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Despite Years of Reports to the Contrary, PC VR Just Won’t Die—In fact, It’s Growing

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The XR landscape has changed significantly over the last five years with the flourishing of standalone headsets and new entrants like Apple and (soon) Google. Oh and that Google would follow quickly behind with a complete Android XR operating system underpinning a flagship headset made by Samsung.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.09.23): Quest 3S may cost $299, Meta and Luxottica to partner until 2030, and more!

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More info (Quest 3S costs $299 — Road To VR) More info (Quest 3S costs $299 — Upload VR) More info (Quest 3S may ship on October, 16th) Other relevant news (Image by Ray-Ban) Meta and Luxottica extend their partnership until 2030 Meta and EssilorLuxottica came to an agreement to continue their partnership about creating glasses together until 2030.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.04.13): iPhone 12 adds depth camera, StarVR One is back to the market and much more!

The Ghost Howls

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.20): Oculus ready to manufacture the Quest S, Pico doubles-down on 3DOF, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Google’s investment for a 7.7% Google-Jio joint venture to develop an Android-based platform for an affordable 5G phone. In its personal crusade against Microsoft, optics expert Karl Guttag has listed in 4 articles all the defects of the HoloLens 2. Not a great evolution from Microsoft. 6G is coming to 2028–2030.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.10.01): Meta Connect 2024, Apple Vision Pro refresh, and much more!

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Meta promised to put on sale glasses similar to that at an acceptable price before 2030. They use a neural wristband as input mechanism. A few selected people tried them and came out excited about them. The news about Orion spread like wildfire and created hype in the tech communities. Big kudos to the team and good luck for the future!

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Optimistic Market Forecasts Declare AR Smart Glasses Uptick – Leveraging AI, Biometric, Sustainability Trends

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Furthermore, ResearchAndMarkets expects the market to grow significantly by 13 million units by 2030, amounting to a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 53.0 per cent from 2023 to 2030. per cent CAGR and 613,300 unit shipments by 2030. per cent CAGR and 613,300 unit shipments by 2030. per cent CAGR until 2030.

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Breaking Down Facebook’s XR Road Map

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FWIW, Google had also partnered with Luxottica but never shipped a more fashionable version of Glass.]. 2030+: Beyond the Event Horizon. I think it’s a near-certainty that hundreds of millions of XR devices are out in the market by 2030. I worked at Microsoft from 2008-2012. It’s basically the Facebook of eyewear.