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I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. This is huge because we know that Samsung is able to always deliver good hardware.
Provided the report is true, it appears Google will now need to rely on Samsung to compete with Meta and Apple in XR. Still, it seems its Samsung XR headset partnership and AR software development has become the main focus. Still, it seems its Samsung XR headset partnership and AR software development has become the main focus.
First of all, Google has to keep the work on the headset very secret also internally , because Samsung is afraid that Google will steal its expertise to build a competing product. Samsung can be the first partner also on this line of products. All these premises are not good: confusion is never a good sign in business.
Google and MagicLeap have partnered to “advance the potential of XR technologies”, the latter has said in a blog post. The announcement was light on detail, but MagicLeap said the tie-up would combine its AR credentials with Google’s technology platforms. Google is already an investor in MagicLeap.
The company confirmed as much in its WWDC 2023 developer talk titled Meet Safari for Spatial Computing , in which the Apple explained the version of Safari running on Vision Pro is “truly is Safari with the same WebKit engine underneath, plus some thoughtful additions for [Vision Pro].”
Talking about content, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is one of the first series shot with Apple’s ‘Immersive Video’ format and is set to debut on Apple TV+ in late 2023. MagicLeap managed to stimulate a lot of hype for its headset, which should have revolutionized XR and instead turned out to be just a HoloLens clone.
More info Meta may partner soon with MagicLeap The Financial Times this week reported a very unexpected piece of news: Meta may be working on a partnership with MagicLeap for the production of AR glasses. MagicLeap has factories in the US and Mexico able to produce AR glasses.
Pico is facing layoffs for its total workforce that exceeded “2,000 at its peak” but has faced waves of layoffs, hitting 20 to 30 per cent of its employees in 2023. Samsung to Debut MR Headset in 2024? This week saw more rumblings about a Samsung MR headset.
Top news of the week (Image by Google) Samsung XR headset may have been delayed The new rumor in town is that Samsung has delayed its upcoming headset that it is building in partnership with Google and Qualcomm. It’s been another interesting week in immersive realities, so let’s see what happened in our field in the past few days!
Jake Steinerman spoke with XR Today last week, addressing the firm’s most recent user-generated content toolkit, company vision, and the state of the Metaverse in 2023. The spatial line-up of brand partners represents a range of enterprise end-users, such as Adidas, Vogue, Ready Player Me, OpenSea, Polygon Studios, and Samsung.
The main one regards the 4 devices we were waiting for this year , which in our opinion should have changed everything: Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google-Samsung Headset, and PSVR 2. Google and Samsung Prototype of the Samsung XR headset. I have this impression for a few reasons. Long story short: things are not good.
Microsoft MagicLeap Varjo HP Acer Samsung ASUS Dell Biel AjnaXR FYR Medical ESight Canon IrisVision VRgineers Zappar Lynx Valve Microsoft Microsoft has been increasing its focus on the extended reality landscape in recent years, with the production of solutions such as Microsoft Mesh, and a metaverse environment for Microsoft Teams.
MagicLeap Currently focusing its attention on the enterprise landscape, MagicLeap produces AR and MR headsets designed to address the needs of various industries. It also comes with a 5-channel microphone array, built-in spatial speakers, and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 compute platform.
Industry conversation on the Metaverse and XR has also fuelled discussions across the Augmented World Expo (AWE) USA 2023. Explaining further, he added, “Not to be outdone, the Google-Samsung-Qualcomm power trio is cooking a comeback of their very famous mega Android partnership with a new XR headset.
Evidently, Deutsche Telekom was happy with the results, as Elmar Schrage, Head of Business XR Development at Deutsche Telekom , provided glowing feedback: “Deutsche Telekom used Trace to power a mixed reality experience at Mobile World Congress 2023, and the results couldn’t have impressed us more.
The firm also states that as several new headsets are emerging on the market this year, from Apple’s confirmed Vision Pro to rumoured devices from Samsung, the move to support MRTK3 prepares taqtile for an increased range of end-users. The toolkit also supports XR experiences delivered on traditional 2D monitors for personal computers.
They also looked a little like the Iris glasses that were scrapped in 2023, which could mean Google just used its existing tech to showcase the potential of its new AI solution on different devices. The tech giant even announced it was working with Samsung on the development of its XR headset. That does make sense to a degree.
This WWDC has not been an exception in this sense, and now all the Apple analysts (including Kuo and Scoble) already envision a reveal of the Apple headset for January 2023. Rumors already talk about a new AR headset produced by Microsoft in collaboration with Samsung that should substitute it, but we have no sure info about it.
The Future of MagicLeap After Ross Rosenberg was appointed MagicLeap’s CEO in October 2023, the company has since focused on its enterprise roadmap for 2024; targeting its XR devices towards enterprise and industrial clients. MagicLeap started to understand that these walled gardens are not their future.
On June 5, 2023, Apple seemed to be doing it again. 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. As I write this in 2023, Apple's ad on Twitter states: "The era of spatial computing is here." Apple Vision Pro.
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.
Yes, Google might still be resurgent with Android, powered by Owlchemy's insights and Samsung's hardware , and other companies might surprise with a novel strategy too. I'll go so far as to wager it's probably game over for MagicLeap and HoloLens and some other optically transparent approaches. This is really happening.
Despite short-term questions, games software/hardware to top $200 billion by 2023. Tim Merel is managing director of Digi-Capital. More posts by this contributor. VR/AR startup valuations reach $45 billion (on paper). Yet Facebook , Microsoft and others are arguably more important to where the market is today.
Samsung has started putting UWB chips into their devices but they don’t have the M1 chip sitting next to these things, so Samsung is way behind and, really, who will buy an entire house full of stuff from Samsung? The car project, Titan, is rumored to be coming sometime between 2023 and 2027.
For example, Microsoft is gearing up for a 2024 industrial Metaverse roadmap, which sees the firm working with groups like MagicLeap and Qualcomm to provide immersive workplace solutions that operate alongside pre-existing technology stacks. AirTag 2 with AR locational features could easily integrate into the Vision Pro MR framework.
According to John Carmack , Oculus CTO noted that the Oculus Go will perform "significantly better" than the Samsung Gear. Based on statistics the augmented/mixed reality industry will be MUCH larger than VR by 2023. Additionally, MagicLeap is one of the most funded startups in history.
Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. According to Korean media, Samsung Electronics is working with Microsoft on a new augmented/mixed reality project “involving HoloLens”. Samsung is one of the most famous suppliers of components for electronic devices (e.g. Samsung Odyssey+).
We are at the same level of Vive Focus or Vive Pro… probably the display is the same made by Samsung. This is the same chip of the Samsung S8 and it is not the latest available for VR: Qualcomm has already released the 845 VR reference design. The screen is a pentile OLED, featuring 1600×1440 per eye resolution. Horsepower.
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