Largely summarising a BusinessInsider report, paints a gloomy view of the likelihood that Google can take a convincing shot at delivering something competitive next year. Based on a range of leaks from insiders.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A new report from Business Insider details how Google has fallen so far behind, telling the familiar modern-Google story of a rudderless company with constantly changing priorities and absentee leadership.
Software projects like ARCore, a VR UI for Android, the painting app Tilt Brush, and several AR Google Maps features are all dead or haven’t gotten much traction.
The BI report details how Google’s latest dead project, Iris, “was beset by a constantly shifting strategy and lack of focus from senior leadership.”
According to the report, Samsung wants to follow its usual strategy and “build a headset device similar to Apple’s Vision Pro.”
Despite acquiring hardware companies like the Micro-LED manufacturer Raxiom and smart glasses-maker North, Google now wants to “pivot to software” and follow the Android model.
Samsung doesn’t want any of these other parts of Google or other hardware competitors to be privy to its Vision Pro clone, so the three teams are all firewalled off from each other and have to compete for resources.
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Let the headset wars begin. As a long time VR fan i see this as an absolute win!
I’m very interested to see what Samsung comes out with. The Odyssey was a great device and they have superb hardware expertise in all kinds of ways. In some ways they are better positioned than Apple (for example, in-house display manufacturing etc).
Google - I have no idea about, it’s been so long since I saw them deliver something new and convincing on the software front.
I hope these new headsets will be usable for VR games and not just for watching stuff. Most of my phones have been high end samsung flagships so hopefully they can provide as much quality in their VR headsets then their other devices. Maybe even go in the direction of a wearable phone i could have on my face with great AR cameras. I’d be the first interested in stuff like that!
