Our Q1 2024 recap! - MetaVisions #23

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Davi de Andrade
April 02, 2024

Hi all, hope everyone had a good Easter break! had some sunshine in Manchester which is as rare as francium (earth’s rarest metal). As it is the end of the 1st quarter of 2024 (feel crazy saying it out loud), I want to do a recap on some of my favorite stories of the last 3 months.

Apple Vision Pro launches in the US

Probably my favorite story. In a couple of years time this might be the seen as the moment that changes how we interact with the digital world. Of course the hardware piece is interesting, but Apple entering the XR space has created a huge wave of hype, and brought in new eye balls to the industry.

Some cool stats from AVP so far:
Pre-orders for the AVP began on Jan 19, the launch shipments sold out in 18 minutes.
An analyst report estimates that 160K - 180K units were sold over the first three days of pre-orders.
Another report suggests that the AVP has sold nearly 200K units until now (mid-feb figures)

Our Vision Pro mentions:
Spatial Computing in Surgery & AR in the Army - MetaVisions #21
Neuralink live & AVP reviews are in - MetaVisions #16
Zuck's AI, AVP & Visor - MetaVisions #15

Disney buys stake in Epic Games

The entertainment and IP titan invested $1.5 billion in Epic Games, a gaming studio mostly known for releasing Fortnite. Disney’s vision for this investment is the creation of a games and entertainment universe, which will be interoperable with Fortnite.

Impressive stats from Fortnite:
Over 500 Million registered players (2024 data)
Around 221 million monthly active players.
The peak concurrent player count of Fortnite was 78.3 million. This happened in August 2018.
The Average Fortnite player spends on average $85 on in-game purchases.

CES: Sony’s Immersive Engineering

At the start of the year, Sony used the CES event to announce that they have been working on an MR device that will focus on engineering use cases. The development has been done in partnership with Siemens, who will integrate the device with many of their own platforms and also start to insert into their own processes once it launches.

It will ship with an impressive display quality that should rival Apple Vision Pro with a 4K Micro-oled display and top of line pass through. The headset will be flexing the new powerful Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 platform, which should have great processing power, but if that is not good enough users will be able to tether to a PC for more compute power.

Our Sony x Siemens headset mentions:
CES: Sony’s Immersive Engineering - MetaVisions #13

Although not my favourite story, I think it will be the most important one in the long-run. Elon Musk’s Neuralink chip was showcased in a live stream where the user was playing chess on his laptop by looking at the screen and thinking what he wanted to do. Proper Cyberpunk vibes, as I said before, the most impressive aspect of this, what we are seeing now is the least developed that this technology will be, future versions will keep on having new capabilities.

Other MetaVisions stories from this quarter:

Let’s hope for another exciting quarter,
Davi, MetaVisions

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