2023 Kickoff: The Year of VR with Video Pass-through
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Summary
Today I am kicking off 2023 with another annual monologue. I hope you and your family were able to have a safe and relaxing holiday, even in the face of another arctic blast and spate of viral diseases.
This is the sixth such annual kickoff episode, and when looking back at my notes from last year, the big surprise from 2022 was the resounding commitment shown by Meta and others to continued investment in VR & AR technologies, despite heavy financial losses and Wall Street pressure. That commitment is necessary to see our industry through its slow progress for AR technology, and its still nascent growing pains.
I’m going to share my take on some of the highlights of 2022 and what we might see in 2023 as it relates to augmented reality.
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Links From The Episode
- Article: Meta delays Within acquisition amid VR antitrust claims by Adi Robertson for The Verge
- Article: How Many VR Headsets Did Meta Sell in Q3? by Mike Boland for AR Insider https://www.wsj.com/articles/meta-metaverse-horizon-worlds-zuckerberg-facebook-internal-documents-11665778961
- Article: Google bought a MicroLED display company that could help make AR headsets better and cheaper by Richard Lawlor for The Verge
- Article: Microsoft is probably working on a new Hololens by Jan Wöbbeking for Mixed News
- Article: Saudi Arabia Takes Control of AR Pioneer Magic Leap in $450 Million Deal by Eileen AJ Connelly for Yahoo
- Article: How much did the Apollo program cost? by The Planetary Society
- AR Show Podcast: Eric Marcellin-Dibon and Mark Prince (MicroOLED) on Developing AR Glasses for Athletes Using Innovative OLED Displays
- AR Show Podcast: Guido Groet (Luxexcel) on Solving Prescription for Fashionable AR Smartglasses
- Past AR Show Kickoff episodes: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.
- Episode Transcript