The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. I believe that in 2020 the Go will finish its existence. Magic Leap and nReal are trying to find an agreement. (Image by Engadget). Oculus Go price cut down to $150.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In December, finally Pimax will start shipping also most of the accessories that it has promised during the Kickstarter campaign: Hand-Tracking: $170; Eye-tracking: $300; Modular Audio Strap: $120; Vision comfort kit: $50; 10-meter cable: $100; If you don’t see mention of the new Sword controllers is because they are delayed again until March 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

If the numbers are real, they are impressive: HoloLens 1 sold 50,000 headsets worldwide during its lifetime, Magic Leap has sold less than 10,000 glasses… and these companies had bigger funding than Nreal. That’s quite sad news, but I guess that someone at AMD is just popping champagne because of this….

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. Qualcomm told me that by the end of 2020 we will see a ton of them announced (Qualcomm makes the core technology that Facebook’s Oculus Quest uses.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. Peggy Johnson is the new CEO of Magic Leap. News worth a mention.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

8th Wall recently partnered with Amazon Sumerian on a WebAR ad experience where, with just a click of a banner ad, an AR experience placed a 3D Spiderman into your space for you to interact with directly in your mobile browser. The Evolution of Brand Ambassadors. Social media has given rise to a new brand ambassador, the Influencer.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

After one month from its official announcement, Facebook has released the Oculus Quest 2, that from the 13th of this month can be purchased online on the Oculus Store or on official resellers (like Amazon) or offline on partner stores (like Best Buy). It is called Dimensions XR 2020 and it will all be held digitally. Learn more.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 27, 2020

Millions of us now own some sort of room-based voice device such as Google Home or Amazon Echo and the global voice and speech recognition market size is estimated to reach USD 31.82 Millions of us now own some sort of room-based voice device such as Google Home or Amazon Echo Click To Tweet. billion by 2025.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

So you can actually use Amazon, Alexa to help you with stuff. We've got a Magic Leap, a Hololens, we have all the tech. Stefan: So it is going to be still on track for sometime in 2020. And the North Focals 2 are coming this year, in the year of 2020, which obviously makes sense. And-- Alan: It really is.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

So you can actually use Amazon, Alexa to help you with stuff. We've got a Magic Leap, a Hololens, we have all the tech. Stefan: So it is going to be still on track for sometime in 2020. And the North Focals 2 are coming this year, in the year of 2020, which obviously makes sense. Alan: It really is. Stefan: Yeah!

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’d say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. We’ve got furniture stores or any sort of eCommerce shop — Amazon, Wayfair — offering the ability to view items, to see how they’ll look in your home.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’d say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. We’ve got furniture stores or any sort of eCommerce shop — Amazon, Wayfair — offering the ability to view items, to see how they’ll look in your home.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

I'd say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. Alan: Although Magic Leap did publish some photos of a model wearing the Magic Leap glasses the other day. So they're.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

So you can actually use Amazon, Alexa to help you with stuff. We've got a Magic Leap, a Hololens, we have all the tech. Stefan: So it is going to be still on track for sometime in 2020. And the North Focals 2 are coming this year, in the year of 2020, which obviously makes sense. Alan: It really is. Stefan: Yeah!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

After having written my predictions for virtual reality in 2020 , let’s see what will be the trends for this year in augmented reality. Regarding big brands, I expect Apple and Facebook still to wait a bit before releasing something, while Magic Leap will have to make its move to come out from the quicksands.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2019

And 2020 is gonna be amazing. And it’s because of companies like Amazon that are out there, and everybody’s buying online and using FedEx as the logistics partner. See, these companies aren’t all rolling over to Amazon, frankly. But there’s a lot of brick and mortars, if you think about it.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2019

And 2020 is gonna be amazing. And it’s because of companies like Amazon that are out there, and everybody’s buying online and using FedEx as the logistics partner. See, these companies aren’t all rolling over to Amazon, frankly. But there’s a lot of brick and mortars, if you think about it.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2019

And 2020 is gonna be amazing. And it's because of companies like Amazon that are out there, and everybody's buying online and using FedEx as the logistics partner. See, these companies aren't all rolling over to Amazon, frankly. But there's a lot of brick and mortars, if you think about it. That's an amazing use case.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Quest 2 recalled from Amazon EU for skin irritation issue. The mystery of the Quest 2 disappeared from Amazon EU websites has been solved: the materials on the Quest 2 facemask caused irritations of the skin to a very little percentage of people , and so the sales have been suspended. HTC had $210 million as the total revenue for 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

Magic Leap reveals updates and new enterprise solutions. With various posts on its blog, AR startup Magic Leap has revealed a bunch of new updates. This package offers 4 Magic Leap 1 headsets + the subscription to Spatial pro, all for 45 days, for a rental price of $5000. News worth a mention. from 2019.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

What’s in store for 2020? Will the 2020’s finally hail the age of XR? In fact, the device sold out at retailers such as Amazon, Walmart and Newegg. Bumpy Road For Magic Leap. Magic Leap then announced it was pivoting towards enterprise customers following damning reports of extremely weak sales.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

— David Heaney (@Heaney555) September 16, 2020. Pepperidge Farm remembers when people wearing Google Glasses were called “Glassholes” and kicked out of shops (a nice prize for having spent $1500 on a new device) and Facebook wants to see if in 2020 there could be similar problems (“Ariassholes” sounds good).

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

So back in 2017, we were saying 5G would be around by the end of 2020, beginning of 2021. We do expect these to evolve pretty fast throughout the rest of this year and 2020 here in the US. So potentially by the end of 2020, you’re already going to have pretty wide coverage of 5G in the biggest cities of the country.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

So back in 2017, we were saying 5G would be around by the end of 2020, beginning of 2021. We do expect these to evolve pretty fast throughout the rest of this year and 2020 here in the US. So potentially by the end of 2020, you’re already going to have pretty wide coverage of 5G in the biggest cities of the country.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

So back in 2017, we were saying 5G would be around by the end of 2020, beginning of 2021. We do expect these to evolve pretty fast throughout the rest of this year and 2020 here in the US. So potentially by the end of 2020, you're already going to have pretty wide coverage of 5G in the biggest cities of the country.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

If the Hololens breaks or if a Magic Leap breaks or whatever the hardware happens to be, to go back to that cliché quote, Mark Andreesen said, “software is eating the world. Alan: 44 zettabytes by 2020. Or virtual reality? I like seeing the warehouse at scale, etc. Cole: Absolutely. ” Timoni: Exactly. Ridiculous.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

If the Hololens breaks or if a Magic Leap breaks or whatever the hardware happens to be, to go back to that cliché quote, Mark Andreesen said, “software is eating the world. Alan: 44 zettabytes by 2020. Or virtual reality? I like seeing the warehouse at scale, etc. Cole: Absolutely. ” Timoni: Exactly. Ridiculous.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

If the Hololens breaks or if a Magic Leap breaks or whatever the hardware happens to be, to go back to that cliché quote, Mark Andreesen said, "software is eating the world. If we're on our phones and are watching YouTube, we're going to Amazon or Netflix, -- whatever it is -- we're back on the wireline side. Cole: Absolutely.

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