VRScout

JULY 19, 2016

On March 25th, 2014, many people were left scratching their heads: why did Facebook spend 2 billion dollars to acquire a Kickstarter funded virtual reality company called Oculus. Virtual reality has taken the world by storm. So, let’s look at the facts, the numbers and the data. Samsung Gear VR expected 3.5

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 16, 2024

The firm plans to debut the Light device in May 2024 and the Super headset in Q4 this year, just as other major vendors like LG and Samsung are looking to enter the headset market. However, Apple is actively promoting it in the workplace to demonstrate the importance of spatial data for businesses.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We are at the beginning of March and I just realized that I haven’t written yet a post with my predictions for augmented and virtual reality for this year. The last cycle before this one was the Quest one, which started to make virtual reality known to the mainstream audience for what concerns games and fitness.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Award-winning virtual reality developer and publisher announced that it has set aside $2m to co-fund and publish externally developed VR titles. nDreams is an approved developer partner with Sony PlayStation, Oculus, HTC, Microsoft HoloLens, Google and Samsung. nDreams Ltd.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

But now some data about it is starting to be found. It’s not much, but if this data is starting to surface, probably very soon we’ll discover more info about it via patents or hardware certification websites. This is another proof of the recognition of virtual reality applictions as working therapies in the healthcare sector.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 29, 2024

Based on LSEG data, this stake could be valued at $4.73 The headset will likely support virtual reality experiences and contain the latest Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset. This chipset will reportedly be integrated into Samsung and Sony headsets, Play for Dream MR and Immersed’s Visor.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2016

That said, earlier this year Oculus revealed that Gear VR, its mobile VR headset made in partnership with Samsung, had seen one million users in April. Oculus isn’t providing specific statistics to help us analyse and verify this data, but it would be fascinating to work out the divides in headset usage. The result?

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Immersive Authority

JANUARY 12, 2016

Basic virtual reality browser based solutions have existed since the 90’s (e.g.browsers which supported VRML, the Virtual Reality Modelling Language that allowed you to create 3D interactive worlds). Mozilla and Google are the major players in enabling WebVR through the Firefox and Chrome browsers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2023

The Reality Labs division’s revenue plummeted by $3.7 The firm expects losses to “increase meaningfully year-over-year due to ongoing product development efforts in augmented reality/virtual reality and investments to further scale our ecosystem.” percent from last year to $1.4

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

If this partnership is exclusive, Meta has just got a huge edge over its competitors like Samsung or Google. But a new report in Korean magazine “Daily Korea” states that Samsung may not be in a hurry to release its headset anymore, because Meta canceled its Quest Pro 2 plans with LG, and Apple is postponing its Vision Pro 2.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

In a new report from IDC (International Data Corporation), the market research firm predicts a near 10 fold increase in the shipments of augmented and virtual reality headsets in the next 4 years, bolstered by a plethora of new devices and “expanding array of content for both consumer and enterprise users.”

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. What a time to be alive! It seems that most of the rumors are aligning on the launch of an Apple Vision Pro 2 in 2026–2027.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

This made sure investors gained some trust for immersive reality startups again, something that will be beneficial for our whole industry. I think that the upcoming release of Quest 3, and the increasing rumors about Samsung are going to improve our situation even more. Let’s all hope so. Great job, Magnopus!

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Alongside the official reveal of the Google Pixel phone last month, Google announced Daydream View , a VR headset and controller combo designed for use with the company’s first Daydream-ready phone. SEE ALSO Google Daydream Review: Casual VR Closes the Gap. The list below was provided to us by Google.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2016

SAMSUNG AT VIDCON: BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS. Samsung solidified its commitment to the virtual reality space with some big announcements that essentially add up to an end-to-end consumer VR solution. They are rebranding Milk VR to Samsung VR, and opening up the content platform to users.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

Also announced was the judging panel that includes virtual reality experts such as Josh Naylor of Unity Technologies, Jenn Duong of Shiift, and CEO of Spiral Media Megan Gaiser. Something to note, all nominees had to be centered on a virtual reality experience, and not an augmented reality experience.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

Just to make an example, I was there when there was the Netscape vs Internet Explorer war, but now the leading web browser is Google Chrome. Google Chrome, for instance, has been helped a lot by the fact that it is the pre-installed browser on all Android phones. Google Glass v2. What will happen? Honestly, I don’t know.

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VRScout

AUGUST 2, 2016

Samsung held its infamous Unpacked event earlier this morning at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC and it was one hell of a show. Although the event was heavily focused on the new Galaxy Note S7 and upgrades to their S Pen, there was still plenty of news regarding virtual reality. Nice move, Samsung.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 9, 2018

Tech startup Looxid Labs announced this week that it was awarded a Best of Innovation Award in CES 2018’s Virtual Reality category for its LooxidVR headset. Previous winners in the category have included Samsung, for their Gear VR headset, and Google, for their Tilt Brush 3D/VR painting system.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Apple finally talks about VR while taking a (very solid) swing at AR, Walmart will use virtual reality to train employees, you can grow better weed with AR + AI, and Q1 VR headset sales…. on an internal training program called Walmart Academy—and it turns out that virtual reality will play a part.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2018

HTC has maybe been the virtual reality company that has shown the most interesting things at this MWC. Samsung S9. Samsung has released its new flagship phone: the Samsung Galaxy S9. I think that Samsung has realized that releasing a copy-paste new device each year had little sense and so kept the previous edition.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Market researcher SuperData scaled back its virtual reality forecast for 2016, particularly after a disappointing launch of the PlayStation VR headsets. Oculus will hit 355,000; HTC Vive will be 420,000, and the Samsung Gear VR on mobile will be 2.3 You have to experiment and do research and become the best VR stakeholder.”.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

October was such an important month for the virtual reality and augmented reality industry. It was announcements and product launches galore with news coming from key players like Oculus, Sony, Microsoft and Google dominating the headlines almost every week. So what’s next? and many places worldwide. and Canada.

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2018

spec include Firefox Release 55, Oculus Browser, Samsung Internet, & Microsoft Edge. But Google Chrome and the WebVR developer community has been waiting for the official launch of what was being referred to as the WebVR 2.0 537: Brandon Jones at Google I/O 2017. 537: Brandon Jones at Google I/O 2017.

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AllThingsVR

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The organization found that, by the end of 2016, the Oculus Rift is projected to sell 355,088 units; the HTC Vive will sell 420,108 units; Google Daydream will sell 450,083 units; and the PS VR will sell 2,602,307 units.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

If you remember well, there’s a scary leaked letter of Mark Zuckerberg where he claims that he doesn’t want to just make programs that run on Android, because they’re subject to the rules of another company (Google). WebXR is the standard to provide augmented and virtual reality experiences on the web. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. This is huge because we know that Samsung is able to always deliver good hardware.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

So markerless AR is powered not only by depth sensors and other positioning data, but also by ML algorithms on top of this data. LOCATION-BASED AR When users enter a particular location, AR applications can use that data to accurately display virtual content. Apps like Pokemon Go utilize markerless AR.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 19, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: WILL JIMMY FALLON’S NEW VIRTUAL REALITY SEGMENT HELP RAISE AWARENESS OF VR? broadband households claim to know little or nothing about virtual reality …but perhaps a new virtual reality segment on The Tonight Show with Tilt Brush Pictionary will help increase awareness.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

This week I’ve anyway found the time to enjoy the artistic piece Finding Pandora X and to work on organizing my session at the Virtual Reality Day (more on this later on in this newsletter). In the communication, it is emphasized that it is able to work with 5G phones from different brands like Sony and Samsung.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 12, 2017

2016 was the true birth of the virtual reality industry , so outlook was all over the place depending on who you spoke with and it makes sense that the perspective of GDC attendees would be valued. Tagged with: Daydream , GDC , google cardboard , htc vive , industry , oculus rift , Outlook , PS VR , samsung gear , VR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 30, 2021

But this could also have the same unpleasant consequences that happened to Oculus: Bytedance is another company known to harvest as much data as possible from its apps , and for sure will want to continue this trend in XR too. Recently it has even changed its privacy policy to report that it can collect biometric data from its users.

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2016

The virtual and augmented reality industry is just starting to take off. According to research from the International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide revenues for the augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) market is forecast to grow from $5.2 billion in 2016 to more than $162 billion in 2020.

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VRGuy

MARCH 27, 2017

This defines how to configure devices of particular type and how to extract data from them. It describes how an application or a game engine renders its content and get data. Industry leaders including Google, Oculus, Valve, Sensics and Samsung are part of this effort. The same is true for VR devices.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Through comprehensive media services (mainly including media coverage, expert consultation, data research, and event and public relation management), it helps entrepreneurs with idea incubation, financing, strategy consultation, and publicity. and covered more than 80% of the XR pioneers as communities members.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

Facebook will analyze and store how the users will react to the different ads, and will also merge the data about what apps the user uses in VR with his/her behavior on the Facebook social media to propose more relevant ads. Developers can decide if opting-in or out to ads, and where to put them.

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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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