XR Talks: The Man From the Future Projects 2022

As we roll into 2022, it’s a good time for coming-year projections. Beyond our own recent predictions, one of our favorite market watchers is the “man from the future” Tom Emrich. We examine his 22 for 2022 in this week’s XR Talks.
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XR Talks: The Race to Build the Metaverse

Cutting through all the metaverse noise are a few cogent voices. Matthew Ball is one including his metaverse Primer. Another voice is Charlie Fink, who broke down metaverse machinations at AWE USA – the focus of this week’s XR Talks.
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Snap Q4 Earnings, Part II: The Data Dive

This sheer volume of AR attribution in Snap’s Q4 earnings caused us to break our analysis into two parts. After Friday’s XR talks on earnings call quotes, we switch gears to break down all the Q4 data points and milestones.
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Snap Q4 Earnings: The AR Highlight Reel

Not only is AR attributed for Snap’s ongoing revenue growth (and the first quarter of profitability), but it was mentioned enough in its Q4 earnings call to practically make a drinking game. We have the highlight reel for this week’s XR Talks.
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XR Talks: How Will AR Evolve from Toy to Tool?

Emerging tech often follows an evolutionary path from novelty to utility. It’s all about fun & games before settling into lasting value in everyday utilities. How is Snap living out this progression? We examine in the latest XR Talks.
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XR Talks: The Many Verses of the Metaverse

Beyond overuse and ambiguation, the metaverse holds some legitimate principles for our connected future. Among the bonafide thought leaders weighing in is Avi Bar-Zeev. We dive into his recent AWE presentation in this week’s XR Talks.
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XR Talks: Qualcomm Accelerates AR’s Next Era

Qualcomm’s chips are the gold standard in XR processing. And it recently doubled down on this positioning by moving up the stack with a developer kit. We examine its recent Snapdragon Spaces SDK launch for this week’s XR Talks.
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XR Talks: Sizing Up the Spatial Future

At the turn of a new year, it’s a good time to examine the status and trajectory of spatial computing. When looking across the spatial spectrum, from AR to VR where is the value today, and what’s the potential tomorrow? We dive in.
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How is Snap Evolving as an AR Platform?

At its Lens Fest, Snap announced Lens Studio 4.10 with broader lens sound libraries, greater depth mapping, and creator monetization tools. We dive into the details as well as Snap’s ongoing evolution as an AR platform.
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XR Talks: Metaverse, Shmetaverse

Like many emerging tech buzzwords, the metaverse is part hype and part substance. This is playfully baked into Ori Inbar’s „Metaverse vs. Shmetaverse“ construct, which we unpack in this week’s XR Talks.
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