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2022 Saw a Decline in AR/VR Headset Shipments

by Emory Kale

The pendulum for AR/VR headsets swung the other way through the course of 2022 as global shipments declined 20.9% year over year to 8.8 million units, according to new data from the International Data …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| IDC| VR

What Meta’s Price Drops Tells You About Making Headsets

by Omid Rahmat

There are three fundamental problems with making headsets for AR/VR/MR. First, which of the three is it? Second, it’s never about what you see, but how you see it. Third, you have to have …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Head Tracker| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| meta| Oculus VR

The Consistency of Apple AR/VR Headset Rumors

by Omid Rahmat

The tune hasn’t changed much, neither have the lyrics, but all indications are that Apple’s suppliers are not dancing a happy jig.

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Someone Leaked Tianma’s Tiptoeing Into VR

by Omid Rahmat

Last year, the Chinese microelectronics firm had shown its first VR display at the World Display Industry Conference in Chengdu. Now, it’s got Reddit wondering what is going on. It could all turn out …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Tianma| Virtual Reality

Apple Rounds Up Luxshare, Foxconn, TSMC, and Sony to Make AR Device

by Shawnee Blackwood

A clearer picture is emerging of what is going into the making of Apple’s competitor to Meta’s Quest. It may be that we have to look no further than Sony’s PSVR2. Nikkei Asia is …

Bigscreen’s Beyond: A Bijou VR Headset

by Omid Rahmat

No less an authority than John Carmack has given a thumbs up to a company that is trying to personalize the VR headset for maximum comfort. The $999 headset is available in Q3’23 but …

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ByteDance May Have a Thing to Say About VR With Pico

by Omid Rahmat

TikTok’s parent comapny, China’s ByteDance, owns a VR headset company, Pico, and despite the pressures that bear down on the company from western regulators, it is not backing away from a fight with Meta …

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Samsung, Qualcomm, and Google Form the No-Apple Android XR Alliance

by Omid Rahmat

Roh would not elaborate on the specifics of Samsung’s first new XR product, which will not appear at Wednesday’s launch event. “We’re getting there, but we’re not too far away,” he said. “For the …

Qualcomm is Turning Heads in Headsets

by Omid Rahmat

Qualcomm seems to dominating XR headsets. In an interview from CES that only recently surfaced, Hugo Swart, Qualcomm’s VP and GM of its XR efforts, talked with VentureBeat and talked about how the 60+ …

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AR/VR/XR: Pick One, Any One

by Omid Rahmat

Apple is a multi-trillion dollar company. You have to let that sink in for a while because if that doesn’t cause you anxiety, nothing will. It also happens to have a billion loyal customers. …

NASA Wants to Take AR to The Moon

by Omid Rahmat

Project Artemis is NASA’s attempt to send humans to the moon for the first time since 1972. The first series of test flights began last summer with Artemis I, which was broadcast live in …

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GSEO Shipping Apple VR Lens Modules This Spring

by Omid Rahmat

Genius Electronic Optical (GSEO) will supply lens modules for VR head-mounted devices, to be launched by Apple in 2023, with shipments to begin in February-March 2023, according to GSEO’s supply chain makers. DigiTimes Apple’s …

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