AR Insider

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This week, we look at Apple’s moves across the spatial spectrum, Magic Leap 2, And Oculus Quest game sales among other items. Let’s dive in… Apple VR rumors mounting up. Macrumors called our attention to articles in the Verge and Bloomberg that quote an unnamed source who’s supposedly seen Apple’s debut consumer HMD.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. billion in 2021. billion in 2021,” states IDC’s report. The post Report Predicts AR and VR Headsets Shipments to Approach 100 Million by 2021 appeared first on Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Horizon game is coming for this new headset, and some rumors talk also about Half-Life: Alyx potentially be available in the future; HTC has announced the Vive Wrist Tracker, a 6 DOF tracker for the Vive Focus 3. New rumors on Apple and Meta devices. But it’s not the best PCVR game of 2021). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. In the end, technologist Jon Prosser has revealed the main details he knows about the Apple Glasses. It is weird that Apple wants to create a new standard even there. Apple is doing a great job of masking what it is actually doing. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2023

After having seen the teaser of the Quest 3 and especially the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro (about which you can read my opinion here ), I’m always more convinced that we have entered into a new phase of XR history. And this is opening new opportunities for all of us. The big dogs are all coming.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 9, 2021

in Revenue in First Half of 2021. HTC, a strategic partner and shareholder of VR Education, has also started selling its ENGAGE-based product, VIVE Sessions, in China. It’s very similar to what Apple has been doing for smartphone,” CEO Chi Xu said. “We the Lume Pad won innovation awards at CES earlier this year.

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ARPost

JANUARY 6, 2022

Players can access it via HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Valve Index. See Also: 21 Most-Read ARPost Articles of 2021. In the same post, he shared that it’s still in development, and he denied a 2021 release. Another highly anticipated device is the Apple MR headset. They can even cross seas and explore new islands.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

Apple Announces Vision Pro Image courtesy Apple The News Apple announced is Vision Pro headset in June of 2023 marking the company’s first public step into the XR headset space. Apple also boldly announced the headset’s staggering $3,500 price, despite a launch date set for nearly a year later.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The rumors on the Apple Glasses are intensifying. It is not a secret that Apple is working on an XR device: the mystery is when it is going to release it and what it will actually be. The hype is rising, and Apple is playing with it. (My usual terrible image to wish you Happy Easter, if you celebrate it). Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

MAY 13, 2024

Meta is finally rolling out the long-awaited travel mode for Quest 2 and Quest 3, ostensibly hacking away another unique feature from Apple Vision Pro. Update (May 13th, 2024) : Meta says the new Quest 2/3 Travel Mode was specially tuned to account for the motion of an airplane, even when it comes to looking out the window.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 25, 2024

Holoride , an Audi co-founded startup, partnered with HTC to hook its standalone Vive Flow headset into cars using a retrofitting device which accounts for the vehicle’s relative motion, letting users engage with a handful of licensed apps. However, this hasn’t stopped companies from thinking of clever ways around it.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2021

Welcome 2021! 2021 has been greeted by many virtual celebrations. 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. We’re in 2021, but this guy is living in 2077. Be the first donor of 2021!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

And to be the leader in some years, it has to start going public now, also to begin competing with Apple, that will probably announce its AR glasses next year. But Facebook has a big problem and that big problem is called Apple. Concept of a future AR glass by Apple (Image by iDropNews). What will these devices be?

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Upload VR

JULY 23, 2024

HTC is teasing a new Vive headset. 0:00 / 0:14 1× At the end of a new video posted across the company's YouTube channel and social media channels titled HTC VIVE: A Vision for You , the silhouette of the new headset can be seen. Yet everything you’ve seen has only been the start of something greater.

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ARPost

JANUARY 21, 2022

We had a lot of news in the XR space in 2021, and a lot of trends could be distilled from that news. See Also: 21 Most-Read ARPost Articles of 2021. The company launched in 2020, partnered with Chinese company Shadow Creator that same year, held a product launch in June 2021 , and seems to have disappeared in the meantime.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 29, 2021

The company claims that it will open in Summer 2021 a new center in Las Vegas, and will re-open 15 venues before the end of the year. Apple XR headset may weight less than 150g. After last year’s cancelation, Facebook F8 returns again in 2021. From this, we can see if it can be a reliable competitor for the HTC Tracker 3.0.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

Apple has killed its AR glasses project… maybe. A piece of unexpected news has shaken the XR communities this week: according to a report on Digitimes Taiwan, Apple has abandoned its AR/VR glasses project and all the members of the team have been re-allocated in other teams. AR is still alive, Apple will still release its AR glasses.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 2, 2025

Rumors started circulating about a successor to the Valve Index way back in 2021. When leaks first began surfacing about the Valve Deckard in 2021, thanks to popular YouTuber Brad Lynch, many suggested the Deckard would be designed to compete against the Meta Quest 2. The Index remains an extremely popular headset today.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In an article from 2023, Forbes stated that “In 2021, the last full year for which Beijing’s National Bureau of Statistics offers data, the average Chinese worker earned 105,000 yuan a year, the equivalent of $16,153. The Apple Vision Pro Still, I’ve met people who are developing content from Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is probably going to announce Vive Flow. With a surprise move, HTC Vive has started teasing the launch of a new product. The company has set up a virtual event on the platform ENGAGE (of which HTC is an investor) for October, 14th 2021 at 8 am PDT. Apple Maps are going AR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The HTC VIVE Focus Vision is now available to pre-order, and we’re excited about its potential for the enterprise market. Plus, we’ve had new announcements from Snap , new rumors from Apple, and new innovations in VR locomotion, like the Virtuix Omni One to explore. What is the HTC VIVE Focus Vision? Unlike some VIVE devices.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JANUARY 31, 2024

When HTC VIVE started teasing the HTC VIVE Flow way back in 2021 , it left some consumers a little confused. They were named the “best wearable tech” at the Esquire Gadget Awards in 2021. With that in mind, we decided to take a closer look at the HTC VIVE Flow to see whether it still holds up in the VR market.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). HTC has made an announcement at this CES and it has been a pretty cool one. To showcase its functionality, HTC showed some videos of the tracker in use to improve the performances of hands tracking and also with the tracker installed on external props.

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Upload VR

MAY 20, 2022

Apple is ramping up development of the operating system for its headset, with a plan to launch in 2023, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports. Apple has in recent weeks ramped up development of realityOS (rOS), its operating system that the headset will run, and previewed the headset to the board of directors, Gurman reports.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

We have also to consider that in 2019, most of VR companies (Valve, Oculus, HTC, etc…) have already launched their devices, and given that VR headsets have usually a lifecycle of 2-3 years, I’m not expecting them to announce something new next year. HTC will focus more on the enterprise market.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 21, 2023

An Apple Vision Pro model was reportedly spotted with 1TB storage. French tech news website iPhoneSoft reports that a source who tried Vision Pro at one of Apple's public developer labs saw the 1TB figure listed as the storage in the device's Settings app. The China-only Pico 4 Pro has 512GB of storage.

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AffinityVr

JUNE 28, 2021

The first half of 2021 has brought incredible tidings, bringing the industry ever closer to its projected value of $333 billion within this decade. Despite localized slowdowns happening across the world, tech giants like Google, Facebook, HTC, Snapchat and Apple have [.].

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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…). Pictures from FBEC 2021 (Image from VRTUOLUO) Who will be the most important speakers?

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

HTC just released a software update for Vive XR Elite which includes a new beta direct touch mode. Vive XR Elite is HTC's latest standalone headset, and its first targeted to consumers instead of just businesses. Back in May we reported on HTC's first major software update for XR Elite. and now 6.5. and now 6.5.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Of course for some ad-based tech companies, the current economic situation is not the only problem, but there is another big one which is Apple and its new privacy features embedded into iOS. HTC releases its “metaverse phone”. HTC has just announced its new phone, the Desire 22 Pro, and defined it as a “metaverse phone”.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Lenovo and NuEyes to launch AR glasses in 2021. The AR wars are ramping up, and with Facebook and Luxottica releasing a smart-glass in 2021, they will become even more fierce. For instance, Beck is an athlete that prepared for years for the Tokyo Olympics 2020 that have then been postponed to 2021 with much of her frustration.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 1, 2024

Firms such as AWS, Samsung, and HTC VIVE took to the event to showcase the future of work and paradigm-shifting immersive technology. The increased presence of XR at CES 2024 and MWC 2024 could be partly due to Apple entering the market in a bid to turn XR mainstream, and the knock-on effect is being felt.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2022

This is how we managed to get by till late 2021. This includes but is not limited to HTC, Oppo, Xiaomi, and Huawei. The same goes for Valve, Apple, and Sony, whose established presence here would allow them to cut into the high-end section of the market without much difficulty. The rest of the team had to look for other jobs.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

What an exciting week for technology, with the Facebook Connect, PS5 price announcement, Apple event and the release of RTX30 graphics cards! Even Apple uses modified ARM chips. Oculus and HTC), there were some cases when this sensor could actually prove to be very useful for some experiments. What a time to be alive!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

BUT today is the day of the WWDC, and who knows if Apple will tease something about AR glasses. A decent budget for Microsoft and Facebook… but something impossible for companies like HTC or Magic Leap (do you remember when we all thought that $2.5B More info (HTC Vive Pro 2 review) More info (HTC Vive Pro 2 review?—?cached

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Reports have revealed that Apple could potentially ramp up work on a pair of augmented reality (AR) smart glasses that could support the release of the company’s Vision Pro headset. With the proposed smart glasses, Apple fans may tether the devices to their iPhones similarly to others like its Watch and AirPods wearables.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

At the same time, Apple having always mediocre graphics cards on its laptops and its closed ecosystem have not helped much either in keeping this VR support alive. Not to mention the fact that Apple has always said that it is not interested in VR, but only in AR. We’ll see the actual controllers only in 2021. More info.

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