ARPost

AUGUST 13, 2021

Healing and reconciliation come in many forms, and projects such as Breonna’s Garden demonstrate how emerging tech such as augmented reality can be used to provide a safe space to process grief. See Also: The Role of Virtual Reality in the Fight Against Racial Inequity.

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JUNE 9, 2022

Similar to Meta, Microsoft has made some significant investments into the XR landscape in the last couple of years. Microsoft Teams now has its own Mesh integration, so companies can pull one of the world’s favourite collaboration apps directly into the MR space.

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ARPost

MAY 16, 2023

For the last few years, Campfire 3D has been expanding the world of “holographic collaboration” with a custom headset and base station as well as software that works in headset-based mixed reality and virtual reality, mobile-based augmented reality, and now on desktop 3D. Now, one app can do both jobs.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

It was even featured on Google News. Image by Google). Google acquires micro-LED startup Raxium. This week Google has performed another strategic move towards the development of its future XR glasses. Microsoft IVAS program is not doing great. More info (Quest 2 new parental controls?—?Road Upload VR). Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

The last cycle before this one was the Quest one, which started to make virtual reality known to the mainstream audience for what concerns games and fitness. Especially Apple and Google, which are the dominant players in the smartphone industry, are both launching headsets this year.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Extended reality, in the form of AR, VR, and MR, has shown significant potential for this landscape. We’ve already begun to see galleries and museums creating their own augmented reality and virtual reality experiences, designed to educate and enlighten people anywhere.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The award for Best Consumer App was presented by Hopscotch Interactive CEO Emily Olman to Google Maps Live View by Google. The award for Best Developer Tool was presented by Khronos Group President Neil Trevett to Mixed Reality Toolkit for Unity (MRTK-Unity) by Microsoft. ?. Best in Show Augmented Reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

Today, the company has expanded its portfolio of advertising options, to provide organizations with new ways of building immersive, community-driven experiences. With the Meta Ads Manager, companies can build augmented reality effects into their promotional campaigns, to engage and convert their target audience.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 25, 2020

Videogame engine Unity has supported the XR industry from the early days of virtual reality (VR) through to the current crop of augmented reality (AR) hardware. This week has seen Unity update its XR platform, removing support for some devices whilst reaffirming official functionality for the latest headsets. .

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! This commercial video about Google Glasses led me to immersive realities. Sounded good.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You can access it at this link: [link] ) Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft kills Windows Mixed Reality Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on the Windows Mixed Reality platform , the one of the WMR headsets by Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung which were the first to introduce inside-out tracking in the VR ecosystem.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

The Oculus store features a dedicated section for “Oculus for Work”, where companies can access a partnership with Microsoft to bring not only Microsoft Teams but various Office apps into their VR environments. Microsoft also has its own developer environment where people can build their experiences for Mixed Reality.

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VRScout

MARCH 12, 2018

Between 360 video, virtual reality, and augmented reality, I think augmented reality has much bigger opportunities,” Asher said. ” Adobe unveiled its first foray into AR with a proof-of-concept Microsoft HoloLens app that overlays 3D data visualizations on products in a store.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Microsoft’s play for command of next generation personal computing can be seen today with the announcement of a series of Windows-powered VR headsets starting at $300. “This means shifting from being a HoloLens-focused mixed reality company to a Windows Holographic focused mixed reality and virtual reality company.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

More info — Use Google Translate! I don’t know for whom this is “affordable”, maybe Tim Cook, Bill Gates, or people that have sold both kidneys… More info Microsoft completes the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard After many months of legal disputes, Microsoft has finally received the green light to acquire Activision-Blizzard.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2023

Today I want to take you on a journey on one of the coolest prototypes I’ve ever worked on, which is about creating Unity applications that can dynamically modify their logic at runtime depending on the user’s needs thanks to generative artificial intelligence. Cubes are easy to do. It got thousands of downloads.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL, SNE, and NVDA According to the latest report from Statista , the global augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) markets are rapidly growing and are forecast to reach a total of $72.8 How Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) can transform Education 3.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Inbar is the founder of AWE, but he’s also the founder of Super Ventures , an early-stage fund for augmented reality companies. The company has since teased hardware and a collaboration with Microsoft Mesh , so their AWE appearance could mean anything. Day two of the conference opens with Unity’s keynote.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 5, 2023

Student researchers at Stanford University have created a pair of augmented reality (AR) smart glasses capable of leveraging OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 chatbot. Other companies such as Moth and Flame , ARuVR, VirtualSpeech, and others have used Generative AI interfaces to deliver on-the-fly virtual reality (VR) modules.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Augmented reality is a technology that allows us to superimpose digital information into the real-world environment. In this article, we will discuss on augmented reality. Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world.

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

Immediately following Inbar’s welcome address is the Unity keynote by Unity Technologies CEO John Riccitiello. As one of the leading tools for 3D content creation, Unity is also one of the engines driving XR content and experiences. Of course, companies don’t need to have a keynote to say something interesting. Autodesk Inc.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2022

Microsoft already stands as one of the biggest gaming companies in the world, thanks to the development of the Xbox ecosystem. Microsoft is one of the most exciting companies to watch for gaming companies and consumers interested in the potential of Mixed Reality in gaming.

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ARPost

MARCH 3, 2020

Expeditions Pioneer Program by Google. Google helps tackle the latter with its Expeditions Pioneer Program. Below is a sneak peek of Google’s experiment at Andersen Middle School, where they pioneered their program. ?. Teachers and staff learn how to use Google’s Expeditions app and ARCore (for Android) or ARKit (for iOS).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. This means that cloud rendering could become a reality for always more headsets, and using always more cloud services. Google is hiring waveguide developers for AR.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

There are quite a handful of platforms that allow you to develop virtual reality and augmented reality apps and content, but it is not easy to find an offline virtual reality school or academy with which to train for those interested in developing AR and VR apps. (Image courtesy RAEng Publications via Pixabay.).

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2018

Special announcements from Intel, with Kumar Kaushik, GM, Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality. Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive. Gary Radburn, Director, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Dell. Katie Kelly, Head of Engagement, AltspaceVR / Microsoft.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

Los Angeles, CA (April 12, 2018) – Experience next generation immersive technologies and explore “A New Reality” at VRLA, the leading virtual and augmented reality expo, May 4-5 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Special announcements from Intel, with Kumar Kaushik, GM, Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Sophia Dominguez // SVRF (New York, NY) – the first search engine for immersive content for virtual reality and augmented reality. The founders received a Microsoft mixed reality headset and are currently enrolled in the WXR Mentorship Program beta.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Previous events haven’t just covered common topics related to extended, virtual, and augmented realities. In 2022, the Immerse Global Summit featured speakers from some of the world’s best-known brands, including Amazon, Meta, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and Unity, and demonstrations of some of the most exciting metaverse technologies.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

This latest acquisition is another piece in a secretive strategy: over the past few years Snapchat has quietly acquired a couple of other potentially augmented reality-related companies as well as talent. Augmented Reality Gets Its First Smartphone-Powered Headset and a BIG Partnership Between Hollywood-Backed Giants.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. More info (Camera Path and Google Drive backup) More info (Sketchfab exporting).

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Augmented Reality, also called Mixed Reality (MR, MxR) is set to represent a very large part of our lives. Even today, if you own a car with a heads-up display (HUD), you are a user of Augmented Reality. Case in point is Microsoft’s HoloLens, where a development kit will set you back for $3000.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

To make matters murkier, there’s also the recently-announced partnership between Google and HTC Vive to create new standalone mobile headsets for all Google Daydream-ready Android phones. AIRLINES TESTING AUGMENTED REALITY TO READ YOUR EMOTIONS. Apparently the $1.4B

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Microsoft announces Mesh, an XR collaboration platform. Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. But since Microsoft owns one of those studios (and using it costs around $100K/day if I remember well!), You are all fantastic! Here you are my flower for you!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Image by Microsoft). The mystery of Virtual Reality support on Xbox continues with a new chapter of the saga. After the news went viral, Microsoft has clarified that it was just “a translation bug” and that Xbox is not adding VR support at the moment. Google halves its revenues on the Play Store. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Viveport is improving a lot, and now HTC is also launching the Vive XR Suite , which will be distributed thanks to the support of a strong network of partners like HP, NVIDIA, Baidu (the Chinese Google), and Accenture. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

The updated ceremony is planned to be a showcase looking at both virtual and augmented reality. The move to 2018 by the Proto Awards comes when the emerging mixed reality industry is in a transitional period. Apple’s eye-catching ARKit is on the verge of release alongside a series of Microsoft-backed VR headsets.

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