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Shuhei Yoshida (aka ‘Shu’) has left Sony, closing a near 32-year chapter of his life with the company. Yoshida announced he was leaving Sony back in November, setting his retirement date for January 15th, 2025. “And when I hit 30 years, I was thinking, hmm, it may be about time for me to move on.
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Other significant players in the XR industry are supporting Android XR, including Qualcomm, Sony, XREAL, Magic Leap, and Lynx, a new entrant in the XR market. With support from Google, Samsung, Magic Leap, Lynx, Sony, Qualcomm, and XREAL joining the Android XR journey, the platform is poised for additional support and investment in 2025.
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And in fact, some weeks ago Sony has made everyone understand that it has delayed the launch of the PSVR 2 because the market is not there yet. Companies like Pico, HP, Valve, and HTC are already performing very well in this sector. The rise of enterprise.
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HTC has made its moves at MWC, too. HTC is one of the best companies when it comes to XR for enterprise and it’s good that it is expanding its offering in the field. In the meanwhile, the Oppo AR glasses have been one of the most appreciated AR glasses at MWC, thanks to their very lightweight design.
But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.
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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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A quick guess would be 2025.”. Sony has done an amazing job with the PSVR and is headed towards 4 million units sold. How well the first game does, how fast we can ramp up more staff, how aggressive we want to be with building out the story, along with the funding necessary to do the things we want to do.
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” While Meta noted that the developer community may have access to passthrough video in early 2025, the move has not been implemented. Moreover, the Samsung headset comes as other leading XR technology firms, including Qualcomm, Sony, XREAL, and Magic Leap, are championing the AndriodXR OS.
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