Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2019

US search volume, Black Friday weekend 2019 | Data courtesy Google. times Oculus Rift, 5 times HTC Vive, and many times greater than other headsets like Valve Index, Oculus Go, Pimax, and Samsung Odyssey. Worldwide search volume, Black Friday weekend 2019 | Data courtesy Google. Data courtesy Sony, chart by Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

This year, I’m not going to make an exception, also because my predictions for 2019 performed pretty well. 2019, after a false start, has been a very good year for VR , and we had the arrival on the market of very interesting VR devices that have driven adoption. Every year, I cast some predictions for the new year in AR and VR.

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

For example, in 2019, Amazon extended Alexa features to pair with headphones and earbuds. This means that the wireless noise-canceling headphones from Sony not only let users stream music but also handle calls and get information on demand. Top 3 Types of AR-Enabled Hearables. In-Ear Devices for Simultaneous Interpretation.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2019

A year ago, in response to Sony consistently delivering high-quality exclusives for PS4, Microsoft made a commitment to rejuvenating its first-party game development efforts and went on a shopping spree, acquiring a handful of respected studios to bolster its first-party game development talent under the Xbox Game Studios banner.

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Tech Trends VR

JULY 31, 2019

The two most successful VR headsets – from a sales point of view – were Sony’s PlayStation VR and Oculus Go – these two, together, sold around 1.2 2019 is expected to be an important year for virtual reality due to the introduction of the Oculus Quest Click To Tweet.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The total revenues on the Quest Store alone had been $1B since its foundation in 2019, and this shows that many people are enjoying Quest games. There is instead a rumored partnership with Samsung , where Samsung would actually build a new XR device and Microsoft offer the platform on top of which the headset may run.

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Road to VR

MAY 30, 2017

Oculus’ own Brendan Iribe—the company’s CEO up until the end of 2016 (now head of Oculus’ PC VR team)—said back in March that the Rift is unlikely to be superseded by a new version for “at least the next two years,” putting his timeline for a next-gen Rift / Rift 2 well into 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

I think that this CES is the emblem of the whole 2020, that probably won’t show big disruptions in the XR field, but will make AR and VR grow linearly, exploiting the successes of VR in 2019 (when Quest and Valve Index went sold-out). Samsung AR glasses. Ok Samsung, you have our attention. Sony Playstation.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 8, 2020

out of 5 across 9,843 ratings, this VR headset released in March 2019 is still going strong. Samsung HMD Odyssey+ Windows Mixed Reality Headset. Samsung HMD Odyssey (Image courtesy Samsung.). Sony PlayStation VR. Sony PlayStation VR (Image courtesy Sony.). With an average score of 4.4

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Samsung Gear VR. Samsung Smartphone. Apple and Samsung Smartphones. Samsung Odyssey Controller. The PlayStation VR (short: PSVR), formerly known under the codename Project Morpheus, was released in October 2016 by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Check out our article for what comes next. Oculus Rift. Not supported.

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Anand Tech

MARCH 28, 2023

The company will transfer its patents and R&D operations to Japan Display Inc and will shut down its manufacturing, affecting makers of high-end OLED-based displays and TVs, including Asus , Eizo , LG, and Sony. Also, JOLED sold its panels to Sony and LG and marketed them under its own OLEDIO brand.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

It is also a defensive, move that makes it avoid the loss of its partners, as it has happened with Insomniac Studio that has just been acquired by Sony. The report shows good news, like the fact that the growth rate of VR in 2020 will be 77% more than 2019 , and that the growth should continue in the next 4 years.

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Upload VR

JULY 19, 2023

MicroLED Downgraded To LCoS The Orion developer/demonstration glasses will reportedly use microLED displays from Plessey, the supplier Facebook secured the entire future output from in 2019. MicroLED is a truly new display technology, not a variant of LCD such as “Mini LED” or “QLED”.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

HDR OLED Panels PSVR 2 is the only released VR headset with OLED panels since the 2018 Samsung Odyssey+. Setting up a production line for LCD is much cheaper than for OLED, and thus LCD display makers could offer custom high pixel density panels for newer VR headsets, as seen when HP delivered the 2K per-eye Reverb in 2019.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The majority of the market will belong to VR, which will account for nine out of 10 headsets until 2019, but AR will pick up steam and claim a quarter of the market by 2021. Other firms pursuing projects in the area include Google, Sony (with Project Morpheus) and HTC, which has a partnership with games company Valve.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

Samsung Gear VR. Samsung Smartphone. Apple and Samsung Smartphones. Samsung Odyssey Controller. The PlayStation VR (short: PSVR), formerly known under the codename Project Morpheus, was released in October 2016 by Sony Interactive Entertainment. Check out our article for what comes next. Oculus Rift. Not supported.

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Delight XR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

2019-09-20). 2019-06-05). 2019-05-21). 2019-05-21). 2019-04-25). 2019-04-25). 2019-03-25). 1.4.17 (2019-02-18). Rename ‘Enter VR’ to ‘Start’ for confirming starting the player inside VR browsers like the Oculus Browser and the Samsung Internet Browser.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Not only was Oculus VR company purchased by Facebook, but Sony announced their VR headset for the PS4 under the name ‘Project Morpheus’. 2014 was also the year that Samsung announced the Samsung VR gear that would eventually be released in 2016. . 2014 was an exciting year for the VR community.

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VeeR VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Dominic Brennan from Road to VR estimates that Santa Cruz is using the same 1,440 × 1,600 displays that are also found in the Samsung Odyssey and Vive Pro headsets. According to UploadVR , citing independent sources, Oculus is targeting a Santa Cruz release date for Q1 2019 but the world will really find out on the 26th and 27th at OC5.For

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 20, 2016

And this system, configured “as is” – costs as much as one of those “AMD announces, but you can’t actually buy” CyberPower $499 VR Ready computers paired with an Microsoft Xbox One or Sony PlayStation 4. Or That PC with Xbox One Slim and PlayStation 4… you get the picture.

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VeeR VR

OCTOBER 11, 2018

No matter how desperately you want to buy Quest, you have to wait until Spring 2019. Developer(s) : Mojang, Microsoft Studios , Sony Computer Entertainment. Publisher(s) : Sony Interactive Entertainment. Platforms(s) : Oculus Rifts, Samsung Gear. Publisher(s) : Sony Interactive Entertainment. Publisher(s) : Mojang.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2024

It is not the first time Meta partnered with an external company for a new device and in most cases this choice paid off: both the Gear VR (Samsung) and the Oculus Go (Xiaomi) were pretty good products. But will it be enough now to beat Apple? It’s super cool and the video went viral.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2019

The Rift S seems a WMR headset : it is not ugly as the happy toaster made by Acer, but it is not even polished like a Samsung Odyssey. But after the release of the Solo, Lenovo has partnered with Sony so that it is now able to exploit all the good design of the super-comfortable PSVR headset in its products. Price and availability.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

The startup was rescued from bankruptcy by existing backer Candy Ventures in 2019. In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. BigscreenVR has partnered with many of the major movie studios including Paramount Pictures and Funimation (Sony Pictures).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Google and Samsungs headset The only official image about Project Moohan (Image by Google) Talking about companies that entered the field because of Apple, Google this year launched the Android XR operating system, fully dedicated to AR, MR, and VR headsets (you can read all that we know about it in this dedicated article ). Rinse and repeat.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

PSVR 2 Controllers (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Even if Sony has not confirmed a release window for PSVR 2 , I believe that it will be launched in 2022, probably in the last part of the year , in time for the Winter Holidays. I think that PC VR has only a few chances to shine again: PSVR 2.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

And in reality we had the first networks getting commercial in the beginning of 2019. And a Samsung. Well, it’s not 2025, it’s 2019, and things are being rolled out now at scale. So back in 2017, we were saying 5G would be around by the end of 2020, beginning of 2021. Sandro: Not yet. Sandro: Yeah! Alan: Oh, cool!

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

And in reality we had the first networks getting commercial in the beginning of 2019. And a Samsung. Well, it’s not 2025, it’s 2019, and things are being rolled out now at scale. So back in 2017, we were saying 5G would be around by the end of 2020, beginning of 2021. Sandro: Not yet. Sandro: Yeah! Alan: Oh, cool!

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

And in reality we had the first networks getting commercial in the beginning of 2019. And a Samsung. Well, it's not 2025, it's 2019, and things are being rolled out now at scale. So when we were in the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, earlier this year, which is like the biggest event for our telecommunications industry.

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