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Did VR Software Sales Inflect in 2019?

AR Insider

One of the ongoing challenges in market sizing is to piece together clues to extrapolate things like unit sales and software revenues. That’s the case with VR, which becomes an exercise in gathering hints in perpetual market-sizing mode. Both exercises extrapolated hardware units based on software revenue disclosures.

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Meta Rebranding Quest Software Horizon OS, Will Run On New Headsets From ASUS, Lenovo, More

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Meta is rebranding its Quest software platform to Meta Horizon OS, and opening it up to third-party headset makers. They'll have access to the same core software and platform services as Meta Quest headsets, including Meta's tracking and mixed reality technology and store.

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Report: Apple Racing to Build Software & Services for Upcoming Mixed Reality Headset

Road to VR

Fitness+ : will let users exercise while watching an instructor in VR. Apple TV : both immersive sports content and traditional video content – the latter presented in virtual environments, such as a desert or the sky. Apple Books : will allow users to read in virtual reality. Siri voice control is also present.

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Meta Affirms it Will Continue Making Quest Headsets Even as it Offers OS to (select) Third Parties

Road to VR

Meta made a huge announcement today , saying that the Quest operating system, rebranded to Meta Horizon OS, would be the software basis of new headsets built by third parties like Asus and Lenovo. With that news came two big questions: Will Meta continue making its own Quest headsets?

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Did Facebook Sell One-Million Quest 2s in Q4?

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So it’s time once again for our ongoing exercise to reason-out its 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.

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Editorial: Meta Scatters Great Ideas Across Fragmented Software

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Quest Pro and Quest 2 can do some pretty cool things but the software continues to be maddening. The hardware is cool, but to use a Quest Pro as of this writing is an exercise in losing time and patience with confusing software. For instance, why do I need to install and launch a meetings app to access my PC?

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Virzoom’s VZFit in the News, as University Study Shows VR and Music Improves Exercise Retention

VR Fitness

Virzoom, developers of the popular VR biking software, VZFit got a bit of mainstream attention this month with the publication in the British Journal of Health Psychology of a dual Brunel, London and Exeter University study on the benefits of virtual reality and music in motivating people to exercise.