This week, two separate articles on Business Wire and Erie News Now reported on a new Tracker research program by the International Data Corporation (IDC), which focuses on the Augmented and Virtual Reality headset market. Significant points mentioned by both articles include: According to IDC, worldwide shipments of ARVR headsets will increase by a compound...
A recent article on Digital Journal reports on Market Research Reports Search Engine’s analysis of the Augmented Reality market. According to the article, the demand for Augmented and Virtual Reality is predicted to increase in the near future due to the increased demand for ARVR service, rise in end-use application, and affordable hardware cost. The...
As CEO of Unity Technologies, John Riccitiello leads one of the most important companies in VR’s future, but he doesn’t expect the industry to see “explosive growth” next year. Riccitiello said as much during a Reddit Ask Me Anything session this week. One user asked the CEO about the “gap of disappointment”, a term he...
A press release dated December 21 2016 revealed that Meta has begun shipping its Meta 2 Development Kit, the first augmented reality (AR) product that delivers a totally immersive experience. Meta 2 enables people to use their hands to interact with holograms so they can touch, grab, create and share digital content. Customers receiving Meta 2...
The way Sony sees it, Santa won’t be delivering many PlayStation VR units this year as a lot of people already have them. In fact, he won’t be delivering many presents at all because he keeps trying it for himself. Sony’s Christmas promo for its recently released VR headset might not highlight some of the...
When thinking of augmented reality, images from different science fiction films and TV shows likely come to mind. In so many of them, there are different lenses or even prosthetic eyes that produce different types of data over the world that we see to show us personal info on the people we see, buildings we...
There are some who advocate for integrating AR directly and deeply into enterprise content management and delivery systems in order to leverage the IT systems already in place. Integration of AR features into existing IT reduces the need for a separate technology silo for AR. I fully support this school of software architecture. But, we...
With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hitting theaters last week, we have that galaxy far, far away on our brains, and that led us to suss out the top 10 best games from that franchise during our weekly GamesBeat Decides podcast on Monday. You can see how we came to our conclusion by clicking play...
Pascal? Schmascal! While thousands of people headed to Best Buy this morning for a chance to buy a Nintendo console that has 8-bit graphics, some of the publisher’s other fans are worried that Nintendo’s next system won’t have the horsepower to keep up with Sony and Microsoft. GamesBeat lead writer Dean Takahashi reported last week...
It’s not quite Minecraft, but the Lego-like block world of Roblox is doing just fine at its tenth anniversary. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company has more than 30 million monthly active users for its sandbox video game that lets users create their own spaces and games. Roblox is near 900,000 concurrent users at its peak,...
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