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This week, we look at Apple’s moves across the spatial spectrum, MagicLeap 2, And Oculus Quest game sales among other items. It is coming soon to the Oculus store. MagicLeap’s next headset to ship in Q4 2021. Over 60 titles on the Oculus platform surpass $1M in revenue.
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Just like MagicLeap has the Magicverse , this is essentially Facebook’s flavor of the AR Cloud. to Oculus headsets. Besides the news that Facebook is working on AR glasses (more on that in a bit), it revealed its work in building persistent spatial mapping data, known as Live Maps.
MagicLeap is building a software ecosystem around its product. Oculus, HTC and Playstation are doing it in VR,” said 8th Wall’s Erik Murphy-Chutorian. Compared to the mature smartphone market that has two platforms, AR (and VR for that matter) have several, which could compel web AR and its cross-platform advantages.
I personally agree with what he says: notwithstanding the positive trend of VR, the ecosystem has still to grow before it enters the mainstream with the same power of a flat-screen console. Then why MagicLeap hasn’t delivered a solid product with 2B?) Oculus Quest is putting pressure to the Chinese VR ecosystem.
MagicLeap isn’t far behind, growing from 7 percent of current projects to 12 percent of future interest. Oculus Quest is the biggest mover, not surprisingly , going from 12 to 24 to 28 in the past/present/future split. But more notably, that jumps to 14 percent for reported future projects.
At Tilt Five, we designed a really clever system that only works on tabletop experiences but it has features that are just leaps and bounds above what the big MagicLeap or HoloLens type AR systems are. If a family can afford spending the money for 4 MagicLeap Ones, they can play this board game together (Image by Road To VR).
In 2014, Facebook acquired Oculus and planted a flag in virtual reality. Apple's announcement today is a very good validation of the overall XR/spatial computing sector," MagicLeap founder Rony Abovitz wrote to me. Meta Quest vs. Apple Vision In buying Oculus in 2014, Zuckerberg first put forth his quest for spatial computing.
T he event will be presented by Oculus Studios Executive Producer Ruth Bram like last year, but introduce new pre-event and post-event sessions. On June, 1st, at 10 am PT, Meta is going to stream a presentation with a lot of news about upcoming titles or upgrades of existing titles for the Meta Quest.
” Zuckerberg notes the trend of increasingly natural human-computer interactions, starting with room-sized computers that “you almost needed a degree to be able to use,” followed by desktop computers, mice, the internet, and phones, the latter of which he called “the first mainstream computing platform.
At this year’s IMMERSE Summit , Road to VR sat down with Matt McIlwain , managing director at Madrona Venture Group (investor in Envelop VR and Pixvana ), and Patrick Eggen , managing director at Qualcomm Ventures (investor in Owlchemy Labs and MagicLeap ), to discuss their investing strategies when it comes to virtual and augmented reality.
She’s currently the editor-in-chief of Tech Trends, a news and opinion website she founded in 2016, and the curator of the daily Inside VR and AR newsletter, which I personally read every single day. Are you seeing this trend upward now? And everything is getting better a lot quicker than you expect, and a lot cheaper.
She’s currently the editor-in-chief of Tech Trends, a news and opinion website she founded in 2016, and the curator of the daily Inside VR and AR newsletter, which I personally read every single day. Are you seeing this trend upward now? And everything is getting better a lot quicker than you expect, and a lot cheaper.
I managed to interview its CEO, Dalia Lasaite, and talk with her about the 3D models market trends and the relationship between the 3D modeling ecosystem and the virtual reality ecosystem. What are the current trends of the 3D models market? What do you think of 3D models creation inside VR, like Google Blocks or Oculus Medium?
Apple seems to be cornering the popular entertainment industry, with the acquisition of NextVR, as industry rivals such as MagicLeap focus on enterprise solutions. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. . #3: You probably have heard of well-known models such as the Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, and HTC VIVE?—?these
She's currently the editor-in-chief of Tech Trends, a news and opinion website she founded in 2016, and the curator of the daily Inside VR and AR newsletter, which I personally read every single day. Are you seeing this trend upward now? You can connect with Alice on LinkedIn and you can also reach her at Twitter on Alice Bonasio.
She’s currently the editor-in-chief of Tech Trends, a news and opinion website she founded in 2016, and the curator of the daily Inside VR and AR newsletter, which I personally read every single day. Are you seeing this trend upward now? And everything is getting better a lot quicker than you expect, and a lot cheaper.
Right now we’re stuck thinking in terms of head-mounted displays (HMDs), like the Vive or the Oculus. Future solutions will get rid of clunky wired headsets and move onto glasses that can project a high-definition image onto the eye, a la MagicLeap, and eventually contact lenses that contain tiny screens.
From Rift to Apple Watch to Snap Spectacles, the trend is toward wearable computing. Meta is working on an AR headset, which puts them in the same league as Microsoft and MagicLeap. We all want to live our Jedi dreams, but the Oculus Touch controllers are not quite “the Force.”
We’ve been seeing the potential coming in other products like the Oculus Quest, the MagicLeap 1, or Microsoft’s Hololens. Because of this trend toward experiential services and away from tons of new developer efforts, Apple has continued the course set by Steve Jobs. For years we’ve dreamed about an augmented world.
And this year, we’ll see further growth of this trend, which has still a big untapped potential: many new items to try-before-you-buy, new features available for filters, new popular ecosystems (like WeChat) that are going to adopt it properly. What will see a decreasing trend is everything that is about people going outside.
I don’t see the same trends he does as far as mainstream Sandhill Road venture capitalists coming in. Above: The Oculus Touch controls let you navigate independently with each hand in VR. Image Credit: Oculus. Looking forward, we’re going to keep observing this trend. We’ve seen prices and valuations start to normalize.
Facebook is launching the Oculus Go this year (hopefully) for an extremely low price of $200. According to John Carmack , Oculus CTO noted that the Oculus Go will perform "significantly better" than the Samsung Gear. Depending on the success of the Oculus Go will decide how the industry moves forward.
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