VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

The Facebook team articulated a distinction between lightweight AR, requiring only your smartphone and available today, and ‘full AR,’ requiring a head mounted display, such as AR glasses. The Santa Cruz standalone VR unit that Oculus is working on was briefly mentioned but no new version of the prototype was shown.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Yesterday Apple held a keynote presentation to update the world on their latest products. It’s too early for Apple to jump into the AR/VR game. That much was made clear on stage at the company’s latest keynote where they revealed the iPhone 7 and the Apple Watch Series 2. Acquisitions.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Microsoft HoloLens Loses $22 Billion Life Line to Oculus Founder Microsofts HoloLens has taken another major hit , potentially signalling the end of the mixed-reality headset in the future. This effort aims to create next-generation head-mounted displays and “intelligent glasses.”

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AllThingsVR

JULY 6, 2016

Apple Granted Patent for High Field of View AR Display Apple has just been granted another AR/VR related technology patent, to add to their growing list. What’s more, anticipation that the company is working on ‘something’ AR/VR behind the scenes at Cupertino has been stoked by a series of company acquisition and staff hires.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 23, 2021

Apple prognosticator Ming-Chi Kuo is not done dispensing rumors about the company’s long-rumored mixed reality headset. This time, per 9to5Mac , Kuo has details on the headset’s weight: reportedly less than 150 grams thanks to the use of hybrid ultra-short focal length lenses. Read more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The news comes after the company earned over $3 million USD via a Kickstarter campaign, receiving the highest level of funding for crowdfunded XR device, topping the Oculus Rift. It also offers connectivity to Apple TV and other movie streaming platforms for watching the latest films on demand. Comments on Series A Funding.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Apple’s AR Glasses are Hiding in Plain Sight. With all the phone and watch and TV and game and chip and other chip news coming out of Apple’s big event, it was easy to forget the company’s longest-running background process: an augmented-reality wearable. by Peter Rubin, WIRED. PHOTOGRAPH: CARSTEN KOALL/GETTY IMAGES.

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Upload VR

APRIL 5, 2023

Carmack formally left Meta in December to focus on developing Artificial General Intelligence after a decade-long run helping shape the direction of VR development at Oculus and advising executives at Facebook. You can find the Boz To The Future podcast on Apple and Spotify. The programmers just need to do this instead of that.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Last month, the Apple rumor mill was buzzing that the company’s long-whispered-about mixed-reality headset would be powered by the new M1 chip and, unsurprisingly, would have an outrageous price tag. A new report from the Information seems to corroborate those juicy tidbits, as well as reveal some new jaw-dropping… Read more.

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TechCrunch VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Apple is seen by some as critical to the future of augmented reality, despite limited traction for ARKit so far and its absence from smartglasses (again, so far). Apple ARKit, Google ARCore ). Tim Merel is managing director of Digi-Capital. More posts by this contributor. VR/AR startup valuations reach $45 billion (on paper).

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Apple’s been rumored to be working on some kind of mixed reality headset for some time now. But like most gadgets these days, it appears that the headset will be delayed until the end of 2022 due to production issues. Read more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

From Rift to Apple Watch to Snap Spectacles, the trend is toward wearable computing. We all want to live our Jedi dreams, but the Oculus Touch controllers are not quite “the Force.” The challenge facing today’s developers is to recognize that the paradigm for personal technology is shifting.

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MARCH 19, 2017

The last few years, VR has been about putting on a head-mounted display and looking around,” Edwards said. “It It reminded me of a speech by Mike Abrash , chief scientist at Oculus, speaking last fall. David Edwards, cofounder of Onotes , is making digital scent technology that is like a speaker for your sense of smell.

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V-Rtifacts

MAY 31, 2015

The Oculus DK2 is a remarkable VR headset, producing a remarkably wide field of view with very inexpensive single element optics. VRtifacts was curious about the characteristics of the Oculus DK2 lens: what size, what material, and what focal length? Spectrum plot for Apple iPhone 4 and 5 vs. Samsung AMOLED (older version than Note 3).

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Thus, AR manufacturers sell their development products by passing the cost onto the end user, while VR development is subsidized by all – Oculus shipped ‘devkits’ for $349.99, HTC Vive PRE program shipped over 10,000 units for free, OSVR is very cheap, and makers like Deepoon go for as low as $249.99.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Since the Oculus Kickstarter in 2012, VR has seen a revival on the big screen as it becomes a more affordable and accessible consumer device. This technology could be in the form of a head mounted display, motion tracking, haptic systems in gloves or suits, locomotion, consoles or image capture. TRON (1982).

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

So if anybody wants to really fully understand quickly the power of this, take your Oculus Quest, load up Richie's Plank, and walk somebody across a piece of wood and then just give them a little push when they're halfway across. Alan: Really wonderful if Apple stayed in there. And so I think we'll see what Apple comes up with.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

So if anybody wants to really fully understand quickly the power of this, take your Oculus Quest, load up Richie's Plank, and walk somebody across a piece of wood and then just give them a little push when they're halfway across. Alan: Really wonderful if Apple stayed in there. And so I think we'll see what Apple comes up with.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

So if anybody wants to really fully understand quickly the power of this, take your Oculus Quest, load up Richie's Plank, and walk somebody across a piece of wood and then just give them a little push when they're halfway across. Alan: Really wonderful if Apple stayed in there. And so I think we'll see what Apple comes up with.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000. And now with the advent of Oculus Quest and these really inexpensive headsets, I think it’s just opened up the world to developers, and clinicians, and medical practitioners. And it also wasn’t very comfortable to wear.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 4, 2019

The Apple Privacy Wall/Strategy Analysis of How Apple will Come at Oculus Next Year. Apple is clearly going after Facebook. Irena and I are hearing that one of the devices, er, AR/VR head-mounted displays, Apple is considering launching next year could go directly after Oculus Quest and the rest of the VR space.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000. And now with the advent of Oculus Quest and these really inexpensive headsets, I think it's just opened up the world to developers, and clinicians, and medical practitioners. And it also wasn't very comfortable to wear.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000. And now with the advent of Oculus Quest and these really inexpensive headsets, I think it’s just opened up the world to developers, and clinicians, and medical practitioners. And it also wasn’t very comfortable to wear.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

The system featured a head-mounted display with head tracking that could be used to explore virtual environments or real remote images from a camera — foreshadowing future breakthroughs in teleoperation. Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., Years of rumors paint a far less rosy picture, however.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 13, 2022

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey called the device a “tragic heap” and sales of the device flopped — The Information reported that the company sold just 6,000 of the devices in the six months following its long-awaited launch. But, I’m excited to see what Apple thinks it is.” other things. added things.

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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. These two western tech giants ship the same thing as the future of personal computing — a wide field of view head-mounted display priced at two ends of the consumer spectrum.

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