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Sony, Facebook, Google, and Samsung Dominate VR, With Over 50% Market Share

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Sony (PSVR) is clearly leading and is taking one third of the whole market. Sony is followed by Facebook (the Oculus platform) and Google (Day Dream, Card Board, Tilt Brush, etc.); neither company has a VR user base anywhere close to Sony’s, and their products are either at the low end or a bit too expensive.

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How A Recession Could Boost VR Adoption

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Fast forward from 2008 to now. Let’s start with why games did so well back in 2008. For example, let’s say you bought Gears of War 2 in November 2008 when it launched. Of all the game platforms sold in 2008, the two highest performing ones were the strangest concepts. A premium on frugal fun. New is good. Gears of War 2.

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The Chinese Room Launches “So Let Us Melt” VR Game

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Dear Esther was the studio’s hit, coming out as a mod back in 2008, a year after The Chinese Room was formed. The studio’s growing visibility and size culminated in Everybody’s Gone To Rapture , a 2015 exploration game created in collaboration with Sony’s Santa Monica Studio.

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Top AR Smart Glasses Providers for 2024

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Goertek XReal Lenovo Iristick Vuzix Magic Leap XYZReality Longan Vision Rokid ThirdEye Google Toshiba Epson RealWear Microsoft Lumus TCL RayNeo Goertek Offering a variety of extended reality products for virtual and augmented experiences, Goertek has a range of smart glasses included in its portfolio.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes. Both Azure Spatial Anchors and Google Cloud Anchors are leveraging existing strengths in mapping towards the AR Cloud. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.

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XR Smart Glasses Market Map: The Top Providers for 2023

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Goertek is even working with Sony on the development of new PlayStation headsets. Latest ThirdEye News Google Google was one of the first companies to introduce the world to smart glasses technology, with the “Glass” headset. So, which vendors are currently making waves in the XR smart glasses space?

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Top AR Smart Glasses Providers for 2023

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Goertek is even working with Sony on the development of new PlayStation headsets. Google Google was one of the first companies to introduce the world to smart glasses technology with the “Glass” headset. Based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR1 platform, the product can work independently without the need for extra wires and hubs.

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