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AR Insider
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
In mature markets like smartphones, hardware players disclose figures — especially if public — but it’s a lot quieter on the early-stage front. For example, our September estimates for 333,000 cumulative Oculus Quests sales were based on disclosures at the OC6 conference that $20 million in games had been sold for the device.
AR Insider
MARCH 16, 2020
In mature markets like smartphones, hardware players disclose figures — especially if public — but it’s a lot quieter on the early-stage front. For example, our September estimates for 333,000 cumulative Oculus Quests sales were based on disclosures at the OC6 conference that $20 million in games had been sold for the device.
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Road to VR
AUGUST 4, 2021
In addition to eye-tracking and foveated rendering, Sony is supposedly implementing something called “flexible scale rendering” (FSR) on PS5 for its next-gen headset. It sounds similar to Oculus’ fixed foveated rendering (FFR) technique, which automatically adjusts the level of eye texture foveation based on GPU utilization.
AR Insider
MARCH 1, 2021
Facebook’s Q4 non-advertising revenue — where Oculus revenues are categorized — were $885 million. As noted, the company specified during its earnings call that Oculus sales were a major growth driver. That total includes hardware and software. That makes hardware revenue $421.2 That yields $336.96
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JUNE 27, 2017
In a recent interview with German site Golem.de Sony Interactive Entertainment America President and CEO Shawn Layden noted that it will “probably be some time” before we see the next iteration of the console. Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) is a great headset, but it’s definitely got issues.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
DECEMBER 4, 2016
One example is personal organizers (mobile calendar and contacts apps) on a portable device. In 2016, hardware makers dominate the VR market. Sony (PSVR) is clearly leading and is taking one third of the whole market. Sony is followed by Facebook (the Oculus platform) and Google (Day Dream, Card Board, Tilt Brush, etc.);
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. In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017.
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