AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Toyota makes mixed reality magic with Unity and Microsoft HoloLens 2. Toyota often turns to technology to deliver these improvements, which is why the automaker was an early adopter of 3D data for digital engineering and later embraced real-time 3D technology. Find out more or contact us to participate here. by Nick Davis.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 26, 2023

This month, Microsoft will deploy an upgraded version of its dormant HoloLens 2 headset for US Army soldiers. Microsoft’s US Army contract sees the firm deploy 20 custom “Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS)” HoloLens 2 MR headsets for field testing. Microsoft IVAS: What’s New? The IVAS version 1.2

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

For example, some of the cloud services that we’ll look at are cloud storage solutions. As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. The RealWear Cloud also allows data analysis across headsets. But, what is the cloud anyway? Others run computations on the cloud.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Data Point of the Week is AR Insider’s dive into the latest spatial computing figures. It includes data points, along with narrative insights and takeaways. For an indexed collection of data and reports, subscribe to ARtillery Pro. With that backdrop, the latest examples are rolled up in a new report from Unity.

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MARCH 5, 2017

Unity Technologies and Epic Games are in a grudge match for the hearts and minds of game developers. I interviewed both John Riccitiello, CEO of San Francisco-based Unity, and Tim Sweeney, CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based The Unity-based games reached a billion new devices since GDC 2016. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”.

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JANUARY 16, 2021

Unity asked more than a dozen industry experts – including yours truly – to share their thoughts on how immersive technologies would be embraced for a report entitled Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR. How Immersive Technologies are helping us reimagine personal interactions in a post-COVID world. .

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

An older, but interesting example of marker-based AR is the PlayStation 3 Wonderbook, a gaming ‘peripheral’ that allows players to view a spell book on their screen. So markerless AR is powered not only by depth sensors and other positioning data, but also by ML algorithms on top of this data.

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AR Insider

JULY 6, 2021

Toyota leans on various technologies to deliver these improvements, which is why the automaker was an early adopter of 3D data and AR-guided processes. Unpacking that a bit, Toyota’s virtual pipeline starts by importing vehicle data into Unity using Pixyz. And there was notably no reduction in accuracy or quality.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Although gaming is certainly a great use case and example of what immersive VR experiences can deliver, the possibilities are endless,” said Vindevogel. He gave examples of some applications of VR that have nothing to do with gaming, such as house tours, and meetings.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

That’s the consensus that seems to emerge from “Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR” a report published today by Unity Technologies, where 15 industry experts (yours truly among them) outlined how Mixed Reality (or XR depending on what flavor acronym you favor) will supercharge and transform the world of work. Look no further!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The alliance also called on companies, researchers, governments, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to join forces to collaborate and share data on the emerging technology. For example, companies will need to develop and deploy benchmarks and evaluation standards.

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AR Insider

JULY 20, 2021

These use cases are where Medical device manufacturer Medtronic, with the help of Re’Flekt and Unity, has implemented AR. Instead, Microsoft HoloLens guides surgeons while they’re using the equipment. Those processes must be transferred across many facilities where there is a lack of standardization around the data.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Pokemon Go is the best example for an augmented reality game. Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market. Computer Vision uses SLAM to receive visual data from our physical world and use this visual input to understand and interact with the environment. Pokemon Go is a popular example that uses location-based AR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

An AI that is always on would send all my profilation data to the company managing it, and I’m 100% sure it would be sold to the highest bidder. When I tried to use ChatGPT to create Unity scripts, it managed to write something good, but often I had to correct it. AI is very good for increasing the productivity of a team.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For example, a Metaverse platform could provide users with a series of remote MR collaboration applications. Both Microsoft, AWS, and Meta are sailing the industrial Metaverse ship into 2024, with leading Meta representatives urging enterprise clients to adopt immersive services today. But how did Microsoft get to this point?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2024

For instance, we use a slightly modified version of Microsoft guidelines for C# for the coding phase, and every code is reviewed during the pull request stage Try to ask for high standards from everyone. This may influence your decisions a lot as well. Talking about coding, for instance, what people should do before coding?

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NOVEMBER 10, 2019

For larger companies looking to connect their entire team with HoloLens 2 headsets, Microsoft is offering a package that includes Dynamic 365 Remote Assist on each MR headset at the cost of $125 per user – per month. If you’re a developer working on your own, Microsoft offers the HoloLens 2 Development Edition.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Meta announces at Connect Quest Pro and a partnership with Microsoft. There have been a few key announcements at Connect: Meta has launched Quest Pro , its new premium headset, for $1500 Meta announced its focus on a new vertical, productivity Meta has partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to tackle the XR enterprise world.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Varjo’s technology, alongside integrations with Unity and Unreal Engine has allowed the construction leaders at Sellen to boost communication between teams, and enhance the development of amazing virtual reality mock-ups. Microsoft and the Haas Group. The Haas group can even offer virtual tours for buyers using Microsoft tools.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Firms such as Virbela, Meta Platforms, ENGAGEXR, Spatial, Arthur, NVIDIA Omniverse, Microsoft, Pico Interactive, Varjo, HTC VIVE, and UPWorlds are all working to build these platforms. For example, Meta Platforms has leveraged its Horizon Worlds suite of applications in recent months.

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APRIL 5, 2023

Bloomberg has reported that Sony’s new PlayStation VR2 Headset is projected to sell 270,000 units as of the end of March, based on data from IDC. Earlier this year , I wrote about how Microsoft and other companies have pulled back on their VR and AR plans. It’s all Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, and occasionally Microsoft Teams.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. I call them the “Incarnations”.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

Connecting people, making you joining a group, making you have new friends… is only what it does (very well) to keep you hooked to the platform, so that it can analyze your data and sell you better ads. I expect these ads to expand soon, integration with Facebook to become tighter, and also data harvesting to become more aggressive.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

This is the first post in a series of technical posts in which we will be covering the bare bones of a Virtual Reality API (Application Programming Interface) and coding a few examples using it. You may be saying “Come on! As a developer, we haven’t control over the runtime in which our application will execute (i.e.:

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MARCH 6, 2018

When one finds out that she worked at Microsoft in the early days of Encarta Encyclopedia and World Atlas , it starts to make sense. She created an internal team at Microsoft to manage these complex issues across the entire company. “All Her time working at Microsoft led her to the IGDA. Haptic Gloves for Data Visualization.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). For sure, Facebook will repeat a bazillion times that they care about privacy and I think that in the beginning, this will be mostly true: we have seen with Oculus how Facebook takes its time and boils its users slowly like the famous frog, adding over time features to get more data for targeted ads.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

It offers a full-fledge Unity SDK to develop games and support virtual reality. For example, the real estate agency eXp Realty was one of the first to open an international office in virtual reality. Meta (ex-Facebook) and Microsoft have already announced their plans to create a metaverse. For example, you can sell your land.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Meta’s Horizon Worlds metaverse is a basic example of this. 5G connectivity allows for the rapid transmission of data between devices. At Microsoft Inspire 2023, Microsoft announced it would enhance its industrial metaverse initiative. Elsewhere, we have the “enterprise” metaverses used for work and collaboration.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All these data together make me a bit skeptical about the capabilities of this company: developing such kind of a high-quality headset requires a lot of expertise, while the company is very small and features no known expert in the field. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Using assisted reality smart glasses, the wearer of the device can connect with colleagues via video conferencing applications such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, where experts on the other end of the line see what the worker sees (point of view) as s/he observes a specific scenario in a factory, for example.

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ARVR

JULY 23, 2021

These use cases are where Medical device manufacturer Medtronic, with the help of Re’Flekt and Unity, has implemented AR. Instead, Microsoft HoloLens guides surgeons while they’re using the equipment. Those processes must be transferred across many facilities where there is a lack of standardization around the data.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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ARVR

JULY 13, 2021

Toyota leans on various technologies to deliver these improvements, which is why the automaker was an early adopter of 3D data and AR-guided processes. Unpacking that a bit, Toyota’s virtual pipeline starts by importing vehicle data into Unity using Pixyz. This report excerpt features guest authorship from Unity’s Nick Davis.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 8, 2023

Along with NVIDIA, Unity and Epic Games, the world’s largest gaming engines, have also joined efforts to build the industrial metaverse. For example, Precedence Research figures found that the global XR market would top $345.9 NVIDIA is leading the charge on this with its Omniverse and digital twin solution platform.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Instead, he has concentrated his journalistic efforts on a stereotypical dystopia of avatars and social media white elephants from a caricatured Meta, Microsoft AltSpaceVR, and Decentraland. billion between the US Federal Trade Commission and European Union for data privacy violations. The Death of the Consumer Metaverse?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Eye Tracking Apart from sessions a few years ago using the HTC Vive Pro Eye and Microsoft Hololens, I didn’t have any experience with eye tracking. It is also very useful in commercial and enterprise work, where it provides biometric data allowing for actionable insights into user behavior.

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