The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

In September, the new Facebook Avatars will come and substitute the current Oculus avatars. Apple AR headset may have been delayed to 2025. Now he accurately picked another number from his cylinder, and said they’re coming in 2025 , because “Apple has no AR glasses prototypes” at the moment. Other companies should take note….

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

As virtual reality technology gained prominence, the use of VR devices like the Samsung Gear VR, Oculus VR, and HTC Vive, have also become popular. If things go the right way as predicted, then by 2025 the revenue can go beyond $45 billion. Some VR Gaming Market Trends Which Determine Its Consistent Growth. VR In Gaming.

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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. billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 63.01% between 2019 and 2025. Source: CBINSIGHTS.

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2021

Microsoft announced their new platform Mesh last week to enable better mixed reality experiences across not only AR and VR headsets, but also mobile and desktop. Mesh is built on Microsoft Azure which enables developers to build immersive, multiuser, cross-platform mixed reality applications through an SDK. Spatial Maps?—?Spatial

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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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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Anduril's Lattice software will run on Microsoft's militarized HoloLens IVAS for US Army soldiers. Microsoft's IVAS Struggles The IVAS contract was announced in 2021 as being worth up to $21.9 Following these evaluations and new order ban, Microsoft set out to develop a new upgraded IVAS 1.2 What Is HoloLens IVAS? left) vs 1.0

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Four years after Mojang added PSVR support in a free Minecraft update on PS4, the Microsoft-owned studio announced that support will soon be discontinued. release notes for Bedrock, Mojang states, "our ability to support PlayStation VR has come to an end" and that it "will no longer be supported in updates after March of 2025."

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

With the trend of Gaming entrepreneurs, for example, Samsung, HTC, Sony, and Oculus transferred from games to virtual reality and we started to keep eye on the VR area. Since Meta made the acquisition and took over Oculus, VRTUOLUO began to write original and in-depth articles on the XR industry. Screengrab of the VRTUOLUO website.

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XROM

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

As of February 2025, India's augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) industry is witnessing remarkable growth, driven by advancements in technology and increasing consumer adoption. This trend reflects a broader shift towards experiential consumption, where customers seek engaging and interactive ways to connect with brands.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

While on the topic of acquisitions Facebooks takeover of Oculus initially was somewhat hostile with internal disputes between Oculus founders and Zuckerberg and his leadership team. Microsoft has done well in the mixed reality space as it relates to enterprise adoption.

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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). If you haven’t seen a Microsoft Hololens or a Magic Leap you probably have no clue about how amazing this will be.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Or maybe “relaxed” is not the right word to use, considering the little drama on Microsoft’s headsets. Top news of the week (Image by HP) Microsoft officially drops support for its Mixed Reality headsets Microsoft has just released the infamous Windows 11, version 24H2 update. I think this speaks a lot.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. Microsoft with their Hololens 2, they’ve actually moved their Hololens from the devices division of the company to Azure, which is their cloud computing. And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. Microsoft with their Hololens 2, they’ve actually moved their Hololens from the devices division of the company to Azure, which is their cloud computing. And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. Alan: Microsoft with their Hololens 2, they've actually moved their Hololens from the devices division of the company to Azure, which is their cloud computing. And I see that right now, Oculus is filling that void.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 10, 2017

He gave a talk about his predictions for VR and augmented reality for 2025 at the Augmented World Expo last week in Santa Clara, Calif. In his 2025 predictions for VR and AR , he voiced concerns about the obstacles to growth for VR and the challenges that AR faces in just getting out the door. billion market by 2025.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there’s a bit of– with the launch of the Oculus Quest it’d starting to get locked down a lot more, they’re starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there’s a bit of– with the launch of the Oculus Quest it’d starting to get locked down a lot more, they’re starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This headset should go into production in the second half of 2025, so realistically be available in 2026. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

More info (Vive Focus Vision — Road To VR) More info (Vive Focus Vision — Upload VR) Samsung’s XR headset may have been delayed According to the latest rumors, the headset that Samsung, Google, and Qualcomm are working on should have been released in March, 2025.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

I was looking at 2025 for ubiquitous AR glasses. Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking. And I think what Oculus did and launched that as a feature proves that it's important, and that everyone else now wants it too.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

I was looking at 2025 for ubiquitous AR glasses. Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking. And I think what Oculus did and launched that as a feature proves that it's important, and that everyone else now wants it too.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like that there is a bit of like a real openness, but yet right now on the whole XR industry, there's a bit of-- with the launch of the Oculus Quest it'd starting to get locked down a lot more, they're starting to be a little bit more of trying to grab and own different aspects of the platform. You have Apple, with ARKit.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

He even arrived to claim that It is a bigger jump from what exists today than the jump that I made when I started Oculus. Theres no agenda currently published on the website, but we can still make some speculations. It is a jump that I think cannot be overstated .

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 28, 2020

I was looking at 2025 for ubiquitous AR glasses. Alan: With Facebook now working on AR, and you've got Magic Leap, and Microsoft's Hololens. And I know Oculus Quest just introduced hand tracking. And I think what Oculus did and launched that as a feature proves that it's important, and that everyone else now wants it too.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 30, 2024

From Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 to Metro Awakening, November's another busy month for new VR games. Store links - Quest Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 - November 19 (PC VR) 0:00 / 2:18 1× Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is the next entry in the long-running series and much like the previous entry, this includes PC VR support.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Alice: I think one of the recent examples — and you were talking about it when you were saying about doing your news roundup — in the last week was really that Microsoft demo at Inspire. 2025 we’re going to start seeing the real uplift of this.” That really did blow my mind. Oh, my goodness.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Alice: I think one of the recent examples — and you were talking about it when you were saying about doing your news roundup — in the last week was really that Microsoft demo at Inspire. 2025 we’re going to start seeing the real uplift of this.” That really did blow my mind. Oh, my goodness.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg talks about the future of VR and AR at Facebook’s recent Oculus Connect conference. 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. The tech industry is gearing up for a new paradigm shift.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Alice: I think one of the recent examples -- and you were talking about it when you were saying about doing your news roundup -- in the last week was really that Microsoft demo at Inspire. 2025 we're going to start seeing the real uplift of this." What is personally blowning your mind in XR for business? That really did blow my mind.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Alice: I think one of the recent examples — and you were talking about it when you were saying about doing your news roundup — in the last week was really that Microsoft demo at Inspire. 2025 we’re going to start seeing the real uplift of this.” That really did blow my mind. Oh, my goodness.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 is selling incredibly well because it offers the right combination of affordable price, good hardware, and a good software ecosystem. Not to mention the millions spent on marketing , especially in the US (Oculus was one of the sponsors of NBA, for instance). The Quest will still be the king.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Microsoft’s contract with the U.S. Based on HoloLens 2, Microsoft’s specially-built Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) has faced multiple challenges since being awarded the Army contract in 2019, including poor field testing results due to reliability and ruggedness issues. Despite recent improvements in the 1.2

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so if you follow the money and you follow the technology, what it leads to is-- I would have said that we were going to go completely phone-to-face in, say, 2025 to 2027. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. And probably mass adoption of that will start in kind of 2023 and progressed to 2025.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so if you follow the money and you follow the technology, what it leads to is-- I would have said that we were going to go completely phone-to-face in, say, 2025 to 2027. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. And probably mass adoption of that will start in kind of 2023 and progressed to 2025.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And so if you follow the money and you follow the technology, what it leads to is-- I would have said that we were going to go completely phone-to-face in, say, 2025 to 2027. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. And probably mass adoption of that will start in kind of 2023 and progressed to 2025.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I can’t guarantee that these predictions will come out to be true (I always joke about the fact that I miss many of the predictions about Meta/Oculus), but I think they will be worth reading anyway to understand what can be the trends to look for in this new year. Me wearing my branded Oculus Quest 2. So… let’s start!

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