ARVR

JULY 20, 2022

Last year, Snap acquired WaveOptics for $500 million, Meta acquired ImagineOptix, and Samsung acquired DigiLens shortly after it had valued itself at $500 million in its D round. The obvious question is, if this is at all real, they why have they not been snapped up by one of the large players in the industry.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We know we are only a few years off from seeing some amazing augmented reality products from Apple and Facebook. iPhone 12 pro and Samsung Galaxy S20 iPhone 12 Pro: With ARKit just about any modern iPhone or iPad can be considered an AR gift. Compared to Amazon and Google the Portal is the only display/camera with AR capabilities.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2023

After having seen the teaser of the Quest 3 and especially the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro (about which you can read my opinion here ), I’m always more convinced that we have entered into a new phase of XR history. Google joined forces with Samsung (and Qualcomm) to release a new headset soon.

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ARVR

MARCH 29, 2021

Apple integrated the technology in the iPad Pro last year, signaling that it would soon arrive at an iPhone near you. This aligns with Apple’s AR master plan but more immediately has photography benefits?—?a a key focal point in the iPhone’s horse-race against Samsung and Google flagships.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

VR magazines have published this week many pieces of advice for new Quest 2 owners. Apple launches iPhone 12, Pro models have Lidar sensor. It is already being adopted by Apple and Samsung and it works more or less like an indoor GPS , where you can locate some gadgets from your phone by using this radio communication protocol.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

For example, a user could point a camera at areas of their city to see what it looked like ten years ago from an archive of Google Maps. Since location anchors are dependent on Apple Maps data, this means that if the city is not supported by Apple Maps, functionality for location anchors may be limited.

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ARVR

AUGUST 28, 2020

Companies like Tesla and Google are heavily investing in self-driving cars that can completely reduce risks of accidents due to unsafe driving. So, is shutting yourself indoors the only safe alternative? Fortunately no! Who makes it safer? It is the VR based simulators! Don’t forget to give us your ?? !

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Facebook and Apple will jumpstart the smartglasses ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I thought it could have been great to give visibility to this very interesting magazine also in the West and at the same time ask them some questions on the current status of the VR market. So we agreed on a written interview on WeChat, which I report to you here below. What has been the most important XR news in China in the latest weeks?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The world received a gift three years ago, in the form of AR technology from the likes of Google and Apple - ARKit and ARCore. Google gave a grant to the DuSable Museum in Chicago, so they wanted to reboot the Mayor Harold Washington exhibit. It could have been a prospective student tour at Arizona State University.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The world received a gift three years ago, in the form of AR technology from the likes of Google and Apple - ARKit and ARCore. Google gave a grant to the DuSable Museum in Chicago, so they wanted to reboot the Mayor Harold Washington exhibit. It could have been a prospective student tour at Arizona State University.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The world received a gift three years ago, in the form of AR technology from the likes of Google and Apple - ARKit and ARCore. Google gave a grant to the DuSable Museum in Chicago, so they wanted to reboot the Mayor Harold Washington exhibit. It could have been a prospective student tour at Arizona State University.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Some months ago, we all read that letter where Zuckerberg claimed wanting to get complete control of the hardware and software stack so that Facebook shouldn’t depend on external companies, like Google or Apple for the SO, or phone manufacturers for the hardware. Then please, make a donation on Patreon!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

I know many people that have tried this T-shirt: it has been one of the most discussed gadgets of CES in the community, even if it had no visibility on the most important VR magazines. The second one I selected is from Samsung , and in this case to show what I wouldn’t like to have in an AR windshield. Further references.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Google’s investment for a 7.7% Google-Jio joint venture to develop an Android-based platform for an affordable 5G phone. Read about Google experiments with AR and wearables. A very interesting article on CNET highlights some of the experiments that Google has made with 1D glasses, smart tattoos and other cool stuff.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Some magazines reported this news as a sign of the failure of Meta’s strategy about the metaverse. There is instead a rumored partnership with Samsung , where Samsung would actually build a new XR device and Microsoft offer the platform on top of which the headset may run. Image by Apple). It’s basically a monopoly.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

And in early 2019, acclaimed futurist Kevin Kelly of Wired magazine fame wrote an entire feature entitled Mirrorworld which attempted to consider a broader description that mentions IoT and other technologies in the Convergence but lacked a description of how these technologies would work together.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. According to Korean media, Samsung Electronics is working with Microsoft on a new augmented/mixed reality project “involving HoloLens”. Samsung is one of the most famous suppliers of components for electronic devices (e.g. Samsung Odyssey+).

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

I’ve been studying this industry inside and out and I subscribe to Google Alerts for virtual and augmented reality. ” That is from Virtual Reality Magazine, from 1993. Alan: [laughs] I happen to have three copies of this magazine. Tovar, from Spring 1995, Virtual Reality Magazine Special Report.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

I've been studying this industry inside and out and I subscribe to Google Alerts for virtual and augmented reality. That is from Virtual Reality Magazine, from 1993. Alan: [laughs] I happen to have three copies of this magazine. Tovar, from Spring 1995, Virtual Reality Magazine Special Report. By Walter J. Walter: Uh-huh.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

I’ve been studying this industry inside and out and I subscribe to Google Alerts for virtual and augmented reality. ” That is from Virtual Reality Magazine, from 1993. Alan: [laughs] I happen to have three copies of this magazine. Tovar, from Spring 1995, Virtual Reality Magazine Special Report.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

I think people were all moving towards glTF, and then Apple decided, “hey, we got our own file format, USDZ” — how do you manage a hundred different…? We were launching partners of Apple for USDZ and we’re working on it. And I know Samsung’s new Note 10 has 3D capture built into it.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

I think people were all moving towards glTF, and then Apple decided, "hey, we got our own file format, USDZ" -- how do you manage a hundred different.? We were launching partners of Apple for USDZ and we're working on it. And I know Samsung's new Note 10 has 3D capture built into it. YouTube has MP4s, and maybe MOV files.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

I think people were all moving towards glTF, and then Apple decided, “hey, we got our own file format, USDZ” — how do you manage a hundred different…? We were launching partners of Apple for USDZ and we’re working on it. And I know Samsung’s new Note 10 has 3D capture built into it.

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