Road to VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Citing three people with direct knowledge of the matter, the report maintains the information comes from an internal meeting from earlier this morning wherein it was allegedly revealed Pico is keeping its VR hardware team whilst folding much of its software team back into ByteDance’s own product development team.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Let’s start by saying that we can choose to invest in the metaverse in two ways: in the technology that supports it (hardware, software, and infrastructure) or in digital assets (NFT, crypto). When I say hardware, I mean it in a very broad way. Here we will mainly talk about the first possibility.

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Road to VR

MAY 28, 2024

The post PlayStation ‘Days of Play’ Brings Six Free PSVR 2 Games to Premium Members, $100 Off PSVR 2 Hardware appeared first on Road to VR. The company is however offering to Plus Members $100 off PSVR 2 and the PSVR 2 Horizon Call of the Mountain Bundle, bringing them to $450 and $500 respectively.

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Road to VR

MARCH 4, 2022

As competition with Meta grows, Qualcomm is no doubt looking to make sure it has plenty of hardware partners moving forward who will integrate those Snapdragon chips into the next generation of XR headsets.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 5, 2023

Jan Goetgeluk, the Founder and CEO of Virtuix , sat down with XR Today earlier this month to discuss the development of the product while also giving insight into creating VR hardware for consumers and commercial markets. Goetgeluk explained that the hardware provides increased immersion while adding “ a lot to the fun factor of VR.”

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Updates to the beta version of Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR, the official integration which allows Windows VR headsets to be used with SteamVR, hint at “upcoming hardware releases.” There’s at least a chance that the G2 is not the only headset among the “upcoming hardware releases” for WMR.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 6, 2021

While the company didn’t confirm anything outright, they said the Steam Deck hardware could certainly be a good match for a standalone VR headset. Steam Deck’s hardware is powerful, but it isn’t magical. Valve Index Patents. Image courtesy Valve. Image courtesy Valve. Image courtesy Valve.

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Road to VR

MARCH 9, 2021

It’s been a year since we’ve seen new hardware from HTC. The post HTC is Teasing New VR Hardware in Cryptic Tweets appeared first on Road to VR. A series of cryptic tweets with teasing imagery have dropped on the official HTC Vive account in the last week, but what do they point to? Let us know in the comments below.

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ARPost

MAY 5, 2022

If you’ve read my hardware and software reviews in the past, you know that – despite my profession – I am susceptible to VR motion sickness so I tend to limit the time of my fully immersive forays into the metaverse. So, we don’t make money if you order this strap. If it was a bad product, we would tell you.

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Road to VR

JULY 26, 2023

The Attestation API includes things like secure device authentication, hardware-based app bans, protection of financial and enterprise app data, prevention of external data misuse, and other anti-piracy measures.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

” Even more was revealed by Jared Ficklin, Chief Creative Technologist at argodesign , who helped develop the Magic Leap 2 hardware. The idea is that it’s a garment, not a piece of hardware. You can’t just have hardware, you can’t just have software, it’s the whole ecosystem that’s necessary,” said Kling.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 8, 2024

Moreover, Microsoft is doubling down on providing hardware-agnostic XR productivity apps. Improved Microsoft Mesh Service to Gain Mac Support Before Microsoft launched the trusted Real Wear enterprise product, the firm also increased the availability of its Mesh immersive meeting platform on Apple Mac hardware.

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ARPost

AUGUST 11, 2020

Recently announced Lenovo hardware, software updates, and industry partnerships provide both. This support helps instructors navigate hardware use, as well as upload content that can be shared with entire educational institutions. Mastering distance learning requires the right tech and the technical know-how. Enter the VR Classroom.

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VRScout

JANUARY 3, 2019

The 2019 Consumer Electronics Expo is set to kick-off this Sunday and it looks as though HTC Vive will be using the infamous Las Vegas trade show to reveal new products in its VR hardware lineup. Many believe the boxes could contain new hardware due in part to the companies use of the word “gear.”.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 2, 2024

This week, Sightful, the immersive technology innovator behind the upcoming AR laptop device, “Spacetop,” announced that it is laying off 20 employees and disbanding its hardware division. More on Sightful’s Innovative AR Laptop The Spacetop introduces a unique productivity AR hardware solution for 2024’s XR customers.

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Upload VR

JULY 18, 2024

Meta's AR/VR hardware teams have been told to cut spending by 20% by 2026, The Information reports. They reportedly told Reality Labs hardware teams to cut spending by 20% by 2026, with "much of those cuts happening this year".

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AR Insider

AUGUST 12, 2019

Sony is the market share leader for VR hardware revenues according to the latest report from Strategy Insights. billion (see above) VR hardware revenues are close to Strategy Analitics’ $2.02 The post Has Sony Captured 30% of VR Hardware Revenues? It includes data points, along with narrative insights and takeaways.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2018

Today during Magic Leap’s developer livestream the company offered the first details on the compute hardware that’s built into the device, confirming that an NVIDIA CPU/GPU module, and also showed a brief developer sample demonstrating world meshing and gesture input.

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VRScout

JANUARY 4, 2017

And if 2016 was the year VR had its coming out party, 2017 is looking to be the year we see VR content ecosystem really grow and hardware accessories take shape. In addition to their latest hardware announcements at CES today, Vive also announced that it expects commercial wireless VR adapters to ship in 2017. Wireless and VR  .

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 12, 2019

That includes lots of moving parts and sub-sectors including consumer, enterprise, hardware, software, advertising and LBVR. Drilling Down on VR Hardware. Drilling down into one of those areas, how does VR hardware revenue look? The post VR Hardware Revenues Projected to Reach $6.39 billion last year to $14.8

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MARCH 4, 2024

Bigscreen Beyond and Varjo Aero now show on the Steam Hardware Survey, giving an indication of their ownership and usage. The Steam Hardware & Software Survey is offered to a random sample of Steam’s user base each month. February is the first month they appear from the start.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Magic Leap is starting another hardware initiative soon, dubbed ‘Access Hardware’, which aims to get its AR headset into the hands of developers who are “serious about publishing applications with Magic Leap,” the company writes in a recent blog post. Developers can apply for Access Hardware here.

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Slashgear

MAY 15, 2022

Google finally confirmed the Pixel Watch in May, but a new report suggests its lengthy time spent in development may result in it launching with old hardware.

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ARPost

JUNE 22, 2020

VR gamers have been watching Finnish VR headset manufacturer Varjo for a while now. While the headset’s “human-eye resolution” capabilities are definitely exciting, the daunting price tag has largely relegated the headset to the realm of industry. That doesn’t mean that the larger public isn’t benefiting from VR-2 ’s presence in the market.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 11, 2024

This week, reports revealed that Google is laying off a significant portion of its 1P AR hardware team, casting doubts upon its in-house XR product portfolio. In a statement, Google announced: A few hundred roles are being eliminated in DSPA, with the majority of impacts on the 1P AR Hardware team.

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MARCH 26, 2024

Today, Intel announced that it is looking to progress its AI PC Acceleration program further by offering various new toolkits and devkits designed for software and hardware AI developers under a new AI PC Developer Program sub-initiative. Notably, this is both a software and a hardware play.

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Road to VR

MARCH 14, 2019

Zero Latency, creator of a leading VR attraction platform, is now deploying their ‘gen 2’ VR hardware. Zero Latency ‘Gen 1’ hardware | Image courtesy Zero Latency. While functional, this older hardware didn’t offer the low-latency tracking or sharper visuals available in more modern VR headsets.

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APRIL 26, 2024

Meta's Head of AR Glasses Hardware claims they give the same "Oh my God, wow! Kalinowski was previously the Head of VR Hardware at Oculus for the consumer Oculus Rift, Oculus Touch, Oculus Go, Rift S, Oculus Quest, Quest 2, and Quest Pro. I can't believe this!" reaction as the original Oculus Rift.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

After a mixed year for VR hardware sales in 2016, two new separate reports are painting a more optimistic outlook for the VR market going forward. In a new consumer VR report just released by SuperData Research , the findings show that global VR hardware revenue is expected to hit $3.6 billion in 2017, up 142% year-over-year.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 25, 2023

HTC is running a Vive Pro 2 bundle deal right now in the US that includes the Vive Wireless Adapter, which when purchased separately costs $350. The deal lasts from now until August 30th, bringing the full bundle price to $1,400.

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Voices of VR

APRIL 3, 2023

Most DJ sets in social VR either rely upon external hardware where the audio is streamed in, or they just play back a recording of a set. Most DJ sets in social VR either rely upon external hardware where the audio is streamed in, or they just play back a recording of a set.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Last Wednesday, augmented reality (AR) software studio Niantic partnered with Qualcomm to leverage the latter’s Snapdragon Spaces extended reality (XR) platform for geotagged immersive content and supporting hardware. Developing AR Hardware. The partnership sees Niantic integrate its Lightship Visual Positioning System (VPS)? —

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JUNE 27, 2023

Google reportedly killed its glasses hardware project. Business Insider's Hugh Langley cites "three people familiar with the matter" as saying the hardware, which resembled standard glasses, was canceled earlier this year amid the mass layoffs at Google and the departure of Google's AR/VR chief Clay Bavor.

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JULY 23, 2024

Magic Leap has reportedly laid off its sales and marketing teams as a result of the company’s decision to focus on licensing the technology behind its headsets. The technology news provider Bloomberg shared the news that the augmented reality startup cut 75 jobs last week, according to two of its sources “familiar with the matter”.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2017

Google launched the Daydream View headset late last year, the company’s first virtual reality hardware product. A slew of recent job postings however suggest significant new AR/VR hardware in the works from Google. If that’s already out the door, what’s all this new hardware talent for?

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Meta Quest 3 showed up on the October Steam Hardware Survey - but there are two important caveats to note. The Steam Hardware & Software Survey is offered to a random sample of Steam’s user base each month. If you accept, it uploads a list of your PC specs and peripherals to Valve, as well as any headset used on SteamVR.

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Road to VR

APRIL 11, 2019

Optimization is no easy task, especially with the limited resources of mobile hardware like the Snapdragon 835 processor in the Oculus Quest. In nine minutes, this crash course offers up an indie-dev focused overview of optimizing VR games built in Unity for mobile hardware like Oculus Quest.

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