Road to VR

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Less than 48 hours after Meta fully unveiled Quest 3 , John Carmack, legendary programmer and former CTO of Oculus, expressed doubts about mixed reality’s ability to increase headset sales. Carmack departed Meta late last year , concluding what he called at the time his “decade in VR.”

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The choice of the magazine is not casual: Apple keeps pushing to show that its device is not a nerdy thing that isolates people, but it is a trendy thing that augments reality while you can still interact with other people. It has been on the cover of Vanity Fair, with a very carefully studied picture.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2023

Meta unveiled Quest 3 earlier this month, its upcoming standalone VR headset that not only promises to be thinner and more powerful than Quest 2, but also offer color passthrough for augmented reality.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

That solution is a modified version of the company’s already awe-inspiring mixed reality headset XR-3. The XR-3 and the Passthrough Problem. For these users, Varjo released the XR-3 last spring. If you’ve ever used passthrough on a device like the Meta Quest 2, you know that the passthrough isn’t crystal clear.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In today’s Meta Quest 3 review, we’re finally taking a hands-on look at all the unique features and capabilities of Meta’s latest headset. Now, we can finally see for ourselves what makes this new headset so much more impressive than the Meta Quest 2 and even the Quest Pro (in some areas).

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Road to VR

MARCH 1, 2023

Meta’s Quest 3 headset, which the company has confirmed will land this year, is said to be positioned as a slightly pricier headset with features designed to appeal to VR enthusiasts. Leaks have consistently pointed to Quest 3 having pancake lenses, a more compact form-factor, and better augmented reality capabilities.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 2, 2023

Meta says to expect in-depth looks at new products, such as the upcoming Quest 3, the latest in AI and XR innovation, developer updates, and an exploration of “how the metaverse is coming to life.” The company says it will share more on specific developer talks in the near future.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2023

The Meta Quest 3 The Meta Quest 3 has been the subject of rumors, speculation, leaks, and outright fabrication probably since before the Quest 2 came out. From fairly early on, the Quest Pro was largely seen as a dev kit and a testing ground for future products. But, could it replace a Meta Quest?

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Road to VR

MARCH 5, 2024

Along its quest to own a sizeable chunk of the XR space, Meta may be getting ready to show off some of its prototype AR hardware at the company’s upcoming Connect developer conference later this year, which up until now has been tightly under wraps. Find out more about the difference between AR and smartglasses in our handy primer.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 8, 2024

However, new product launches at the end of 2023, such as the Quest 3, helped to rebound market performance in select regions during Q4. Llamas, Research Director with IDC’s Augmented and Virtual Reality Program , added: 2023 began in much the same way that 2022 ended: with a series of significant year-over-year declines.

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Road to VR

APRIL 27, 2023

Meta revealed in its Q1 2023 financial results that its family of apps is now being used by over 3 billion people, an increase of 5% year-over-year, but its metaverse investments are still operating at heavy losses. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has warned shareholders in the past that Meta’s XR investments may not flourish until 2030.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 18, 2023

And today there are a two I’m sure you will find interesting… XTAL 3 Presentation of XTAL 3 headset One thing I’m very happy about having tried at AWE is the XTAL 3 headset by Vrgineers. I’m back to telling you about some hands-on sessions I had at AWE in Santa Clara, California.

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Road to VR

MAY 22, 2023

In addition to Quest Pro mixed reality headset, Meta has confirmed it’s currently working on its next iteration of Quest, likely Quest 3, as well as its own AR glasses. The company has raised over $4 billion, with minority investors including Google, Alibaba, Qualcomm, AT&T, and Axel Springer.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by VR Panda) New information leak about the Quest 3 The launch of the Quest 3 is getting closer, and it is tradition with Meta, the weeks before the launch, everything about the device is getting leaked. He has written that the codename of the Quest 3 is Crystal.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Reality Labs is the division of Meta behind Quest headsets, the Ray-Ban smart glasses , the Horizon platform, and research & development toward AR glasses and their neural wristband input device. Meta CFO Susan Li said this record revenue was "driven by Quest 3 sales over the holiday season". billion, resulting in a $4.65

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

I hope you will receive them, either via e-mail or via your dreams… Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Specs of Quest 3 leak together with the price of accessories Some major leaks keep happening about the Quest 3: the latest one happened when last week UnboundXR published by error the listing of the headset and all its related accessories.

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APRIL 8, 2024

Recently, reports have emerged that Meta Quest 3 users can now access Layout , an experimental application for the MR headset that seemingly mimics the Apple Vision Pro’s spatial computing user interface (UI) approach. The recent leaks highlight “Augment”, a feature Meta first introduced at Connect 2023.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

The most affected by this “restructuring operation” is the “1P AR Hardware” team, the one working on augmented reality devices. Augments are a sort of 3D widgets that you can add to your room, and the videos show that they can be interactive and have different functionalities.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Atlantic has filmed several BAFTA-winning films in XR and has gained extensive experience in creating virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) documentaries. Additionally, the documentary series comes just a month after Meta debuted its Meta Quest 3 mixed reality headset at the Connect Event in late September.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 18, 2023

In recent years, the company has been investing heavily in its vision of the “metaverse”, exploring new ways to bring people together in a digital landscape through virtual, mixed, and augmented reality (VR/MR/AR). The Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest Pro are just two examples of the latest immersive technologies offered by Meta.

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Upload VR

APRIL 15, 2024

Last month we reported on three 8th Wall demos that support crossplay between smartphones and Quest 3, but noted that none of the demos worked on Apple Vision Pro. Apple Vision Pro supports WebXR yes, through enabling an advanced Safari flag, but it does not support the WebXR Augmented Reality module.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Meta and Apple are building from different directions a path to the same future with virtual worlds to visit, spatial calling with hyper-realistic avatars, and all day augmentation. VR: Starting With Meta Quest Meta started with VR as Facebook in 2014 by acquiring Oculus.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Filed in August and later entered into registry in November, the Samsung Glasses trademark specifies that it covers “Virtual reality headsets; Augmented reality headsets; Headphones; Smartphones; Smart glasses.” ” The news was first reported by UploadVR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2023

After the season kicked off last week, the major sports organisation began showcasing on the Meta Quest. The NBA will be streaming 52 games to Quest headsets in the US for free via Xtadium XR app! Meta will also host the matches on the Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest Pro, and now, Meta Quest 3.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2023

” According to a recent Washington Post interview with TM Roh, the president and head of Samsung’s mobile experience business, an upcoming Samsung XR device is “getting there, but we’re not too far away.”

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2023

Similar to Meta’s Quest Pro and newly unveiled Quest 3 headset , Apple’s first mixed reality headset is capable of both virtual reality and augmented reality thanks to its color passthrough cameras, however it appears the company is focusing much more on AR tasks.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As reported in an exclusive by The Verge , HTC is getting ready to stretch outside the enterprise and business sector once again and offer what HTC global head of product Shen Ye calls a “small, light all-in-one headset that promises full-featured virtual and augmented reality.” Image courtesy HTC via The Verge.

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Road to VR

JULY 25, 2022

That was before it released it Neo 3 Link in Europe back in May, a device that features near spec parity with Quest 2. Since its founding in 2015, Pico pretty much only targeted consumers in China and enterprise users in the West.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Leveraging Nord XR’s virtual, augmented, and mixed reality technologies, the experience showcased a massive trove of research, education, and other resources for viewers. The experience also debuted across Meta Quest headsets, including the Quest 2, Quest Pro, and now, Meta Quest 3, as well as Windows-based laptops.

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ARPost

JUNE 5, 2023

The rumor mill is back in operation with an expected launch this week ( Apple’s WWDC23 starts today) – with many suggesting that Meta’s sudden announcement of the Quest 3 is a harbinger. Guttag has been justifiably critical of Meta Quest Pro’s passthrough in particular. That isn’t the same as saying that it doesn’t work.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Quest 3’s Mixed Reality Game The Cabin - Home Invasion Gets Festive! Drop Dead The Cabin: Home Invasion from Soul Assembly hit the Meta Quest store in early 2023 and has recently made big changes to the eerie experience, including a mixed reality update for the Quest 3 and other festive goodies to fill that empty virtual stocking.

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MAY 29, 2023

Bloomberg reportedly went hands-on with a prototype version of Quest 3 and provided new details on the mixed reality passthrough experience and more. The headset is yet to be formally revealed by Meta, but has been referenced by executives and recently showed up on the Quest app store.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We are at the beginning of March and I just realized that I haven’t written yet a post with my predictions for augmented and virtual reality for this year. The last cycle before this one was the Quest one, which started to make virtual reality known to the mainstream audience for what concerns games and fitness.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

My early start with MR As you may know, I got started with passthrough mixed reality in 2019, far before Quest enabled the use of passthrough. So unless you crack the Quest firmware and its SDK, you have literally no way to get the passthrough from inside your application. providing an easy login without a keyboard for applications).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2021

Pico launches the Pico Neo 3. Today Pico has announced its new Pico Neo 3 standalone headset. The headset is marketed as a device for gaming and fitness , and it will feature very interesting games, already popular on Quest: Superhot VR, Red Matter , and Synth Riders are some notable examples. Image by HTC Vive).

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

See Also: Redefining the Future of Location-Based Entertainment With HTC VIVE Focus 3 and The Park Playground “Virtual reality is often perceived as being limited to the world of gaming. He goes on to share that the success of the Quest 2 will fuel interest in the new Quest 3, which should will be released in 2023.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Meta Quest Gaming Showcase is back on June, 1st The Meta Quest Gaming Showcase is back! On June, 1st, at 10 am PT, Meta is going to stream a presentation with a lot of news about upcoming titles or upgrades of existing titles for the Meta Quest.

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