Road to VR

APRIL 24, 2024

Kuo also previously reported that a second-generation Apple headset was expected to go into mass production in 2025 , which is said to come in both a high and low-end version. However, now, Kuo maintains Apple is “reviewing and adjusting its head-mounted display (HMD) product roadmap, so there may be no new Vision Pro model in 2025.”

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 31, 2024

Google and Magic Leap have partnered to “advance the potential of XR technologies”, the latter has said in a blog post. The announcement was light on detail, but Magic Leap said the tie-up would combine its AR credentials with Google’s technology platforms. Google is already an investor in Magic Leap.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 13, 2024

Tomorrow, Google’s I/O conference is poised to showcase its latest updates concerning its extensive technology portfolio. From smartphones to AI, Google is very much positioned in the enterprise solutions space with its products. Could Google release smart glasses? Aside from the secretive AR/VR/MR announcements.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 16, 2024

During Google I/O 2024, a developer-focused product showcase, the firm unveiled new Geospatial Creator AR tools to boost location-based immersive experiences this week. Google also leverages its Maps application to allow smartphone users to operate AR content via integrated services such as Street View and Lens.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

South Korea’s Maekyung (Korean) is reporting on two new Meta headsets: a low-cost Quest model that will be priced at “less than $200” coming in 2024, and a high-priced model in a joint venture with LG in 2025, which is supposedly set to take on Apple Vision Pro.

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Upload VR

MARCH 1, 2024

Google reportedly asked Meta to partner and "contribute to" its upcoming XR platform, but Meta said no. That same year, Lenovo launched a standalone headset running Daydream, Google's own VR OS that included its Google Play Services, Play Store, Google apps, and VR core technology on top of AOSP.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Last year Samsung announced it was building a headset with Google handling the software, which it plans to ship later this year. With Meta reentering segment with LG and Google entering it with Samsung, the high-end headset market currently only served by Apple could become a three horse race next year.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 12, 2024

Google is eliminating hundreds of roles in its hardware division, mostly from its first-party AR hardware team. Here's the statement Google provided to news outlet 9to5Google : "A few hundred roles are being eliminated in [Devices & Services] with the majority of impacts on the 1P AR Hardware team.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

First of all, Google has to keep the work on the headset very secret also internally , because Samsung is afraid that Google will steal its expertise to build a competing product. Google is working in parallel to build the Android XR operating system for this headset and a Micro XR operating system for AR glasses.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 10, 2017

He gave a talk about his predictions for VR and augmented reality for 2025 at the Augmented World Expo last week in Santa Clara, Calif. In his 2025 predictions for VR and AR , he voiced concerns about the obstacles to growth for VR and the challenges that AR faces in just getting out the door. billion market by 2025.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2023

Samsung announced last month it was partnering with Google and Qualcomm to develop an XR device, something the company said at the time was “not too far away.” ” Google is building the software, while Samsung builds the hardware.

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XROM

MARCH 4, 2024

In a groundbreaking announcement at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024, Samsung, in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm, revealed their highly anticipated XR headset set to release in 2025. Qualcomm's XR2+ Gen 2 Platform, known for its ability to unlock 4.3K

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 6, 2021

Earlier this summer, Google shut down yet another virtual reality app , the 3D objects library called Poly. Google Expeditions also had five virtual tours of major league baseball stadiums and a tour of the International Space Station. Another major Google virtual reality app is the 3D painting tool Tilt Brush.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This week has seen its fair share of tricks and treats ahead of the Halloween season, where companies like Warpin Reality, HTC VIVE, Google, Shopify, and Apple, among others, have offered a powerhouse of insights to XR Today on their latest innovations. This has led Google to slash jobs across its operations in recent months.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 15, 2024

UploadVR David Heaney Qualcomm announced that XR2+ Gen 2 will power Immersed's Visor , Samsung's upcoming Google-powered headset , a yet-to-be-announced new HTC Vive headset, a YVR headset in China, and Sony's enterprise "spatial content creation" headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 6, 2024

More info Other relevant news (Image by Apple) A new report talks about a cheaper Vision Pro in 2025 Last week, Mark Gurman stated that Apple is having difficulties in reducing the cost of the Vision Pro, so it’s hard to see a cheaper model being released soon. It’s good to see that these “analysts” all agree on what is going to happen.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JANUARY 23, 2023

Google Parent Alphabet Lays Off 12,000 Jobs Late last week, Alphabet, Google’s parent firm, laid off roughly 12,000 individuals. The move accounts for around 6 percent of Google’s global workforce. Google’s layoffs come just days after Microsoft and Amazon announced cutbacks of roughly 10,000 employees.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Today at MWC 2024, Samsung unveiled an upcoming XR headset the firm created alongside partners Google and Qualcomm, with a scheduled release window coming in 2025. At the event, Samsung unveiled several innovative tech products, including the immersive device, a smart ring, and an assistive mobility robotics device.

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2023

Speaking of text prompts, some have even called this the death of the Google-dominant era of search. Though that could be overblown or premature — Google itself is well positioned for AI as we’ve examined  — there’s ample promise in the underlying technology from the likes of OpenAI. One is that Google has trained us to use keywords.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

As I said a few months ago , we are in the middle of a paradigm change: the cycle that started with the Quest is arriving at an end, and a new cycle driven by new technologies (mixed reality headsets) and new players (Apple, Google) is starting. Google and Samsung Prototype of the Samsung XR headset.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Samsung’s Google-Powered Headset Set To Launch Late 2024 Samsung’s Google-powered XR headset is set to launch, in very limited quantities, in late 2024. Last year Samsung announced it was building a headset with Google handling the software, which it plans to ship later this year. Quest Pro 2?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The report, which hasn’t received comment from either Facebook or Luxottica, maintains that the device should launch to consumers sometime between 2023 – 2025. Notably, Luxottica partnered with Google in 2014 to design and distribute additional frames for Google Glass in effort to make the smartglasses a high fashion item.

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AR Insider

JUNE 14, 2021

Visual search is just one of many developing flavors of AR, and it’s also being cultivated by Google ( Google Lens ) and Pinterest ( Pinterest Lens ). Mobile AR Global Revenue Forecast, 2020-2025. Google Lens is doing similar – seeding broad demand with pets and flower searches but increasingly expanding to products.

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AR Insider

JULY 1, 2021

Mobile AR Global Revenue Forecast, 2020-2025. This figure — based on Apple’s ARkit and Google’s ARCore — is no longer relevant because the landscape of AR-enabled devices is increasingly fragmented by several platforms including social apps and web AR. How many devices are AR-compatible? Confidence Signal.

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ARVR

MAY 2, 2022

billion in 2025. Enterprise spending is 99 percent of that, but will retract to 89 percent by 2025 and continue to decline until consumer/enterprise trendlines intersect. As seen from Google Glass, consumer acceptance and comfort in face-worn hardware (with a camera, no less) is a critical factor. billion in 2020 to $17.7

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We already know that Google, Samsung, and Qualcomm are working on a competitor of the Vision Pro, which should be based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR Gen2+ and cost around $2000. The release of this headset is expected for the first half of 2025. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Scientists predict that by 2025, nearly 2 billion of the population will consist of the Generation Alpha or the iGeneration. They can’t imagine life without Apple, Google, and apps, so education must adapt to their new perception patterns. See Also: Developing AR Apps with Google's ARCore. Guest Post.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Red Bull is partnering with Google Daydream to create The Red Bull Air Race LIVE VR app. The app is available now in the Google Play store, but the live VR experience won’t launch until the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in Abu Dhabi in February 2018. Now, through VR, you can get a firsthand cockpit experience.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Oryon is a result of Qualcomm's 2021 acquisition of Nuvia, a startup founded in 2019 by former Apple and Google custom CPU engineers. Electronic Times further suggests that this new Snapdragon XR chip, whatever form it takes, will be used in the headset Samsung announced it was working on with Google , as well as an LG headset.

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ARPost

JULY 20, 2022

If that sounds familiar, earlier this month ARPost spoke to the team from Inworld AI – largely a team of Google AI veterans building virtually embodied conversational AI. Kaplan said that a more robust version of mobile AR is likely coming to the project in the next year or two, while a VR-optimized version might come out around 2025.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2024

And in the end, the beginning of June is a good opportunity to answer whatever Google had announced mid May at Google I/O and at the same time to put pressure on Apple for the WWDC conference in mid-June. I would wait a bit more, probably until the second half of 2025. Of course, take this suggestion with a grain of salt.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The document is divided into nine parts: I will report them here, as a small summary of mine, together with the full text translated with Google Translate (so, RIP English), if you want to read it. The second key year is 2025. In 2025, China wants to be the worldwide leader of Virtual Reality. Introduction.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

According to CBINSIGHTS , tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) have all been acquiring AI startups aggressively in the last decade. billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 63.01% between 2019 and 2025. Artificial intelligence has been the most happening and hottest technology of this century.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Rumours of renewed work on Google’s Project Iris augmented reality (AR) smart glasses have surfaced on the internet, according to reports. Originally, Google acquired technologies from North, an AR smart glasses enterprise, and debuted the project at its I/O event.

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GizModo VR

JULY 11, 2022

Analyst and reliable Apple sage Ming-Chi Kuo claims the company is already working on a second-generation AR/VR headset set for a 2025 release, this time featuring both a high-end… Read more. If Apple’s rumored $3,000 virtual reality headset seems like a financial nightmare for you, then get ready for some potentially good news.

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ARVR

JANUARY 24, 2022

Indeed, one of the things that’s made web search so lucrative for Google and others is the same “high-intent” orientation where consumers explicitly indicate a specific need. In fact, these are reasons that Google is so keen on visual search. And Google isn’t alone. billion in projected revenue (paid placement) by 2025.

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