Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Given the size of the AR/VR market today, and its practical applications for a broad groups of users, it’s too early for the company to execute that plan. No that’s (sadly) not a stereo camera on the iPhone 7. But that doesn’t mean Apple isn’t actively engaged in AR/VR research and development.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

When I worked at Microsoft I got in trouble with the lawyers over patents so they made me sleep with a lawyer (true story, that was my punishment). I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. Just get Amazon’s latest iPhone app.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. Microsoft admits display problems on HoloLens 2. Microsoft negated the issue, but now, after continuous reporting from users, it has been forced to admit it.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2024

The industry is booming thanks to a broader range of companies taking charge and experimenting in the space, such as Disney, Amazon, Google, Samsung, LG, and countless others, meanwhile bringing support for enterprise, consumer, and other use cases. They were using expressions like spatial understanding and so on. .”

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Read on for a recap of the major developments that took place in 2018: Enterprises that made the news for using wearables: In 2018, major retailers got more serious about XR in hopes of competing with Amazon and improving the shopping experience. Walmart was very active, beginning with its acquisition of VR startup Spatialand in February.

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VRWorld

APRIL 4, 2017

As part of its Global Impact Award, an additional $150,000 in prizes will go to two research groups for pioneering work addressing important social and humanitarian problems. This year the company will award $600,000 in prizes to three winners from the 2,000 AI startups in its Inception program.

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

At the same time, personal voice assistants developed by tech giants — Alexa from Amazon, Siri from Apple, and Google Assistant — are standing at the forefront of the audio augmented reality market. For example, in 2019, Amazon extended Alexa features to pair with headphones and earbuds. Mobile application.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This is a pretty extreme pivot, and it is causing internal turmoil inside all the Meta group: the company is suggesting many people from Facebook and Instagram join Reality Labs instead , or it is promoting people working on social media to have also metaverse roles. It makes totally sense. Some updates on Meta products. Learn more.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 20, 2016

And this system, configured “as is” – costs as much as one of those “AMD announces, but you can’t actually buy” CyberPower $499 VR Ready computers paired with an Microsoft Xbox One or Sony PlayStation 4. Predictably, the kind of performance that Intel packs into this NUC doesn’t come cheap.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Samsung starts off the month debuting its VR Internet browser for Gear VR, becoming the first to offer a VR browser. A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. December 2015. August 2016.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

We plan to go online with it on Amazon or Netflix and present it like that, and then have it be an additional thing that maybe Netflix or Amazon has on their platform in the Oculus or HTC. And they had great group that they'd assembled, but sadly, if they don't constantly push the envelope with media, you can't stay in business now.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Alan: With the Kronos Group announcing the OpenXR standards now, I think it’s going to become easier and easier for people to build on this. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?]. The hope has always been can we build this on Web?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Alan: With the Kronos Group announcing the OpenXR standards now, I think it’s going to become easier and easier for people to build on this. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?]. The hope has always been can we build this on Web?

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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. SAMSUNG AND VICE PARTNER FOR 360 DOC RE: SYRIA. Now, the day is here, and the wait was… worth it? MAGIC LEAP’S CONTROVERSY.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The lab is really one of the pioneering research groups in the field of VR and behavior change. But my role is sort of translating that research and the research of other groups from the academic arena out into the medical product arena. But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon. It’s just amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The lab is really one of the pioneering research groups in the field of VR and behavior change. But my role is sort of translating that research and the research of other groups from the academic arena out into the medical product arena. But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon. It's just amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The lab is really one of the pioneering research groups in the field of VR and behavior change. But my role is sort of translating that research and the research of other groups from the academic arena out into the medical product arena. But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon. It’s just amazing.

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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. Another brand I’m very curious about is Samsung : sooner or later, it should announce something, either in VR or in AR.

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