Mobile mixed reality market value to exceed $43 billion by 2024
5G & edge computing to drive mobile mixed reality market growth. Source: unsplash.com
A new study from Juniper Research has found that the global value of the mobile mixed reality market will exceed $43 billion by 2024, rising from $8 billion in 2019.
Mixed reality overlays interactive digital images and videos onto the real world through a smartphone, tablet or smart glasses.
The new research identified 5G networks and edge computing as two key emerging technologies that will accelerate the development of mixed reality services in 2020.
The study urged smart glasses vendors to incorporate hardware to enable 5G and edge computing capabilities. It forecast that the enhanced content and services enabled by these technologies would usher in the second wave of smart glasses adoption by increasing the end users’ capabilities.
The research also argued that leveraging cloud computing capabilities to deliver high-value mixed reality content is crucial to future success. It forecast that migrating processing power to the cloud would enable device vendors to reduce device sizes and minimize the social cost of public device use. It further forecast that mobile games multimedia apps categories will benefit most over the next five years, accounting for 67% of all smart glasses apps by 2024.
According to the Juniper Research forecast, 75% of consumer mixed reality will be attributable to smartphone apps by 2024. It found that the immediate base of nearly 6 billion smartphone users, combined with established content distribution in the form of app stores, will drive content development to smartphone devices.
