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Facebook Surges in U.S. Patent Rankings Due to Mounting AR Strategy

Road to VR

Amazon Technologies Inc. Of the many granted, here’s a few of the most interesting AR/VR patents we’ve found: Beamsplitter assembly for eye tracking in head-mounted displays. Depth mapping with a head mounted display using stereo cameras and structured light. Intel Corp. Facebook Inc.

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Augmented Reality and Hearables: Where the Two Technologies Meet

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Generally, there are two types of AR solutions — marker-based augmented reality and markerless (sensor-based) augmented reality — that help developers merge content into the camera feed of a smartphone or head-mounted display. For example, in 2019, Amazon extended Alexa features to pair with headphones and earbuds.

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NGCodec Closes $8M Series A Investment, Aiming to Make Low Latency Cloud-based VR a Reality

Road to VR

265/HEVC encoder that aims to deliver cloud-rendered VR applications and transmit them fast enough to bring what they call “PC class performance to any head-mounted display.” Now dialing in on virtual reality, the company has created what it calls Reality Codec, a low delay H.265/HEVC

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Cloud Streaming Coming Soon to Varjo Reality Cloud

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Reducing hardware requirements is something of a holy grail for the XR industry that typically requires head-mounted displays – and, often, head-mounted computing. Varjo, NVIDIA, and Amazon Join Forces. See Also: XR Streaming: The Future of Immersive Technologies?

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The XR Week Peek (2025.02.18): Ray-Ban Meta sold 2M devices, Meta may be working on humanoid robots, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Looking at the chart of the sales on Amazon US, it is possible to see that the headset had five times the peak sales volume during the 2024 holiday season as it did in 2023. This is impressive. The numbers are still not comparable to those of Quest, but they are still very good.

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VR Headsets: Expert Roundtable

XR Today - Virtual Reality

The head-mounted display/headset marketplace may be approaching a broad shift as Apple unveils its Vision Pro headset next month, with the device promising to advance screen-based productivity into a third dimension, leveraging traditional MR technologies to achieve a spatial computing future.

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Top 10 Movies that Got Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Right

ARVR

Rent or own it : YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google Play | Amazon Prime Video 2. Nearly 30 years ago, They Live introduced optical head-mounted display (OHMD) in the form of special sunglasses that show you the underlying messages being advertised to you (and aliens… lots of aliens). That is correct! Try not to get caught!