The Ghost Howls

MAY 6, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Half of Fortune 100 companies are using Apple Vision Pro Apple CEO Tim Cook has answered the doom posts of the past week that revealed that Vision Pro’s sales plummeted after its launch by stating that more than half of Fortune 100 companies have bought an Apple XR headset and are experimenting with it.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As for Project Moohan, details are very scarce: it seems like a mix of the Quest Pro and the Apple Vision Pro: it has an external battery, high-definition displays, and a very detailed passthrough. Controllers are to come in 2025, the year the headset will ship. The chipset is the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen2. million in 2023.

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Road to VR

MAY 16, 2023

Independent tech analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says Apple’s highly anticipated mixed reality headset is very likely set for its reported Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) unveiling in June. Another generation is also in the pipeline, Kuo maintains, which he suggests may come at some point in 2025.

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VRScout

MAY 17, 2022

It was back in 2014 that Apple first began the development of its own automotive vehicle. Since then Apple has filed several car-related patents teasing a number of potential features. Apple has filed a number of outrageous trademarks in the past that have yet to see the light of day. Who needs windows when you have VR?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 22, 2025

Originally announced at CES 2025, the NVIDIA GeForce NOW integration is now available across all of PICO’s headsets, including its latest PICO 4 ultra MR headset. Innoactive announced a new product partnership with Apple and NVIDIA to introduce a streaming service that connects NVIDIA Omniverse and the Apple Vision Pro headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2025

This is the first newsletter of 2025, so happy new year to you all! And it promises to have also some features that surpass the Apple Vision Pro (I hope not the price!). From this quick look, it seems a mix between Android and the interface of the Apple Vision Pro. I wish you all the best!

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Now, leaker and data miner ‘Gabe Follower’ maintains Deckard is coming by the end of 2025, priced at $1,200. Gabe Follower, who also runs a YouTube channel , reports in an X post that “[s]everal people have confirmed that Valve is aiming to release new standalone, wireless VR headset (codename Deckard) by the end of 2025.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Will this inspire others (ahem, Apple) to move in the same direction? Even though it's just a working prototype, Meta Orion showed the world that it's possible to build AR glasses that are both UX-rich and relatively stylish. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2025

” Image courtesy GSM Arena While Vivo Vision is expected to be officially unveiled in mid-2025, specifics are still thin on the ground, with notable question marks surrounding the MR headsets specs, operating system, release date, global availability, pricepretty much everything besides the device’s externals. .”

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Road to VR

JANUARY 7, 2025

The display is capable of 90 FPS and 1,000 nits (at 20% duty cycle), with 96% DCI-P3 color coverage, putting it above Apple Vision Pro in terms of resolution and color accuracy. Notably, two color ways have been seen on the showroom floor at CES 2025 this week, with a black colorway for prosumers and a grey scheme for enterprise.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

AWE USA 2025 is set to include speakers from some of the biggest names in the XR industry, including Oculus & Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, along with Jason Rubinone of the only remaining early Oculus executiveswho is presently Meta’s Vice President of Metaverse Experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The hype for the Apple Pro is starting to deflate and it is possible to see that from some cues: for instance, there are more critics of the headset and fewer articles are talking about it. The release of this headset is expected for the first half of 2025. It’s still the gadget of the moment, but a bit less shiny than before.

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VRScout

APRIL 6, 2021

Augmented reality will forever change the way we communicate says the Apple CEO. According to a recent report by Apple research expert Ming-Chi Kuo , Apple will be launching a mixed reality headset later this year, followed by a dedicated AR headset in 2025 and AR contact lenses in 2030. Image Credit: Apple.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 31, 2025

Apple has canceled AR glasses that would have required a connection to a Mac (or originally, Apple had hoped, your iPhone), Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. So Apple then pivoted to powering it via a Mac, but this "performed poorly during reviews with executives", leading to its cancelation this week.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 20, 2024

On Wednesday, we noted our favorite newly released platform favorites for Quest, PCVR, and Apple Vision Pro. We recognized the breakthrough work of Maestro with hand tracking and Figmin XR with mixed reality, and also highlighted some early work like Airspace Defender and Laser Dance that we're hoping to see continue to develop in 2025.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2025

link] pic.twitter.com/EzTeYPAop1 Luna (@Lunayian) March 23, 2025 Backgrounds currently aren’t available, Luna notes, however they’re said to include multiple default options, such as Abstract, Beach, Greenhouse, Home Office, Light, Loft, and Office. The call backgrounds aren’t enabled yet though.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2025

With Apples Vision Pro already on the market, Samsungs focus will be on providing a more advanced user experience, an industry insider told ETNews. Samsung is reportedly now finalizing functions and specs of the device, which is said to be codenamed‘Haen’ (‘coast’ or ‘seashore’ in Korean).

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The company is pitching this as a comprehensive spatial computing platform, and hopes to establish its own territory in the XR landscape against incumbents Meta and Apple. Functionally, this is all pretty similar to what Apple is doing with VisionOS, but Android flavored. Gemini is built right into Android XR.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 10, 2025

Wait, Apple Vision Pro doesn’t come in black, does it? And with what some are calling the ‘Android Vision Pro’, owing to its Android-based OS, Play For Dream seems to have turned some heads at CES 2025 this past week. Nope, but Play For Dream MR does.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 2, 2025

Avid XR Today readers will be more than familiar with the big XR moments in 2024, including the likes of MR headsets, digital twins, Apple Vision Pro, Orion, and others; those moments are becoming history, however, and tomorrow’s innovations will take a stride. Will Samsung Enter the AR Wearables Market in 2025?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The launch of the glasses should then happen in Q3 2025. The two companies have a great relationship and Apple is realizing that the fact that its headset lacking controllers is a problem for certain types of content, gaming in particular. For this reason, Apple may be working to make PSVR 2 controllers compatible with the Vision Pro.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 1, 2025

2025 is finally upon us, but not before 2024's final hectic push for VR gaming. Right now, here's our highlights for new VR games on Quest, PC VR, Pico, PlayStation VR2, and Apple Vision Pro this January. January's launch is Steam exclusive, and a PlayStation VR2 version will follow in Q2 2025.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Samsung's first standalone headset is coming in 2025, running Google's new Android XR operating system and powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset. From 2025, Google Maps runs with full immersion and hand tracking in a standalone headset from Samsung. Beyond this, Samsung isn't yet sharing specifications.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Vision Pro, on the other hand, doesn’t support motion controllers, which means the vast majority of the most popular VR content to date doesn’t have a straightforward path to working on Apple’s XR platform.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The post Meta Explains Why It Sees Wide Field-of-View Headsets as a ‘bad tradeoff’ appeared first on Road to VR.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims the cheaper Apple Vision headset is delayed "beyond 2027". This would mean, if you believe Kuo, that Apple's next headset will instead be the straightforward refresh of Vision Pro with the M5 chipset that he claimed last month will enter mass production in late 2025.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

According to a report from South Korean outlet The Korea Economic Daily (Korean), Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be in-country this week to finalize a deal with LG regarding a previously rumored competitor to Apple Vision Pro, which is reportedly set to be jointly built by the two companies for release in early 2025.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Meta is reportedly teaming up with South Korean tech giant LG Electronics to offer up competition to the Apple’s forthcoming Vision Pro mixed reality headset, which is slated to arrive sometime in 2024. Provided the report is true, it seems some very distinct battle lines are being drawn.

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Road to VR

APRIL 24, 2024

Independent tech analyst Ming-Chi Kuo maintains Apple may be reducing Vision Pro shipments for its international debut by a wide margin due to demand falling “sharply beyond expectations” in the US market. Apple hasn’t intimated yet when we can expect international availability of Vision Pro however.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

2025 might witness a significant shift in the XR market. With the introduction of devices like the Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses and the Apple Vision Pro spatial/MR computing headset, interest in VR hardware is increasingly shifting towards upcoming AR/MR technologies. percent from 2023 to 2030.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Boz states that 2025 is the make it or break it year for XR at Meta , but I personally dont think it is true. The controllers would be sold separately and would be fully optional, mostly dedicated to people who want to play games requiring controllers on the Apple Vision Pro. There are a few passages worth a comment.

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Upload VR

MARCH 25, 2025

China's Vivo unveiled its headset today, and it looks like a blatant Apple Vision Pro clone, with even the name being copied. While some other headsets like Samsung's and Play For Dream MR are clearly inspired by Apple Vision Pro, Vivo Vision verges into the realm of looking like an outright clone.

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AR Insider

MARCH 15, 2021

This week, Pico gets new funding, SXSW charges forward with online event, and new Apple AR rumors emerge. Apple rumored to launch MR glasses in 2022 and AR glasses in 2025. It also is rumored that Apple will be releasing AR contact lenses by 2030-2040. W elcome back to Spatial Beats.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

However, much like the many historic leaks from Apple and Samsung regarding each firms XR device, a savvy insider reveals Valves following headset details ahead of official announcements. Several people have confirmed that Valve is aiming to release new standalone, wireless VR headset (codename Deckard) by the end of 2025.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In his latest report, Gurman says Apple canceled some tethered AR glasses that should have been connected to the iPhone to show a large screen in front of the user. This does not mean that Apple has given up on AR glasses, though. But they got bad feedback from early testing so they were canceled altogether.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Passthrough camera access is a hot topic in the XR community right now and while the positions of Meta, Apple, and Pico are known, everyone is wondering what Google will do with Android XR. Meta, Pico, HTC, then Apple… all of them prevented the developers from accessing the camera frames. Keep reading to discover more!

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metamandrill

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This roundup explores the latest XR, AR, and AI advancements, including Meta's ambitious $100 billion investment, Apple's shifting AR strategy, Sonys XYN ecosystem, and OpenAI's powerful new research agent. The post Latest Immersive Tech News: Curated Freshly on February 04, 2025 appeared first on Metamandrill.com.

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