PSVR sales exceeded 490,000, good for almost 50% of the entire market.

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Infinityleap

MAY 31, 2016

Wikipedia defines smart glasses as a wearable computer that adds information to what the wearer sees. This technology allows or forces you to see reality through the display while projecting digital information in your field of view. These goggles will abduct you from reality and plunge you into a virtual world.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Not only are these devices cheaper than the Oculus Rift and Vive, but Microsoft says they’re better too. “Unlike every other virtual reality headsets in the market today this means there’ll be zero need for a separate room, zero need for a complicated setup. .”

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”.

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