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Is 2020 Virtual Reality’s Breakout Year?

ARPost

After decades of speculation, anticipation, hype, and disappointment, is 2020 virtual reality ’s breakout year? The first computerized head-mounted display, created in 1968 by Ivan Sutherland, was so heavy that it needed to be suspended from the ceiling with a mechanical arm — a clear limit to commercial use cases and widespread adoption.

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Wacom Unveils VR Pen Built for “the next creative future”

Road to VR

To that effect, Wacom President and CEO Nobu Ide says in a video (linked below) that VR Pen is designed to work with “major head-mounted displays in the market.” Going with an independent tracking solution however is undoubtedly beneficial to reaching a greater number of headset users.

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What Made VR Gaming Highly Popular

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billion and in 2020 it has been predicted to achieve $22.9 The VR head-mounted displays were initially created focusing on games mainly. See Also: A Comprehensive Review of 2019 and 2020 VR Headsets. Market research reports have shown that in 2015 the revenue was $0.66 billion, the next year it increased to $3.6

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2020: The Year of AR and VR for Education and Training

EON Reality

Read on to find out why he thinks 2020 holds the greatest promise and potential to effectively use the technology to change and improve the way we teach and learn. What’s Different in 2020? Spring forward to 2020, and now many of those challenges have been resolved as other new technologies emerge.

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Augmented Reality and Hearables: Where the Two Technologies Meet

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Generally, there are two types of AR solutions — marker-based augmented reality and markerless (sensor-based) augmented reality — that help developers merge content into the camera feed of a smartphone or head-mounted display. See Also: What Is the Difference between Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality?

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Top Music Festival Organizers Are Going All-In On VR And AR-Enhanced Live Experiences

VRScout

In the consumer context, the HMDs (head-mounted displays) we have today are already outdated. For context, the [Sundance] film festival had over 120,000 attendees….It’s We can easily forget that HMDs are up against products like Steve Jobs’ stellar Apple fleet.

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Rethinking Reality With ThinkReality’s Nathan Pettyjohn and Lenovo’s Bill Adams

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The platform is used for quickly rendering large assets and displaying them on head-mounted displays in real time. See Also: A Comprehensive Review of 2019 and 2020 VR Headsets. Phantom View is one of Lenovo’s XR software platforms.