Augmented & Virtual Reality Research Service

The Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) service covers enterprise and consumer applications, services, hardware, and platforms relating to digital visualization.

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Augmented and Virtual Reality: Investments, Acquisitions, and Market Trends for 2020
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Actionable Benefits Identify the most promising AR/VR use cases that are growing based on the latest funding trends and M&A activities. Prepare product/services that meet market needs. Breakdown of M&A deals and funding in AR and VR market. Understand how COVID-19 affected M&A activity and funding trends. Identify potential partnerships and collaborations. Critical Questions Answered Which are the AR/VR companies and verticals that demonstrate growth potential and ...
Augmented and Mixed Reality Market Update: Semiannual Update
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Actionable Benefits Improve decision making time and accuracy around AR/MR devices, use cases, and verticals with quick data slices along with supporting qualitative analysis. Increase understanding of present day and forward-looking impactful trends in hardware, software, and services and how that impact shapes pivotal elements of the AR/MR market. Quickly create strategies and strengthen business decisions in AR/MR and related markets without analyzing a full dataset. Critical ...
Augmented and Mixed Reality Market Data: Devices, Use Cases, Verticals, and Value Chain
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Actionable Benefits Acquire broad and deep quantitative knowledge of the entire augmented and mixed reality market value chain, including smart glasses hardware and total market revenues. Identify value for an AR implementation across device types, verticals, use cases, regions, market focus (enterprise vs consumer) and value chain segments. Understand present day and forward-looking impactful trends and how that impact shapes quantitative elements of the market. Recognize the ...
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Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality Coverage

ABI Research's AR & VR service focuses on technologies and use cases that provide value through data visualization and immersive experiences. It quantifies market opportunities across the value chain for both AR and VR, head-worn and handheld form factors, while identifying enabling technologies within and across markets such as smart industry, edge compute, machine learning, and 5G. The service supports quantitative data with qualitative analysis and insight, and special attention is paid to forward-looking use cases and technologies, realistic value to users, and return on investment for customers.

Coverage areas include:
  • Hardware and software value chain development
  • Mobile Device AR/MR
  • AR monocular versus binocular devices 
  • Tethered, standalone, and mobile VR Head-mounted displays (HMDs)
  • Applications, Use Cases, and Verticals
  • Connectivity
  • Sensors and processing
  • Device shipments by device type, region, and vertical
  • Software types, development, and distribution
  • Device usage support platforms
  • Systems integration
  • Return on investment
  • Cloud AR/VR
  • Edge Streaming
 
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Augmented And Virtual Reality: Visualizing Potential Across Hardware, Software, And Services

A level of immersion not possible before was introduced with VR, while AR offered an entirely unique way of accessing and overlaying data without removing a user from the world. Applications in both consumer and enterprise markets have been trialed, deployed, and proven Return on Investment (ROI).

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Answers To Today's Most Pressing AR & VR Questions

We help technology providers, partners, and end users answer the most pressing questions about Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality, including:
  • What are the basic principles of Augmented and Mixed Reality?
  • What are the primary differences between VR HMD device types?
  • What are the primary differences between mobile device AR and head-worn AR?
  • What is the current state of the AR and VR markets?
  • What kind of ROI is associated with AR and VR?
  • What impact will AR/MR have on my industry over the next 5 years?
  • What does the future AR and VR rollout timeline look like?
  • What will the effects be of mobile AR SDKs, like Apple ARKit and Google ARCore?
  • How are my competitors integrating AR and VR into their business models?
  • What are the potential AR/VR regulations to watch for?
  • What does a mobile device to head-worn AR shift look like in terms of time, investment, and usage?
  • What security risks are unique to AR/VR?
  • What does the competitive landscape look like for specific verticals and use cases?
  • How will AR and VR transform enterprise training?
  • What are the expectations for tethered, mobile, and standalone VR devices?
  • Which companies represent promising acquisition or partnership targets?
  • What associated markets should my company be monitoring and investing in?
  • How do smart glasses devices differ? What are the strengths/weaknesses?
  • What does the end-to-end AR and VR value chain look like?
  • How does the connectivity landscape with 5G and LPWA impact the AR/VR market?
 

Research Deliverables

We cover the technologies, trends, and markets from every angle, and we deliver our qualitative and quantitative intelligence in multiple formats.

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Competitive Assessment
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Competitive Assessment reports offer comprehensive analysis of implementation strategies and innovation, coupled with market share analysis, to offer unparalleled insight into a company’s performance and standing in comparison to its competitors.

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Market Data
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Market Data spreadsheets are composed of deep data, market share analysis, and highly segmented, service-specific forecasts to provide detailed insight where opportunities lie.

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Technology Analysis
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Based on extensive primary interviews, Technology Analysis reports present in-depth analysis on key market trends and factors for a specific technology.

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Hot Tech Innovators
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Hot Tech Innovators reports focus on companies at the forefront of transformational innovation, particularly those that are younger and less well-known than the incumbents, at the technological forefront of their markets, developing new business models, destabilizing the current market and prime acquisition targets.

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Market Update
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Depicted in a PowerPoint format, the Market Update provides a snapshot into current and future market opportunities and threats for a specific technology as well as focusing on a selected key market and associated trends.

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Transformative Horizon
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Transformative Horizon PowerPoints are aimed at providing timely, deep, actionable insight in the looming transformative innovations that will impact the markets which matter most by focusing on a new company entrance or product launch, a significant company merger, a new business model or a new strategic direction for an incumbent.

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Application Analysis
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Based on extensive primary interviews, Application Analysis reports present in-depth analysis on key market trends and factors for a specific application, which could focus on an individual market or geography.

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ABI Insight
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In a one- to two-page executive summary, ABI Insights are driven mostly by recent, noteworthy news events — including M&As, proposed and recently enacted regulations, product launches and market updates —and often highlight ABI Research’s important technology forecasts.

Analyst Expertise

In addition to our research deliverables, you also have one-on-one access to our expert analysts. They can answer pressing questions, provide strategic recommendations, and get you caught up on the latest news, trends, market changes, and more.

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