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Karl Guttag Digs Out Interesting Meta VR Optics

by Bob Raikes

What They Say AR specialist has been digging around the developments of the Meta Cambria headset. In doing so, he looked at related patents for pancake optics, he found a frame from a Meta …

Tags:| Virtual Reality

New Study Projects VR Revenue to Reach $22.4 Billion by 2025

by Bob Raikes

What They Say ARTillery Intelligence released its forecast for VR and expects that VR revenue to grow from $4.49 billion in 2020 to $22.4 billion in 2025, a 37.9% CAGR. Consumer spending is $5.67 …

Tags:| Forecasts| Virtual Reality

‘Meh’taverse Apologies

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Apologies – yesterday our CMS decided that it should publish an article on the ‘Meh’ taverse by a journalist I know just after we had run our daily email test and …

Tags:| The Metaverse

Meta to Retail Headsets?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The New York Times reported that Meta has discussed possibly opening retail stores (probably to be called Meta Store) globally to promote its VR and, later, AR hardware. Work on the …

Tags:Apple| | The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Project Aria To Capture Images from Singapore

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We didn’t cover the new Facebook glasses a couple of weeks ago as they don’t have any displays and they were very widely covered. However, were interested to spot that Facebook …

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This is how Facebook’s Project Aria AR glasses work

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Details of Facebook’s Aria project have been revealed after an FCC listing of a manual. The headset will not include displays but will be focused (sorry!) on capturing information and video. …

Tags:Augmented Reality|

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Is Facebook planning to use eMagin’s dPd OLED microdisplay?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say OLED Info speculated that Facebook/Oculus máy be about to use eMagin microdisplays in its headsets as it has been advertising for engineers. One will need “Knowledge in direct patterning tech and …

Tags:eMagin| | Microdisplays| Oculus VR| OLEDs

Facebook’s New Bug-Eyed VR Prototype

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Facebook Research Labs posted a blog post that showed a headset concept that adds displays on the outside of the device to show the user’s eyes, a concept it calls ‘reverse …

Tags:Augmented Reality| | Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Facebook’s next product launch will be its Ray-Ban smart glasses

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg said on the Facebook earnings call that its next hardware launch will be Ray-Ban branded smart glasses developed with EssilorLuxottica. “The glasses have their iconic form factor, and …

Tags:Augmented Reality| | The Metaverse

Facebook will sell 8 million Quest 2s by October – Analyst

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Barrons.com reported research from Evercore ISI analyst Mark Mahaney who said that Facebook is on track to sell more than eight million Quest 2 headsets in the the first year. He …

Tags:| Market Data| Virtual Reality