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The AR, VR future coming in 2022: What we learned from CES - CNET
Jan 10, 2022 1 min, 41 secs
From PSVR 2 to chip partnerships and smart glasses, CES felt like a hint of changes to come -- regardless of how you feel about the metaverse.

Those could be joined by any number of surprises from players like Microsoft, Valve, Qualcomm, HTC and even companies that have been quiet lately on the AR/VR front but were previously active (like Samsung and Google).

A surprise partnership with Qualcomm announced at CES looks to develop smaller glasses that will likely work with phones as well as Windows devices, bridging Microsoft's existing attempts at cross-platform software with Qualcomm's initiative to make glasses that work with Android phones. .

This is interesting because phones still lack smart software to work with AR glasses.

And Apple, while having AR software and tools for phones and an expected VR/AR headset reveal later this year, hasn't yet made iOS work well with glasses either.

Google used to make VR hardware, and pioneered smart glasses with Google Glass?

Microsoft doesn't make its own phones, and Qualcomm could be looking to define the landscape ahead of more players entering this year.

The types of smart glasses Qualcomm has been promising are already arriving: last year, Lenovo's ThinkReality A3 and Nreal Light showed what smaller plug-in AR glasses could do, but the software and inputs (and compatibility with my own glasses prescription) aren't here yet.

Vuzix, which makes industrial smart glasses and AR equipment, has a very normal-looking pair of 3D AR glasses with micro LED displays that it expects to deploy in places like shipping centers.

VR's been stuck for a while on the same sort of game controller-like interface for years, and companies like Meta have already telegraphed a shift towards wrist-based controls as smaller headsets and AR glasses become the norm.

Companies like Nvidia are promising collaborative 3D graphics tools that will enable common standards for the metaverse

But right now, it's looking like a lot of companies are all claiming to have the solution without a clear consensus on how it will work

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