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Will Amazon Accelerate AR Shopping’s ‘Next Normal?’

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“Trendline” is AR Insider’s series that examines trends and events in spatial computing, and their strategic implications. Zeroing in on the eCommerce side of things, Amazon this week pushed things forward with its latest AR shopping feature. Image Credit: Amazon. Signature Amazon. Header Image Credit: Amazon.

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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. Top 8 AR Trends. It is worth exploring the different trends that are surging in the augmented reality market. Below are the top 8 AR trends: 1. billion by 2026.

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Quest App Downloads Drop 27% Year-Over-Year as Meta Aims to Bolster Quest 3S Sales

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Citing data from Amazon product pages, Game Developer notes that Meta sold over 160,000 Quest headsets in November 2024 across eight countries, which represents a 16% decrease in sales on Amazon year-over-year. Quest 3S (left), Quest 3 (right) | Images courtesy Meta In lieu of official data, another barometer is third-party retailers.

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Spatial Beats: Amazon, Apple & Snap

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This week, we look at Amazon's Roomba acquisition, Snap's ups & downs and Apple's latest AR rumors. Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Quest Massively Outsold PSVR 2 on Amazon Over the Holiday Season

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Judging by sales volume on Amazon, Quest 2 & Quest 3 massively outsold PSVR 2 during the 2023 holiday season. Tracking Quest 2, Quest 3, and PSVR 2 sales volume on Amazon US gives strong evidence that Quest headsets did quite well this holiday season, while PSVR 2 saw concerningly low sales. Overall it’s a concerning trend.

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Can Amazon and Snap Bring Scale to AR Shopping?

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Snap and Amazon have collaborated to bring more shoppable AR lenses to Snapchat. Products can be discovered, tried on and purchased – an end-to-end flow to streamline shopping for AR-forward Snapchat users. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Who’s Waging the Wearables Wars? Part I: Amazon

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We’ll start this Wearables Wars series by looking at Amazon. One of Amazon’s first hardware moves was the Fire Phone. Along with Facebook, Amazon was left with no direct hardware contact with consumers. where Amazon leads. It’s Amazon’s direct play at your senses, if it can’t be in your pocket.

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