Road to VR

MAY 2, 2024

Hugo Barra, Meta’s former Head of VR, offered some unique insight into the XR industry recently with an extensive blogpost that centers around Apple Vision Pro. Barra warns that, like the company’s first standalone headset Oculus Go, the novelty around casual content consumption will probably fade fairly quickly.

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Road to VR

APRIL 11, 2018

Series A Investment, AR Experience to Come in 2018 appeared first on Road to VR. It (of course) comes with a pretty robust avatar creator so you can create your own unique you. vTime’s core development and management team tallies over 40 people in both its UK Liverpool headquarters and in the USA.

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Road to VR

APRIL 25, 2024

Apple vs. Microsoft. Apple vs. Google. Lenovo Mirage Solo from 2018 | Photo by Road to VR There is a possible redemption arc in the making, although it’s anyone’s guess if Google can use it to leverage Android to serve XR as broadly as Meta aims to do with Horizon OS, which is a modified version of Android in itself.

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Road to VR

MARCH 4, 2024

Shortly afterwards, Bosworth re-posted on X (formerly Twitter) a comment made by UploadVR’s David Heaney which seems to sum up Meta’s thought process: “Meta and Google both launched standalone VR platforms in 2018. “Now years later, after the market is already proven, Google wants Meta to kowtow to its attempt #2?”

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Upload VR

JANUARY 4, 2024

It's a more premium option for higher-priced headsets, including those designed to take on Apple Vision Pro. Qualcomm indicated 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 a fifth headset from a currently undisclosed company.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2020

This represents a 64 percent increase over the number of patents granted to the company in 2018 however, which consequently bumped the company up the rankings by an astounding 22 places. 2018 Grants. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. 2019 Grants. Rank Change. International Business Machines Corp. Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Google , Oculus and Samsung Internet also published their WebVR and open-source developer resources. . A WebVR Community Group to decide on WebVR standards was formed by Mozilla, Google, Samsung, Facebook, Intel, Microsoft and other major tech players, with Apple recently joining the community in July this year.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 14, 2023

This week, reports emerged claiming that Chinese news publication Gyro Technology leaked the design specifications of Samsung’s upcoming MR headset. According to the leaks, Samsung’s MR device will cost roughly between $1000-$2000. Samsung’s Q2 net profits fell by 84.5 percent from last year to $1.4

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Upload VR

MAY 30, 2024

Google CEO Sundar Pichai also joined the Magic Leap board at the time, but he stepped down in 2018, ostensibly due to his schedule being too busy. Samsung is also building a headset with Google powering the software, but Samsung's device is expected to be a VR-style headset with passthrough cameras like Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3.

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Upload VR

APRIL 11, 2024

The company is expected to reveal more details about the Android XR platform it's working on for Samsung's upcoming headset. Early last year Samsung officially announced it was working on an XR headset, with Google handling the system software via a new variant of Android and Qualcomm providing the chipset.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 29, 2024

Meta is reportedly optimistic about the release of Apple Vision Pro, seeing itself as the future Android of the market. The Wall Street Journal cites "people familiar with their thinking" as saying that Meta executives believe Apple's entry into the market will "validate Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble and draw more consumers".

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 20, 2021

We all know that VR without interaction feels very limited, and that 3DOF is so much 2018, so it is amazing that Huawei has taken this decision. We all wonder who can be the Facebook competitor, and we often talk about Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, but we usually forgot about Huawei. The importance of Huawei.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Samsung will manufacture the chips for Facebook AR glasses. According to the Korean outlet “The Electronic Times”, Samsung will manufacture the tracking chips that will be used by Facebook AR glasses. A new patent highlights the possible design of future Samsung AR glasses. Bloomberg publishes new hints on Apple glasses.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 8, 2020

AT&T Stadium recently featured 80ft holograms of the Dallas Cowboys which could be viewed both inside and outside the stadium through Samsung 5G-enabled phones. Selfridges and Apple are great examples of retailers who have combined AR with art to create large-scale in-store installations. Source: Nexus Studios / Scape.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Rebellion is best known in the VR industry for its adaptation of Battlezone (2016) , among numerous other PC and console titles including the Sniper Elite series and Rogue Trooper Redux (2018).

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Picking up where we left off with Apple , Google and Bose’s hearables strategies, what’s the revenue outlook? That process is underway as Apple, Google, Bose and others are seeding the audio AR opportunity by conditioning the user behavior. billion in 2018 to $27.1 It includes some of its data and takeaways.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 27, 2024

Not only that, but Meta and Google both launched platforms back in 2018 — and while Google abandoned theirs, Zuckerburg has taken a lot of heat, and put a lot of dollars into developing Oculus and its audience over the last six years.” “So, “We’ve seen this play out before and we think we can do better this time around.”

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Upload VR

APRIL 22, 2024

UploadVR David Heaney Samsung is the first announced hardware maker adopting Android XR, and Google is reportedly trying to court other companies too. The history of technology suggests there's only room for one open platform alongside Apple's closed offering. Will this be true for XR too? And if so will it be Meta, or Google?

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Upload VR

MARCH 1, 2024

Meta has been working on it for at least seven years, as it first arrived in 2018's Oculus Go. It runs all the games and experiences that UploadVR Jamie Feltham Flash forward to early 2023, and Samsung announced that it was working on XR hardware, with Google handling the software.

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In 2018, all-new stand-alone devices are coming, and upgrades to the current generation will be released. Samsung Gear VR. Samsung Smartphone. Apple and Samsung Smartphones. Price (Updated January 2018). April 2018. Samsung Odyssey Controller. October 2018. Samsung Smartphone.

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ARVR

JULY 20, 2022

The Korean company LetinAR has publicly demonstrated glasses based on this technology as early as 2018, (thought with far more modest specifications), and there are plenty of academic papers that discuss the technology. To be sure, the underlying optical technology, pin-mirror optics, is legit. This technology does not grow on trees.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

This year was going to be the year of augmented reality, but by the end of 2018 market analysts were pointing to 2020 or 2021 as the “golden year” of AR. Going into 2019, the industry eagerly awaits HoloLens 2 and Glass Enterprise Edition 2, as rumors swirl around the possibility of AR glasses from Apple and/or Facebook in the near future.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

As the first Windows Mixed Reality developer kits from Acer are shipping at the end of this month, developers will have an entire year to craft compelling content that can run on Xbox in 2018. THE UPCOMING SAMSUNG GEAR VR CONTROLLER IS COOL. DOES APPLE HAVE 1000+ ENGINEERS WORKING ON AR IN ISRAEL? WHEN WILL WIRELESS VR GET HERE?

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Anand Tech

APRIL 26, 2021

Initially, the node was used solely for TSMC's alpha customers — Apple and HiSilicon. Shipments to the latter ceased on September 14, which left all of the leading-edge capacity to Apple. Shipments to the latter ceased on September 14, which left all of the leading-edge capacity to Apple. Manufacturing.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

Unlike the Lucasfilm AR headset, which uses a smartphone to power it (like the Google Daydream or the Samsung Gear VR does), the company says this concept is a standalone, self-powered headset. It’s called daystAR, and has no release date or price attached (although it was shown in 4 metallic color options). via The Venture Reality Fund.

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Anand Tech

APRIL 22, 2022

years, which may pose some challenges to the foundry's key customer, Apple. But formal process technology leadership is what TSMC's engineers will have to maintain with N3 and it will be uneasy to do considering how aggressive Intel and Samsung are. Transistor Type. Risk Production. ? ? ? ? Manufacturing. Q2/Q3 2023.

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Anand Tech

MARCH 28, 2023

It also supplied OLED displays for Apple's smartwatches. By that time, such companies dominated the market of OLED panels, including BOE Display, China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT), LG Display, and Samsung Display, so it has not been easy for JOLED to establish its presence in the market. billion ($257 million).

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GizModo VR

MAY 19, 2021

After years of neglect and incremental updates, yesterday Google dropped its most meaningful wearables announcement since it rebranded from Android Wear to Wear OS in 2018. Going forward, Wear OS will take the best parts of Samsung’s Tizen OS and Google-owned Fitbit to create a new unified platform for wearables. It’s… Read more.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JULY 31, 2024

As hardware giants like Samsung set sights on the growing XR space, coming with such interested firms are pre-existing device ecosystems that could boost the potential new devices ahead of Meta. Zuckerberg added: I think it was back in 2018 that we showed some of the early hand-tracking work on our VR and mixed-reality headsets.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JULY 31, 2024

As hardware giants like Samsung set sights on the growing XR space, coming with such interested firms are pre-existing device ecosystems that could boost the potential new devices ahead of Meta. Zuckerberg added: I think it was back in 2018 that we showed some of the early hand-tracking work on our VR and mixed-reality headsets.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 29, 2022

A 2018 meta-analysis published in the Frontiers in Psychology journal combined numerous studies from the past few years, ultimately pinpointing a significant touchscreen learning effect. You have the choice of impressive tablets from the likes of Amazon, Apple, and Samsung. These are the best tablets for kids in 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

— Alvin Wang Graylin (@AGraylin) March 28, 2018. Personally, I’ll continue waiting some months to observe the evolutions of augmented reality , both on the smartphone side and on the glasses side, where in the next months we should see something coming from Microsoft, Samsung , and Apple.

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VeeR VR

MARCH 28, 2018

Forbes announced the 30 under 30 list of 2018, featuring industry leaders and innovators in various fields. VeeR was featured by iOS App Store, HTC Vive, Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus, Huawei VR, Xiaomi VR. Forbes 30 under 30 Asia 2018: [link]. VeeR VR official website: veer.tv.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 10, 2018

announced the availability of uSensAr, a smartphone augmented reality engine, this week at CES 2018 in Las Vegas. HCI systems manufacturer uSens, Inc. uSensAR is designed to run optimally on lower-end Android hardware, including systems with lower-resolution cameras and comparatively underpowered CPUs.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 29, 2022

The first Prime Day Down Under happened in 2018, and has grown every year since. The brands that Amazon has confirmed will be a part of Prime Day include include Apple, Samsung, Oculus, Nintendo, Bosch, Bose, Garmin, GHD, Lenovo – a pretty hefty list! until the conclusion of the event in the US.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

& 13-15, 2018 Venue: To be announced South by Southwest is an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. IEEE Virtual Reality Conference Date: March 18-22, 2018 Venue: Stadthalle Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany Check here for pricing.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

In 2018, all-new stand-alone devices are coming, and upgrades to the current generation will be released. Samsung Gear VR. Samsung Smartphone. Apple and Samsung Smartphones. Price (Updated January 2018). April 2018. Samsung Odyssey Controller. October 2018. Samsung Smartphone.

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