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VR/AR/MR on the Cusp of Volume Adoption – Part 1

by Barry Young

With the slowdown in smartphone, IT and TV demand, VR/AR/MR is gaining center stage in the display industry, especially now that Apple has committed to its first two products. Through 2022, Meta’s Quest VR headset …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Epson| | Virtual Reality

Links Week Starting 17th October 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. For the next couple of weeks, we …

Tags:Acer| Desktop Monitors| Europe| | Game Playing| Market Data| OLED & QD-OLED Monitors| OLED Monitors| OLED Notebooks| Power Consumption| Samsung| Testing| ViewSonic| Virtual Reality

Meta Quest Pro Revealed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say As expected, Meta showed off its new headset: It costs $1500 It has eye- and face-tracking and colour passthrough AR using 3 Cameras. The pancake optics are 40% slimmer and IPD …

Tags:| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Quest Pro Features Shown in Leaked Gif

by Bob Raikes

What They Say RoadtoVR published a since deleted clip that seems to show the view when a Meta Quest Pro headset is used in the Immersed app and that makes us of its hand …

Tags:| Virtual Reality

Links Week Ending 9th September 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 end of this week. There are a lot as I was so …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Aviation| Cameras| Cinema| Cloud Gaming| Contact Lens Display| Desktop Monitors| | Financial Data| Haptics| Investment| LC Materials (Liquid Crystal)| LG Electronics (LGE)| Market Data| MMD (AOC Philips)| Optics| PlayStation| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Samsung| sony| Virtual Reality

Meta, Qualcomm sign pact on custom virtual reality chips

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say Reuters reports that Meta has signed a deal with Qualcomm who will provide custom chips for Meta’s Quest VR headsets. The companies’ engineering teams will collaborate on the platform. The chipsets …

Tags:Application Processors| | Qualcomm| Virtual Reality

Meta Cambria Headset Launch Date Set

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the Joe Rogan Experience podcast that the ‘better than Quest’ Cambria headset will be launched in October at the Connect 2022 event (date tba) and that …

Tags:| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Hands-on with Meta Reality Labs’ Starburst prototype for HDR VR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say At Siggraph this year, Meta showed its ‘Starburst’ demonstration system that is intended to look at what you can do to achieve very good HDR in a headset, without worrying about …

Tags:| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Virtual Reality

Links Week Ending 12th August 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 end of this week. Liverpool Uni facility features ‘UK-first’ projection system (Multiple …

Tags:Automotive| CAVEs| | FFS| IPS| LCD displays| MicroLED| Projectors| Quantum Dots| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Samsung| Sensors| Virtual Reality

Meta Loses $2.8 billion in the Metaverse

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Meta reported that in Q2 2022 its Reality Labs Division lost $2.9 billion in Q2 2022. Revenue was down by 35% from Q1 at $452 million. Despite the losses, CEO Mark …

Tags:| Financial Data| Virtual Reality

Links Week Ending 29th July 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 end of this week. Meta bumps prices of Quest 2 headsets ahead …

Tags:Apple| Asus| Desktop Monitors| Digital Signage| DOOH| | Game Playing| JCDecaux| Laser| LED| MMD (AOC Philips)| Patents| Pricing| Sky| Smartphones| Virtual Reality