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OCTOBER 31, 2022

billion USD in 2024. So what if you aren’t able to attend the marriage ceremony of your favorite cousin; put on your Oculus headset and you will be present right there at the moment when the bride and the groom exchange their vows. According to Statista , the video gaming section alone ruled the use of VR. billion USD in 2017 to 2.4

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Oculus Go was manufactured by Xiaomi, and Oculus Rift S was manufactured and co-designed by Lenovo. In both cases, the headset bore the partner company's logo on the side as well as the Oculus branding on the front. How LG's branding will appear on the reported 2025 headset is not yet known.

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MAY 17, 2024

At SID Display Week 2024 LG Display unveiled a micro-OLED display with "4K" resolution and 10,000 nit brightness. micro-OLED displays from Sony are used in Apple Vision Pro. UploadVR David Heaney While Sony's display in Vision Pro reportedly outputs a brightness of 5000 nits, LG is claiming 10,000 nits. Currently 2.5K

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2025

There have been anyway two huge companies, NVIDIA and Sony, that released XR-related announcements during their respective keynotes. Sony, instead, announced XYN, a new line of software and hardware XR products dedicated to creatives. Still, it is positive that Sony is committed to XR and digital worlds.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

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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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Media reports suggest that Meta’s budget-friendly headset, codenamed Ventura, will be released in 2024, The Verge leaked in March. Furthermore, Meta has struck several joint ventures with companies like Lenovo, Samsung, and Xiaomi for the company’s Oculus Rift S, Gear VR, and Oculus Go, respectively.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

Sony confirmed PSVR 2 last year and have since released further tidbits of information over time. A 2023 release looks almost certain at this point — Sony hinted as much in a blog post , and supply chain analyst Kuo has also suggested a 2023 release is likely. New Quest Headsets 2023 & 2024.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

billion by 2024, a five-year CAGR increase of 54%. FB) Facebook is the owners of Oculus Quest , the current gold standard when it comes to VR headsets. One-year price performance for SNAP as of 2/3/20 Sony Corp. SNE) Sony is the owner of the PlayStation console and, PlayStation VR , its accompanying VR headset.

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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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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it. Cass Everitt (Oculus), Joe Ludwig (Valve), Nick Whiting (Epic Games), Devin Reimer (Owlchemy Labs), Yuval Boger (Sensics, Inc.), Chris Pruett (Oculus). Room 2024, West Hall.

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The Ghost Howls

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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Of course, it is completely based on hand tracking… and on the classical Owlchemy humor Sony Pictures Virtual Reality and XR Games announced Starship Troopers: Continuum , an online multiplayer shooter that brings you into the world of the popular movie. 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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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

More info (Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3 — CNET) More info (Apple Vision Pro vs Meta Quest 3 — Hand Tracking) Sony to make PSVR 2 compatible with PC To celebrate the first anniversary of PSVR 2 , Sony has written in blog post in which it talks about how it is improving the content catalog its users can access.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

As a tech guy, of course, I’m all in for retro compatibility, and I would still love to sometimes attach my Oculus DK2 to my laptop and remember the good old times playing Tuscany. The 2024 edition will happen again in Rotterdam (Netherlands) from the 4th to the 6th of December 2024.

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The Ghost Howls

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. Meta never spent $10B/year for Horizon.

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APRIL 28, 2024

Editor's Note: Amanda Watson joined Oculus VR in 2015 and took a cubicle outside John Carmack's office in Dallas where she worked late nights on the mobile SDK. Later in California, she worked on Oculus Link and Air Link before leaving Oculus in 2022. In early 2024, Watson released CitraVR on Github. But not Oculus.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 14, 2024

During Samsung Unpacked 2024 in July, we got confirmation, once and for all, that a Samsung XR headset is coming. In fact, Google mentioned its partnership with Samsung at I/O 2024. We also know that Sony will be making the screens for the headset ( Micro-OLED , according to a leak). Until now, that is.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Meta is reported to launch a devkit of AR glasses, codenamed Orion, in 2024. More info News worth a mention (Image by Sony) Sony shows the behind-the-scenes of PSVR 2 In a recent blog post, Sony Interactive Entertainment has shown the internal evolution of PSVR 2, from the initial experimentations to the final release.

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MAY 25, 2024

Microsoft is bringing volumetric apps to Quest , Oculus Go owners are reporting errors with launching apps and the Quest v66 public test channel has been datamined. Showcasing Quest 3 gameplay against PSVR 2, the team advised the PC VR version features similar visuals to Sony's headset. Other Updates After some more updates?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2024

Before we start, in case you missed my post with my predictions for XR in 2024, you can still read it at this link !) It is not the first time Meta partnered with an external company for a new device and in most cases this choice paid off: both the Gear VR (Samsung) and the Oculus Go (Xiaomi) were pretty good products.

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Ryan Schultz

APRIL 28, 2024

In other words, don’t compare the 2024 Apple Vision Pro to the 2024 iPhone, or 2024 iPad, or 2024 MacBook Pro. Yet as recently as February Kuo said Apple’s US target for 2024 was 150-200K units, and in January he said Apple sold almost 200K preorders.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

According to the rumor, the collaboration should end in 2023, with the first product launched in 2024, a year that is compatible with a consumer-prosumer release of an XR device. Image by Sony). Sony shows prototype headset with dual 4K display. The new update also brings hand tracking support in the Oculus OpenXR plugin.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2024

After that, other devices will come, and three manufacturers have already committed to release AndroidXR-powered headsets for the upcoming times: Sony, XREAL, and Lynx. Compatible devices The first device to run Android XR will be the mixed-reality headset that Google is building with Samsung and Qualcomm, codenamed Project Moohan.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. It wasn’t even possible to buy another Tundra HDK, and months later they are still showing out of stock. Image provided by Rob Cole). Image by Rob Cole).

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APRIL 18, 2022

It lacks all Oculus Exclusive titles like Beat Saber and Population One, but its store is becoming anyway interesting. More info (Oculus Quest Store numbers) More info (Meta talks about content curation and revenues). Meta plans AR glasses for 2024. 10 Years of Oculus. In the meanwhile, Happy 10th birthday, Oculus!

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