AR Insider

JANUARY 28, 2021

As you’ve likely heard, Bloomberg reported last week that Apple has plans for a VR headset to release next year. Codenamed N301, the device is to be a high-end headset (think: more Valve Index, less Oculus Quest). We’ve been asking ourselves this question in light of our ongoing “ follow the money ” exercise.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Many people are analyzing the Apple Vision Pro… including the ones at Meta Here you are with the usual huge roundup of news about the Apple Vision Pro (a roundup in a roundup). This week both Zuck, the CEO of Meta, and Boz, the CTO of Meta, expressed their opinions on the Apple Vision Pro.

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Cats and VR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

They foresee that gaming, a notoriously sedentary behavior, can be harnessed with VR technology to get people to exercise. Effective today, both the YUR Oculus Quest app on Sidequest ( [link] ) and the YUR mobile companion app are released into beta. Navigating players into a healthy lifestyle, while having fun.

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ARVR

AUGUST 10, 2021

So it’s time once again for our quarterly exercise to extrapolate unit sales. where Oculus revenues are categorized?—?was The company has stated publicly that Oculus is the growth engine for this revenue center. If we estimate the non-Oculus portion today?—?consisting By “Oculus,” we mean hardware and software.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Brand spending on sponsored mobile AR lenses is a bright spot, as is Apple AR glasses rumors. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. ” Zeroing in on Apple, you’ve likely read about its rumored move into AR glasses. This would bring legitimacy, mainstream penetration and Apple’s signature “halo-effect” to AR.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Facebook has always had the problem of distribution of its hardware (Apple has its stores, for instance, Facebook has not), and with this partnership, it immediately has the opportunity to showcase this and its future devices in all glasses shops thanks to Luxottica. Apple Event is tomorrow 14th September. Other relevant news.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 21, 2020

We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. More importantly, this aligns with the timeframe that followed its 2014 Oculus acquisition. billion for a representative baseline of pre-Oculus spending.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 14, 2021

These are marks of an industry that’s moving into adolescence, With that backdrop, we embarked on our annual exercise of examining lessons from the past 12 months and projecting the next 12. And the stakes are high as Apple doubles down on wearables to offset declines from a maturing smartphone market. Steady Gains. What about VR?

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ARVR

AUGUST 11, 2022

This is an exercise we’ve done every quarter for several years, but with a different approach lately given Meta’s disclosures. This figure represents the Oculus Store’s gross revenue, before developer payouts , which are usually 70 percent after taxes. Reverse Engineering Starting with Q2 units sold, what do Meta earnings tell us?

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Apple-related hardware rumors have become a favorite pastime in the AR world. As you’ve likely heard, Bloomberg reported last week that Apple has plans for a VR headset to release next year. Codenamed N301, the device is to be a high-end headset (think: more Valve Index, less Oculus Quest). about one per-Apple store, per-day.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So predicting AR’s trajectory becomes an exercise in “ following the money.” For Apple, AR’s job is to sell more hardware. We’ve been toying with this “ follow the money ” exercise for a while, but it gained steam at yesterday’s OC6 keynote. to Oculus headsets.

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VRScout

APRIL 23, 2020

The all-in-one immersive fitness platform is available now via the Oculus Store. Today marks the launch of Supernatural on Oculus Quest, a brand new title from VR/AR developer WITHIN that promises users an “unforgettable on-demand workout” experience unlike anything available on VR headsets at the moment.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Like in our ongoing “ follow the money ” exercise, they’re each building wearables strategies that support or future-proof core businesses where tens of billions in annual revenues are at stake. The story is similar for Amazon , Microsoft and Bose (kind of), and the 800-pound gorilla in wearables, Apple.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Brand spending on sponsored mobile AR lenses is a bright spot, as is Apple AR glasses rumors. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. Apple Glasses Don’t Arrive in 2020. Apple is already conditioning this use case (AirPods & Watch), as is Snap (Spectacles). But there are also confidence signals.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

But for those who want to take exercise a little more seriously and track various stats including metrics like calories burnt, that’s where things get a little more difficult. million in pre-seed funding led by The Venture Reality Fund and BoostVC but also the beta release of the YUR app for Oculus Quest via Sidequest.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

AR Insider’s ongoing coverage of The AR Show episodes is an exercise in deconstructing and synthesizing the musings of spatial computing’s top minds. This “ follow the money ” exercise is a key AR confidence signal. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments.”

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 11, 2020

You can point to Oculus of course, and many Facebook acquisitions that followed. And then there’s Apple’s many smaller acquisitions and acqui-hires as it continues to assemble its top-secret AR mystery box. Diet, exercise, sleep and all of these factors that CEOs usually treat as luxuries should be bigger priorities.

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AR Insider

JULY 16, 2021

To put some numbers behind that, 75 percent of apps in Apple’s App Store’s first year were paid apps — similar to VR today. “Today, there are only about 18 percent of applications in VR stores such as Steam and Oculus which are free,” said Admix CEO Samuel Huber at an AWE EU event.

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AR Insider

JUNE 30, 2021

To put some numbers behind that, 75 percent of apps in Apple’s App Store’s first year were paid apps — similar to VR today. “Today, there are only about 18 percent of applications in VR stores such as Steam and Oculus which are free,” said Admix CEO Samuel Huber at an AWE EU event.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2023

I was reading Mark Gurman’s latest rumors about the upcoming Apple headset, and I found his article very intriguing. Fitness+ : will let users exercise while watching an instructor in VR. Apple’s products are very popular among content creators (e.g. Let me explain to you why. The seamless transition iPhone X.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 6, 2022

You can select a curated training program with a daily exercise schedule, or pick and choose as you like. SEE ALSO: Oculus VR fitness data will soon be accessible in Apple Health. You can choose which body part to target along with type of workout, coach, difficulty level, workout time, and much more.

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AR Insider

JUNE 30, 2021

To put some numbers behind that, 75 percent of apps in Apple’s App Store’s first year were paid apps — similar to VR today. “Today, there are only about 18 percent of applications in VR stores such as Steam and Oculus which are free,” said Admix CEO Samuel Huber at an AWE EU event.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Strap on your Oculus Rift or Meta Quest + a PC, dawn your virtual jumpsuit and let loose the glory of your inner superstar. (A Oculus gave us seed money which we used up many years ago, and Within kindly stepped in to keep us going since. Now, before another six years goes by, and VR has been completely eclipsed by neuro implants.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. ARKit  — ARKit is one of the powerful AR SDK released by Apple on 2017 to build AR solutions using iOS devices. Salesforce uses Oculus Rift to create an immersive 3D environment for analyzing data.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2021

Before him, there was Darshan Shankar, the CEO of Bigscreen VR , because his company must compete with Facebook’s own movie rental service and Cix Liv , the previous CEO of YUR, a software that Facebook has copied in its new Oculus Move service. It’s limited on muscle gaining and various more “serious” exercises.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. WebVR is also becoming a formidable force for those who love HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, in a web browser. This brings the point home about the need to learn how to develop content on other platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Participants used a wayfinding app on two VR headsets (Oculus Go with a hand controller and Samsung Gear VR), as well as on a smartphone which was the reference condition. For 360 video we use Oculus Go, because a Vive Index would be an overkill. How do you imagine the Apple Glasses? No headphones were used.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 31, 2016

You’re going to see health and fitness devices incorporate AI, helping people come up with better exercise regimens, reminding them to take their medicine. When you think about things like intelligent assistants, we have embedded services like Siri from Apple, Google Home, Amazon Echo with Alexa. Facebook has Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Alan: The Oculus Quest is coming out next week at [Facebook] F8, and it’s full six degrees of freedom. So standardizing the 3D models that everybody uses; There’s OBJ, there’s glTF, there’s FDX, there’s now USDZ with Apple. The first Oculus was… out in, what, early 2012? Tracey: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Alan: The Oculus Quest is coming out next week at [Facebook] F8, and it’s full six degrees of freedom. So standardizing the 3D models that everybody uses; There’s OBJ, there’s glTF, there’s FDX, there’s now USDZ with Apple. The first Oculus was… out in, what, early 2012? Tracey: Yeah.

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ARPost

AUGUST 21, 2019

The walking app, released on June 21, 2019, has 250,659 Google Play and 125,500 Apple App Store ratings! This is worth the exercise, fresh air, and battling it out with augmented reality beasts to gain XP, coins, ingredient items, and collect Foundables and Fragments in the game. Verdict is in: Potterheads love it! Myself included!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2024

This seems to hint that the two companies are going to build a new XR headset together, which according to the rumors will be the Quest Pro 2, which would be aimed at competing directly with the Apple Vision Pro. This could be useful to let Meta answer to the movies available on the Apple Vision Pro because of Apple TV.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 13, 2019

This game made by Sanzaru Games together with Oculus Studio is one of the best and longest games ever released for virtual reality. It is clear that we are looking at a game that raises the quality bar of VR gaming , thanks to the talent of people at Sanzaru Games and the high budget offered by Oculus. October, 9th 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

All the elusive XR analysts have almost guessed nothing, and they were not even able to predict the launch of the Apple Vision Pro until the date got pretty close. It’s the same with Apple ARKit, which took everyone by surprise and led to the democratization of AR on smartphones.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Apple and Meta employ marketing departments and vast legal teams attempting to imbue the vision of their executive leadership on the public. You can also begin to forget the branding exercises of corporations attempting to bend research and science fiction terminology to match corporate goals. Yes, VR headsets are time machines too.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 6, 2020

It has now an agreement with Plessey, a company working on MicroLED displays, and that was previously one of the acquisition goals of the competitor Apple. Apple strikes deal for indoor maps and buys NextVR. This has been a great week for competition in the AR space since also Apple has performed some interesting moves.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. It wasn’t even possible to buy another Tundra HDK, and months later they are still showing out of stock. Image provided by Rob Cole). Image by Rob Cole).

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