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“Wearable Wars” is AR Insider’s mini-series that examines how today’s wearables will pave the way and prime consumer markets for AR glasses. C ommon wisdom states that mobile AR is the forbear to smart glasses. There, it can seed user demand for AR and get developers to start thinking spatially. Head Start.
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“Wearable Wars” is AR Insider’s mini-series that examines how today’s wearables will pave the way and prime consumer markets for AR glasses. Common wisdom states that mobile AR is the forbear to smart glasses. There, it can seed user demand for AR and get developers to start thinking spatially. Hardware Blitz.
“Wearable Wars” is AR Insider’s mini-series that examines how today’s wearables will pave the way and prime consumer markets for AR glasses. Common wisdom states that mobile AR is the forbear to smart glasses. There, it can seed user demand for AR and get developers to start thinking spatially.
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“Wearable Wars” is AR Insider’s mini-series that examines how today’s wearables will pave the way and prime consumer markets for AR glasses. Common wisdom states that mobile AR is the forbear to smart glasses. There, it can seed user demand for AR and get developers to start thinking spatially. Sound Investment.
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This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s latest report, Hearables: Broadening the Definition of AR. Picking up where we left off with Apple’s and Google’s respective hearables strategies, how does Bose compare? Audio AR will be the same. Altogether, it has almost one million AR devices in market.
So it’s time once again for our ongoing exercise to extrapolate unit sales. This is also why you usually hear revenue growth framed in year-over-year comparisons, as it’s a more apples-to-apples view. More from AR Insider…. appeared first on AR Insider. As for cumulative Quest 1 & 2 sales (a.k.a.
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