ARPost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

LONDON, September 15, 2019 — VR Intelligence, a leader in senior level conferences and content for the extended reality (XR) industry, announced today the release of the XR Industry Insight Report 2019-2020. Get the XR Industry Insight Report 2019-2020 here. said the same for AR/MR.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned VR studio behind Job Simulator (2016) , announced the game’s sequel Vacation Simulator (2019) just went platinum, having now topped over one million units sold. The post Google’s VR Studio Owlchemy Labs Now Has Two Platinum-selling Titles appeared first on Road to VR.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 6, 2020

According to the test conducted by VDC Fellbach, HTC Vive Cosmos’ inside-out optical system consistently shakes out as the least accurate of the bunch. Note : This article refers to the stock HTC Vive Cosmos , and not Vive Cosmos Elite, which ships with a SteamVR tracking-compatible faceplate. How It Was Measured.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

One of the smartest ideas ever had by HTC has been the invention of the Vive Tracker: a little puck that you can attach to an object so that to track it inside virtual reality. The Tracker is good, but since HTC has never had competition in the field, i t has always been the same since the launch year. A reality check on AR in 2020.

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JANUARY 21, 2022

We’re talking, of course, about Google Glass. Google Glasses were the first arguably-AR glasses on the consumer market, coming out in 2013. After all, it was a Google product and a lot of people expected the world. Google Glass retired to the enterprise sector and much of the public gave up on AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Let’s be honest: no one made correct predictions for 2020. But hey, let me play this game anyway, so here you are my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 based on the trends and the anticipations that we had at the end of 2020! 2021 won’t be the year of VR. I know, we all feel like this.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

What if I told you that smart devices such as your iPhone and Google Assistant aren’t just listening to you, but persuading and manipulating your actions as well? We had a chance to check out this immersive experience while at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, and sufficeth to say it left us genuinely unsettled. Image Credit: The Othrs.

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2016

billion in 2016 to more than $162 billion in 2020. As VR hardware continues to compress in price and powerful smartphone based systems like Samsung’s Gear VR and Google’s mobile VR Daydream platform gain steam, it’s expected that 50% of worldwide revenues will be generated by VR/AR hardware sales according to the report.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2019

When it comes to the most-searched-for headsets, there’s been three clear leaders during the 2016, ’17, and ’18 holiday shopping seasons: PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive. US search volume, Black Friday weekend 2019 | Data courtesy Google. Peak search volume for Quest in the US was 1.6

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

With the twelfth season of Doctor Who scheduled to arrive in 2020, fans of the long-running BBC series have at the very least a 10-month void to fill before they’re blessed with more time-skipping adventures from the thirteenth Doctor and her Companions. The Doctor returns to virtual reality with an original interactive short film.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

As Road To VR writes, Meta has spent a whopping $69 billion on Reality Lab since Q4 2020 , but it has only brought in $9.19 The experience is slated to arrive on Quest in March Beyond Blue: After the Storm is a VR follow-up to the 2020 flatscreen game Beyond Blue. This is not a very healthy business to me. billion in the same period.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The report examines the market size and revenue of consumer VR hardware and software from 2016 and forecasts growth through to 2020. The report suggests that premium headset shipments like Google Daydream will see more growth over light mobile headsets. Google Daydream will sell the most premium headsets in 2017, getting 6.8M

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Estimates based on this data suggest between 500,000 and 1,000,000 Quest 2 units sold in Q4 2020 alone. Million New VR Users in 2020, 71% Increase in VR Game Revenue. million new VR users on Steam in 2020. 104 million VR sessions on Steam in 2020. More than 60 Oculus developers have reached $1M+ revenue.

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2021

A large adoption rate for augmented and virtual reality in 2020 has broadened the audience and age groups interested in the latest technologies. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us how important immersive and interactive apps and games are in our everyday life.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

billion and in 2020 it has been predicted to achieve $22.9 As virtual reality technology gained prominence, the use of VR devices like the Samsung Gear VR, Oculus VR, and HTC Vive, have also become popular. The leading producers of VR headsets like Sony, Oculus, Google, HTC, and Samsung, mainly focus on creating cost-effective devices.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. Google VR SDK is popular for building virtual reality applications for Android and iOS. WebVR is also becoming a formidable force for those who love HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, in a web browser.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Image by HTC). The interesting thing is that HTC has claimed that duration, but then some people of HTC said that is not true, and also some reviewers called this a fake news. I hope that HTC releases a public statement about these two points, to clarify the situation to its customers. Good luck to him and to HTC!

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 7, 2019

It will be available on Steam for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Valve Index, and Windows MR owners. The title is also promised to become available on Oculus, Viveport, Itch.io, and Google Play, though there are no estimated release dates for those versions at this time. Screensavers VR is slated to arrive on October 16th, priced at $5.

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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2021

billion by end of 2020. . Image Credit: HTC Vive. Don’t simply rely on text editors such as Microsoft Office or Google Docs to do the job – make your CV as readable as possible. According to Tech Jury , the global AR and VR markets are expected to grow to $209.2 billion by 2022, with more than 171M users worldwide.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In a post summarizing the results obtained in 2019 and talking about the future projections for 2020, Valve has teased interesting news for next year, saying that SteamVR 2.0 I had forecasted it in my predictions for augmented reality in 2020 : AR Cloud wars are starting. Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 4, 2024

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. Details here: UploadVR David Heaney

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2020

Owlchemy Labs has something to celebrate, as the Google-owned VR studio announced that its tongue-in-cheek parody simulator game Job Simulator (2016) has officially broken the one million unit sales mark. The post ‘Job Simulator’ Goes Platinum, Selling Over 1 Million Copies to Date appeared first on Road to VR.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2020

While other headset makers and platforms like HTC, Windows VR, and Pimax all build and maintain their own software integrations to make their headsets work with SteamVR, it’s Valve, not Oculus, which develops and maintains the integration which allows the Rift and Quest to work on the platform.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 7, 2020

Along with Firefox Reality comes Mozilla Hubs , the web-based social VR platform, both of which are said to arrive on all Pico headsets sometime in Q1 2020. At the time of this writing Firefox Reality has yet to launch on Steam for PC VR headsets as it was previously announced in April 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It is not without some little problems, though: the game doesn’t support VR motion controllers , and this is very weird for a VR game in 2020; the skyboxes look blurry; the game has big problems to run on Index for some users. Google drops support for Daydream. RIP Daydream, it has been nice dreaming with you. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The good news of the week is that I’ve been selected as one of the speakers at AWE USA 2020 ! The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. More info (Camera Path and Google Drive backup) More info (Sketchfab exporting). I hope to see your there, physically or virtually .

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

If you recall, Zuckerberg specifically got Meta into XR because he wanted to free his company from the grip of Apple and Google (the prevailing gatekeepers of the smartphone era). That leaves HTC to fall back to the enterprise sector, the one place where it has long had a strong reputation. Then in 2023 it the price returned to $300.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

A patent filed by Valve in 2020 and granted some days ago shows the work that Valve is doing towards wireless/standalone headsets. Vive Facial Tracker works also with non-HTC headsets. Last week, HTC Vive has announced the Vive Facial Tracker, a sensor to track your facial expressions while you are in VR. As long as it works….

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Or is it just a talk about glasses? What about Magic Leap ?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

HTC CEO Yves Maitre resigns. HTC, you did it again. And I think that he was doing a good job: he understood that at this point, HTC can’t compete with Oculus and its ridiculously low prices, so it should all focus on the enterprise market, where instead HTC shines. Google releases a tool for body tracking on your phone.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

(Image courtesy HTC Vive.). Yesterday afternoon, I got a preview of the new HCT Vive Sync virtual meeting platform from HTC Vive, and it’s the best one I’ve seen yet — and I have seen a lot of these platforms. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) April 30, 2020. Image courtesy HTC Vive.). VIVE Focus Plus.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). That’s why the other companies, like HTC and Pico, have decided to aim at the enterprise market. The latest phones produced by Google and Samsung are still compatible with Daydream View and Gear VR headsets, but there has not been any new release of a mobile VR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. For sure you remember the recent launch of a full line of Vive Cosmos headsets , all with customized faceplates.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The NextVR app is free and available on Gear VR, Google Daydream, Microsoft VR headsets, PSVR, Oculus Go, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Oculus Quest. NBA League Pass games will also be able to watch all standard 2D streaming content with NextVR’s Screening Room, a VR theater room in the NextVR app. NextVR + NBA 2019-20 Schedule.

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ARPost

MARCH 24, 2021

Gamers 18 or older represent nearly 80% of the video-gaming population, based on a 2020 study , and lest you think most of those are new to adulthood, the average gamer is actually 34 years old and nearly a quarter (23%) of all gamers in the United States are over the age of 50. Google Earth VR. Who Is Playing Games? Everest VR.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2020

Winners from the past three events include Oculus Rift and Quest, Google Tilt Brush, HTC VIVE Pro, and the Vader Immortal series. See Also: Best VR Hand Tracking Games for Oculus Quest in 2020. About the VR Awards. The VR Awards recognize organizations, individuals, and experiences.

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