VRScout

APRIL 20, 2021

Newly leaked images tease a fitness-focused VR headset from HTC, but is this sneaker-like hardware even real? Four onboard cameras allow for inside-out tracking, removing the need for external trackers, such as ones used for the HTC Vive and original Oculus Rift respectively. It appears as though congratulations are in order.

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AR Insider

MARCH 16, 2020

In mature markets like smartphones, hardware players disclose figures — especially if public — but it’s a lot quieter on the early-stage front. That’s the case with VR, which becomes an exercise in gathering hints in perpetual market-sizing mode. But there are also some valuable gut checks and thought exercises along the way.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 2, 2021

So it’s time once again for our quarterly exercise to extrapolate unit sales. Facebook’s Q1 non-advertising revenue — where Oculus revenues are categorized — was $497 million as noted. The company has stated publicly that Oculus is the growth engine for this revenue center. By “Oculus,” we mean hardware and software.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The game has remained in Early Access on SteamVR, Viveport, and Oculus stores for almost a year, but no release window for PSVR has been confirmed. Played from a first person perspective, with motion controllers enabling 1:1 fist tracking, boxing is a natural fit for the current generation of VR hardware.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In mature markets like smartphones, hardware players disclose figures — especially if public — but it’s a lot quieter on the early-stage front. That’s the case with VR, which becomes an exercise in gathering hints in perpetual market-sizing mode. Sometimes there are gifts like Sony’s frequent disclosures while boasting PSVR sales.

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AR Insider

APRIL 13, 2020

AR Insider readers know that we’re obsessed with collecting clues for VR hardware penetration. Because hardware sales figures aren’t disclosed ( except from Sony ), this becomes an ongoing exercise in piecing together known quantities to extrapolate unknown ones. But despite those caveats, this is still useful data.

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AR Insider

MAY 10, 2021

So it’s time once again for our ongoing exercise to extrapolate unit sales. Facebook’s Q1 non-advertising revenue — where Oculus revenues are categorized — were $732 million. As noted, the company specified during its earnings call that Oculus sales were a major growth driver. If we extract the latter, we can isolate the former.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 17, 2020

I t’s time for another round of our periodic exercises to zero in on VR headset sales. This time we’re revisiting PSVR…but instead of hardware units , we’re looking at total revenue including software/game sales. Given PSVR’s market share lead, this is an important exercise. billion from PSVR hardware.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

B y most measures, Oculus Quest 2 is hit. After pre-launch rumors of a cheaper ‘lite” Quest or a more-loaded “Pro” Quest… we ended up getting the best of both: upgraded hardware with a $100 price dip. ” Has Oculus Quest Sold One-Million Lifetime Units? So what are those signals?

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VRScout

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Major hardware releases, vast improvements to software, and various other integral advancements have quietly solidified VR & AR as viable, long-term technological platforms for years to come. Released without warning this past May during Facebook’s annual F8 conference, the Oculus Go brings convenient, comfortable VR to the masses.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 1, 2017

It’s been a little while since we last checked in on Blade Runner 9732 , a one-man project that started as a technical exercise and blossomed into a quest to recreate one of sci-fi’s most iconic movie locations. Lengele doesn’t possess a current generation VR headset, just a now obsolete Oculus Rift DK1.

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Road to VR

MARCH 8, 2017

In a reverse engineering exercise, two students at Utah State University have hacked positional tracking onto a Gear VR headset using SteamVR Tracking technology. Since Valve opened SteamVR technology to third parties for free , it has become easier to create tracked peripherals and other hardware.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 5, 2021

Notably, when kicking off this thought exercise, we realized that several of the topics look similar to last year. One key factor counteracting those declines is Facebook’s multi-billion-dollar investments to seed content, user demand, and compelling hardware. we ended up getting the best of both: upgraded and cheaper hardware.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This is an exercise we’ve done every quarter for several years, but with a different approach lately given Meta’s disclosures. million*, making hardware $219.45 This figure represents the Oculus Store’s gross revenue, before developer payouts , which are usually 70 percent after taxes. That’s a key health indicator for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Fitness in VR has really taken off – it’s an accessible way to exercise that is actually fun and can change lives. Users who describe the challenges they’ve had in getting going with exercise and the way in which VR changed the game for them. Rendever headset (a branded Oculus Go) and tablet (Image by Rendever).

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2020

This allows students to exercise their skills at home while in isolation using the company’s @HomeVR system which was launched two weeks ago for standalone VR headsets such as Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Focus Plus. Canada, and U.K. UCLH in the U.K. and Sana in Germany.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In mature markets like smartphones, hardware players disclose figures — especially if public — but it’s a lot quieter on the early-stage front. That’s the case with VR, which becomes an exercise in gathering hints in perpetual market-sizing mode. Both exercises extrapolated hardware units based on software revenue disclosures.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

But now, the companies have announced that Anduril will fully take over the hardware, system software, and production too, using its own headset specifically designed for the task. Luckey founded Anduril Industries after Facebook fired him from Oculus , the previous company he founded which became Meta's Reality Labs division.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 28, 2020

After compiling evidence for Quest 2’s momentum to back up these claims, we’re returning to a similar exercise but for the broader VR market. — Topgolf Pro Putt passed $1 million in sales, selling more than 50,000 units in the Oculus Quest app store. More than 30 percent of owners are frequent players.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

Join a yoga session with your team, meditate in space or just relax with easy breathing exercises. What’s exciting about HeadOffice.Space is that it is interoperable, flexible, and accessible across multiple platforms, with Mac, iOS, Android, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Quest support currently in development.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 28, 2021

A pple-related hardware rumors have become a favorite pastime in the AR world. Codenamed N301, the device is to be a high-end headset (think: more Valve Index, less Oculus Quest). Codenamed N301, the device is to be a high-end headset (think: more Valve Index, less Oculus Quest). How will it do this with VR specifically?

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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. Those subdivisions include hardware and software, as well as consumer and enterprise use cases. The Spatial Spectrum. There are 3.46 Steady Gains.

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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. Facebook Hardware Lead Andrew Bosworth Explains Live Maps. And the content will only be valuable if there’s enough hardware through which to experience it.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Unlike existing VR headsets such as the HTC Vive or Oculus Quest 2, the Vive Flow is aimed primarily at mental and physical wellness rather than AAA gaming or enterprise. This can include everything from meditation and yoga to watching movies and participating in various brain-training exercises. Image Credit: HTC.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 21, 2020

More importantly, this aligns with the timeframe that followed its 2014 Oculus acquisition. billion for a representative baseline of pre-Oculus spending. Where it gets more interesting is panning back to a longer time period in which R&D efforts had time to gear up, including Oculus Reality Labs in Seattle, led by Michael Abrash.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In the work we have done with VR, we were able to take the theoretical capabilities of VR and insert them into joint military training exercises. VR, for example, allowed some of our customers to focus on pilot training to start to train flying in formations which was not possible with previously used displaying hardware (i.e.,

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VRScout

JUNE 17, 2017

VirZOOM is back with a more affordable option for exercising in virtual reality. The $100 device is compatible with most mainstream headsets including the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PSVR, with support for mobile VR options such as Samsung’s Gear VR and Google DayDream on the way.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

They also had a disassembled Vive headset, Vive controller and Vive base station on display, giving me a rare glimpse into the inner workings of this new SteamVR hardware. In June 2019, Valve entered the hardware market themselves with their Index PCVR system, sold direct to consumers through Steam.

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ARPost

JULY 28, 2020

Well, today this is no longer an exercise for specialists.”. However, while this article was being put together, social media giant and Oculus owner, Facebook, published a whitepaper titled “ Communicating about Privacy: Towards People-Centered and Accountable Design.”.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2017

iFixit continue their relentless quest to pull apart every electronic gadget they can get their hands on, including a detailed teardown of the Oculus Touch controllers (which slipped by us on the run up to the Winter holiday season). The post Oculus Touch Insides Revealed in Detailed Teardown appeared first on Road to VR.

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AR Insider

JULY 16, 2021

. “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. The above ad revenue exercise is also framed in today’s ad market standards.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2020

ARtillery Intelligence recently performed this exercise including compatible hardware bases and active users (see below). Furthermore, this mobile AR market-sizing exercise reveals another factor: platform fragmentation. Oculus, HTC and Playstation are doing it in VR,” said 8th Wall’s Erik Murphy-Chutorian.

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Tech Trends VR

APRIL 22, 2020

This allows students to exercise their skills at home while in isolation using the company’s @HomeVR system which was launched two weeks ago for standalone VR headsets such as Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Focus Plus. Student surgeons are seeing their studies interrupted as hospitals are reserved for essential care Click To Tweet.

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ARVR

MARCH 9, 2021

So it’s time once again for our ongoing exercise to reason-out its unit sales. where Oculus revenues are categorized?—?were As noted, the company specified during its earnings call that Oculus sales were a major growth driver. If we estimate the non-Oculus portion today?—?consisting That makes hardware revenue $421.2

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ARVR

MAY 9, 2022

million*, making hardware $535.15 This figure represents the Oculus Store’s gross revenue, before developer payouts , which are usually 70 percent after taxes. This averages out at $349, but we’ve reduced the estimated hardware ARPU to $329 due to weighted sales for the base model (common for new hardware). million units.

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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. YUR’s patent-pending calorie tracking software is installed directly on headsets with no additional hardware required. Its first app, YUR.fit for the Oculus Quest, provides calorie tracking while playing VR games.

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VR Fitness

JANUARY 12, 2021

If you’re a VR fitness enthusiast and own an Oculus Quest then Holodia’s Holofit is a service you should know about. Holofit enables you to wirelessly connect stationary bikes, rowers, and ellipticals to both the original Oculus Quest and Quest 2, allowing you to exercise across a variety of rich and diverse environments.

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