📊 Week Ahead
- Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Results (Jan 29, 2025) – watch for Reality Labs costs in the earnings call: Meta Investor Release
- SIGGRAPH 2025 Technical Papers Submission Closes (Jan 16, 2025) – last chance to submit cutting-edge graphics and XR research: SIGGRAPH 2025 Submissions
- MWC 2025 Registration Open (Mar 3–6, 2025, Barcelona) – the world’s largest mobile and XR expo: MWC Barcelona
- SXSW XR Experience (Mar 9–11, 2025, Austin, TX) – immersive art, storytelling, and tech demos across three floors: SXSW XR Experience
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Extended Reality (XR) Report 2025: Key Data & Innovations
🔬 Deep Dive
- “The $10B Mistake Everyone’s Making” - Read the Full Analysis
💰 Market Moves
- Infinite Reality Secures $3 B Funding: iR closes a $3 billion round, valuing the company at $12.25 billion to accelerate its immersive tech roadmap
- Meta Reality Labs Achieves Record Q4 2024 Revenue: $1.083 billion in AR/VR hardware and software sales, offset by $4.97 billion in costs
🎯 Research Radar
- Stanford’s Holographic AR Glasses Prototype: AI-driven holographic waveguides overlay full-color, 3D imagery on everyday lenses
- DOGlove Haptic Force Feedback Glove: Open-source, low-cost system with 21 DoF motion capture and 5 DoF force feedback for dexterous teleoperation
- Virtual Social Touch VR System: Multi-user haptic VR gloves and sleeves enable real-time stroking, patting, and squeezing gestures across distances
📋 Patent Watch
- Meta’s Neural Interface Wristband (US20200022606A1) – wearable EMG device decoding motor signals for hands-free VR control
- Google’s AR Glasses with Insertable Prescription Port (WO2024248853) – Europe-published patent for modular smartglasses arms
- Apple’s Dual-Gaze Tracking Smartglasses System (US20240219715) – frame-mounted eye-tracking with glint-based and non-glint modes
✅ PredictionTracker
- ✓ Called Niantic’s pivot 5 months ago
- ✗ Overestimated Apple’s AR timeline
- ⏳ Watching our Magic Leap prediction
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💬 Community Pulse
- Poll Results: 67 % expect a major AR breakthrough in 2025 – SpatialTech Forum Poll
- Reader Question: “What about haptic feedback?”
📅 Calendar
- Mar 3–6, 2025: MWC 2025, Barcelona
- Mar 9–11, 2025: SXSW XR Experience, Austin
- Jun 10–12, 2025: NVIDIA GTC Paris
- Aug 10–14, 2025: SIGGRAPH 2025, Vancouver
