Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

As we dive into 2025, these wrist-mounted companions have evolved far beyond simple notification displays, becoming sophisticated health monitors, fitness coaches, and even potential lifesavers. The inclusion of dual-frequency GPS – a feature reserved for Apple's Ultra model – positions it as a compelling alternative in the premium segment.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The first product from the partnership is reportedly slated for 2025, priced at around $2000. For example, several sources suggested Quest Pro would be named "Quest 2 Pro" and that Apple Vision Pro would be called "Apple Reality Pro". How LG's branding will appear on the reported 2025 headset is not yet known.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Samsung is working on a Ray-Ban Meta glasses competitor with Google Gemini AI, The Information reports. Google Wants To Steal The Ray-Ban Partnership From Meta Google reportedly wants to steal the Ray-Ban partnership from Meta for its own Gemini glasses, but Mark Zuckerberg has a plan to stop it.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 27, 2024

Google Project Starline finally looks like it’s going to be rolling out to workplaces worldwide, potentially transforming the way we meet and collaborate in the future of work. So, what is Google Project Starline, and what makes it different from the current solutions available? What is Google Project Starline?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Apple claims the M4 has a 50% more powerful CPU an d 4 times more powerful GPU than the M2 chipset mounted on the Vision Pro, so an M5 chipset may give the new Vision Pro unprecedented performances for a standalone MR headset. This headset should go into production in the second half of 2025, so realistically be available in 2026.

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JULY 19, 2024

Magic Leap is undergoing layoffs just a few months after announcing a partnership with Google. Four years later, Magic Leap 2 is a state-of-the-art AR headset which externalizes most processing for the device into a wearable sling in the somewhat similar way Apple reduces weight on your head with Vision Pro's battery pack.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Last year Samsung announced it was building a headset with Google handling the software, which it plans to ship later this year. Apple's Personas have a similar goal, but are currently deep in the uncanny valley and limited to a 2D window.

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JUNE 25, 2024

Play For Dream's latest headset is a blatant Apple Vision Pro clone but with a Quest Pro style rear battery. But unlike the cheap Chinese knockoff we tried at CES in January, this new headset actually has the specs (though likely not the software) to rival Apple. Meta is now working on a "way out in the future" successor instead.

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JUNE 27, 2023

Google reportedly killed its glasses hardware project. Business Insider's Hugh Langley cites "three people familiar with the matter" as saying the hardware, which resembled standard glasses, was canceled earlier this year amid the mass layoffs at Google and the departure of Google's AR/VR chief Clay Bavor.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

In July 2024 Samsung publicly announced its XR platform" is coming "this year" and Google confirmed it's still involved. In July 2024 Samsung publicly announced its XR platform" is coming "this year" and Google confirmed it's still involved.

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MARCH 6, 2023

Samsung announced last month it was partnering with Google and Qualcomm to develop an XR device, something the company said at the time was “not too far away.” ” Google is building the software, while Samsung builds the hardware.

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MARCH 1, 2024

Google reportedly asked Meta to partner and "contribute to" its upcoming XR platform, but Meta said no. That same year, Lenovo launched a standalone headset running Daydream, Google's own VR OS that included its Google Play Services, Play Store, Google apps, and VR core technology on top of AOSP.

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MAY 31, 2024

Google and Magic Leap have partnered to “advance the potential of XR technologies”, the latter has said in a blog post. The announcement was light on detail, but Magic Leap said the tie-up would combine its AR credentials with Google’s technology platforms. Google is already an investor in Magic Leap.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Play For Dream MR was announced back in June , but at the time the company only confirmed it was launching in China soon, Singapore and Malaysia in October, and then Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Japan sometime in 2025. Play For Dream MR Specs & Details Play For Dream MR's design is clearly heavily "inspired" by Apple Vision Pro.

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MAY 13, 2024

Tomorrow, Google’s I/O conference is poised to showcase its latest updates concerning its extensive technology portfolio. From smartphones to AI, Google is very much positioned in the enterprise solutions space with its products. Could Google release smart glasses? Aside from the secretive AR/VR/MR announcements.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

First of all, Google has to keep the work on the headset very secret also internally , because Samsung is afraid that Google will steal its expertise to build a competing product. Google is working in parallel to build the Android XR operating system for this headset and a Micro XR operating system for AR glasses.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

Google is eliminating hundreds of roles in its hardware division, mostly from its first-party AR hardware team. Here's the statement Google provided to news outlet 9to5Google : "A few hundred roles are being eliminated in [Devices & Services] with the majority of impacts on the 1P AR Hardware team.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

Qualcomm is seemingly planning to reveal a new XR chipset early next year that could be for Apple Vision Pro competitors. Last week Qualcomm also revealed Snapdragon X, a new chipset line for high-end laptops intended to rival Apple's M-series Mac chips. Vision Pro Competitors From Samsung & LG?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

As I said a few months ago , we are in the middle of a paradigm change: the cycle that started with the Quest is arriving at an end, and a new cycle driven by new technologies (mixed reality headsets) and new players (Apple, Google) is starting. They are Apple AR glasses!” I have this impression for a few reasons.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Apple may announce its headset at WWDC 2022. A new week, a new rumor about Apple. This time it comes from Bloomberg, which predicts that Apple will announce its MR headset in June 2022 during WWDC , to launch it some months later, probably during the holiday season. Google details Project Starline. (Image from the web).

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MARCH 16, 2023

Speaking of text prompts, some have even called this the death of the Google-dominant era of search. Though that could be overblown or premature — Google itself is well positioned for AI as we’ve examined  — there’s ample promise in the underlying technology from the likes of OpenAI. One is that Google has trained us to use keywords.

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JULY 15, 2024

In early 2023 Samsung officially announced it was working on an XR headset, with Google handling the system software via a new variant of Android, now known to be called Android XR, and Qualcomm providing the chipset, which it later announced as Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 , a higher-end variant of the base XR2 Gen 2 used in Meta Quest 3.

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GizModo VR

JULY 11, 2022

If Apple’s rumored $3,000 virtual reality headset seems like a financial nightmare for you, then get ready for some potentially good news. Analyst and reliable Apple sage Ming-Chi Kuo claims the company is already working on a second-generation AR/VR headset set for a 2025 release, this time featuring both a high-end… Read more.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This could bring over services like Netflix, Disney+, Max, Prime Video, Apple TV+, Hulu, Paramount+, and VUDU with no extra developer effort required. Samsung’s Google-Powered Headset Set To Launch Late 2024 Samsung’s Google-powered XR headset is set to launch, in very limited quantities, in late 2024. Quest Pro 2?

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MAY 2, 2022

billion in 2025. Enterprise spending is 99 percent of that, but will retract to 89 percent by 2025 and continue to decline until consumer/enterprise trendlines intersect. As seen from Google Glass, consumer acceptance and comfort in face-worn hardware (with a camera, no less) is a critical factor. it’s Apple.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

UploadVR David Heaney Qualcomm announced that XR2+ Gen 2 will power Immersed's Visor , Samsung's upcoming Google-powered headset , a yet-to-be-announced new HTC Vive headset, a YVR headset in China, and Sony's enterprise "spatial content creation" headset.

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APRIL 1, 2024

But the release of the Apple Vision Pro proved to Valve employees that people are fine with having an all-in-two device with two units connected by a cable. I’ve been told “Early 2025” , with some planned staged leaks in the second half of this year. I think it’s a very smart idea.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

More info Google and Samsung are working on smartglasses According to The Information, Google and Samsung are not only working together on a mixed reality headset but also on a pair of smartglasses (a la Ray-Ban Meta) powered by Gemini AI. I cross my fingers, but I don’t have high hopes.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

However, it appears that Samsung is developing this XR wearable as part of its larger mobile hardware ecosystem, with a planned launch in 2024 or 2025. Earlier this year, Qualcomm laid the groundwork for the Samsung XR headset by announcing its XR2+ Gen 2 Platform, with Samsung and Google as partners, making this integration logical.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

I have been talking with hundreds of people across the industry and have discovered that the changes coming to Apple are deeper than just a VR/AR headset. This is the fourth paradigm shift for Apple. So, what is Apple getting ready to announce over the next year? Arrives in 2022, with glasses to follow sometime before 2025).

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The report, which hasn’t received comment from either Facebook or Luxottica, maintains that the device should launch to consumers sometime between 2023 – 2025. SEE ALSO iOS 13 Code Suggests Apple is Testing Its AR Headset Internally.

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AUGUST 17, 2024

Volumetric 6DoF platform Gracia is now on Quest 3 App Lab with a resolution boost, while Fly is essentially Google Earth VR on Quest and Apple Vision Pro. With VR Gaming, Meta finally confirmed that Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on Quest is "on hold indefinitely."

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Scientists predict that by 2025, nearly 2 billion of the population will consist of the Generation Alpha or the iGeneration. They can’t imagine life without Apple, Google, and apps, so education must adapt to their new perception patterns. See Also: Developing AR Apps with Google's ARCore. Guest Post.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The glasses, codenamed Orion, should be made to replace smartphones and are slated for a release date of 2023–2025, that seems very reasonable, considering that no present tech is able to create truly consumer AR. We may know the field of view of Apple AR headset. All of this seems cool, but also very confused. Its peculiarity?

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AR Insider

JULY 1, 2021

Mobile AR Global Revenue Forecast, 2020-2025. This figure — based on Apple’s ARkit and Google’s ARCore — is no longer relevant because the landscape of AR-enabled devices is increasingly fragmented by several platforms including social apps and web AR. How many devices are AR-compatible?

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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. Apple leads when compared with other giants in terms of acquisitions made. billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 63.01% between 2019 and 2025.

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AUGUST 28, 2024

At the start of the year, Qualcomm quietly set the stage for the Samsung XR headset when it first revealed its XR2+ Gen 2 Platform, with Samsung and Google as partners, so the integration makes sense. Furthermore, at MWC 2024, Samsung officially unveiled the upcoming XR headset, which was created in partnership with Google and Qualcomm.

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