Slashgear

OCTOBER 22, 2021

After a prolonged period of time and a whole lot of work in securing the rights to release the software, Carmack and crew made this build a reality. An Oculus Go unlocked OS build was released today, courtesy of John Carmack. It’s a surprise, honestly, now that Oculus is owned by Facebook. It IS a welcome surprise, in any case.

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Upload VR

APRIL 22, 2024

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. As with Quest headsets, using them will require a Meta account.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Quest 3 is an impressive leap in hardware, especially in the visual department, but it continues Meta’s tradition of building great hardware that feels held back by its software. Update (September 27th, 2023): Fixed the link to the second page at the bottom of this page.

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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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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In the first part , I dealt with investing possibilities in hardware that will take us to the metaverse. This implies an enormous variety of software that will be used for its construction and for its application in our lives. Today I will delve into other opportunities. The metaverse is going to be made of many souls.

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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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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 4, 2023

Canon has a long and deep history of being a hardware manufacturer. At CES 2023, the company showed off its vision for the future — a vision that seems a lot less hardware-y than you would expect from the 85-year-old company that has traditionally made all of its money from making things with buttons. Image Credit : Canon.

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Road to VR

APRIL 27, 2023

First unveiled at CES 2022 early last year, Canon has now taken its first step into consumer VR software with Kokomo , its fledgling social VR platform. The Japanese optics and imaging giant announced that early access to its Kokomo social collaboration software for Quest 2 is now available in beta in the US and Canada.

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Road to VR

APRIL 22, 2024

” The company hasn’t shown any of the headsets as such, but this symbolizes a monolithic shift in how the company is controlling its hardware-software stack , likening it to a more Android-style approach as opposed to Apple’s walled garden approach with iOS and Apple Vision Pro.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

One of the ongoing challenges in market sizing is to piece together clues to extrapolate things like unit sales and software revenues. In mature markets like smartphones, hardware players disclose figures — especially if public — but it’s a lot quieter on the early-stage front. Due Diligence.

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Upload VR

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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Upload VR

JANUARY 9, 2023

In both pieces of software, tracking failed spectacularly. Pimax’ history is marked by long shipping delays , inconsistent quality , software issues, and customer service concerns such that UploadVR recommends extreme caution before pledging money to the company.

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Road to VR

APRIL 22, 2024

Today the company says it’s formally branding the Quest operating system as Meta Horizon OS, and with it, plans to allow third-parties to make new headsets that run the software stack. The company has already confirmed that Asus and Lenovo are building new headsets for Meta Horizon OS. Will the same thing happen with XR headsets?

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The post Oculus Quest Pro Reference Hidden in Latest Software, Mentions Face & Eye Tracking appeared first on Road to VR. “”SLIDE THE LENSES CLOSER TOGETHER OR FURTHER APART TO IMPROVE VISUAL CLARITY.””

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2023

As for hardware, as many suggested in the past, Gurman reconfirms the existence of a dial crown similar to the one seen on Apple Watch, which will let the wearer seamlessly switch between virtual and augmented reality views.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2024

Two OEMs are already onboard: Lenovo and ASUS are already working on devices whose software will be built on top of the Meta Horizon ecosystem. But the reality is that Meta has always sold headsets under cost or at cost, so it’s not really earning money from hardware.

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Upload VR

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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Upload VR

JUNE 21, 2023

Apple released the software development kit for its upcoming visionOS platform that drives the Vision Pro headset. The new software tools in the SDK for "Apple's first spatial computer" rely on eye, hand and voice input, and Apple says it is accepting applications for developer kits starting next month.

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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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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

VR revenue from software and services will increase by almost $1B this year. 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. The post Report: Global VR Hardware Revenue To Hit $3.6 billion in 2017, up 142% year-over-year.

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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. a service for designing and distributing location-based AR content ? —

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We're talking hardware (e.g., AR headsets) and software (e.g., How much do enterprise spend on XR productivity? interactive guidance). Our latest Behind the Numbers installment dives in. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Next Reality AR

MARCH 9, 2020

The company has now adapted its software for operation within the hardware framework of Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2, which it will sell bundled with the Envision app as "Envision Glasses." Don't Miss: Google Glass Resurfaces as a Tool to.

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Road to VR

APRIL 22, 2024

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. Meta tells Road to VR that it will indeed continue building its own hardware, even as third-party Horizon OS headsets come to market.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Exactly one year since the start of the project, Mediator Software announced on X (formerly Twitter) that its iVRy SteamVR driver for PSVR 2 has crossed the last remaining obstacle, positioning the driver to release sometime next month via Steam. ” That’s not all.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 24, 2023

Google reportedly plans to provide AR glasses system software for hardware companies from 2025. In June Business Insider's Hugh Langley reported that Google had cancelled its own glasses hardware project amid the mass layoffs at the company and the departure of its AR/VR chief Clay Bavor.

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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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Anand Tech

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Designed to provide a more holistic end-user experience for adopters of hardware with the Ryzen AI NPU, AMD has made its latest version of the Ryzen AI Software available to the broader ecosystem. AMD Ryzen AI Software: Version 1.0 New to Version 1.0 AMD Ryzen AI Version 1.0 also supports PyTorch and TensorFlow 2.11

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Upload VR

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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Digital Trends

MAY 20, 2022

New legislation by the European Union puts Apple in a tough spot as the company will be forced to share previously exclusive hardware and software frameworks.

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AR Insider

JUNE 5, 2023

Buried in Google's recent AR software news was notable nugget: ARCore is now compatible with 1.4 What does this mean for Google's AR play as it retreats from hardware and doubles down on software? billion devices. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Ryan Schultz

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Horizon Workrooms get savaged in a highly critical review video by The Verge, a sign of the growing antipathy toward’s Meta virtual reality hardware and software strategy. I wanted to have hope that we could do this, and it would be fun, but I mean, you guys agree that this one of the most buggy software experiences, ever.

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Upload VR

APRIL 23, 2024

John Carmack just gave his take on Meta's new strategy of providing its headset OS to third-party hardware companies. If you somehow missed the news yesterday, Horizon OS is the new name for the Quest system software, which Meta will also make available to third-party headset makers, starting with ASUS, Lenovo, and potentially LG too.

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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Seagate has unveiled CORTX, an open-source S3-compatible object storage software, today at their Datasphere virtual event. The source for this software-defined-storage (SDS) platform is hosted on Github. Gallery: Seagate Unveils CORTX Object Storage Software with Lyve Drive Rack Hardware Reference Design.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2019

The company joined VIVE X, HTC’s global VR/AR accelerator program, for its second batch back in 2017, which included investments and mentorship for a total of 33 startups working in the areas of software and hardware for both augmented and virtual reality. Mindesk was founded in Bari, Italy.

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VRScout

AUGUST 14, 2017

As VR continues its infiltration into mainstream technology, developers are scrambling to discover that “it” factor that will send the humble hardware skyrocketing in popularity. The post New App Lets You Control Ableton Live Music Software In VR appeared first on VRScout.

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