AR Insider

AUGUST 17, 2020

I t’s time for another round of our periodic exercises to zero in on VR headset sales. This time we’re revisiting PSVR…but instead of hardware units , we’re looking at total revenue including software/game sales. Given PSVR’s market share lead, this is an important exercise. Let’s dive in.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 2, 2021

So it’s time once again for our quarterly exercise to extrapolate unit sales. 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.

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Road to VR

JUNE 25, 2021

With the aim of reducing everyday stress and creating mindfulness, TRIPP delivers a sort of gamefied meditation experience that focuses on breathing exercises, trippy landscapes, and calming sound frequencies.

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2021

What started as a system designed primarily for goalie training is evolving to include training exercises for players of all positions. Lesser versions not including the extra equipment are available for less, and are geared toward players running basic exercises at home rather than on the ice. Image courtesy Sense Arena.

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AR Insider

MAY 10, 2021

So it’s time once again for our ongoing exercise to extrapolate unit sales. 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. More from AR Insider….

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2018

Explaining while it is a fitness device is not easy if you don’t try it: basically, the position that you have to hold on the machine lets you exercise the lower part of your back and also the steering operations are all based on the balance of your body. Instead, it is first of all a fitness device and then it is well made.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It certainly doesn’t help that I find exercising in a gym boring and time-consuming. The Virtual Reality Institute of Health and Exercise does research on the impact of virtual reality exercise on the human body. If you use the app without a heart monitor, it’ll estimate your heart-rate by software. Quest starts at $400.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This is an exercise we’ve done every quarter for several years, but with a different approach lately given Meta’s disclosures. Based on Meta’s Q4 and 2021 FY disclosures in January, we’ve extrapolated that VR software (game and app sales) is about 23 percent of that. With that, Q3 software revenue comes to $65.6

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ARVR

MARCH 9, 2021

So it’s time once again for our ongoing exercise to reason-out its unit sales. everything from Facebook first-party software sales disclosures to public filings that help reveal sales volume and growth within Facebook’s “other revenue” category. where Oculus revenues are categorized?—?were The exercise above is just one of them.

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Road to VR

MAY 8, 2017

But thanks to virtual reality, there might be an exercise machine coming to your local gym or arcade that promises to gamify what many people not only find to be an existential commentary on their personal failings, but also a painfully boring experience. image courtesy VirZOOM. image courtesy VirZOOM.

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Cats and VR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

They foresee that gaming, a notoriously sedentary behavior, can be harnessed with VR technology to get people to exercise. YUR’s patent-pending calorie tracking software is installed directly on headsets with no additional hardware required. Its first app, YUR.fit for the Oculus Quest, provides calorie tracking while playing VR games.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 22, 2021

Even before Facebook moved to require all new Oculus users to sign in with Facebook , Oculus headset users were rightfully worried about the company’s treatment of user privacy. “Today Microsoft is considered perhaps the most trustworthy software vendor in the world. I think this is a model for us at Facebook.

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ARVR

AUGUST 11, 2022

This is an exercise we’ve done every quarter for several years, but with a different approach lately given Meta’s disclosures. Based on Meta’s Q4 and 2021 FY disclosures in January, we know that software (VR game and app sales) is about 23 percent of that. With that, Q2 software revenue comes to $103.96 This is on pace with 6.5

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ARVR

AUGUST 10, 2021

So it’s time once again for our quarterly exercise to extrapolate unit sales. everything from Facebook first-party software sales disclosures to public filings that help reveal sales volume and growth within Facebook’s “other revenue” category. where Oculus revenues are categorized?—?was was $497 million as noted.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

So it’s time once again for our quarterly exercise to extrapolate unit sales. everything from Meta’s first-party software sales disclosures to public filings that help reveal sales volume and growth within Meta’s “other revenue” category. By “Quest 2 related,” we mean hardware and software. is Quest 2 related. That yields $455.4

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ARVR

MAY 9, 2022

Based on Meta’s Q4 and 2021 FY disclosures in January, we know that software (VR game and app sales) makes up about 23 percent of that. With that, Q1 software revenue comes to about $159.85 This figure represents the Oculus Store’s gross revenue, before developer payouts , which are usually 70 percent after taxes. million units.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 28, 2020

After compiling evidence for Quest 2’s momentum to back up these claims, we’re returning to a similar exercise but for the broader VR market. If Quest 2 is having an impact, it’s going beyond its own sales and extending a “halo effect” on the VR market, especially games and software. Evidence Aplenty.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 9, 2020

The startup, which develops the popular VR exercise app BoxVR, tells TechCrunch it has just closed $7.5 FitXR’s game BoxVR, has become one of the better-known purpose-built exercise apps available for VR devices. Earlier this year, a16z-backed VR studio Within launched a subscription exercise app called Supernatural.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 21, 2020

More importantly, this aligns with the timeframe that followed its 2014 Oculus acquisition. billion for a representative baseline of pre-Oculus spending. Where it gets more interesting is panning back to a longer time period in which R&D efforts had time to gear up, including Oculus Reality Labs in Seattle, led by Michael Abrash.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 1, 2021

MultiBrush is a multiplayer version of Tilt Brush that Neumann created after Google open-sourced the original software. The app even became available on SideQuest about a month later and is now also available through the Oculus App Lab. The ideas of exercise and fitness in senior living are a little dated,” said Rand.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 1, 2017

It’s been a little while since we last checked in on Blade Runner 9732 , a one-man project that started as a technical exercise and blossomed into a quest to recreate one of sci-fi’s most iconic movie locations. Lengele doesn’t possess a current generation VR headset, just a now obsolete Oculus Rift DK1.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 10, 2022

Facebook’s Meta’s Oculus Quest 2 headset has managed to carve out a surprisingly sizable niche as a high-tech piece of exercise equipment as people use software like Beat Saber and Supernatural to get a cardio workout in.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) is a global software company at the forefront of simulation training solutions for defense and civilian organizations. Today, we’ve grown to around 300 staff, about two-thirds of whom are software developers. . BISim products are used in over 60 countries and by over 300 integrators.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2020

ARtillery Intelligence recently performed this exercise including compatible hardware bases and active users (see below). Furthermore, this mobile AR market-sizing exercise reveals another factor: platform fragmentation. Magic Leap is building a software ecosystem around its product. Microsoft is doing the same with Hololens.

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ARPost

MARCH 2, 2021

The rapid growth of software for virtual reality. Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time. And in the same way, reinforce what you’re learning, conduct practical exercises, and much more. billion per year.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 14, 2021

These are marks of an industry that’s moving into adolescence, With that backdrop, we embarked on our annual exercise of examining lessons from the past 12 months and projecting the next 12. Those subdivisions include hardware and software, as well as consumer and enterprise use cases. Steady Gains. What about VR?

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

But for those who want to take exercise a little more seriously and track various stats including metrics like calories burnt, that’s where things get a little more difficult. million in pre-seed funding led by The Venture Reality Fund and BoostVC but also the beta release of the YUR app for Oculus Quest via Sidequest.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Major hardware releases, vast improvements to software, and various other integral advancements have quietly solidified VR & AR as viable, long-term technological platforms for years to come. Released without warning this past May during Facebook’s annual F8 conference, the Oculus Go brings convenient, comfortable VR to the masses.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

We’ve seen Facebook acquire Oculus then amplify its internal R&D and product innovation. As an early Oculus investor, he breaks down his observations and advice with Jason McDowall on the latest episode of the AR Show (listen or subscribe below). See past and future episodes here or subscribe.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 5, 2021

Notably, when kicking off this thought exercise, we realized that several of the topics look similar to last year. Facebook’s VR strategy is best embodied in its latest hardware: Oculus Quest 2. Has Oculus Quest Sold One-Million Lifetime Units? By all measures, the device is a hit. Clues Emerge. million in 2021.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 28, 2021

Codenamed N301, the device is to be a high-end headset (think: more Valve Index, less Oculus Quest). We’ve been asking ourselves this question in light of our ongoing “ follow the money ” exercise. As you’ve likely heard, Bloomberg reported last week that Apple has plans for a VR headset to release next year.

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TechCrunch VR

JUNE 24, 2021

Tripp has been building immersive relaxation exercises that seek to blend some of the experiences users may find in guided meditation apps with more free-form experiences that allow users to unplug from their day and explore their thoughts inside a virtual reality headset while watching fractal shapes, glowing trees and planets whir past them.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

This has been the week of the OC6, but, believe it or not, I have been able to find some other interesting news that don’t regard Oculus. Image by Oculus). Oculus bets on Oculus Quest at OC6. Well, the top news of the week is, of course, the Oculus Connect 6. Oculus “Cablegate” may end soon.

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VR Geeks

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Supernatural is a virtual reality game that has been released on the Oculus Rift. There’s no better time than now to find a cause to get up and move, which is perhaps why renowned AR/VR company Within released Supernatural, an at-home VR exercise program (2020). Available On: Oculus Quest. Reviewed On: Quest Release.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 14, 2016

4 years ago, John Carmack exhibited a modified Doom 3 BFG running on a prototype headset that would eventually evolve to become the Oculus Rift. Ignoring any alleged legal strife between Carmack (now Oculus CTO) and his former employers, it was good to see not only a VR version of seminal shooter Doom front and centre, but Fallout 4 too!

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ARPost

JULY 28, 2020

To be clear, he wasn’t talking specifically about lexicography, he was talking about XR technology and software. Well, today this is no longer an exercise for specialists.”. See Also: XR Companies Working Overtime - From Home. However, siloed development is siloed development.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

AR Insider’s ongoing coverage of The AR Show episodes is an exercise in deconstructing and synthesizing the musings of spatial computing’s top minds. This “ follow the money ” exercise is a key AR confidence signal. There is a massive multi-layered set of software problems here.

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