Omdia analysts talked about the future of the virtual reality market. By 2025, spending on VR content alone will exceed $4 billion. But really mass VR will not become until the 2030s.

In 2019, more than $4.1 billion was invested in augmented and virtual reality projects. This is less than in 2018.

The analytical firm SuperData has compiled a rating of the best-selling VR helmets for the 4th quarter of 2019. She also made a forecast for the augmented reality (XR) market. In three years, its turnover will reach $14.9 billion.

The revenue of the augmented reality (XR) market is expected to grow to $11.5 billion in 2019. This forecast, based on revenue statistics from VR, AR and MR devices, was made in SuperData.

Investments in AR/VR games have come to naught. The sad situation of virtual and augmented reality games by the 4th quarter of the year is demonstrated by the report of Digi-Capital.

The segment of companies engaged in augmented reality projects expanded by 50% in the first half of 2018, according to the investment fund The Venture Reality Fund.

The Indian company Kaaya Tech plans to release HoloSuit gloves and suits for virtual reality by November of this year. The minimum goal of the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign was achieved in less than a week.

Apple has introduced an updated augmented reality platform ARKit 2, which will appear in the latest version of the iOS 12 mobile operating system. Among other features in ARKit 2, support for multiplayer in AR games is announced.

Czech independent studio Hyperbolic Magnetism has announced a good start to its VR project Beat Saber. In the first week, sales of the game about chopping multicolored cubes with a lightsaber exceeded $ 50 thousand copies.

6 months have passed since the release of the ARKit augmented reality application platform for iOS. During this time, ARKit-enabled programs have been downloaded more than 13 million times, according to the Sensor Tower analytical company.

Google has released the final version of the ARCore devkit, designed for the development of augmented reality applications.

The Russian government was offered to create a ministry for the development of new technologies and virtual reality. This initiative was made by Boris Chernyshov, Deputy head of the Education Committee of the State Duma.

Sony Corporation is waiting for 130 fresh projects for PlayStation VR this year in addition to the 150 available games. If the forecast comes true, the library of PSVR-compatible games will grow by 80% by the end of 2018.

One less mystery. Startup Magic Leap demonstrated the design of augmented reality glasses Magic Leap One. The project was developed for 6 years in secrecy and raised $1.9 billion in investments.

The rating service GitHyp has brought disappointing statistics: VR versions of popular titles on Steam are hardly collected online by several hundred gamers.

Amazon Internet Corporation has launched the Amazon Sumerian platform for creating three-dimensional applications for VR and AR devices.

Quarterly sales of virtual reality helmets exceeded 1 million devices for the first time. Such a number of VR headsets were implemented in the third quarter of 2017.

Apple has acquired Vrvana startup for about $30 million, Techcrunch reports, citing internal sources.

Niantic Studio, in partnership with the media company Warner Brothers, is developing a mobile augmented reality game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite based on the “Harry Potter” franchise.