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XR’s $250B Future: How to Overcome Scalability Hurdles – Techronicler
by The Techronicler Team
The extended reality (XR) market, encompassing virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR), is poised for explosive growth, projected to reach $250 billion by 2028, according to McKinsey’s 2024 report.
With a 250% surge in search interest over the past five years, as noted by Exploding Topics in 2025, XR is capturing the imagination of industries from gaming to healthcare. Yet, scalability remains a critical bottleneck, with 70% of companies lacking the IT infrastructure to support XR deployment, per Gartner’s 2025 tech trends.
To uncover actionable solutions, we asked tech leaders and industry experts:
“What is one solution you’d recommend to improve XR scalability in your industry?”
Their responses, ranging from cloud-based platforms to modular hardware, reveal practical strategies to bridge the IT gap, empower businesses to adopt XR, and unlock its transformative potential in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Read on!
Bill Stevenson
Chairman Umajin
The hardware for the XR market has become quite functional, with both Quest 3 and Vision Pro providing excellent pass-through AR capability, although not yet in a comfortable form factor. Hardware advances continue and new headsets like the NTT/Sharp MirZA (available now) and Meta’s forthcoming Orion/Artemis (2027) will enable all-day use.
The big issues in “IT backbone support” include the need for MDM tools to manage large fleets of headsets, the ability to integrate XR headsets into collaborative processes with colleagues using mobile and laptop devices, and the complexity and cost of developing high value use cases that are integrated into enterprise data systems (vs siloed processes).
Development platforms combining spatial computing and physical AI that simplify the development of XR applications, including API management for enterprise systems, real-time collaboration across hardware types and the management of the runtime on each device, will be central to addressing these obstacles.
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