Is AR Evolving from Novelty to Utility?

Emerging technologies often follow a common evolutionary path from novelty to utility. It’s all about fun & games before settling into lasting value in everyday mundane utilities. The web and mobile followed this progression… will AR do the same?

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6 of the top 7 Mobile Apps in April Feature AR

Supporting AR’s overall penetration is new data that show six of the top seven downloaded apps in April feature AR to some degree. What does this mean for AR’s continued penetration and growth curve? We examine for this week’s Data Dive.

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Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam Top 3 Million Milestone
For the third month running, the number of VR headsets on Steam has reached a new record high of some 3 million, or 2.4% of Steam users. Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam Each month Valve collects info from Steam users to determine some baseline statistics about what kind of hardware and software is used by the […]

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Road to VR & Ben Lang

Quest 2 May Be Selling Thrice as Fast as the Best Selling VR Headset, PSVR
While Facebook has yet to reveal official unit sales figures for Oculus Quest 2, various data points the company has offered, along with data from developers, has allowed us to hone in on a reasonable estimate. Compared to PSVR, the best selling VR headset to date, Quest 2 may be selling three times as fast. […]

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Quest App Lab Soars to 1,440 Apps, More Than Tripling Those on the Main Store
In early 2021 Meta launched App Lab for Quest which allows developers to distribute their games on the headset without going through Meta’s curation process. There’s now 1,457 games and apps available on App Lab, more than triple the number of apps on the main Quest store. Update – October 20th, 2022 There’s now 1,457 […]

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Quest 2 Leaps to 2nd Most Used on Steam as Headsets Hit Record High of 2.6 Million
Although Quest 2 is a standalone headset, it can also be plugged into a PC to play PC VR games through Oculus PC and Steam. The headset’s holiday success has clearly bled through into the PC VR landscape, as the latest data shows that Quest 2 is now the second most used headset on Steam, […]

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Quest 2 Leaps to 2nd Most Used on Steam as Headsets Hit Record High of 2.6 Million
Although Quest 2 is a standalone headset, it can also be plugged into a PC to play PC VR games through Oculus PC and Steam. The headset’s holiday success has clearly bled through into the PC VR landscape, as the latest data shows that Quest 2 is now the second most used headset on Steam, […]

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Total Quest Games Reviews Have Exceed Oculus PC Reviews in Less Than Two Years
Adding to a growing number of data points showing why Facebook has shifted its attention away from Oculus PC is the difference in momentum between the two platforms as revealed by game review counts over time. This month, the number of reviews across all Quest games has exceeded the number of reviews across all Oculus PC […]

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Three Years After Launch, and Still $1,000, Demand for Valve’s VR Headset Remains Strong

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Pinterest: How AR elevates our data strategy

Pinterest senior VP Jeremy King talked with VentureBeat about how the company’s data strategy fuels changes. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Manasa Gogineni