LG, Samsung, Huawei build trove of metaverse patents: survey - Nikkei Asia

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Meta and Sony are among the companies vying to make virtual world headsets. (Sipa via AP)

MASAHARU BAN, NORIO MATSUMOTO and NAOKO WATANABE, Nikkei unit writersNovember 27, 2022 05:20 JST | South Korea

TOKYO -- South Korean and Chinese companies are amassing patents for metaverse hardware, with LG Electronics and Huawei Technologies climbing the ranks arsenic the electronics assemblage looks beyond the smartphone.

The planetary metaverse marketplace is connected way to scope $74.7 cardinal successful 2026, a fivefold summation successful 5 years, U.S. marketplace probe institution IDC projects for the virtual and augmented world fields. Specialized hardware, specified arsenic the 3D headset released past period by Facebook genitor Meta, play a cardinal relation successful accessing the virtual space.

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