Augmented Reality (AR)

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Source Bloomberg article

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Watch the demo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4F89kHvreAo

Uses a combination of gaze and hand gestures.

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So between Meta and Google, we have two XR platforms:

• Meta’s Horizon OS has the largest and best library of immersive apps.
• Google’s Android XR has the largest and best library of flat apps.

To dominate XR, both need what the other has. But who faces a bigger challenge?

Meta, it seems, is in a tougher spot.

Immersive app developers are hungry for growth. If a popular game can gain 25% more users by porting to Android XR, the decision is obvious.

By contrast, major flat apps (like Spotify, TikTok, Snapchat, and Discord) stand to gain relatively little growth from porting to Horizon OS. They’d be lucky to gain even 0.25% more users than they already have on the entirety of Android.

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Xreal is back at it again with another set of augmented reality glasses. Today, the company officially announced the new One Series, the company's most ambitious effort yet in the AR space. The One Series encompasses two products: the One and the One Pro.

At the heart of the One Series is a brand-new spatial computing co-processor, the X1, developed in-house by Xreal. According to the company, the new chip allows for smoother playback thanks to a low motion-to-photon (M2P) latency of 3ms when the glasses operate at 120Hz (according to Xreal, the typical industry measurement is around 20 ms). The company also touts its superiority over the $3,500 Apple Vision Pro, which has a 12ms M2P.

A lower M2P means you shouldn't see any motion blur or visual lag, whether you're using anchored or follow-screen modes. If you need a refresher, anchored mode is where the picture displayed to your eyes within the glasses stays stationary in front of you, even if you move your head from side to side or up and down. The follow mode is when the picture follows your head movements. So, if you look left or right, the picture moves and keeps up with your head tracking. The One Series can switch between these two modes using the red button on the bottom of the right arm of the glasses.

As with previous Xreal AR glasses, the One Series features two 1080p displays, giving you a full 32:9 aspect ratio for viewing content. On the Xreal One, you get a 50-degree field of view, giving you a nearly 21 percent greater viewing area than the preceding Xreal Air 2 I reviewed last year.

The new Xreal One and One Pro are currently available for preorder, priced at $499 and $599, respectively. The former will ship later in December, while Xreal says that the latter will arrive in early 2025.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/xreal-ships-industry-leading-350-140000299.html

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Apple Inc. is exploring a push into smart glasses with an internal study of products currently on the market, setting the stage for the company to follow Meta Platforms Inc. into an increasingly popular category.

The initiative, code-named Atlas, got underway last week and involves gathering feedback from Apple employees on smart glasses, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Additional focus groups are planned for the near future, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the work is secret. The studies are being led by Apple’s Product Systems Quality team, part of the hardware engineering division.

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According to several people directly involved in the production of components, Apple has significantly scaled back production of the Vision Pro since early summer, reports The Information. Luxshare, which assembles the Vision Pro, has been informed by Apple that production may cease in November. Currently, Luxshare is producing about 1,000 Vision Pro units per day, down from a peak of about 2,000 units per day.

According to The Information, this decision indicates that Apple has built up enough inventory to meet demand. So far, suppliers have produced components for about 500,000 to 600,000 headsets.

Market research firm Counterpoint Research estimates that Apple sold about 370,000 headsets in the first three quarters of this year and will sell only 50,000 more by the end of the year.

Apple is now focusing on a cheaper model, known internally as the N109, which could be released by the end of 2025. Apple plans to produce a total of 4 million units of the device, The Information reports, citing a person familiar with the supply chain.