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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:| 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 …

Tags:Amazon| Desktop Monitors| E Ink| Google| HP Inc| Iiyama| Netflix| OLED TVs| Operating Systems| Philips| Reorganisation & Restructuring| Samsung| sony| Testing| The Metaverse| ViewSonic| Xiaomi

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

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 …

Tags:Apple| Desktop Monitors| Ericsson| Europe| Game Playing| Google| Litigation| Netflix| Patents| Sky| Streaming Dongles| SVOD| The Metaverse| ViewSonic| Windows

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 …

Tags:Chromebooks| Forecasts| Market Data| Notebooks| NPD| The Metaverse| TVs (TV Sets)| USA| Virtual Reality

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 …

Tags:Digital Photography| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Glass| Health and Safety| Italy| Oculus VR| Perovskite| QD OLEDs| Sky| The Metaverse| UltraHD & 4K