AR Insider

MARCH 10, 2020

And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. billion by 2023. That makes the smartphone installed base 700x our 2023 projection for AR glasses’ installed base (5 million in-market units). This is true if counting Apple (ARkit) and Google (ARcore) compatibility. billion by 2023. Mobile: The Near Term Play.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

AR is a widely used feature on smartphones now, while smart glasses are slowly growing, waiting for the big shots of 2023 (yes, Apple, I’m looking at you). The interest towards Oculus has grown up during the Holidays. More info (Subscriber count of subreddits) More info (Google searches for “Oculus”).

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MARCH 1, 2024

Google reportedly asked Meta to partner and "contribute to" its upcoming XR platform, but Meta said no. Meta has been working on it for at least seven years, as it first arrived in 2018's Oculus Go. But less than two years later in late 2019 Google abandoned the Daydream platform, and no other standalone headset ever used it.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The report, which hasn’t received comment from either Facebook or Luxottica, maintains that the device should launch to consumers sometime between 2023 – 2025. Notably, Luxottica partnered with Google in 2014 to design and distribute additional frames for Google Glass in effort to make the smartglasses a high fashion item.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Will Google Incubate AR Inside Search? Is Google Building an ‘Internet of Places?’ ’ Is Oculus Quest VR’s ‘iPhone Moment?’ 5 Million AR Headsets by 2023? Billion by 2023. Billion by 2023. Has Oculus Sold 333,000 Quest’s So Far? Begun, The Wearables Wars Have.

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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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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. GPU performance, on the other hand, took a huge leap with the Gen 2 architecture.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2024

The historical moment of the launch of Quest 1 (Image by TechCrunch) Oculus Quest 1 launched in 2019 for $399. Meta Quest 3 and controllers (Image by Meta) Quest 3 has been launched last year, in 2023. So it was hard for us devs to make visually compelling games. It’s an enormous number for the VR market.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

SEE ALSO New Oculus Users Required to Use Facebook Account Starting in October, Existing Users by 2023. Before I thought about it much, when it came to privacy, I was roughly in the camp of ‘what’s to worry about if you have nothing to hide? ” My answer is a definitive yes , and I think any honest person would agree.

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JANUARY 14, 2023

” Sometime I wonder what the path to consumer VR would have looked like if Palmer Luckey & Brendan Iribe hadn’t sold Oculus to Facebook. What if Oculus hadn’t hired researchers like Abrash from Valve? If you can’t onboard people quickly you can’t have a mass market product.” ” Yup. Got fired today.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

It is becoming always more difficult for a new company entering the field: the key hardware suppliers of displays and other components are all being bought by Meta, Apple, Snap, Google, and other big players. It is just a bit more expensive than the $300 needed to buy an Oculus Quest 2. Many great XR games are controlled by Meta.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The launch of Apple Vision Pro is in some ways the most significant event for the XR industry since the acquisition of Oculus by Meta back in 2014. Alas, Vision Pro was announced in 2023 and shipped earlier this year. At the time Nepveu left Apple, the headset was “supposed to ship in 2019.”

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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. Meanwhile, heftier VR products from Facebook’s Oculus and Magic Leap have mostly been for gamers.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In 2018 it partnered with Google on the $400 Mirage Solo , the first standalone headset with positional tracking launched outside China – though it was overshadowed by Facebook’s $200 rotation-only Oculus Go. And in 2019 it partnered with Facebook on Oculus Rift S. Lenovo has a relatively long history in VR.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 31, 2019

And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. billion by 2023 according to our projections. This is dominated by AR lenses in social channels, but other formats like visual search will gain share over time as Google pushes the technology. But there are also confidence signals. billion in 2019.

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MAY 6, 2024

Quest 2 released in 2020 and Quest 3 late 2023 and Beat Saber multiplayer continues to connect players from Steam to PlayStation VR2 headsets. We’ll have updates as soon as we get them on Meta’s long-brewing efforts in VR gaming as they go toe-to-toe with Google and Apple this year.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area. Since Meta made the acquisition and took over Oculus, VRTUOLUO began to write original and in-depth articles on the XR industry. Screengrab of the VRTUOLUO website.

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JUNE 6, 2023

On June 5, 2023, Apple seemed to be doing it again. In 2014, Facebook acquired Oculus and planted a flag in virtual reality. Inarguably, Meta in 2023 is the leader in VR with combination of Quest 2 and Quest 3 likely to make it one of the hottest selling game consoles in the world. Then Tim Cook said "One More Thing".

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

T he use of the Exynos chips makes me think even more that this is an old device : Samsung has recently announced that it is going to build its headset with Google and Qualcomm, so it is impossible that the to-be-released device doesn’t have a Qualcomm chip. The startup just raised $1.6 million as pre-seed to build virtual characters (e.g.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

In December 2012 I published my first in-depth article after a demo with a hand-built Oculus VR prototype. A decade later, Oculus VR is gone “ for now ” and the earliest faces to rally developer and enthusiast support for the imminent consumer revival of virtual reality have moved to other startups.

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Hypergrid Business

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The three main VR platforms will start with Horizon Home, which are going to be personal rooms, the starting areas for Oculus users. This is planned to start in limited beta this year, expand to more beta participants in 2022, and fully launch to all businesses in 2023. You can watch a video about Horizon Home here.

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MAY 13, 2021

BigQuery from Google Cloud has many powerful features that allow users to view their data in real-time, providing continual up-to-date information to help guide business decisions. It integrates seamlessly with the Google Cloud AI platform and other tools like Data Studio. The device uses Google’s Cloud Healthcare API.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

The report indicated that the global market for smart glasses reached approximately 678,600 units in 2023. per cent from 2023 to 2030. On a regional level, the smart glasses market in the US expanded to encompass around 432,300 units in 2023, contributing to the projected 2030 market forecast.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2020

I use it on my home network: I have basically a workstation and I’ve streamed to an Oculus Quest or a Vive Focus Plus , or a Vive Pro and I use the Windows client for the Vive Pro and of course the Android clients for the Oculus and the Focus Plus, and it’s just like being in native XR.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Despite short-term questions, games software/hardware to top $200 billion by 2023. Facebook has talked about its long-term potential to launch smartglasses, but in 2020, its primary presence in the AR market is as a mobile AR platform (note: Facebook is also a VR market leader with Oculus ). Apple ARKit, Google ARCore ).

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OCTOBER 13, 2022

Of course, platform-building tech giants don’t have a great track record in gaming, with Google’s Stadia effort shutting down, Apple disappointing gamers for decades, and forgettable efforts from Amazon. While that’s not Fortnite or Minecraft on Quest headsets, it’s certainly a start.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

Araujo also said that the firm will set up a dedicated organization for immersive product planning and R&D while collaborating “closely” with affiliate companies and partners – including “a mid-to-long-term collaboration with leading partners like Google and Qualcomm.”

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Jason McGuigan, Head of Commercial for Virtual Reality , announced the news at his speech at the premier event in Madeira Island, Portugal’s Savoy Palace, which joined some of the world’s largest tech firms, including Google, Qualcomm, EndeavorXR, Varjo Technologies, and many others. Only a Matter of Time.

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JANUARY 29, 2021

Tech analyst Jon Prosser has already leaked that Apple is working on a set of AR glasses, currently set to be released in 2023 at the earliest (though some industry insiders claim that initial small-volume production of the glasses will start as early as 2021).

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MAY 15, 2021

Amazon, Tesla, Google, Facebook, and others, including most autonomous vehicle companies, are building the same for various purposes. ” He said “I learned Google is learning faster than we are.” ” “We instrumented Google and discovered that its AI systems are learning faster than ours are.”

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

CNBC reports the project is codenamed ‘Orion’, with an estimated launch taking place sometime between 2023 and 2025. While the tech has to be on point, style is always going to be an important factor (remember Google Glass?) which is a forte of Ray-Ban. That little red and white logo can make all the difference.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

If everything goes well, Maezawa will be the first passenger and private astronaut to travel to the moon in 2023. Otherwise, you may have to wait for them to describe the magnificent space in 2023. You can start your first space travel without waiting for a commercial space flight until 2023 with us now.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

As I said a few months ago , we are in the middle of a paradigm change: the cycle that started with the Quest is arriving at an end, and a new cycle driven by new technologies (mixed reality headsets) and new players (Apple, Google) is starting. Google and Samsung Prototype of the Samsung XR headset. Let me tell you why.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

This week, the analysts Ming-Chi Kuo has teased that Apple Glasses are coming in 2022 at the earliest (2022–2023 timeline). The rumors also talk about a headset coming in 2022 with AR/VR and another one coming in 2023 as a smartglass. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0. This is another thing that will help indies.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

DisplayPort Out To External Displays It's been possible to wirelessly cast your Quest view to the phone app, or Google Cast TV devices since the original Oculus Quest launched, and to the PC app for months. But now you can choose any website yourself. It should also be useful for standalone demos at trade shows.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

I’m overly happy to announce to you that today we of New Technology Walkers have launched our VR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded on Oculus App Lab ! Regarding the controllers, we know that they are similar to the Oculus Touch but with force-feedback triggers and more nuanced haptic sensations. Google Tensor chip is made for AI and AR.

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