The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

More info Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon release open map dataset A group called the Overture Maps Foundation, which includes Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and TomTom, has released its first open map dataset, including 59 million “points of interest,” such as restaurants and landmarks.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores. China will try to change gear.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The result is that many big brands are canceling their presence at CES: Google, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, Lenovo, and many others, have decided not to go , and maybe provide their news virtually. Huawei this week has announced a new pair of smart glasses, available in China for around $270. a $100 Amazon Card). Some XR fun.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift was launched in the spring, it was disappointingly bundled with a Microsoft Xbox controller – and we’ve eagerly been awaiting the native Touch Controllers. GOOGLE DAYDREAM SCORES NETFLIX AND HBO APPS. valuation) from huge names like Google, Alibaba, and Andreeson Horowitz.

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GizModo VR

JULY 4, 2021

The China-based company quietly launched a new BytePlus division back in June focused on selling TikTok’s artificial intelligence technology, including the popular recommendation algorithm behind its ForYou feed, to… Read more. Now anyone can tap into the secret sauce behind ByteDance’s globally successful TikTok app—for a price.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Huawei has launched in China its VR glasses, that will be on sale in China in December for 2999RMB, around $400. Microsoft has officially stated that Minecraft Earth , that has been in beta for Android and iOS in carefully selected worldwide locations in the past months, is now ready for its launch. Google is doing it again.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

A worker wearing HoloLens 2 (Image by Microsoft). So, I envision the main companies in the field, like Microsoft and Magic Leap, to put their efforts into improving their platform to offer better services to their enterprise customers. Google Maps has now AR features. have made AR available also on the web.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. That’s why even Microsoft took Epic’s stances : Microsoft uses UE4 to develop some products also for Apple devices, and this decision hurts also its business.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Mr. Mike Powell, he is the head of the Microsoft Garage and the author of “Age of Smart Information,” a new book about how artificial intelligence and spatial computing will transform the way we communicate forever. ” And I guess he sent it to me on Amazon. Today’s guest is somebody absolutely spectacular.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Mr. Mike Powell, he is the head of the Microsoft Garage and the author of “Age of Smart Information,” a new book about how artificial intelligence and spatial computing will transform the way we communicate forever. ” And I guess he sent it to me on Amazon. Today’s guest is somebody absolutely spectacular.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification. The Verge).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed. Image from Amazon).

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VRWorld

JUNE 29, 2017

As you would expect from an expo focused on supercomputing, there were a lot of servers and server-related products presented to the public, but some of them, due to their size, were only shown as models, as was the case of the supercomputer installed in the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Oculus will release its official cable next month in limited quantities , but for now, it has released the specifications required for Link so that you can find alternate cables on Amazon. Google announces The Relightables. Google has just invented a new system to shoot volumetric videos of avatars. I love him.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

(Image by Microsoft). According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. It is not on sale on US HP Store and will be on Amazon US next month.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. On the software side, HTC has just launched in China Vive Sync , a solution for remote meetings in VR that may help a lot the Chinese people that are forced to work from home. Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

More info (HTC teasing Vive Flow) More info (More teaser images of Vive Flow) More info (Launch event invitation / Western World) More info (Launch event invitation / China). iOS 15 finally brings AR navigation instructions to Apple Maps , in a way similar to the one that Google is already offering. Other relevant news. Image by IGN).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 5, 2017

Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”. The game will expand into the West, China, and other markets soon. Overall, Riccitiello said he likes market competition, including Amazon and Cocos2d. “Our growth last year was three times the business of the next-largest game engine in the West.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 2, 2024

Additionally, US trade restrictions on China linked to advanced semiconductor technologies are already impacting Nvidia’s growth. Many cloud service providers like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google Cloud have already developed AI processors that work with Nvidia chips.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I mean, we have access to the world’s information — I can Google pretty much any details — but it just gives me the information. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. And in China, the number one job was astronaut. It’s not in context to my world.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I mean, we have access to the world’s information — I can Google pretty much any details — but it just gives me the information. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. And in China, the number one job was astronaut. It’s not in context to my world.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 26, 2022

When it comes to spending (or losing ) obscene amounts of money, it’s never a good idea to bet against the military. While normal people struggled to make ends meet and adapt to stressful economic uncertainties presented by the pandemic’s lockdowns and restrictions worldwide, global militaries were making a killing. Read more.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Outside of that, we’ve worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture. We tried to making a Google Cardboard thing,” and they made a little marketing kitschy thing. Carter: As for what our customers already can say — the game space — we worked with a variety of Triple-A game publishers.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Outside of that, we’ve worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture. We tried to making a Google Cardboard thing,” and they made a little marketing kitschy thing. Carter: As for what our customers already can say — the game space — we worked with a variety of Triple-A game publishers.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Outside of that, we've worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture. We tried to making a Google Cardboard thing," and they made a little marketing kitschy thing. We've got furniture stores or any sort of eCommerce shop -- Amazon, Wayfair -- offering the ability to view items, to see how they'll look in your home.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!” ” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Alan: I’m going to Google it here. That actually is a little bit different in China and some of the Asian countries. Google Pixel came out.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!” ” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Alan: I’m going to Google it here. That actually is a little bit different in China and some of the Asian countries. Google Pixel came out.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We've got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, "We want that!". Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Alan: I'm going to Google it here. That actually is a little bit different in China and some of the Asian countries. Google Pixel came out. Wouldn't that be amazing? What is it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Amazon Sumerian. One of their announcements the other day was this amazing ability to create 3D objects and 3D products, and then have the back end to source and serve them up for programmatic ads on Facebook, on Google. We’re not tied to Microsoft. 3D on Web is really becoming prevalent as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Amazon Sumerian. One of their announcements the other day was this amazing ability to create 3D objects and 3D products, and then have the back end to source and serve them up for programmatic ads on Facebook, on Google. We’re not tied to Microsoft. 3D on Web is really becoming prevalent as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Amazon Sumerian. One of their announcements the other day was this amazing ability to create 3D objects and 3D products, and then have the back end to source and serve them up for programmatic ads on Facebook, on Google. We're not tied to Microsoft. there's just all these tools. 3D on Web is really becoming prevalent as well.

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