ARPost

JANUARY 30, 2023

VR and AR in the Larger Games Industry This GDC survey, the 11th in an annual series, found that “the metaverse has become more than a buzzword.” An additional 10% responded with “Project Cambria” – the Quest Pro which had not yet been released at the time of the survey. There was also a potentially unexpected write-in entry.

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Road to VR

JULY 2, 2018

The monthly Steam hardware survey is out again, and while June hasn’t revealed any major upsets in the balances of usership between HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, the survey shows that Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets are making slow, but steady headway on the platform. Participation in the survey is optional.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Thomas Dexmier, AVP of Business Development and Enterprise Solutions at HTC VIVE EMEA , also joined AWE 2023 to represent another market-leading company to discuss the uptrend in XR applications across the workplace. Siemens Teamcenter for Microsoft Teams will debut at the start of December 2023 for general availability.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

According to the latest figures from Valve’s Hardware & Software Survey, the Oculus Rift has set a new record for its highest historical market share on Steam, almost certainly driven by a major sale which has also brought the headset its largest ever share increase from one month to the next.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Or maybe “relaxed” is not the right word to use, considering the little drama on Microsoft’s headsets. Top news of the week (Image by HP) Microsoft officially drops support for its Mixed Reality headsets Microsoft has just released the infamous Windows 11, version 24H2 update. I think this speaks a lot.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Reverb G2 leverages Microsoft’s ‘Windows Mixed Reality’ PC VR platform. The Microsoft store has only a handful of VR games and apps, and Microsoft published even its own PC VR content on Steam. But statements from Microsoft and HP don’t give strength to the idea it has much of a future.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2018

Microsoft released its April Windows 10 update yesterday, and with it comes the official launch of SteamVR support for Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets. Windows VR devices still occupy a pretty minimal spot on Steam, accounting for a total of ~5% of total VR headsets reported in this month’s Steam Hardware Survey.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. I’ll try to summarize all of that, especially for what concerns the announcements related to our XR space.

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Voices of VR

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The XR Association is a non-profit 501(c)(6) trade association with members including Facebook/Oculus, Google, Microsoft, Sony, & HTC. They’re focused on general awareness and education,

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Starting with quantitative analysis ARtillery’s recent survey findings can provide more color. Web AR meanwhile lingers at 18 percent of survey responses. As for apps, they perform well in the survey, but we’ll set them aside for now. Microsoft is doing the same with Hololens.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? This week I have read the results of two very interesting surveys: GDC, as every year, has asked VR developers what platform they’re currently interested in. More info (GDC Survey) More info (ISFE and Ipsos Survey).

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

Increased Adoption of AR in E-Commerce According to a recent survey, 38% of marketers reported using AR in 2022. Companies like Google, Microsoft, Lenovo, and Vuzix are developing smart glasses to enhance the AR experience. It’s a significant increase from the 23% reported in 2017. Screenshots taken on the official EQ3 website 4.

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ARPost

APRIL 22, 2022

The XRA is an industry organization founded by Google , HTC VIVE , Microsoft , Oculus , and Sony Interactive Entertainment. For example, the last time we covered one of their reports it was an industry survey with Perkins Coie.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

See Also: Redefining the Future of Location-Based Entertainment With HTC VIVE Focus 3 and The Park Playground “Virtual reality is often perceived as being limited to the world of gaming. We’re already seeing key metaverse players coming together in the collaboration between Meta and Microsoft.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Companies like Varjo, Magic Leap, Meta Platforms, Pico Interactive, Lenovo, and HTC VIVE have entered the industrial XR space to create solutions tailored to professionals with complex requirements. According to an Accenture survey of 4,600 firms, 71 percent of respondents stated XR solutions would positively impact operations.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

Last month, we got to know that (according to a rumor) Samsung is working together with Microsoft on new AR glasses, most probably powered by a Qualcomm chipset. A study conducted by HTC Vive together with a Chinese university shows that Virtual Reality has much more addictive potential (+44%) than traditional flat gaming.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

All the other major companies (Samsung, Huawei, etc…) are working on AR and Apple for sure can’t stop experimenting with if it doesn’t want to miss the next communication platform as Microsoft did with Windows Phone. Microsoft has released this week a new video showing how the game will work.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 31, 2023

To mark the shift towards a positive end of 2023, following a shaky start to the year, AWE brought together firms such as Meta, Lenovo, and HTC VIVE to highlight the forecasted industry upturn. Sahni also highlighted how new workplace applications are coming to Quest 3, including Microsoft Mesh, Windows 365, and Adobe High Five.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2023

Users can also port across mobile phones, PCs, and gaming consoles such as the Sony PlayStation, Microsoft XBOX, and Nintendo Switch. The cross-platform tool allows developers to develop gaming solutions with zero latency and costs. Unity is offering the solutions in a closed beta, with opportunities to provide feedback.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Today’s most immersive virtual reality systems, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, rely on a bothersome tether to send power and high fidelity imagery to the headset at low latency. And companies like Microsoft have done a lot of research on reducing latency by doing predictive (also known as speculative) rendering.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 21, 2017

A recent survey of 553 universities in the VR First Network gives us an exciting look at what’s happening in the space, and what technologies the next generation of graduates are using right now. 43% of those are the Microsoft Hololens. There are roughly as many Rift DK1 and DK2 units combined floating around as HTC Vives.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The pilot, which used an iPad and HTC Vive powered by Marxent’s 3D Cloud Service, showed that VR increases average order value by 60%. HoloLens got a major software update , and Microsoft introduced new enterprise mixed reality applications like Microsoft Remote Assist and Microsoft Layout.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

New Steam hardware survey highlights that the number of VR headsets has grown again, and now according to Road To VR there are 1.6M I wonder if Facebook has already taken the decision of leaving the enterprise market to HTC and Pico , while focusing on the much bigger piece of cake of the consumer market. Great post.

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VR Playhouse

JUNE 15, 2017

While Sony competed in the home console space with several other companies, such as Sega and later Nintendo and Microsoft, what made the PS2 stand out was its built in DVD player. This is made increasingly more likely by the fact that Microsoft is releasing its own VR solutions later in the year. Needless to say, neither lasted long.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

But in the enterprise space, it has always been behind the competition of companies like HTC or Pico. Honestly speaking, this research by IDC has been sponsored by Facebook, so it is a bit like if I published a survey organized by me saying that I’m sexier than Hugh Jackman and Henry Cavill… it is not much reliable.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

We had a nice big bump at the beginning of the year with Microsoft. Microsoft, in January paid us a sum of money so that they could distribute half of our content for free through their store. Steve: You’re asking this question; as we speak, I am pulling up our survey results. Our hope is to break even this year.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

We had a nice big bump at the beginning of the year with Microsoft. Microsoft, in January paid us a sum of money so that they could distribute half of our content for free through their store. Steve: You’re asking this question; as we speak, I am pulling up our survey results. Our hope is to break even this year.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

We had a nice big bump at the beginning of the year with Microsoft. Microsoft, in January paid us a sum of money so that they could distribute half of our content for free through their store. Steve: You're asking this question; as we speak, I am pulling up our survey results. Our hope is to break even this year. And so we do.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” A lot of companies focusing on it. A lot of companies picking up on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” A lot of companies focusing on it. A lot of companies picking up on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I'm thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE -- first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now -- and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, "well, this is ready for prime time." One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift was launched in the spring, it was disappointingly bundled with a Microsoft Xbox controller – and we’ve eagerly been awaiting the native Touch Controllers. HTC VIVE LAUNCHES VIVE STUDIOS. HTC Vive is helping the big issue of the state of virtual reality today: lack of content.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. Outside of that, we’ve worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture. Carter: As for what our customers already can say — the game space — we worked with a variety of Triple-A game publishers.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. Outside of that, we’ve worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture. Carter: As for what our customers already can say — the game space — we worked with a variety of Triple-A game publishers.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

They're much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. Outside of that, we've worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture. But I've seen some talk of doing things like airline flight crews being able to train flight attendants, training through those sorts of headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. According to Korean media, Samsung Electronics is working with Microsoft on a new augmented/mixed reality project “involving HoloLens”. Here you are the description of the initiative: AR/VR creators, this survey is for you. This announcement is not sus, it is just great.

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