VR headset sales expected to pick up
IDC expects a 10-fold increase
Beancounters at IDC have added up some numbers and divided them by their shoe size and reached the conclusion that global shipments of augmented and virtual reality headset devices are expected to reach 99.4 million units in 2021.
Swatch enters the wearable OS market
Look out Apple
Designer watch maker Swatch said that it has written its own alternative operating system for mobile watches and will be launching its own battle for the world’s watches next year.
Apple patents Airbuds tracking your health
What do you mean you can do that with a headphone jack?
The fruit tax-dodging cargo cult thinks it has found another reason to stick its expensive Airbuds into your ears.
Total Recall loses case against Oculus
On a technicality
Total Recall Technologies (TRT) has had its lawsuit against Oculus VR and its founder Palmer Luckey tossed out of court on a filing technicality.
Windows Mixed Reality demo is somewhat unrealistic
Platform launches middle of next month
A few days ago, Microsoft released a new Windows Insider preview build to the public that contains the first available demonstration of the Windows Mixed Reality platform that will launch later this month, along with new lightweight head-mounted displays providing six degrees of freedom to remove physical boundaries.