Moor XR Podcast - A Moor Insights & Strategy Podcast

This episode is a doozy, covering the end of 2021 and CES 2022 announcements, we cover 22 topics in a record 30 minutes, which include:

1. Intel’s view on the Metaverse

2. Among Us coming to VR

3. Horizon Worlds comes out of beta

4. Sony’s Technology Day - 4K OLED microdisplays and haptics

5. Gabe Newell’s comments on Valve’s VR hardware and software investments

6. Spatial’s $25M new round of funding and pivot to NFTs

7. Meta’s acquisition of Supernatural’s studio Within

8. Google recruits new talent to lead its new AR OS team?

9. Realwear Navigator 500

10. Coinbase has thoughts about the Metaverse

11. Recroom raises $145M

12. Apple hires Meta’s XR head of PR

13. Mojovision $45M for AR contact lenses

14. Qualcomm + Microsoft partnership

15. ShiftAll (Panasonic) MicroOLED VR headset

16. TCL Leiniao AR Glasses and NXTWear Air

17. PSVR2 Specs and thoughts

18. Quest 2 Holiday Sales Numbers

19. VRgineers XTAL 3.0

20. Canon Kokomo

And more!

A deep discussion with Tobii's Johan Helqvist about the upcoming advances in eye-tracking including the consumer availability of eye-tracking in VR and AR headsets.

Topics:

1. AWE 2021 in-person impressions

2. HTC Vive Focus 3 LBE Update

3. Qualcomm Snapdragon Spaces

4. Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro Talk about AR, VR and Metaverse

5. Decagear Delays

6. Sandbox VR gets $37M in Series B funding

7. Lynx R-1 Mixed Reality Headset gets funded with $800K

8. HP XRServices for printer customer service

9. Nreal Light coming to Verizon this month

10. Meta’s haptic gloves, HaptX call-out

11. Scathing Nreal Light review on Forbes

Topics:

1. Magic Leap 2

2. Hololens Army project delayed?

3. HTC Vive Flow

4. Pimax Frontier

5. Varjo Aero

6. Facebook Reality Labs Breaking Out Financials

7. Facebook Connect

8. Meta/verse talk

9. AT&T, Ericsson, Wevr location-based VR 5G experience

10. Digilens gets $500M valuation in new $50M+ round of funding

11. Meta going to open retail stores?

1. Some people may not be familiar with the term mixed reality or not fully understand what it means, what is your definition of mixed reality?

2. Now that we’ve got the definition out of the way, what are some of the reasons you’ve chosen to pursue mixed reality rather than VR or AR independent of one another?

3. What are some of the biggest challenges you’ve experienced in making mixed reality happen for your company?

4. What makes a headset designed for mixed reality different from a VR headset or AR headset?

5. Are there fundamental differences in user interaction for Mixed Reality from AR or VR? What about the similarities?

6. Right now, VR and AR are both mostly enterprise focused, what applications do you think will benefit from Mixed Reality in both the consumer and enterprise space?

7. Are there any unique software features or APIs that you believe are critical to enabling mixed reality today and into the future? OpenXR? CloudXR?

8. Can you talk about your views on split rendering using 5G or Wi-Fi and how you think that fits into mixed reality?

9. The Lynx R-1 headset Kickstarter is underway and got fully funded in only 15 hours, what do you attribute to that kind of excitement around a Mixed Reality headset?

10. Is there anything else you guys would like our audience to know about Mixed Reality that we haven’t covered here yet?

Topics:

1. The Facebook Outage

2. Lynx R1 Kickstarter Funds in 15 hours!

3. T-Mobile is using AR to service its own 5G infrastructure

4. Facebook Rebrands Facebook Horizon to Horizon Worlds, Adds $10M in funding

5. Canon Introduces 190 Degree Lens and Software for VR Photos & Video

6. VMware Announces Workspace ONE XR Hub

7. Where is Magic Leap 2?

8. Qualcomm, Valve, and Microsoft Partner on Wi-Fi Dual Station, what does it mean for XR?

9. Pico finally launches the Neo 3 Pro and Neo 3 Pro Eye

10. VA is looking to use 5G and AR to help patients with projects like Project CONVERGENCE

This week, I cover:

1. Pico’s Neo 3 pro and Neo 3 Pro Eye Launch

2. HTC Vive Focus 3 and Pro 2

3. NVIDIA brings DLSS to VR

4. Google I/O - AR Search, Google Maps AR and Project Starline

5. Digilens’ Design V1 developer AR smart glasses for developers and OEMs

6. PS4 rumored specs, 2K x 2K res and eye tracking

7. Snap Partner Summit - Disney Partnership, Spectacles and Ghost incubator

8. Spatial 4.0 Update - SteamVR, Web Clients and Art Gallery + NFT ready!

In the inaugural episode of the Moor XR Podcast Anshel speaks with HP's Henry Wang, NVIDIA's David Weinstein and Tobii's Johan Hellqvist about foveated rendering and where the industry is at today with the technologies that enable it.