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. Microsoft is also getting in on Chat GPT, purchasing most of its parent firm Open AI. Reports indicate that Microsoft will integrate ChatGPT into its umbrella of applications via Azure AI.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The reason is that the newest Microsoft laptops feature a neural processing unit (NPU) that improves processing power and battery efficiency when running AR experiences. More info Mixed Reality suffers from a drift issue Laser Dance has been delayed to 2025. A Creator Platform for next-gen to ‘Socialize.’

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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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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 - 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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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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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? The same day of the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Hewlett-Packard has announced its new virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2 , made in collaboration with Microsoft and Valve.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Because of these problems and the delays, a cheaper version of the Vision Pro, which was expected for 2025, may have been canceled. A video helps us in taking a decision Funny link At the end of the day, everyone loves Snoop Funny link Quest 3 is already the best selling PlayStation 5 headset on Amazon! Wait, what???

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

Arrives in 2022, with glasses to follow sometime before 2025). When I worked at Microsoft I got in trouble with the lawyers over patents so they made me sleep with a lawyer (true story, that was my punishment). Just get Amazon’s latest iPhone app. A new kind of programmatic surround sound (Spatial Audio is just the start).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores. OpenXR will finally be implemented.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. You can see this in today’s AR products (and despite what Microsoft or Magic Leap call their devices, they really are augmented reality devices that you wear on your face).

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Microsoft’s got a great product around it. If Google is all-in on AR, Apple’s all-in, Amazon, Facebook, Walmart — like, every major company in the world gets it. So, forecast out to 2025: we’re looking at… call it half a billion [dollars] created. He worked for Microsoft last year.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Microsoft’s got a great product around it. If Google is all-in on AR, Apple’s all-in, Amazon, Facebook, Walmart — like, every major company in the world gets it. So, forecast out to 2025: we’re looking at… call it half a billion [dollars] created. He worked for Microsoft last year.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Microsoft's got a great product around it. If Google is all-in on AR, Apple's all-in, Amazon, Facebook, Walmart -- like, every major company in the world gets it. So, forecast out to 2025: we're looking at. He worked for Microsoft last year. Paul: Yeah. So, it's coming. Paul: Yeah. Without a doubt. Alan: You know what?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

That’s why we rejoiced when Apple launched its headset: while Google and Microsoft can discard new technologies pretty easily, Apple is slower at deciding to take a step, but when it makes it, it commits to it. This is a huge sign of commitment towards mixed reality. A Creator Platform for next-gen to ‘Socialize.’

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. And then there’s Amazon, they have Sumerian. And I tend put it around like 2025 is when I feel that’s gonna be sort of a critical mass when all of these things are just gonna be completely all over the place.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. And then there’s Amazon, they have Sumerian. And I tend put it around like 2025 is when I feel that’s gonna be sort of a critical mass when all of these things are just gonna be completely all over the place.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. And then there's Amazon, they have Sumerian. And I tend put it around like 2025 is when I feel that's gonna be sort of a critical mass when all of these things are just gonna be completely all over the place.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

If developers of PC games want to invest more time to create a VR version of them (like it happened for No Man’s Sky, or Microsoft Flight Simulator, for instance), this could help a lot the PCVR market. If this happens, PCVR people can have great titles to play again; Hybrid games. I think it will be anyway a tough year for PC VR.

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