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Amazon to Deploy AR Smart Glasses to Delivery Drivers

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This week, reports stemming from Reuters highlight how Amazon is employing AR smart glasses to optimise its delivery options. Amazon is planning to deploy its new bespoke smart glasses for delivery drivers. What does the Future hold for Amazon Smart Glasses? We otherwise don’t comment on our product roadmap.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.11.19): Meta announces Project Aria research kits, a wave of Chinese smartglasses is coming, and more!

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Together with these commercial smartglasses, we also got to know that, according to Reuters, Amazon is working internally on some glasses, too. The report also notes that Amazon is working on an embedded screen for future Echo Frames glasses that could show up sometime in Q2 2026.

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Case Study: MAC Cosmetics Augments Makeup Try-Ons

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billion by 2026 according to ARtillery Intelligence. Indeed, Amazon is already experimenting with such technologies as it continues its physical retail conquests. Among other things, AR marketing includes sponsored AR lenses that let consumers visualize products in their space. This field?—?including could grow from $2.78

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.07): PSVR 2 will cost $549, HoloLens are probably dead, and more!

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It honestly doesn’t surprise me: we had a similar report about Meta , which was supposed to launch its first consumer AR glasses in 2024 and then was said to have postponed this launch to 2026. The press release says that the government is going to invest money so that the country arrives at shipping 25 million XR devices by 2026.

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8 Augmented Reality Trends in 2021

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In the last couple of years, AR has experienced tremendous growth and popularity as big technology giants like Google, Amazon, Apple have adopted the technology. billion by 2026. It has certainly made some serious advancements in recent years with the release of applications such as Pokemon Go and products like HoloLens.

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Nreal Nebula OS Now Supports Apple MacBooks

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In late September, the Chinese firm debuted preorders for the Apple dongle on Amazon for $59 as part of an extended deal with the online marketplace to distribute the Nreal Air device on its Prime service for US customers. Most recently, reports in November claimed that Apple is delaying its MR device until 2026 due to design issues.

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The transition between Quest 2 and Quest 3

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And Quest 2 is much cheaper (especially now that has been put at $199): during the last holidays, it outperformed the Quest 3 by a factor 3:1 on Amazon US. My educated guess is that the process will start in 2026-2027. There are between 20 and 30 million of Quest 2 out there, while only 1M of Quest 3.

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