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SuperData revises yearly and long-term XR predictions for the third time this year
Firm expects the Oculus Quest 2 to sell at least 3 million units in 2021
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Overcoming AR's limitations with Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit
Velan Studios president Guha Bala on reinventing Nintendo's best-selling racing franchise for augmented reality
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Niantic teams with telecoms for 5G AR showpieces
Pokémon Go developer's "Planet-Scale AR Alliance" to create experiences with persistent AR content, other advances
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Facebook renames its AR/VR studio collective to Facebook Reality Labs
Update: Oculus Studios will retain its name, and Oculus branding remains
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Moss dev Polyarc secures $9m investment to branch into augmented reality
Series B funding round led by Hiro Capital
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SuperData raises XR forecast for 2020 to $6.9 billion
But it's lowering its long-term projections for the second time this year
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Magic Leap's lawsuit against competitor Nreal thrown out of court
"From the beginning we've firmly stated that Magic Leap's claims against Nreal are meritless," says Nreal founder
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Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz to step down
Abovitz will continue as CEO until a replacement is found, and remain on the board after the transition
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Superdata downgrades XR projections for 2020 through 2023
COVID-19 manufacturing slowdown brings anticipated 2020 revenue down to $6.3 billion
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Magic Leap lays off people "at every level"
AR company says pandemic prompted need to manage costs, shift focus away from consumer products to enterprise market
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Analysts dole out 2020 predictions
Panel of industry watchers call their shots for the upcoming year in games (and assess how their 2019 calls turned out)
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Magic Leap launches upgraded headset, reportedly lays off dozens
Company said to have planned to sell over 100k Magic Leaps in first year, only sold 6k in six months
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Niantic and Qualcomm collaborating on augmented reality glasses
Multi-year partnership will see Pokémon Go developer working on hardware and software for new AR platform
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The AR revolution creeps closer | Opinion
Augmented Reality has been “a few years away” for around a decade now - but with major tech firms lining up real product launches, the countdown has started in earnest
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HoloLens 2 now shipping
Microsoft begins sending out the $3,500 second iteration of its augmented reality headset
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Niantic announces Creator Program to support AR development
Pokemon Go developer also offering funding opportunities, AR development kit
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Absurd:joy aims to "invent a genre of content no one has ever seen before"
Ex-Owlchemy Labs devs Alex Schwartz and Cy Wise launching new VR/AR company making things that may or may not be games
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New Kickstarter from CastAR's Jeri Ellsworth raises $560,000 on day one
Hardware engineer is now working on Tilt Five, augmented reality glasses for 3D tabletop gaming
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XRDC: 59% of AR/VR developers are working on games
Oculus Rift surpassed HTC Vive this year as the top AR/VR/MR development platform
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Digital Catapult launches AR and VR accelerator programme for UK startups
Early-stage companies to receive mentorship and access to investors
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Magic Leap suing ex-employee for stealing tech to make his own XR headset
Florida start-up claims former engineer's Nreal Light headset bears a "striking similarity" to confidential company tech
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VR and AR will converge, says Unity XR lead
Timoni West foresees a future where VR/AR/mixed reality technology outpaces consoles, offers alternative to PCs
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Inside Station F: The grander ambitions of Ubisoft
Ubisoft's focus on emerging technology, from blockchain to VR, points to something bigger for the French games giant