CES 2024 was certainly interesting this year; while we did anticipate AI being inserted into everything from TVs to cars, there were some genuine surprises from the show floor here in
XReal just revealed its Air 2 Ultra AR Glasses and seems pretty confident about them being the perfect alternative to the Apple Vision Pro. Unlike Apple’s painfully expensive $3500 spatial computer headset, the Air 2 Ultra will just set you back $700.
If you have several thousand dollars burning an Apple-shaped hole in your pocket, then get your eyes ready and shave your head for good measure because Apple’s long-time coming “spatial computer,” the Vision Pro, will finally make its way into Apple fans’ hands Feb 2.
Trying to draw attention back to its Metaverse ambitions, Meta dropped the price of its 128 GB to $250.
As Apple continues to struggle with what exactly to do with its overpriced Vision Pro, discussions behind the scenes reportedly included using the mixed-reality headset to diagnose—and potentially treat—mental health.
Rumors of the metaverse’s death overseas may have been a bit premature, even as headset-maker Pico seems to be in the doldrums of a rather anticlimactic year in VR.
How’s that whole metaverse thing going? Well, according to one top analyst’s sales expectations for the Quest 3 mixed reality headset, not as well as Meta might hope.
Watching the Meta Quest 3 being announced by Meta made me realize something – the hardware available for virtual, augmented and mixed reality is finally catching up with the big idea pitches everyone had about this concept called the “metaverse” a couple of years ago.