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Qualcomm’s New Deal With ByteDance and Pico

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Qualcomm announced at MWC that it is working in a new partnership with ByteDance that is now the owner of the Pico VR company. (TikTok owner ByteDance could acquire VR headset …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Qualcomm| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Matterport Doing Well With Digital Twins

by Bob Raikes

What They Say As part of our coverage of AR & VR over the years, we have reported on Matterport, a developer of digital twins of properties, since 2015, although we haven’t reported on …

Tags:3D Content Creation| Augmented Reality| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Quest’s Holiday Sales Prompt New PC VR Milestone

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Quest 2 headset from Meta did well over the holiday with the number of connected headsets on the Steam hardware survey going past 3 million in January and with Quest …

Tags:Facebook/Meta| Financial Data| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Links Week Ending 4th February 2022

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are (quite!) a few from the second part of this week. Amazon Prime Video overtakes Netflix in …

Will the Schemes for the Metaverse ‘Gang Agley’?

by Bob Raikes

‘The best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley’* seems an appropriate start to an article in Burns Week when it applies to the production as well as the topic of today’s …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Health and Safety| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Meta Materials Joins Lasar Alliance For Augmented Reality Wearable Devices

by Artem Alekseenko

Meta Materials Inc. a developer of high-performance functional materials and nanocomposites, announced it has joined the Laser Scanning for Augmented Reality (LaSAR) Alliance, a member program of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers …

Tags:Augmented Reality| The Metaverse| Wearables

PlayStation Creator Kutaragi Snubs Metaverse and VR Headsets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Bloomberg interviewed ‘Ken’ Kutaragi, described as the inventor of the PlayStation, who is now the CEO of Ascent Robotics and AI firm. He said that he sees the metaverse concept as …

Tags:The Metaverse

SPREE Interactive and Eurogames Launch VR Space Bumper Cars into the Virtual World, Offering Location-Based Entertainment the Newest VR Solution in the Market

by Artem Alekseenko

SPREE Interactive, a specialist in multiplayer free-roam VR attractions for the location-based entertainment market, partners with Eurogames, world’s leading manufacturer in battery powered bumper cars, to present an economical and highly-entertaining solution which transports …

Tags:The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Links Week Starting 24th 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. Sky Is Largest TV Company by Revenue …

The race to build AR glasses is heating up, and Samsung is surprisingly quiet

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An interesting article in C|Net looks at why Samsung is not really making much noise about AR glasses at the moment, despite being an early promoter of the technology with the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Samsung| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

NPD Forecasts the US Tech Scene

by Bob Raikes

NPD held a virtual event around CES to look at a ‘big topic’ and from a high level – both in B2C and the B2B businesses. The session was introduced by Stephen Baker, a …

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 …