Meta Introduces the Infinite Display
by Omid Rahmat
In a blog post on its site, Meta has introduced a new system for VR optics called the Infinite Display. The company is partly aiming to offset the criticism of its spending on VR …
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The Virtual World May Be Different, May Take Longer Than We Expect
by Andy Marken
We don’t want to brag but we were active in the Web 3.0 world before folks decided to slap a name on it and say it will be worth $23.3 billion by 2028. Yep! …
Tags:Augmented Reality| | internet| | Virtual Reality
Meta Headsets Back on Sale in Germany
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Meta’s VR headsets are going back onto the shelves in Germany after a hiatus when the platform was taken off the market when the German courts said that the firm was …
Tags:| Germany| Litigation| Privacy| Virtual Reality
Links Week Starting 5th December 2022
by Bob Raikes
Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Xumo TV: Everything You Need to Know …
Tags:AVOD| Desktop Monitors| DVB| | | Market Data| MMD (AOC Philips)| Samsung| Smart TV| Streaming Video| SVOD| Taiwan| Thunderbolt| Virtual Reality
New Products Including Sony PS VR2 and Meta Quest 3 Will Push Global Shipments of VR Devices to 10.35 Million Units for 2023, Says TrendForce
by Artem Alekseenko
TrendForce estimates that global shipments of VR devices will come to around 8.58 million units for 2022, showing a YoY drop of 5.3%. There are three notable factors behind the decline. First, the ongoing …
Tags:Analytics & Tools| | sony| Virtual Reality
Microsoft Surface Pro 9 with high iFixit score
by Milos Pavlovic
What They Say iFixit had a look at a couple of devices recently. The Meta Quest Pro (the take apart used 146 screws!) which looks so complex that it may be unrepairable although it …
Tags:| Microsoft| Repair| tablets| Virtual Reality
Meta Abandons its Portal Smart Displays and Smartwatch Project
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Reuters reported that in a ‘townhall meeting’ with staff, Meta said that it would stop developing smart displays (the Portal product range) and smartwatches and that half the 11,000 positions it …
Tags:| Reorganisation & Restructuring
Meta fires 11,000 – Reality Labs Impact Unclear
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Meta has fired 11,000 staff as it deals with the challenges of reduced revenue and tougher times for the big tech companies. Mark Zuckerberg apologised for the process and said that …
Tags:| Financial Data| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Virtual Reality
What the Quest Pro tells us about Hollywood’s future
by Bob Raikes
What They Say A former Nickelodeon executive Chris Young, has been experimenting with the Meta Quest Pro and posted a video that showed him using the headset to reveal a view of his actual home …
Tags:3D Content Creation| | Motion Capture| Virtual Reality| Virtual Sets
Meta Pushes the Envelope on HMD Brightness
by Bob Raikes
Meta has been working on many aspects of VR and AR display use for years. At Siggraph this year the firm showed its experiments with pushing the brightness of VR headsets to new levels. …
Tags:Augmented Reality| | HDR - High Dynamic Range| SIGGRAPH| Virtual Reality
ARInsider Calculates Quest Headset Sales
by Bob Raikes
What They Say ARInsider has dug into the latest quarterly result and done some ‘back of the envelope’ calculations to try to work out how many headsets Meta sold in Q3. Meta Reality Labs …
Tags:| Market Data| | Virtual Reality
Meta Quest Pro Hands-On Impressions! | Tested.com
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Adam Savage’s Tested had a look at the new Meta Quest Pro for a YouTube review. The first point made was that on the Quest 2, all the optics, processing and …
Tags:| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality
