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Spend on Emerging Device Categories – including Wearables, AR/VR Headsets, and Smart Home – Will See Continued Robust Growth, According to IDC

by Artem Alekseenko

Total value of three emerging categories of products – augmented and virtual reality headsets, smart home devices, and wearables – is expected to reach $372.1 billion by the end of this calendar year, and …

Links Week Ending 15th October 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 second part of this week. LG brings more content to third-party smart …

Immersive VR interferes with Head–trunk Coordination in young children

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A report in Nature highlighted the challenges to the development of head/torso coordination. The report shows that VR use disrupts the default coordination pattern ‘where a steering role is assigned to …

Tags:R&D (Research & Development)| Virtual Reality

Total Virtual Reality Market Revenues Will Surpass US$56 billion by 2026

by Artem Alekseenko

2020 both accelerated and severely hampered the Virtual Reality (VR) market, and those impacts continue in 2021. Consumer interest in VR grew significantly, while the bubble created around location-based VR—once a significant portion of …

Tags:Analytics & Tools| Virtual Reality

Total Virtual Reality Market Revenues Will Surpass US$56 billion by 2026

by Bob Raikes

What They Say ABI Research said that over the next five years, steady growth will mean shipments of 50.1 million VR headsets by 2026, a CAGR of 42% and will lead to $56 billion …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| Virtual Reality

Pico Offers Good Value in VR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Pico Interactive sent us a press release (which we’ll publish tomorrow) highlighting its Neo 3 Pro and Neo 3 Pre Eye stand-alone VR headsets. Headline features are: Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 platform …

Tags:Foveated Rendering| Gaze Recognition| Virtual Reality

Pico Interactive Releases Neo 3 Pro and Neo 3 Pro Eye standalone VR headsets

by Artem Alekseenko

Pico Interactive, one of the world’s leading developers of innovative VR (virtual reality) solutions for enterprise use, announced the full commercial release of their two highly anticipated new standalone VR headsets: Pico Neo 3 …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality

Grab Bag 2021: Education Edition

by Len Scrogan

Since not every little revelation warrants a dedicated article, my answer is to provide a periodic curation of interesting developments in the education sector. And that’s what we have here: merely a few “grab …

Tags:Augmented Reality| display technology| Education| Virtual Reality| Visualisation

Gazing Back to the Future (Part 2)

by Bob Raikes

Yesterday, (Gazing Back to the Future) I looked at how good it would be for PCs to be able to add gaze recognition to supplement the 40 year plus paradigm of GUI, keyboard, mouse …

HTC VIVE Pro 2 Full KIT NOW ON SALE

by Artem Alekseenko

After the launch of the HTC VIVE Pro 2 headset earlier this year, delivering sharp, precise and immersive VR, HTC VIVE announces the availability of the VIVE Pro 2 Full Kit – which includes …

Tags:Head Up Displays HUDs| HTC| Virtual Reality

Synchronicity in Foveation – It’s a Kind of Magic

by Bob Raikes

Synchronicity has been defined as “describing circumstances that appear meaningfully related yet lack a causal connection”. Yesterday, I had a moment of synchronicity on one of my favourite topics – foveation – the optimisation …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Foveated Rendering| Gaze Recognition| Virtual Reality

What Is Responsible For The Surging Demand For CIS?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An article in Semiconductor Engineering points out that the driver for big investments by TSMC in fabs in Japan and China at the 28nm node of technology (introduced in 2008 and …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Cameras| Semiconductor Industry| Virtual Reality