Road to VR

OCTOBER 2, 2024

XR Games, the Leeds, UK-based studio known for Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded (2024) and Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever (2021), have laid off a reported 86 percent of its staff. The information was shared by María Fernanda Díez Huerta via LinkedIn , who was Head of Production at XR Games from 2021 – 2023.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Bucchianeri has worked on the PS4 and original PlayStation VR at Sony, Falcon 9 and Dragon at SpaceX, and HoloLens and Windows MR at Microsoft, where he currently works on Xbox. At Microsoft he contributed to OpenXR, and in his spare time he developed OpenXR Toolkit and VDXR , Virtual Desktop's OpenXR runtime.

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APRIL 9, 2025

A terrible Microsoft Flight Simulator ripoff took #1 in Europe's PlayStation VR2 download charts for March, and #4 in the US. But trying the game on PS VR2, we found it falls well short of what you'd expect from a game sold on Sony's platform, and it currently sits at a 1.38-star star rating on the PlayStation Store.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

More info (PSVR 2 sales — Road To VR) More info (PSVR 2 sales — Upload VR) Sony announces many new pieces of content at its Gaming Showcase A few days ago, Sony held its Gaming Showcase event, where it announced some cool pieces of content arriving for PSVR 2. In the meanwhile, Microsoft is working on a 1.1

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Layoffs spanning 2023 and 2024 included a number of top publishers and studios, such as Embracer Group, Unity, Microsoft, EA, Sony, Epic Games, Take-Two Interactive and Riot Games. While disheartening, the news of layoffs comes as no real surprise given turmoil in the wider gaming market.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 18, 2024

International Data Corporation (IDC) has found that over 70 percent of global shipments of AR and VR headsets can be attributed to Meta for the third quarter of 2024. As the companys principal mixed reality (MR) device at the moment, Meta Quest 3 bags the number one spot for headset shipments, followed by Sonys PSVR2 which achieved a 6.7

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JUNE 21, 2024

AWE 2024 came hot off the heels of the event to inspire interest and investment into the AR/VR/MR and spatial computing space. As the second half of 2024 rolls in, the market will inevitably change, a fact further cemented by the increasing number of firms entering the XR space. With the event came countless announcements.

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JUNE 20, 2024

This week, at AWE 2024, Sony Electronics introduced new 3D visualisation tools that enable users to see and interact with XR content without smart glasses via the ELF-SR2 (27-inch) and ELF-SR1 (15.6-inch) Sony Electronics will display the system on the expo floor at AWE 2024, ready to showcase how XR goes far beyond headsets.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

ISE 2024 is wrapping up, and visitors are heading home. At ISE 2024, visitors to its exhibition hall could visit Igloo Vision’s booth and see its solution that augments work by immersing employees in a space that surrounds them with XR visualisations. All together, creating a multi-use product.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

2024 is on, and the XR industry never sleeps. This week saw Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, Meta, and Sony move to optimize their product offerings and business operations. This week saw Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, Meta, and Sony move to optimize their product offerings and business operations.

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

Moreover, a recent report from Juniper Research says that the number of hearables in use will grow to more than 970 million units by 2024 (an increase of 270% compared to 2020). This means that the wireless noise-canceling headphones from Sony not only let users stream music but also handle calls and get information on demand.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

VR|MR 2024 is well underway, bringing together the best and brightest in the emerging XR technology landscape to network and discuss the future of XR – as it undergoes a pivotal Q1 period this year. VR|MR 2024 There are many vendors at SPIE.AR|VR|MR VR|MR 2024 that provide insights into their latest XR products.

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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. Who will it be… Sony or Meta?

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AR Insider

APRIL 6, 2020

units by 2024, which is a compound annual growth rate of 81.5 Specifically, Sony announced 5 million cumulative units sold in January. Microsoft committed 100,000 units to the U.S. More optimism comes in later years, where IDC projects AR headsets shipments to exceed 31 million units by 2024. million units, up 23.6

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NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Between Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 , The Thrill Of The Fight 2 in early access, By Grit Alone and Wall Town Wonders , there was something for everyone. It's time for the latest edition of XR News Round-Up, bringing you quick updates on the biggest news stories we initially missed.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The great news for Meta is that since it is a strong partner with Qualcomm, it will have exclusively the chipset for around 6 months, so competitors that use the same system can only arrive in 2024. not also available on Quest 2) until 2024. More info Some news about content Sony has announced a few new games for its PSVR 2 headset.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

With significant events occurring every month, bringing together XR firms and end-users, 2024 is already becoming a year of incubation that could potentially propel XR into the office space and beyond. Alongside Apple’s XR device debut, other firms, from Zoom to Microsoft, are jumping on the spatial computing bandwagon.

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

Just weeks before 2024 wraps up and the new year draws closer, the XR industry is steeped in countless stories that may lead to a transformative year for XR. 2024 looks to be a foundational year for the future of XR, from hardware to software and from consumer to enterprise. 1E has an enterprise value of $720 million.

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APRIL 19, 2024

Big vendor news this week, Admist start-ups and fresh ideas; this week, big names like Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Apple took the headlines due to each firm’s optimisation of its XR product portfolio. Meta has not yet confirmed 8K streaming on its Quest portfolio. However, the company is constantly developing new XR devices.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

2024 may be the start of an XR shift. In its “Residential and Commercial Smart Glass Market Outlook from 2024 to 2034” report , Future Market Insights states that the global residential and commercial smart glass market size will reach $58,248 million in 2024, eventually reaching $187,475 million by 2034.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 15, 2024

This past weekend, Apple debuted its Vision Pro mixed reality headset in the United Kingdom, marking the end of the firm’s international device rollout completion, which started at WWDC 2024 and includes regions such as mainland China, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Canada, France, and Germany. per cent from 2024 to 2028.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

February 2024 is here, and this month marked the end of a long, long wait for Apple’s Vision Pro. Microsoft and Zoom have also released their respective apps into the Vision Pro this week. It’s still more or less the game of of Microsoft. The company aims to dominate the industrial XR device market by 2024.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

billion by 2024, a five-year CAGR increase of 54%. Here are just some of the tech stocks many are looking at right now (in no particular order): Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) For the people who brought you the Hololens 2, probably the most sophisticated pair of mixed reality smart glasses out there to date.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Room 2024, West Hall. Tom Bruckbock (SIEA), Seth Luisi (Impulse Gear), Greg Koreman (Impulse Gear), Richard Marks (Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony doesn’t have a lot of VR talks in the books for GDC this year, but of the ones it is offering, this is definitely the talk we’d make an effort to see.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2025

According to an analysis by Omdia and Sensor Tower, the downloads of the Meta Horizon app fell by 27% on Christmas Day 2024 when compared to 2023. Microsoft is now forcing the update on all the machines for which it has the power to decide on the updates, like the Home versions of the operating systems.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 31, 2022

Other augmented reality companies have pivoted away from consumers and toward enterprise uses of these glasses and devices (most notably Magic Leap and Microsoft’s HoloLens). In 2024’s devices screens will be virtualized, too, so the hard field of view numbers won’t matter nearly as much. What does that mean?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In its latest post, he stated that Meta plans to make the Quest 3 live as a medium-tier headset while releasing a new cheaper version of it in 2024 as the affordable option for the mass market. Sony’s entertainment assets have huge potential in the metaverse area.” I’m honestly finding this report a bit too pessimistic.

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MARCH 1, 2024

So (a bit late) here you are a list of some of the most relevant XR trends to follow in 2024, with some predictions of what to expect next. Tethered VR will stay as a niche Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment) Tethered VR has been superseded by standalone VR: there are many more standalone VR users than PC VR ones.

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

More info (Logitech MX Ink now available) More info (My hands-on with the device) The end of HoloLens 2 Microsoft has officially announced the end-of-life of the Microsoft HoloLens 2: the company is now selling the last stock and will slowly discontinue the headset. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

From Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 to Metro Awakening, November's another busy month for new VR games. Developed between XR Games and Sony Pictures Virtual Reality (SPVR), Continuum takes place 25 years after the original film. Here are our monthly upcoming highlights.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

Or maybe “relaxed” is not the right word to use, considering the little drama on Microsoft’s headsets. Top news of the week (Image by HP) Microsoft officially drops support for its Mixed Reality headsets Microsoft has just released the infamous Windows 11, version 24H2 update. I think this speaks a lot.

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MARCH 20, 2023

The support will continue until September 15th, 2023 and its most recent system images will remain publicly available until at least April 1st, 2024. First of all, Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki has said that he thinks that PSVR 2 may sell more than the 5–6 million units that the original PSVR sold.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

If developers are not interested, and Sony is not willing to invest in exclusive great content for its immersive console, PSVR 2 is going to have a very troubled (and probably short) life. And he’s not the only believer: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella indicated Mixed Reality as one of the top three trends to follow for 2024.

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OCTOBER 30, 2022

Then of course Sony didn’t match this prediction, and the day after the analysts were shouting that PSVR had been a disappointing failure… where actually they should have said that they sucked at market analysis and they should have gone hoeing the soil. The best selfie ever (Image by Mark Zuckerberg).

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JANUARY 22, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple opens the preorders of the Vision Pro On January, 19th 2024, Apple opened the preorders for the Vision Pro, its first XR headset. There is even Microsoft Word! In any case, the launch of this device is expected for Q3 2024.

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JULY 24, 2023

For me this is not a fortunate sentence: this is what Alex Kipman said about the HoloLens, a few weeks before the whole Microsoft Mixed Reality division was disbanded and he was fired from the company. Meta is reported to launch a devkit of AR glasses, codenamed Orion, in 2024.

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