Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The agreement includes the production of live sports and concerts, feature films, and TV series featuring “big-name IP,” Meta says in a recent blog post , noting that Quest will be Lightstorm Vision’s the exclusive MR hardware platform. “Im convinced were at a true, historic inflection point.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Supported capture devices include iPhones and iPads running iOS 17 or later, which includes a fairly large swath of hardware—from iPhone XR and above, and Apple’s 8th gen iPad and above.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

This latest work eliminates the hardware barrier and delivers an incredible library of games to our platform, making PICO headsets an ideal destination for immersive entertainment. More on NVIDIA XR Streaming for Professionals On the enterprise side, recent innovations in XR streaming arrived at CES via Innoactive and NVIDIA.

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DECEMBER 10, 2024

Meta is going to hand the design of its headsets to Goertek , and gradually stop working on hardware altogether, to concentrate on the Horizon OS platform. Boz also denied that the whole VR hardware division of Meta is going to be laid off. I still think that there may be some true parts of the rumor , though.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 21, 2025

In the technology space, especially in areas like AR/VR/MR, updates come in fast, so staying up to date with the latest hardware and how to leverage it within your business can be a challenge. Reddit is a great place for users to learn about the latest news and insights regarding specific hardware.

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MARCH 11, 2025

Leveraging AI-Powered Hardware The partnership showcases the ongoing relationship between AI and XR, with the surging AI hardware and software market helping to supercharge interest in and the ability of AR/VR/MR solutions. GIGABYTE AI PCs support the VR content creation workflows.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

The global leader in industrial-grade virtual and mixed reality hardware and software, Varjo, has announced the general availability of Teleport, which creates photorealistic digital twins by stitching together 3D scenes made from Apple smartphone photos.

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JANUARY 21, 2025

In the technology space, especially in areas like AR/VR/MR, updates come in fast, so staying up to date with the latest hardware and how to leverage it within your business can be a challenge. Reddit is a great place for users to learn about the latest news and insights regarding specific hardware.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

Although the company lacks a solid foundation in the XR market, its interest in AR, VR, and MR hardware has garnered attention from market observers. Second, its extensive Galaxy ecosystem provides a supporting infrastructure, even in the absence of a dedicated XR hardware solution. Several factors contribute to this interest.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Cisco updated its Webex networking app to include even more immersive support for meetings on Vision Pro, which now marries the app with its spatial video streaming hardware.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

RAVE Computer, a woman-owned small business, specializes in enhancing emerging hardware to promote optimal training effectiveness and operational readiness. This collaboration highlights how our expertise in hardware optimization and supply chain management complements their revolutionary training software.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The report maintains Xiaomi is planning to launch a new generation of AI-assisted smartglasses, which will be built in collaboration with Goertek, the China-based ODM behind a bevy of XR parts, reference designs, and finished white-label hardware. Notably, Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses aren’t officially available in China.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2025

Stress Level Zero’s physics-based sandbox follow-up BONELAB (2022) has done spectacularly well on Quest, although the studio still hasn’t brought its award-winning physics action puzzler BONEWORKS (2019) to Meta’s latest standalone hardware generation. That’s about to change.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Samsung is building the hardware, Qualcomm the chipset, and Google the Android-based XR operating system. There are a few things, arguably the largest of which is the Google, Samsung and Qualcomm headset collaboration , which was announced in early 2023.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2025

Meta had tapped LG in February 2024 to partner on XR software and hardware, which at the time was rumored to include LG manufacturing a Vision Pro competitor for Meta.LG has since confirmed it’s closing its XR product division , instead focusing on long-term R&D.

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MAY 2, 2025

Like its previous hardware, Spacetop works with XREAL AR glasses, however the new subscription-based app is targeting a much broader set of AI PCs, including the latest hardware from Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus, Acer and Microsoft.

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

While Panasonic sold off its XR hardware startup Shiftall earlier this year, the companies held a joint press conference in Tokyo yesterday to announce MeganeX superlight 8K, which is slated to start shipping between February and March 2025.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Apple may be taking a beat before it releases a cheaper follow-up to Vision Pro, which would more broadly appeal to consumers, instead releasing a hardware refresh next year that includes the new M5 chipset. ” “Right now, it’s an early-adopter product,” Cook told the WSJ.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This week I got to check out a prototype version of the MeganeX Superlight headset and found it to be a promising piece of hardware that’s certain to be held back by its steep price. I understand that making and launching hardware is extremely difficult, but it’s a real shame to not have an audio headstrap available at launch.

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AR Insider

JUNE 25, 2024

We have her travel logs and hardware review. Do Ray-Ban Meta Smartglasses represent an AR turning point? Editor-At-Large Emily Olman goes hands on, wearing her new pair to AWE. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

In the meantime, you can learn more about Project Moohanin our detailed hands-on , which discusses everything from our impressions of the hardware to its integration of Android XR. Moohan is expected to launch sometime this year (and hopefully have an actual name).

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The app dopes this by letting you adjust various hardware system settings for each game installed on your headset, allowing you to use preset or create custom profiles to tweak things like render resolution, refresh rate, CPU and GPU levels, and fixed foveated rendering.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 14, 2025

California-based hardware designer CaseCruzer has designed a new portable charging station that powers up 10 Meta Quest VR headsets at once. As VR hardware prices drop and content creation gets simpler, virtual training is bursting out of Fortune 500 boardrooms and into businesses of all sizes.

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VRScout

APRIL 4, 2023

Available for purchase next month, the ELF-SR2 is a 27-inch 4K display that can supposedly deliver immersive 3D content without the need for additional hardware, such as augmented reality (AR) glasses or a VR headset. Sony announced a new addition to its growing lineup of Spatial Reality Displays. For more information visit here.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2025

CES this year has the standard mix of XR hardware as well as a widening array of technologies under the "consumer everything" umbrella. Charlie Fink gives his tips and picks. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Now we take that forward-looking analysis to Meta's other XR hardware line: Quest. We recently speculated what Meta's next generation of its Ray-Ban smartglasses could be and do. What does "Project Pismo" signal for the future of VR? This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Unlike Quest Cash, Meta Credits can’t be used to buy hardware or accessories, just stuff in Horizon Worlds. Roblox has Robux, Rec Room has Tokens, and Horizon Worlds now has Meta Credits, letting users buy in-world digital goods from creators, such as avatar outfits and access keys to premium worlds.

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AR Insider

MARCH 20, 2025

not because new hardware was pervasive, nor because everyone was buzzing about it, but if you looked closely you could connect the dots. A subtle theme at SXSW was VR180. Our Editor at Large Emily Olman reports. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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JANUARY 14, 2025

Challenge 1: Hardware, Budget and Space Requirements Investing in VR-driven office solutions, workplace productivity apps, hardware, and even environments where employees can comfortably explore virtual settings can be expensive and complex. Make sure the software theyre using feels familiar and intuitive.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Interestingly, the new $400 MSRP affects both its basic PSVR bundle, which includes the headset, two Sense controllers, and headphones, and the Horizon Call of the Mountain hardware bundle, which was priced at $600 at the headset’s February 2023 launch.

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APRIL 11, 2025

The same can’t be said for platform holders like Meta, which already subsidize hardware in effort to make software more attractive. So, we’ll just have to wait and see. We’ll be following the effects of US-China trade war tariffs on XR hardware closely, so check back soon for more.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

For PC VR users, Cyan warns that “mileage may vary” based on your machine, however the studio reports increased performance on some hardware, and decreased performance on others, to which the studio recommends toying with the existing and updated supersampling options. The studio also fixed a number of VR-specific issues in Myst’s 2.0

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 29, 2024

While Steam’s latest hardware survey indicates that over half of connected VR headsets are some flavor of Quest, its continued work on Steam Link may be a key to the rollout of its own rumored standalone headset , codenamed ‘Deckard’, which has been a hot topic of conversation since 2021 following a series of code leaks.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Pimax Prime Membership Pimax Prime includes flexible payment options, additional services, and new hardware and software features like early access to new software, invitations to member-only events, priority technical support, flexible returns, and flexible payment options.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2025

On the flipside, Quest 3S was the top-selling console on Amazon US in 2024 , beating out Switch, PlayStation 5 Pro, and both Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X hardware refreshes. Two-thirds of those headsets were Quest 3S, while the remainder was Quest 3, according to the report.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Until then, the device has made its rounds among hardware pros. Xreal Air 2 will start shipping on November 30. So in anticipation for the release, we're rounding up our favorite reviews. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

It needed to find a way of integrating multiple users into an application, which also allowed them freedom of movement, but hardware limitations hampered the early stages of development. Project Challenges The BLKA reportedly faced a number of challenges to getting the Holodeck up and running.

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