ARPost

MARCH 7, 2023

However, despite some new categories, the overall category list was shorter this year as a number of previous awards were combined. That includes some new categories reflecting the advancement of immersive technology even over the last few months. “I The third Annual Polys WebXR Awards took place this weekend.

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MAY 25, 2022

Lynx, the French XR hardware startup known for crowdfunding the Lynx R-1 mixed reality headset , today announced it’s secured $4 million in its Series A round, led by social VR platform Somnium Space. This includes, not only software, but also very importantly hardware,” says Artur Sychov, Founder & CEO of Somnium Space.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Magic Leap is giving developers access to additional hardware, funding, enterprise customers, and support. The first is Access Hardware, a program that will put Magic Leap’s powerful AR headset into the hands of developers who are focused on building AR applications specifically for Magic Leap.

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MAY 6, 2024

Needing to buy that high-end, enterprise hardware direct from Varjo isn’t exactly a must nowadays though, at least as far as mixed reality collaboration goes.

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ARPost

JULY 22, 2021

The finalists are: Arthur , an enterprise-first remote presence platform that recently rolled out some major updates – an important move in a crowded category. This experience is also nominated in the VR Marketing of the Year category. Emperia was nominated in this category last year as well, but lost out to Klip VR.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 30, 2020

The analysis is segmented into several revenue categories and the methodology can be seen here. That includes lots of moving parts and sub-sectors including consumer, enterprise, hardware, software, advertising and LBVR. This includes VR hardware and software spending from enterprise buyers. So what were the results?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The two-hour conversation apparently saw LG executives trying Meta’s latest XR hardware, Quest 3 and Ray Ban smart glasses. As a maker of a huge array of consumer electronics, it’s expected that LG would do the heavy lifting on the manufacturing side, while Meta handles the headset’s hardware design.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 25, 2021

” Facebook is spending exponentially more in this category than anyone else in the industry, at least as far as we know; Apple & Microsoft are perhaps the only two companies in the world that might match or exceed Facebook’s investment, though neither company has explicitly stated the kind of spending it’s doing in the field.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2023

” Google is building the software, while Samsung builds the hardware. Smasung Odyssey+ | Image courtesy Samsung It shouldn’t come as any real surprise the Korean tech giant is prepping XR hardware now. Roh told WaPo that the XR headset’s chipset is going to be “a strategic collaboration with Qualcomm.”

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2022

” Over the years Qualcomm has been increasingly involved in creating reference designs for emerging product categories, many of which in the past centered around VR headsets, which involved its purpose-built Snapdragon XR processors. Those have found their way into VR headsets such as Meta Quest 2, HTC Vive Focus 3, and Pico Neo 3.

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ARPost

JUNE 16, 2022

Nreal’s Hardware and Virtual Screens. Following their recently announced partnership with Cinedigm , it might be easy to get the idea that the glasses manufacturer wants to be a dedicated hardware company by relying on outside content. The main categories are At-Home Fitness, Art, Games, Screen 2.0, This is not the case.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

VR Hardware. The VR Hardware of the Year Award was awarded to Valve for Index, the company’s first virtual reality headset developed and manufactured in-house. Competition in the category came from last year’s category winners at Oculus , as well as Varjo and others. VR Experience of the Year. Rising VR Company.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The VR Awards recognize innovations in VR technology through twelve categories. VR Hardware of the Year. This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. The original Oculus Rift won the first VR Headset of the Year Award (not its own category this year) in 2017. VR Film of the Year.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Each month Valve collects info from Steam users to determine some baseline statistics about what kind of hardware and software is used by the platform’s population, and to see how things are changing over time, including the use of VR headsets. Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Another document from mid-2022, which overviewed the company’s long-term plans for Xbox all the way through 2030, noted that Microsoft wanted to expand its hardware portfolios to include new hardware categories, but nothing on that long-term roadmap pointed to any XR hardware.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Today, we are introducing a new section with our top picks for hardware-focused YouTube channels. These will generally lean toward PC gaming, but the ways that they approach PC gaming and hardware will differs depending on the channel. Categories: Old/Obscure Hardware Configs, Performance Benchmarks and Analysis .

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ARPost

JANUARY 9, 2023

Most intriguing in this category is the battery pack, which can be worn for additional power or removed entirely and replaced with arms, apparently turning the headset into a form factor that looks a lot more like (big) glasses. More intriguingly, the headset shows competitive hardware at a competitive price point.

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ARPost

APRIL 14, 2020

Categories and Past Winners. The Auggies recognize XR technology in 15 categories: Best Art or Film. Best Input and Output Hardware. Note that the public can nominate for the fifteen major categories but not for the Best-In-Show category, the NEXTANT, or the AWESOME awards. Best Campaign. Best Consumer App.

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

The talk is going to focus on the collection of biometric data from XR hardware and how companies, policymakers, and others can work together for the responsible collection and use of this material. Speaking of, O’Hara has her own talk this year on day three titled “It Takes a Village to Build the Metaverse.”

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AR Insider

AUGUST 26, 2021

“Apple’s projected smart glasses could have a classic Apple ‘halo effect’ by boosting consumer awareness and demand for the emerging hardware category,” said ARtillery Intelligence Chief Analyst, Mike Boland. Think of it like the iPhone 1 – evolving over several years.”.

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2023

By “largely dominant,” I mean Apple not only had majority market share of the product category, making it synonymous with portable music at the time, but had already produced numerous generations of iPod Classic, iPod Mini, iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle. Even with viable hardware on your side, it’s not an easy thing to do.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Each year over 70 experts in immersive technology come together to meticulously inspect everything from innovative new hardware to groundbreaking VR experiences to other colossal advancements that will push VR into brand new directions. VR Hardware of the Year – Index by Valve.

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OCTOBER 12, 2023

Not only must a company understand the hardware, but enterprise clients must also understand the behavioural aspects of their workforce as they adopt immersive solutions. So, enterprise for us encompasses a few primary categories. So, data collection is in that particular category. The first one would be training and simulation.”

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Upload VR

AUGUST 6, 2022

The nominations opened in April , with release eligibility set between July 2021 and August 2022 for all categories. Last year, Demeo took home the coveted VR Game of the Year award, alongside the HP Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition taking home VR Hardware of the Year. Likewise, the nominations for VR Hardware of the Year: Maestro DK3.

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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2021

Now Yaw VR is back on Kickstarter with its next hardware platform, dubbed Yaw2, and it’s already hit it out of the park with over $1 million in crowdfunding. Still, the hardware platform seems to have struck a chord with simulator diehards, prosumers and arcades alike when it launched late last month on Kickstarter.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2024

Apple’s significant impact on the market tends to draw attention from companies that might not have otherwise entered a specific product category—aka “The Apple Effect.” And that’s in spite of its $3,500 price tag.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

There are currently 52 positions available in this category and sitting right at the top of the list is a call for an “AR Incubation Lead.” ” The posting calls for a candidate with a BS in electrical or mechanical engineering and at least 5 years of hardware management experience.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

There are currently 52 positions available in this category and sitting right at the top of the list is a call for an “AR Incubation Lead.” ” The posting calls for a candidate with a BS in electrical or mechanical engineering and at least 5 years of hardware management experience.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Though not a new tech category, activity levels are escalating per several signals we’re tracking. Google meanwhile acquired Fitbit to accelerate its lingering WearOS platform with some hardware in the game. That can be seen in Surface laptops (a vessel for Windows and Office products), as well as the category-leading Hololens.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 28, 2019

hardware & software. For example, consumer AR is a big category, growing to $7.9 The category is currently dominated by mobile AR in-app purchases such as Pokemon Go, which brought in $800 million last year and $2.65 Enterprise AR is another big category, which is projected to grow to $19.5 Hardware Comes First.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The platform even features a category catering specifically to App Lab games and apps. “Despite the years of development and money spent, much still needs to be built and proven out in the worlds of VR, AR, and XR overall,” added M.G.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

We no longer have to rely on proxies such as reverse engineering Meta’s “other” revenue category. million*, making hardware $219.45 This averages out at $449, but we’ve reduced the estimated hardware ARPU to $429 due to weighted sales for the base model (common for new hardware). That brings us to $201.9

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AR Insider

AUGUST 2, 2021

Each time we do this, formula inputs vary — everything from Facebook first-party software sales disclosures to public filings that help reveal sales volume and growth within Facebook’s “other revenue” category. By “Oculus,” we mean hardware and software. That makes hardware revenue $160 million of the above $222 million.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This is driven by enterprise AR hardware and software that boosts productivity through line-of-sight guidance. billion, driven by gaming-dominant VR hardware and software spending. This category collectively drove an estimated $5.8 Enterprise spending holds a leading share of XR revenues with an estimated $10.45 billion in 2022.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2022

.” The original Red Matter launched back in 2018 on PC VR where it found a very positive reception but remained largely in the cult-favorite category. To that end the studio is throwing down the gauntlet, saying it plans to deliver the “best graphics on mobile VR to date.”

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2018

Last year marked HTC’s very first Vive Developer Awards (VDAs), which saw tens of thousands of dollars go to VR app developers across a number of categories. HTC has established 5 categories for this year’s VDAs including entertainment, education, arts & culture, enterprise and arcade.

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AR Insider

MARCH 1, 2021

Each time we do this, formula inputs vary — everything from Facebook first-party software sales disclosures to public filings that help reveal sales volume and growth within Facebook’s “other revenue” category. That total includes hardware and software. That makes hardware revenue $421.2 Magic Number.

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