Category: Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality market research reports by IDC
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Worldwide Augmented and Virtual Reality Hardware Forecast Update, 2023–2027: CY 3Q23
Worldwide Augmented and Virtual Reality Hardware Forecast Update, 2023–2027: CY 3Q23 This IDC study provides an updated forecast for the worldwide augmented and virtual reality hardware market for the 2023–2027 period."2023 is a year for modest growth for the worldwide AR/VR market, but it is also l ... Read More
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U.S. Augmented and Virtual Reality Hardware Forecast Update, 2023–2027: CY 3Q23
U.S. Augmented and Virtual Reality Hardware Forecast Update, 2023–2027: CY 3Q23 This IDC study provides an updated forecast for the U.S. augmented and virtual reality hardware market for the 2023–2027 period."The U.S. AR/VR hardware market will see slight growth in 2023 before returning to double-di ... Read More
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Metaverse and Web3 Need Effective Ecosystems to Advance
Metaverse and Web3 Need Effective Ecosystems to Advance This IDC Market Perspective describes the current metaverse and Web3 ecosystem and talks about technologies and companies representing different layers of the ecosystem. It also investigates trends that shape the metaverse and Web3 infrastructu ... Read More
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Unlocking CSPs' Opportunities in Europe: Leveraging 5G Network Slicing for AR/VR Applications
Unlocking CSPs' Opportunities in Europe: Leveraging 5G Network Slicing for AR/VR Applications This IDC Market Perspective delves into the potential opportunities for telco vendors and operators to leverage 5G network slicing for augmented and virtual reality applications across different industry ve ... Read More
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Enterprise and Industrial Metaverse — Beginning to Take Shape and Enable Business and Operational Transformation
Enterprise and Industrial Metaverse — Beginning to Take Shape and Enable Business and Operational Transformation This IDC Market Perspective helps digital engineering and OT (DEOT) service providers explore different types of metaverse services, their ecosystem, relevant use cases across industries, ... Read More
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Augmented Reality Applications for Cost-Effective Service Delivery and Value-Added Customer Experience
Augmented Reality Applications for Cost-Effective Service Delivery and Value-Added Customer Experience This IDC Market Perspective reviews how augmented reality (AR) is being used to benefit service providers and their customers. Leading print market players are squeezing print-related service margi ... Read More
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U.S. Virtual Reality Market Shares, 2022: Meta Claims Nearly 100% Market Share
U.S. Virtual Reality Market Shares, 2022: Meta Claims Nearly 100% Market Share This IDC examines the market share of the major vendors in the U.S. virtual reality market in 2022."With few new device launches forcing vendors to lead with legacy devices, the U.S. virtual reality market faced major cha ... Read More
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U.S. AR/VR Game Development Trends from GDC 2023: Meta Sets the Table for Quest 3 and Niantic's Lightship Shines
U.S. AR/VR Game Development Trends from GDC 2023: Meta Sets the Table for Quest 3 and Niantic's Lightship Shines This IDC Market Note assesses VR and AR news, trends, and best practices that emerged from the 2023 Game Developers Conference (GDC), which took place in San Francisco in late March."Met ... Read More
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Future of Customer Experience: Who Do Enterprises See as Their Most Strategic Partner for CX Transformation?
Future of Customer Experience: Who Do Enterprises See as Their Most Strategic Partner for CX Transformation? This IDC Market Perspective covers the factors that will most impact future CX transformation with the shift to digital business models, where enterprises are seeking help and, crucially, who ... Read More
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Five Key Unified Communications and Collaboration Trends for 2023
Five Key Unified Communications and Collaboration Trends for 2023 This IDC Perspective provides insight for technology buyers into five key areas that we feel will impact the worldwide unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market in 2023 and beyond."Although expectations are that orga ... Read More
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Worldwide Mobile and Handheld Gaming Forecast, 2023–2027: Mobile Gaming Adjusts to Its First-Ever Spending Drop
Worldwide Mobile and Handheld Gaming Forecast, 2023–2027: Mobile Gaming Adjusts to Its First-Ever Spending Drop This IDC study sizes and assesses the mobile and handheld console gaming marketplace worldwide through 2027. The forecast includes a four-region breakout: North America, Western Europe, As ... Read More
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Worldwide Augmented Reality Hardware Market Shares, 2022: Nreal Supplants Microsoft for Leadership
Worldwide Augmented Reality Hardware Market Shares, 2022: Nreal Supplants Microsoft for Leadership This IDC study provides a view of worldwide AR hardware market shares by vendor for 2022."Although the worldwide AR hardware market remained relatively flat in 2022, beneath the surface were major shif ... Read More
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Is the Metaverse Virtually a Reality for Life Science R&D?
Is the Metaverse Virtually a Reality for Life Science R&D? This IDC Perspective reviews the significant potential of the metaverse and how it could transform the life science industry. It covers key use cases, analyzes the vendor landscape, reviews implementation challenges, and provides guidance to ... Read More
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Progress Continues to Enhance Its Front-End Developer Tooling Portfolio with ThemeBuilder Pro and Updates to Telerik and Kendo UI
Progress Continues to Enhance Its Front-End Developer Tooling Portfolio with ThemeBuilder Pro and Updates to Telerik and Kendo UI This IDC Market Note discusses Progress' R3 2022, with specific attention to its ThemeBuilder Pro, Telerik, and Kendo UI products. "ThemeBuilder Pro's ability to accele ... Read More
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Part 2: Developing Realistic Expectations for AR/VR — Device Considerations
Part 2: Developing Realistic Expectations for AR/VR — Device Considerations This IDC Market Perspective investigates the challenges in mass-market augmented reality/virtual reality/extended reality (AR/VR/XR) devices by studying the role of sensors, onboard algorithms, semiconductor processor funct ... Read More
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NVIDIA's Launch of Omniverse Cloud Services: Opportunities for Industrial Metaverse Concept Development
NVIDIA's Launch of Omniverse Cloud Services: Opportunities for Industrial Metaverse Concept Development This IDC Market Note covers NVIDIA's recent plans to launch Omniverse Cloud services for building and operating industrial metaverse applications. NVIDIA will provide developers and enterprise tea ... Read More
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Worldwide Augmented and Virtual Reality Hardware Forecast, 2023–2027: CY 1Q23
Worldwide Augmented and Virtual Reality Hardware Forecast, 2023–2027: CY 1Q23 This IDC study provides a forecast for the worldwide augmented and virtual reality hardware market for the 2023–2027 period."2022 saw market retrenchment from forces within and outside," points out Ramon T. Llamas, researc ... Read More
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Telcos in the Metaverse Era
Telcos in the Metaverse Era This IDC Market Perspective explores the many definitions of the metaverse with a deep dive on how the telco industry engages with the metaverse. The report also introduces the IDC Metaverse Value Chain Framework. From this, it analyzes the different activities and initia ... Read More
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Computational Challenges in Metaverse Are Unlikely to Go Away: What Is Needed for Metaverse to Succeed?
Computational Challenges in Metaverse Are Unlikely to Go Away: What Is Needed for Metaverse to Succeed? This IDC Market Note looks at the metaverse from a bird's-eye view and examines the critical parts it needs to evolve. IDC defines the metaverse as a highly immersive future environment that blen ... Read More
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Web 3.0 and Its Role in the Metaverse and How to Prepare the Infrastructure for What Is Coming
Web 3.0 and Its Role in the Metaverse and How to Prepare the Infrastructure for What Is Coming This IDC Market Note looks at the differences between Web3 and the metaverse and talks about what IT infrastructure vendors should be ready for when the metaverse finally arrives. IDC defines Web3 as a co ... Read More
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Part 4: Developing Realistic Expectations for Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality/Extended Reality — Network Considerations
Part 4: Developing Realistic Expectations for Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality/Extended Reality — Network Considerations In this IDC Market Perspective, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and extended reality (XR) devices are making great strides with the emergence of system on a chip (S ... Read More
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Part 1: Developing Realistic Expectations for AR/VR/XR –Algorithms
Part 1: Developing Realistic Expectations for AR/VR/XR –Algorithms This IDC Market Perspective investigates the status of augmented reality (AR)/virtual reality (VR) development to gauge the prospects for realizing mass market devices, such as the AR glasses, in the next three to five years. Algorit ... Read More
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Part 3: Developing Realistic Expectations for Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality/Mixed Reality in Internet of Things — Commercial Use Cases
Part 3: Developing Realistic Expectations for Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality/Mixed Reality in Internet of Things — Commercial Use Cases Augmented/virtual/mixed reality (AR/VR/XR) commercial uses are continuing to grow in number, and deployments already exist across all industries, including defen ... Read More
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Enabling Remote Collaboration Through AR/VR and Metaverse in Europe
Enabling Remote Collaboration Through AR/VR and Metaverse in Europe This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the state of XR-enabled collaboration in Europe, providing advice to IT vendors in the remote collaboration and workforce transformation space. The study delves into key factors pushing investmen ... Read More
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IDC PeerScape: Practices to Successfully Implement Immersive Technologies in Retail
IDC PeerScape: Practices to Successfully Implement Immersive Technologies in Retail This IDC PeerScape identifies the main challenges that peers in the retail industry must overcome through immersive technologies: product visualization and trial online, empowerment of store associates, store attract ... Read More