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China Plans to Export 25 Million VR Headsets by 2026

by Bob Raikes

 What They Say Reuters reports that China has an action plan intended to allow shipments of 25 million HMDs by 2026 with a value of $48 billion under the country’s 14th five year plan. …

Tags:Augmented Reality| China| Forecasts| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Supply Chain| Virtual Reality

Sony to Release VR2 headset in February

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sony has said that it will launch its VR2 headset in February and that it will sell for $549.99 / €599.99 / £529.99 / ¥74,980 (including tax for GBP, EUR, and …

Tags:Game Playing| PlayStation| sony| Virtual Reality

ARInsider Calculates Quest Headset Sales

by Bob Raikes

What They Say ARInsider has dug into the latest quarterly result and done some ‘back of the envelope’ calculations to try to work out how many headsets Meta sold in Q3. Meta Reality Labs …

Tags:| Market Data| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

 Meta Quest Pro Hands-On Impressions! | Tested.com

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Adam Savage’s Tested had a look at the new Meta Quest Pro for a YouTube review. The first point made was that on the Quest 2, all the optics, processing and …

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

New Study Projects VR Revenue to Reach $28.8 Billion by 2026

by Bob Raikes

What They Say ARtillery Intelligence has published its forecast for VR revenues, with a view that it will more than triple from $8.3 billion in 2021 to $28.8 billion in 2026, a 28.3% compound annual growth rate. Consumer spending (hardware …

Tags:Forecasts| Market Data| Virtual Reality

VR/AR/MR on the Cusp of Volume Adoption – Part 2

by Barry Young

Yesterday, I introduced AR and its applications and today I’ll look some other aspects of AR and VR. The VR/AR category was expanded to include “MR” (Mixed Reality) also called “MX” (or passthrough AR – …

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VR/AR/MR on the Cusp of Volume Adoption – Part 1

by Barry Young

With the slowdown in smartphone, IT and TV demand, VR/AR/MR is gaining center stage in the display industry, especially now that Apple has committed to its first two products. Through 2022, Meta’s Quest VR headset …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Epson| | Virtual Reality

HP to Exit VR Hardware?

by Bob Raikes

What They Say UploadVR speculated that HP might have ended G2 production and be getting ready to exit the VR market. The thought was triggered by: A Reddit user claimed to have been told …

Tags:HP Inc| Microsoft| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Quantum Dot and MiniLED: Can it empower AR/VR/MR displays? Part 1

by Sweta Dash

Meta introduced its “Meta Quest Pro” high-end mixed reality device at the Meta Connect event this month. It is expected to be available for purchase in October 25th for $1499.99. According to Meta, they …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| MiniLED| Mixed Reality| Phosphors| Quantum Dots| Virtual Reality

Quantum Dot and MiniLED: Can it empower AR/VR/MR displays? Part 2

by Sweta Dash

Display requirements are different for VR (and pass-through AR) and see-through AR. For VR (and pass-through AR) most displays are based on TFT LCD and AMOLED. In general, immersive display needs are as follows: …

Tags:HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| MiniLED| Mixed Reality| Phosphors| Quantum Dots| Virtual Reality

Links Week Starting 17th October 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. For the next couple of weeks, we …

Tags:Acer| Desktop Monitors| Europe| | Game Playing| Market Data| OLED & QD-OLED Monitors| OLED Monitors| OLED Notebooks| Power Consumption| Samsung| Testing| ViewSonic| Virtual Reality

Meta Quest Pro Revealed

by Bob Raikes

What They Say As expected, Meta showed off its new headset: It costs $1500 It has eye- and face-tracking and colour passthrough AR using 3 Cameras. The pancake optics are 40% slimmer and IPD …

Tags:| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality