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Meta and the next 24 months crucial for its leadership

The Ghost Howls

Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). I said that the winner of the 2016 match has been HTC, but actually, the real winner of the tethered headset market at that time has been Sony , with the PSVR headset exploiting the existing Playstation 4 userbase to sell more devices than the others.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.07): PSVR 2 will cost $549, HoloLens are probably dead, and more!

The Ghost Howls

(Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony announces price and release date for PSVR 2. Sony Interactive Entertainment has finally announced that PSVR 2 will be launched on February 22nd, 2023 for $549. Apple AR glasses may have been pushed back to 2025–26. What will be important, anyway, will be the content.

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Trends and predictions for XR in 2024

The Ghost Howls

A new cycle of XR The Apple Vision Pro launch has been a disruptive moment for our industry (Image by Apple) As I said in a popular post a few months ago , I think we have entered a new cycle for immersive realities. Huawei and Pico are rumored to be working on an Apple Vision Pro competitor).

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Big News from Altspace VR, Apple, Disney, Lloyd’s, and the US Justice Department

XR Today - Big XR News tag

Apple Teases Reality Pro Specs, Disney/Sony Partnership On Monday, Apple Inc. Reports reveal that Apple is talking to the Walt Disney Company to develop a VR platform. Reports reveal that Apple is talking to the Walt Disney Company to develop a VR platform.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.25): new rumors on Apple Glasses, Oculus Quest anniversary, HP Reverb G2 and more!

The Ghost Howls

Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. In the end, technologist Jon Prosser has revealed the main details he knows about the Apple Glasses. Well, on another website, I’ve been able to find someone that reading some Apple’s documents has found pictures of strange colored circular tags that may act as QR Codes for Apple devices.

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Tencent to Open Metaverse Division, Sources Say

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Microsoft, Disney, Sony Interactive Entertainment, NVIDIA, TikTok owner ByteDance, Apple, HTC VIVE, Nextech AR, and many others have begun exploring potential metaverse solutions, sparking an industry-wide exploration of use cases, applications, technologies, and ecosystems.

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The outlook is getting more complicated for Meta’s virtual reality dreams

TechCrunch VR

Unsurprisingly, all of the important data points are related to the industry’s sole benefactor these days, Meta, which managed to raise the cost of entry to its VR ecosystem, find itself in a new battle with the US government over VR, and announce that it had, again, burnt an awful lot of money on its Reality Lab efforts this quarter.