CES Is Back, Xreal Air2 Dominates Display Glasses, XBox Cloud Gaming On Quest

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – JANUARY 05: President and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association Gary . . .

[+] Shapiro delivers a state of the industry address during CES 2023 at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas on January 05, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world’s largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs through January 08 and features about 3,200 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to more than 100,000 attendees. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) CES, the largest trade show in the world, with 130,000 tickets sold already, descends on Las Vegas next week.

Once called The Consumer Electronics Show, today CES would be better characterized as the consumer everything show. Anything with a transistor in it will be on display in Vegas next week. AI will be the star of the show again this year, as it has not yet reached peak hype.

XR is well represented, and usually concentrated at the convention center, although startups can be found at the Sands/Venetian convention center. Sony Playstation, and PlaystationVR, have a huge footprint every year. Assisted Reality glasses, wearable displays for smartphones from XReal, Rokid, RayNEO, TCL, Lenovo, Virtue, and others will have an even bigger presence this year.

Luxottica, maker of Meta’s Ray-Ban Stories, will have a booth featuring the newly updated smartglasses which don’t have a display, but will have an AI co-pilot. The stylish Xreal Air2. Xreal ships 350K AR glasses in 2023, takes 51% of market in Q .

The company announced today that it has shipped 350,000 AR glasses in 2023. This represents a 320% year-over-year growth rate and gives Xreal a 51% market share in Q3 2023. The company’s shift from the complex, expensive spatial computing of the XReal Light, to the lower-priced wearable display of the Air2, has paid off.

XReal says it has not given up on spatial computing and promises to show its latest technology at CES next week. Snapdragon unveils its new products during the 2023 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit in the . .

. [+] town of Wuzhen in east China’s Zhejiang Province, Nov. 8, 2023.

The 2023 World Internet Conference WIC Wuzhen Summit kicked off Wednesday in the ancient water town of Wuzhen in east China’s Zhejiang Province. Reports on China and global internet development, awards for pioneering science and technology, and outstanding cases of jointly building a community with a shared future in cyberspace will be released at this year’s summit, lasting until Friday. (Photo by Huang Zongzhi/Xinhua via Getty Images) Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon XR2+ Chip for Mixed Reality .

The company introduced the upgraded Snapdragon processor, designed specifically for virtual and mixed reality headsets. Qualcomm has been working with Google and Samsung on new AR glasses, whcih will potentially compete with Apple’s Upcoming Vision Pro. The XR2+ chip set can power twelve sensors and delivers 4K images to each eye.

A completely non-invasive method of BCI. Mind-Reading AI Turns Thoughts Into Text. In a world-first, researchers from the GrapheneX-UTS Human-centric Artificial Intelligence Centre at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have developed a portable, non-invasive system that can decode silent thoughts and turn them into text.

The technology could aid communication for people who are unable to speak due to illness or injury, including stroke or paralysis. Flying gamer monochrome blue gears like mouse, keyboard, joystick, headset, VR Headset on yellow . .

. [+] table background. 3d rendering of accessories for live streaming concept top view Microsoft brings hundreds of Xbox titles to the Meta Quest – with no console required .

An extra controller is required, but Game Pass Ultimate is available for Quest headsets, expanding Microsoft’s cloud gaming footprint. Users can either play the game in a fully virtual environment or plop the virtual screen in their real-world environment using the Quest’s full-color Passthrough. There’s no game installation required, everything streams straight from the cloud.

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(Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) How Alan Smithee traded his points in “Saturday Night Fever” for a new car. You see that car over there? That car cost me a million dollars. A true-ish story from the business we call show.

This Week in XR is also a podcast hosted by the author of this column, Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, Paramount Global, and Rony Abovitz, founder of Magic Leap. This week our guest is Gary Shapiro, CEO of CES, just a couple of days before the biggest trade show in the world. We can be found on Spotify , iTunes , and YouTube .

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