ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We talked with The Park Playground CEO Peter Vindevogel, who shared his thoughts on these myths and misconceptions, shedding light on virtual reality technology. AR Apps to Increasingly Leverage AI Tech To create more immersive virtual environments, AR applications must be able to collect a wealth of information about the user’s surroundings.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Apple Vision Pro Specs, Features & Details Apple officially revealed the full Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own. But does it deliver?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Meta says that some of its questioned firms reported that workers feel a significant increase in levels of immersion while working in a virtual environment. The Menlo Park-based firm also found that end-users experienced more natural digital conversations during virtual meetings.

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VRWorld

APRIL 11, 2017

PowerDVD 17 adds support for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets to bring virtual reality content front and center for users, along with groundbreaking innovations in 360 video playback. ” Furthermore, TrueTheater HDR technology is bringing GPU-accelerated video conversion that emulates HDR video on standard non-HDR video.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

People have started understanding the value of virtual events, and of having a virtual environment where we all can meet and live amazing experiences together. So it may be that Oculus contributed to the success of HTC Vive’s room-scale technology. It seems that Luckey’s team was working on 6DOF input (i.e.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

I had the pleasure of participating to the “VR Visionaries” event in Kaohsiung and then I headed to Taipei to meet some XR companies (like HTC ) and people. This was the best feature for me: it was really like all of us were in this virtual environment, all together. Its hope is to create an excellent VR ecosystem in 2-3 years.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Moreover, Apple recently made a huge splash in the XR market with the Vision Pro, an XR device which leverages eye and hand tracking for its spatial computing input system. The device does not use controllers at all, instead, Apple believes that with the XR revolution comes increased usability and accessibility via hand/eye-based inputs.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, David Em made strides in the creation of explorable virtual landscapes, while the Ames Research Center iterated on VIEW (Virtual Interactive Environment Workstation). Image Credits: TechCrunch When HTC began imagining life after the smartphone, it looked a lot like VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Ivan Rajković: If we look back at 2022 and move towards 2023, the advancements in eye and hand-tracking technologies have continued to accelerate, enabling more natural and intuitive interactions with virtual environments. The approach that Apple takes for interactions will also be a point of interest.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2022

OVR nodes are little electronic devices that are worn on specific parts of your body like the Apple Watch on your wrist, but to be worn on your chest, waist, ankles, and knees. This means that players can see and show their real movements in virtual environments. WalkOVR can also be used as a full-body tracking device.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. At that time, virtual worlds were the only visible path to an interconnected metaverse of virtual environments. This is obviously the big one for virtual worlds. Creativity. Discoverability.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

Another aspect of the tool is to allow the creation of custom experiences and adjusting of the virtual environment using a library of virtual objects and virtual locations — it comes with 1,200 3D objects by default, and also allows users to build and customize new objects and features. The Prospect v2.10

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

Head mounted display: With expansion to at home devices came the transition away from an arcade cabinet to setups a little closer to what you’ll see coming from the Big Three (Oculus, HTC, and Sony). On the display, Dade is able to fly through the low poly virtual environment of the Gibson. The Cell (2000).

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 23, 2022

In support of the latter route, Ready Player Me says that its tech was eight years in the making: the company was hatched out of Wolf3D , which worked with companies like Tencent, Verizon, HTC and Wargaming to build them custom avatar systems.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

If you look at someone like Apple, they aren’t about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. The thing to note about Apple is that aesthetics are important to them.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

If you look at someone like Apple, they aren’t about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. The thing to note about Apple is that aesthetics are important to them.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

If you look at someone like Apple, they aren't about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. They're much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. The thing to note about Apple is that aesthetics are important to them.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 26, 2023

However, there will most likely be a changing wave of opinion after Apple announces its presumably killer consumer XR device. Apple appears to be very close to announcing an immersive product, with the leading computing firm prompting AR/VR/MR outlets to cover the event.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. You have Apple, with ARKit. And I never even thought about neural nets for vehicles using virtual environments to train the neural net. Or in Canada, USDZed.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. You have Apple, with ARKit. And I never even thought about neural nets for vehicles using virtual environments to train the neural net. Or in Canada, USDZed.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. You have Apple, with ARKit. And I never even thought about neural nets for vehicles using virtual environments to train the neural net. Or in Canada, USDZed.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

HTC has launched a new headset, we have another confirmation of Apple glasses, we read about the first hands-on on Kura glasses, and many other things have happened! Image by HTC). HTC launches the Cosmos at $699. HTC has finally launched the HTC Vive Cosmos , its new flagship headset. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Do you remember when everyone was mocking HTC for its super-high prices and people were praising Meta for its cheap costs? Unless Apple kills it, of course… Productivity ecosystem. This proves that with Project Aria, Meta can reconstruct the full mesh of whole environments (hence can build its AR Cloud). 3D reconstruction.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

This kind of seamless interface is great and it is exactly the same one that HTC already offers with the Vive Focus Plus and Viveport Streaming and that I’ve tried and appreciated. I guess Oculus will aim at something similar, because it is very handy (Image by HTC Vive). Rift line gets discontinued.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

HTC Vive Retires. The HTC Vive was phased out in October, replaced by the Vive Cosmos , which was priced at $699. There were also some significant acquisitions in the space, such as Jaunt XR being bought by Verizon , and Apple acquiring UK start-up Ikinema. Shut Downs and Acquisitions.

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