The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. Sounded good.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

For instance, there are lots of new headsets being released by hardware companies: just in the last year, there have been the Oculus Quest & Rift S , HTC Vive Focus Plus , HP Reverb , Valve Index , Acer OJO 500, and HoloLens 2 … just to mention the most popular ones. Maquette by Microsoft). Is it necessary to own all of them?

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2020

The headset’s ease-of-use, solid game library, and reasonable price has pushed it to become Oculus’ best rated headset on Amazon thus far. While the company had originally collaborated with HTC to create the Vive, this time around Valve opted to handle everything on their own. Image courtesy HTC. Vive Cosmos.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Oculus and HTC had been holding details surrounding Rift and Vive launch windows close to the chest, probably because they had delays to announce and need to nail down new plans. First, HTC delays the Vive until April 2016, with plans to show an updated developer kit at CES in January. In December, these plans become known.

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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. And training is a good example. So let’s go back to your training example, because I think it’s a brilliant one. Lance: Exactly right.

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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. And training is a good example. So let’s go back to your training example, because I think it’s a brilliant one. Lance: Exactly right.

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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. And training is a good example. And I think they're a fantastic example of what's been going wrong in this industry, which was here's our great new technology. Lance: Exactly right.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

The same day of the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Hewlett-Packard has announced its new virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2 , made in collaboration with Microsoft and Valve. Valve could provide some audio-visual improvements, while Microsoft its WMR platform, with inside-out tracking of controllers. HP announces the Reverb G2.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

One of the coolest examples that I think of, which may not apply to the everyday medium-sized company, is training in a way that is location-agnostic, and it could even be marketing; meaning, you could have a salesman or a lead engineer in Dallas, and you could have another engineer in Detroit. And where did we come from?"

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

One of the coolest examples that I think of, which may not apply to the everyday medium-sized company, is training in a way that is location-agnostic, and it could even be marketing; meaning, you could have a salesman or a lead engineer in Dallas, and you could have another engineer in Detroit. And where did we come from?"

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

One of the coolest examples that I think of, which may not apply to the everyday medium-sized company, is training in a way that is location-agnostic, and it could even be marketing; meaning, you could have a salesman or a lead engineer in Dallas, and you could have another engineer in Detroit. And where did we come from?"

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

One of the coolest examples that I think of, which may not apply to the everyday medium-sized company, is training in a way that is location-agnostic, and it could even be marketing; meaning, you could have a salesman or a lead engineer in Dallas, and you could have another engineer in Detroit. And where did we come from?"

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DECEMBER 31, 2016

When you think about things like intelligent assistants, we have embedded services like Siri from Apple, Google Home, Amazon Echo with Alexa. Valve and HTC have the Vive. Curran: If you look at it over time, we’ve had successful examples of both. VB: Trend number two you said was intelligent assistants. Facebook has Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. And being immersed in a 360 video, for example, makes a wonderful training tool. But Walmart, for example, wants to train people for Black Friday, to prepare them for the onslaught of craziness.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. And being immersed in a 360 video, for example, makes a wonderful training tool. But Walmart, for example, wants to train people for Black Friday, to prepare them for the onslaught of craziness.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

They're much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. And being immersed in a 360 video, for example, makes a wonderful training tool. But Walmart, for example, wants to train people for Black Friday, to prepare them for the onslaught of craziness.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Give us some examples of some of the ways people are using VR to exercise. One example is retail employees. Amazon Sumerian. We’re not tied to Microsoft. You talked about exercising in VR. Michael: The boxing games are pretty popular, and I definitely have to mention Beat Saber. We’re not tied to Magic Leap.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Give us some examples of some of the ways people are using VR to exercise. One example is retail employees. Amazon Sumerian. We’re not tied to Microsoft. You talked about exercising in VR. Michael: The boxing games are pretty popular, and I definitely have to mention Beat Saber. We’re not tied to Magic Leap.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Give us some examples of some of the ways people are using VR to exercise. There's a lot of, for example, architectural firms in town, and they aren't as flashy as a virtual sports or something, but they're all using VR for showing the buildings, or going to a client and saying, "hey, would you like this room moved over here?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. Amazon sold me a moulded nylon grip for an AR-15 airsoft rifle… it was time to start work building my first development “Mule”. Image provided by Rob Cole).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. So maybe they try VR training, for example, and they’re seeing some really good traction, but they won’t release it as a case study, because they’re seeing that as a technological advantage to their business.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. So maybe they try VR training, for example, and they’re seeing some really good traction, but they won’t release it as a case study, because they’re seeing that as a technological advantage to their business.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. So maybe they try VR training, for example, and they're seeing some really good traction, but they won't release it as a case study, because they're seeing that as a technological advantage to their business. These are like the major tech companies.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We’ve got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. For example, if you want to do an architectural visualization, it may be better to do that in VR, because you’re able to completely shift your context and be completely immersed with that environment.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We've got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. For example, if you want to do an architectural visualization, it may be better to do that in VR, because you're able to completely shift your context and be completely immersed with that environment.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We’ve got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. For example, if you want to do an architectural visualization, it may be better to do that in VR, because you’re able to completely shift your context and be completely immersed with that environment.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

If developers of PC games want to invest more time to create a VR version of them (like it happened for No Man’s Sky, or Microsoft Flight Simulator, for instance), this could help a lot the PCVR market. I think this year we will have always more examples of this kind, and the Apple headset should be the final realization of this trend.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

So remote support, for example. RealWear’s a great example. Colgate, for example. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. And I think what it shows is that, like your example, learning how to tile a wall. And that’s just really powerful.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

So remote support, for example. RealWear’s a great example. Colgate, for example. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise. And I think what it shows is that, like your example, learning how to tile a wall. And that’s just really powerful.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

So remote support, for example. RealWear's a great example. Colgate, for example. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they're pivoting to enterprise. And I think what it shows is that, like your example, learning how to tile a wall. And that's just really powerful. Alan: Awesome.

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