The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Apple Intelligence on the Vision Pro would be a big deal, and especially it would let Apple compete better with Google , which made the integration with Gemini one of the best features of its Android XR operating system. Microsoft will still provide the Azure cloud, but all the hardware and software should be provided by Luckeys startup.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

million for Q2 2023. However, Vuzix points out that in 2023, product shipments were inflated due to Asian-based distribution, suggesting that the decline may not be as severe as the numbers indicate. In comparison, the previous year’s revenue was about $4.7 Additionally, Vuzix reported an annual gross loss of $0.3

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 9, 2023

Microsoft has picked volumetric video company Arcturus as its primary marketing partner for its Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios (MRCS) solution provider. Announced on Monday at the SIGGRAPH 2023 event , the partnership will offer content creators a trove of solutions for their volumetric video needs.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 28, 2023

You won’t find Horizon Worlds on Google Play. There’s no word when the company plans to roll out access on browsers either, which the beta’s FAQ says will broaden availability of the platform to iOS devices on Safari, and Google Chrome, Safari, or Microsoft Edge on laptops and desktops.

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2023

As we roll into 2023, it’s time for our annual ritual of synthesizing the lessons from the past twelve months and formulating the outlook for the next twelve. Our research arm ARtillery Intelligence’s recent report Spatial Computing: 2022 Lessons, 2023 Outlook tackles these questions. Beyond the “if?” is the question of “what?”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 11, 2023

Meta Platforms is expected to release its Meta Quest 3 in 2023, social media reports confirmed last week. Brad Lynch (@SadlyItsBradley) January 6, 2023. According to the YouTuber, Meta began its subsequent phases of device testing, with third-party developers shipping developer kits in the second quarter (Q1) of 2023.

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ARPost

JANUARY 29, 2020

Past attempts have been unsuccessful, such as Google Glass, due to reluctance and concerns over ethical issues such as privacy and security of AR glasses. Fast-forward a few years from the failing Google Glass, and now it turns out the popularity of smart-glasses has increased again, thanks to numerous new developments.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 20, 2023

Google parent company Alphabet announced layoffs on Friday of roughly 12,000 workers, totalling 6 percent of its global workforce. The news comes just days after Microsoft and Amazon announced cutbacks of roughly 10,000 employees. The company recently began beta testing for its Google Glass follow-up across the US in July last year.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. We can expect so all big tech companies to comply with it in 2023.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

Googles solutions allow developers to quickly optimize their augmented reality experiences for android devices, with a convenient Software Development Kit (SDK). Companies can also take advantage of real-time and historical analytics from all of their campaigns.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

Vuzix won numerous awards at CES 2023 this year. Latest ThirdEye News Google Google was one of the first companies to introduce the world to smart glasses technology, with the “Glass” headset. Microsoft has said it will be continuing it’s MR strategy going forward.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

This week, Google officially announced the retirement of its flagship smart glasses product. In a company document , the firm confirmed the retirement of Google Glass Enterprise Edition effective this Wednesday (March 15). Google will also drop official support for its enterprise-grade immersive hardware on September 15, 2023.

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Road to VR

APRIL 10, 2019

Microsoft won a decisive $480 million defense contract with the U.S. Under Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy said he expects a more slimmed-down version of the headset based on HoloLens 2 to materialize as soon as 2022 and 2023, and maintains the Army will begin “fielding it to thousands and thousands of soldiers across the force.”

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Samsung, in partnership with Qualcomm and Google, has announced plans to develop a new extended reality product. But when Samsung cancelled the project, I switched to the Google Pixel to stay close to Google’s VR platform. And now, both Gear VR and Google’s platform are gone.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Immerse Global Summit 2023 , now part of the Metacenter Global Week event, is just around the corner. Here’s everything you can expect from the Immerse Global Summit and Metacenter Global Week in 2023. What is Immerse Global Summit 2023? What is MetaCenter Global Week?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Who doesn’t want to do that can still use his/her Oculus account to log in until 2023 , but he/she won’t be able to use all the social functionalities of the device (like Venues, Horizon, etc…). After 2023, the devices won’t be guaranteed to work with an Oculus login. China is launching real name identification in games.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. 2022-2023 are the years when VR should grow a lot (Image by Road To VR). We all know that this thought has not aged well, and that Microsoft has failed completely entering the phone market, with billions of loss because of that.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

If OpenAI wanted to slow down to have time to understand the consequences of this new type of AI, Microsoft would already ready be to hire all the talents of OpenAI and carry on AI developments by itself. Now Microsoft is discontinuing them , putting another nail in the coffin of the HoloLens.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Google Google was one of the first companies to introduce the world to smart glasses technology with the “Glass” headset. The company recently won an award during the CES 2023 show for its lightweight smart glasses. Microsoft Microsoft’s smart glasses are designed with a focus on the mixed reality landscape.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

Goertek NReal Lenovo Iristick Vuzix Magic Leap XYZReality Longan Vision Rokid ThirdEye Google Toshiba Epson RealWear Microsoft Lumus TCL RayNeo Goertek Offering a variety of extended reality products for virtual and augmented experiences, Goertek has a range of smart glasses included in its portfolio.

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In 2023, building a culture that allows a business and its employees to thrive while working remotely is about more than surviving in the “new normal” or post-pandemic society. What are the tools we need to build remote and hybrid company culture in 2023?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 9, 2024

NVIDIA Blackwell Delays Affect Meta and Microsoft XR/GenAI Goals NVIDIA’s highly anticipated Blackwell chipset faces a delay due to design flaws. Furthermore, XR companies like Microsoft and Meta are investing in AI-empowered XR services. Hopefully, the delays with Blackwell will not hinder Meta and Microsoft’s XR objectives.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 14, 2023

The European Commission has hit Google with fresh accusations of violating its antitrust laws, citing favouritism for the latter’s own advert services over rival firms. According to the Commission’s statement , Google abused its position over the last nine years by offering better treatment to its AdX exchange.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

The solution is accessible on AR devices and platforms such as Google Play too. → Latest Cluster News Microsoft Microsoft first made it’s entry into the immersive collaboration environment with AltSpaceVR, before branching out into the Mesh solution for Microsoft Teams.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In 2023 we can expect to see companies continuing to leverage cloud services in order to access new and innovative technologies as well as drive efficiencies in their own operations and processes. Multi-cloud is an increasingly popular strategy. The AI and ML-powered cloud. Innovation and consolidation in cloud gaming.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 25, 2023

Plus, it was a proprietary system, owned by Microsoft, and didn’t play well with other metaverse platforms. In its blog post, the company said that it will be focusing on other metaverse-related efforts, such as the launch of Microsoft Mesh , an enterprise-focused metaverse platform. What about Meta, Google and Apple?

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Microsoft, Google and Apple all have their own approaches to augmented reality and virtual reality, but the race for the face is particularly critical to Facebook and Amazon, because they have yet to establish computing gateways. Microsoft (enterprise) 4. Google (search). We view who is best-positioned in consumer AR: 1.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

During today’s Samsung Unpacked event, Samsung announced plans to create new ‘Extended Reality’ (XR) hardware in partnership with Google and Qualcomm. And the software will be provided by Google. The hardware will be us.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2023

The solution is accessible on AR devices and platforms such as Google Play too. 16. Microsoft Microsoft first made it’s entry into the immersive collaboration environment with AltSpaceVR, before branching out into the Mesh solution for Microsoft Teams.

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TechCrunch VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Despite short-term questions, games software/hardware to top $200 billion by 2023. Yet Facebook , Microsoft and others are arguably more important to where the market is today. Apple ARKit, Google ARCore ). VR/AR startup valuations reach $45 billion (on paper). Facebook Messenger , Instagram , TikTok , Snapchat , Line ).

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Upload VR

JANUARY 14, 2023

And if you stack the billions spent there against Sony, Microsoft, Magic Leap, Google, Apple and others, are all these executives investing too much on AR & VR, or too little? Does “bit” understate or overstate how much faster things could have gone?

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 17, 2019

million in 2023. Google acquired Fitbit to buttresses its WearOS platform with some hardware skin in the game. Amazon launched Bose Frame-like audio glasses and earbuds, followed by Microsoft’s Surface Earbuds. million today, with AirPods as the market share leader. This correlates to AirPod unit sales of 25.2

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Upload VR

JULY 10, 2023

The engineering director of Google's upcoming AR/VR operating systems has quit. At Microsoft in the 90s he co-developed Windows NT, the workstation OS which became the technology foundation of all Windows versions from XP onwards. It's unclear what the future is for Google's Android XR project without Lucovsky.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2023

Heading into 2023, it seems as though the landscape will continue to grow, with some significant big tech brands leading the way. Here are some of the major tech firms leveraging enterprise generative AI tools. Google Google has been investing in AI for some time now.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on. Compared to the Chinese VR market, in the West, the amount of startup companies is less and the industry is basically led by tech behemoths like Google, Meta, Valve, Sony, and Microsoft.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

trillion) of the overall retail market — and expected to reach 22 percent by 2023 — brands know they need to create standout digital shopping experiences. This can be valuable in optimizing campaigns through targeted advertising, and “retargeting” services like Facebook Pixel, Google Ads, landing pages, or wish lists.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JANUARY 23, 2023

2023 has not even reached its sophomore month, although more and more innovations are coming full-force while mass layoffs defined the week past. Despite a promising couple of weeks following CES 2023, the year appears to continue last year’s trend of poor stock performance and numerous layoffs across the technology industry.

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