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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.
This trend is expected to continue in 2025, but there should be a rebound in 2026. More info A good deal on Quest 3S You can find the Quest 3S (256 GB) on sale on Amazon US and other regions at $400, including a $30 digital Amazon credit. According to the company, the headset sales volumes fell by 10% in 2024 to 6.9
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. Virtual fitting room technology, i.e. virtual try-on , is expected to touch $12.97 In 2020, the AR marketplace was valued at US$14.7
He said that for these reasons, Luxottica wants to invest even more in the product, and it is planning to expand the production to more than 10 million units by the end of 2026. Good sales and good retention are two characteristics of a successful product. Personally, I feel a bit confused by this rumor. This is impressive.
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
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. but this does not always mean delivering the most compelling game that technology allows for. My educated guess is that the process will start in 2026-2027.
The combined technology opportunity led to a massive demand from the shared audience of Nreal and Apple. 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.
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Furthermore, Microsoft is stopping compatibility on 1 November 2026 for Windows Home and Pro users on 1 November 2027 for Windows Commercial. In other news, Meta has recently signed an agreement with Immersion Corporation, a technology innovator in haptic technology. a license to our patents for haptic technologies.
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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.
We had all the indications that this Q4 would have been good again, like the fact that the Meta Quest companion phone app was the first on the iOS store, that 1 Million people had played Batman Arkham Shadow, or that the Quest was the most sold console of 2024 on Amazon. The fact is: we didnt consider Ray-Ban Meta into the equation.
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