Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

As someone who’s been analyzing business and technology trends for decades, I’m particularly excited about how 2025 is shaping up to be a watershed year where science fiction meets shopping reality. In 2025, generative AI is creating shopping experiences that feel almost telepathic. Those days are long gone.

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2024

The company has made its new pricing scheme available at major retailers like Amazon: Quest 2 (128GB) – $200 Quest 3 (256GB, refurbished) – $270 The new low price can also be found at Walmart , Target , Best Buy , New Egg , and more, including direct from Meta.

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Anand Tech

MAY 2, 2024

So much so that SK hynix this week is very publicly announcing that the company's high-bandwidth memory (HBM) production capacity has already sold out for the rest of 2024, and even most of 2025 has already sold out as well. By contrast, Micron's share on HBM memory market is between 4% and 6%.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 18, 2025

Welcome to our first XR News Round-Up for 2025, offering quick updates on recent news stories. If you've missed our biggest stories, we went hands-on with Sony's XYN headset and Play For Dream at CES, while Quest 3S was 2024's top-selling console on Amazon. See ya on the tracks! on both Quest and Steam.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

You’ll be able to buy direct from Meta alongside the usual retail partners, which in the US includes Amazon, Best Buy, Target and Walmart. As previous leaks suggested, Meta is releasing two variants of Quest 3S, a 128GB model priced at $300 and a 256GB model for $400, launching on October 15th.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The Content Decision Platform will be launched in the US by the end of 2025, which it plans to similarly apply to its Canada and Mexico markets in due course, thereby establishing a ‘new standard in global retail.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Looking at the chart of the sales on Amazon US, it is possible to see that the headset had five times the peak sales volume during the 2024 holiday season as it did in 2023. Survios promised a patch is coming as soon as next week Popular game Into The Radius 2 is coming in Early Access on Quest in Q2 2025, with a price of $39.99

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 6, 2024

2025 marks the halfway point of a decade that’s already brought profound upheaval and transformation across technology, politics, and society. But 2025 is the year I believe we will start to see organizations move beyond the hype and start integrating generative AI into business strategy. What does this mean?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

2025 is just around the corner, meaning that news headlines will quickly fill with CES announcements. Additionally, reports suggest that Samsung aims to debut the headset in 2025, as an outlook header indicates. If 2024 was any example, some major news is around the corner.

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AR Insider

JUNE 24, 2021

To attract them to the platform as an alternative to selling on Amazon, these distribution flows include Walmart , Google , Facebook , BuzzFeed. billion in physical goods spending by 2025. For example, it has been on a shopping spree for distribution partnerships to give its merchants greater reach and scale. More from AR Insider….

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AR Insider

JUNE 14, 2021

Mobile AR Global Revenue Forecast, 2020-2025. It does this through partners, such as identifying physical products (with Amazon), solving math problems (with PhotoMath), and suggesting recipes given the items in your fridge (with Allrecipes). This makes it attractive to the above companies as a revenue growth play. Shoppable Content.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 19, 2024

This week's biggest hardware story is the Quest 3S launch , which became the top-selling gaming device on Amazon. Rogue Piñatas: VRmageddon is a colorful co-op action game coming to Quest and Steam in early 2025. It's time once again for our weekly VR news round-up, featuring the biggest XR news stories and a few we initially missed.

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ARPost

JANUARY 29, 2020

Many major tech organizations such as Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are currently working on different types of smart glasses or headsets which are more affordable and widely available to consumers, which will eventually change how we view and interact with the world around us.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2024

And Quest 2 is much cheaper (especially now that has been put at $199): during the last holidays, it outperformed the Quest 3 by a factor 3:1 on Amazon US. I would wait a bit more, probably until the second half of 2025. There are between 20 and 30 million of Quest 2 out there, while only 1M of Quest 3.

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Upload VR

MAY 20, 2024

Previous reports from Maeil Business Newspaper and The Korea Economic Daily described this headset as a high-end Quest Pro successor aimed for 2025 at a price around $2000. Seoul Economic Daily reports LG is delaying the headset it's working on with Meta to 2027.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

According to CBINSIGHTS , tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) have all been acquiring AI startups aggressively in the last decade. billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 63.01% between 2019 and 2025. Artificial intelligence has been the most happening and hottest technology of this century.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Proto is preparing to launch its Series B fundraise in Q2 2025 to accelerate development initiatives and market growth. The business plans to further expand its hologram communication and spatial computing capabilities, while making the technology more accessible to a broader range of users.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

All of this is very good but there is a drawback: Unity Pro subscribers will face an 8% annual subscription price rise to $2,200 per seat , while Unity Enterprise subscriptions will increase by 25% annually, starting from January, 1st, 2025. While this price increase does not make me happy, it’s still fairer than a runtime fee, in my opinion.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The firm is expected to receive the funds in 2025. For example, the company has struck a massive partnership with Amazon to pilot online shopping integrations. The deal would allow Amazon to access Snapchat’s more than 360 million daily active users (DAUs).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It has already been launched on App Lab Fitness game HitStream is going to launch soon on the official Quest Store!

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ARVR

JUNE 28, 2021

To attract them to the platform as an alternative to selling on Amazon, these distribution flows include Walmart , Google , Facebook , BuzzFeed. billion in physical goods spending by 2025. For example, it has been on a shopping spree for distribution partnerships to give its merchants greater reach and scale.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It recreates the vibes of playing board games at the house of a friend and it is expected to launch in early 2025 Stunt Double Joe McFlash takes you into the “adrenaline-charged world” of Hollywood’s titular stunt driver in VR. lets you play board games with your friends either locally or online. A Creator Platform for next-gen to ‘Socialize.’

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

I don’t think there are any Humech robots in that story like the Scraper: The Rise of Cifer novel, which is available on Amazon. A quick guess would be 2025.”. Scraper: A Novel About Punk, is a great book about a young rocker in the early 80s and his band. Anyone who reads will have a great foundation for the game.”.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Amazon has promised software security updates for its Fire TV products through at least 2025, which is good. And also doesn't really matter at all.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 31, 2023

These include Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Additionally, it hopes to create over 40,000 jobs and boost the city’s economy by $4 billion USD annually over five year’s time, or up to 2025.

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Upload VR

MARCH 1, 2024

The Meta Quest operating system is a fork of the open-source core of Android (known as AOSP), a similar strategy to Amazon's Fire OS for its Fire tablets. Meta has been working on it for at least seven years, as it first arrived in 2018's Oculus Go.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

Waiting until now would mean that next VR game by Valve would come out in 2024–2025… do you really think they don’t want to make the ecosystem to grow now? If you’re interested in these devices, have a look at Amazon and Oculus websites. Valve says that it was waiting to see the reception of Alyx before developing other games.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 22, 2022

A famous example of human and robot collaboration is Amazon's warehouse robots that work alongside staff in its fulfillment centers. Amazon says that since it introduced robots to its warehouses in 2012, it has also created over a million human jobs. billion by 2025. Warehouse Robots. Agricultural Robots. Healthcare Robots.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 27, 2023

Gartner predicted in 2021 that 40 percent of the world’s population will face at least one IoB programme in 2025 across verticals such as from marketing, healthcare, and manufacturing. IoB connects AR and VR devices to cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS). How Does the Internet of Behaviour Work?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 18, 2023

To replace the device in current markets, Apple aims to release a mixed reality (MR) headset at a cheaper price from 2024 to 2025. Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Snap, Amazon, Twitter, and other major tech giants have not been immune to mass layoffs and budget cutbacks. Its cheaper iteration will cost users $1,500, the report added.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JANUARY 23, 2023

Google’s layoffs come just days after Microsoft and Amazon announced cutbacks of roughly 10,000 employees. Vodafone to Support Digital Twins Leading into 2025 Last week, international telecommunications firm Vodafone partnered with Esri to create digital twins of over 40 million environmental features.

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Anand Tech

JULY 26, 2023

Rapidus itself projects that it will need approximately $35 billion to initiate pilot 2nm chip production in 2025, and then bring that to high-volume manufacturing in 2027. But in addition to developing a viable 2nm fabrication process, Rapidus will also have to build a modern semiconductor fabrication facility, which is an expensive venture.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

The device is expected to hit the market in 2025. At the event, AWS collaborated with Proto Holograms to showcase a new system powered by Amazon Bedrock. Major Firms Enter the XR Market During a launch event at MWC 2024, Samsung showcased a new XR headset developed in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Currently, firms like Siemens, HPE, and Amazon are all working with digital twin technologies to a certain degree. It seems that the market will be flooded with new products by the start of 2025, with Meta Connect also bringing new products. billion by 2035. Meanwhile, LG, Samsung, and Sony are all working towards debuting headsets.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 9, 2025

The move looks to boost the product portfolio just as PICO celebrates its 10th year and as firms like Meta, Apple, Samsung, Varjo, and others deepen their XR offerings going into the second half of 2025. PICO is making the Motion Tracker Waist Version available for purchase online via Amazon starting at 49.99 / 39.99.

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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. In both reports, Facebook’s AI voice assistant which is being developed to rival Apple’s Siri or Amazon Alexa will be used as the input mechanism for users.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

Arrives in 2022, with glasses to follow sometime before 2025). I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. Just get Amazon’s latest iPhone app. Using the new Siri you will be able to ask “how much are 20 of these on Amazon?”

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