VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Constantly seeking the rush of engaging with new material, consumers aren’t gripped by their hardware – phones, TVs, or laptops – but are drawn in by unique, well-crafted content. . Now, the hardware cycle is drawing to a close. Making hardware is incredibly hard, expensive, and time consuming,” continues Fink.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 29, 2023

Virtual reality combines hardware and software to immerse users in digital environments for numerous use cases, including learning, entertainment, therapy, and others. Blending VR and AI in the New World For example, the travel, tourism, and healthcare sectors have leveraged AI virtual assistants to guide people in virtual environments.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As the rise of XR hardware continues, the tech space gives consumer and enterprise end-users an avenue to explore spatial computing. A smart glasses user, for example, could access a movie streaming application like Netflix via an AR RT3D button and watch media on a large immersive screen that a user can place in their real-world environment.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Sample Examples ? WebXR is a JavaScript application programming interface (API) that enables applications to interact with augmented reality and virtual reality devices, such as the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard or Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR), in a web browser.? Developer Community ? Widget libraries ? SteamVR ? —?SteamVR

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JANUARY 31, 2024

AR|VR|MR 2024, apart from other emerging technology, shows its focus display and waveguide solutions – the hardware and software that powers immersive visualisation on MR headsets, AR smart glasses, and more. Yesterday, Google and Mojo Vision representatives introduced the event, kicking off the monumental event with an opening keynote.

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ARVR

JUNE 7, 2022

For example, though the common vision is online synchronous worlds, what about a “real-world metaverse?” Involving real-world digital twins, this concept is woven into innovations and investments from companies ranging from Snap to Niantic to Google. The metaverse continues to be cringeworthy in its overuse.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

For example, the report dives into Marijke Sjollema’s use of The Dolphin Swim Club VR in a medical setting. As software, hardware, and applications improve, so do the mental health and medical fields. As a result, companies like Apple, Google, Magic Leap, Microsoft, Oculus, and others will be in attendance with experiences.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Image courtesy Google. Examples of Smartglasses: Everysight Raptor. Google Glass. Examples of AR Headsets: Microsoft HoloLens. Magic Leap One. Alas, even Google never called Glass “augmented reality,” since the headset was just too limited for AR to be a primary feature. Intel Vaunt.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 30, 2020

The worlds of virtual and augmented reality have yet to land on the applications and hardware to truly spark mass-market, consumer interest in the space, but in the meantime, a startup building mixed reality services for business users has raised a round of funding, underscoring the opportunity in enterprise.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

These have appeared across Google’s ARCore, Niantic’s Lightship AR developer kit (ARDK), Snap Lens, Meta’s Reality system, and Apple’s ARKit platforms, namely for smartphones. For example, Lenovo’s A3 and Magic Leap 2’s smart glasses are designed for prolonged use, low latency, and industrial environments.

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ARPost

APRIL 29, 2021

The company offers free trials and platform support comes through three price tiers including a free price tier with limited functionality, so how you use XMReality can scale with the size and technical hardware investment of your company. TeamViewer Pilot. Smart glasses are supported, but not required. Holo4Labs and Holo4Med.

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CraneMorley

JUNE 27, 2023

The development of different technology like hardware, software, internet speed has played a key factor to help blend the virtual and physical world together. Current key players in the field are Microsoft, Magic Leap, and Meta. Apple and Google are rumored to be building headsets of their own to rival their competitors.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2024

The recently released report noted how “Meta employees see the Quest and its software ecosystem emerging as a primary alternative to Apple in the space, filling the role played by Google’s Android in smartphones.” So, any announcement at CES about new hardware is also driving the work that we do in the enterprise space.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

I think that, after a year, its specifications don’t sound exceptional anymore and maybe it is better that LG jumps directly to a second generation or that enters the standalone market (as it seems, since there are some rumors about a new revolutionary headset screen developed by Google and LG). Oculus announces Hardware Reports.

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Road to VR

MAY 27, 2016

billion in a Series F round, and Snapchat could end up being a major player within augmented reality hardware market. Snapchat is probably considered a bit of a dark horse by most people when compared to other major AR players including Microsoft, Meta, Daqri, or Magic Leap. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 25, 2023

AR technologies are available on millions of Android and iOS smartphones, while the latter requires specialised hardware. Understanding the Potential of AR in Retail AR is an immersive, interactive technology where hardware overlays digital real-time 3D (RT3D) on a user’s field of view (FoV).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 27, 2022

For example, devices with global positioning systems (GPS) can place navigational directions in your field of view (FoV), either with smart glasses or smart windshields. Google, Apple, and other map programmes offer this functionality to users. Google also revealed the world’s first smart glasses, Google Glass, in 2013.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 8, 2017

One of the biggest reasons the smartphone is not dead yet is because the hardware to replace them still hasn’t reached a point where the user experience is comparable. The best examples of this are the Magic Leap prototypes, Microsoft Hololens and Qualcomm’s VR reference design. User Experience Is Sub-Par So Far.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments.” ” As just one example, Facebook has increased its annual R&D spend by $10 billion between 2014, when it bought Oculus, to the present. Then there’s Magic Leap. So we need some hardware innovation here too.”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

Despite this, innovation and XR hardware were moving “at breaking speed.” Explaining further, he added, “Not to be outdone, the Google-Samsung-Qualcomm power trio is cooking a comeback of their very famous mega Android partnership with a new XR headset.

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ARVR

JANUARY 22, 2021

2021 will be an important year for AR consumer hardware If you are a tech geek like me, then I guess that you are impatiently waiting for the final breakthrough in AR technology. But they got acquired by Google, so they´re gone for now. This is the tenth and last of my articles about what to expect in 2021. Focals, by North? —?a

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The classical example that I do to family and friends, that think that I am crazy, is: let’s take the chair of my office. So, I worry about the negative use cases… so for example if an advertiser can put his brand wherever you look or if every object can be replaced by the product sold by that company … it would terrible.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Silicon Valley’s advent calendar clearly marks September as the traditional time for Apple to talk finished hardware, not secretive projects. Not long after, on the day of the hardware event, Apple released Xcode 11, the newest version of the company’s macOS development environment. That’s by design.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

A consumer AR hardware has been “in the 3 years horizon” for about 15 years now. Apple is working on hardware but it is reportedly delayed yet again, and Magic Leap seems to have lost its flame before being able to enlarge enough its consumer base. I explore some examples on the longer version of this paper.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In its initial Vision Pro showcase, Apple highlighted how headset operators can leverage the Vision Pro spatial computing framework alongside other first-party products and services – from workplace applications to hardware such as the Apple TV. The Vision Pro device is due in 2024 for $3,499.

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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). Magic Leap will meet its fate.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s take on immersive technologies will also test the future of XR hardware solutions and their roles in the broader XR community through rigorous use cases. This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. Apple is behind the ball here, with the advancements in spatial and mixed reality AI.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

So if, for example, look at GPS in a phone, right, there would be no Uber, no Seamless. There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. What did it enable?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

So if, for example, look at GPS in a phone, right, there would be no Uber, no Seamless. There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. What did it enable?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Small startups can’t compete with big companies, so usually, startups produce expensive headsets at a smaller scale to survive : see VRgineers or Varjo as an example. While HTC is struggling on the hardware side, I think that it is moving very well to create a good software ecosystem, at least in China.

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AR Insider

JULY 15, 2020

Visually immersive and contextually-aware AR glasses like Magic Leap One and Hololens 2 require optics whose power consumption and heat dissipation necessitate bulky headgear, rather than anything you’d consider “eyewear.”. This comes down to a classic design tradeoff. The Next Mobility. ” Historical parallels.

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InstaVR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Virtual Reality (VR), by contrast, can be published across a wide range of devices (headsets like Oculus Go/Quest and Gear VR, phones, Google Cardboard, WebVR, and much more), is completely immersive, and doesn’t necessarily require a real-time data connection (ie can be run offline). So why is immersion important?

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. Both Azure Spatial Anchors and Google Cloud Anchors are leveraging existing strengths in mapping towards the AR Cloud. Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

And by ’99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. I’ll give you an example. Dan: So let me give an example. Alan: We’re talking 20 years.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

And by ’99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. I’ll give you an example. Dan: So let me give an example. Alan: We’re talking 20 years.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. As hardware and software mature, awareness is driven by wonderful things like Pokemon Go. Instead of having to install applications to do this, it’ll be part of the OS and part of the hardware itself.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

And by '99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. But we managed to navigate those water until I would say 2011, 2012, when the hardware became available for mobile devices. I'll give you an example. Dan: So let me give an example. But obviously these people couldn't afford a $50-million simulator.

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