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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

Tired: VR; Wired: MR

by Omid Rahmat

No matter how you slice it, Meta is subsidizing every VR headset it sells to the tune of 4 to 6 times the revenue it generates. That’s so crazy that you have to think …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| meta| Mixed Reality| Oculus VR

Meta’s Reality Labs Lost $13.7 Billion in 2022

by Omid Rahmat

The company’s 2022 results has gotten the financial analyst tribe back on board especially as Mark Zuckerberg touted 2023 as the “year of efficiency.” Nevertheless the Meta Reality portion of the company continues to …

Tags:Financial Data| meta| Oculus VR

Links Week Starting 10th January 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. CES 2022: In-Person Observations (DSCC’s Bob O …

Links Week Starting 3rd January 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. I spotted the chart below on the …

Power On Says Mixed Reality Headset ‘As Early as Next Year’

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In his ‘Power On’ subscription newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said that Apple’s first headset will be out next year and will support ‘mixed reality’ that is to say a VR experience …

Tags:Apple| Augmented Reality| Mixed Reality| Oculus VR

Links 26th August 2021

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 this week. I usually leave it until Friday, but there are a lot …

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| Facebook/Meta| Microdisplays| Oculus VR| OLEDs

Valve Can’t Be Counted Out of VR Hardware Race

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Verge tried out the new Steam Deck handheld console from Valve that’s due later in the year or early 2022 and pointed out that it’s a lot bigger than a …

Tags:Consoles| Nintendo| Oculus VR| Steam Consoles

Links Mid-Week 28th July 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. We normally issue these on Tuesdays and Fridays, but there were a lot about over the last day …

Links Week Commencing 26th July 2021

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. LG launches new 2021 8K and 4K …

Oculus Quest 2 Cumulative Sales Hit Record 4.6 mn as XR Headset Shipments Almost Triple YoY in Q1 2021

by Artem Alekseenko

The Extended Reality (XR) headset shipments almost tripled annually in Q1 2021, according to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Global XR (VR & AR) Model Tracker. The Oculus Quest 2 success drove these volumes. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Market| Oculus VR| Virtual Reality