XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

AR smart glasses can come with many benefits that boost the hardware market as a source of reliable workplace tools, notably small form factors, simple UIs, and accessibility. This aids collaboration and productivity between staff on – and off-site. This aids in creating accurate and innovative designs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 3, 2023

The most notable example in recent times is the evolution of video conferencing tools, following the hybrid and remote boom following the pandemic. From Zoom to Microsoft, both platforms and others are helping to facilitate a better-connected world. The world is still adjusting to these new expectations to improve ROI.

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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. HTC launches Vive XR Suite.

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2020

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

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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. For example, they are lowering the cameras and sensors so users’ hands aren’t getting tired.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Unreal Engine 4 is also an industry standard although it has a steeper learning curve than Unity. Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. With it, learners gain skills on designing VR applications with Unity 3D, OpenGL, and VR hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

After that, I headed for China to pursue my dream and headed marketing and strategy for the release of the Microsoft A.I. The aim in developing the PanguVR engine was to equip content producers to create immersive and interactive content, in UE4 (Unreal VR Engine), automatically meaning without any learning curve. What does PanguVR do?

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HaptX

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 The Changing Hardware and Demographics of Games. It’s going to take a leap in game design.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

We’re speaking with Nick Cherukuri, founder of ThirdEye, about their all-in-one AR glasses hardware and software solution for enterprise in logistics, manufacturing, and engineering and how these tools are revolutionizing how we work. So we’ve been developing a lot of AR hardware and software applications for the military.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

We’re speaking with Nick Cherukuri, founder of ThirdEye, about their all-in-one AR glasses hardware and software solution for enterprise in logistics, manufacturing, and engineering and how these tools are revolutionizing how we work. So we’ve been developing a lot of AR hardware and software applications for the military.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

We're speaking with Nick Cherukuri, founder of ThirdEye, about their all-in-one AR glasses hardware and software solution for enterprise in logistics, manufacturing, and engineering and how these tools are revolutionizing how we work. So we've been developing a lot of AR hardware and software applications for the military.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Basically, they are: Hyper-optimization : since this is a standalone headset, Oculus has been able to optimize the hardware and software for VR usage. Oculus announces Hardware Reports. This is Oculus’s answer to Steam Hardware & Software Survey. What is the most used Gear VR device?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2018

We worked with key industry players and academia on the right algorithm (BVH) and then developed the right hardware to accelerate that algorithm (RT Cores). RTX games use the Microsoft DX12 DXR ray tracing API. Microsoft has already released an SDK for ray-tracing, supporting NVIDIA algorithms. What about Unity, instead?

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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. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. It stands for effortless.

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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. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. It stands for effortless.

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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. So you don't know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: We're talking 20 years. Affordable.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”. It is tricky to categorize the many overlapping innovators in this space.

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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. Where OpenVR stands between our application and the hardware (Image by Valve). You may be saying “Come on!

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He’s formerly held top product leadership positions at Microsoft and Nokia. At Nokia, Niko led a product program team in 2006-2007, and together with researchers from Nokia Research Center, his team developed the basis for the optical technology that later became the Microsoft Hololens. The interior design is just one example.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He’s formerly held top product leadership positions at Microsoft and Nokia. At Nokia, Niko led a product program team in 2006-2007, and together with researchers from Nokia Research Center, his team developed the basis for the optical technology that later became the Microsoft Hololens. The interior design is just one example.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He's formerly held top product leadership positions at Microsoft and Nokia. At Nokia, Niko led a product program team in 2006-2007, and together with researchers from Nokia Research Center, his team developed the basis for the optical technology that later became the Microsoft Hololens. The interior design is just one example.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

It’s exactly the same use case as the IKEA couch example, but it’s a different industry, and the ROI is much, much faster. No special hardware needed; just wave your phone around, and it builds that 3D model. And that was kind of the germ; the start of the company. It really does make a difference.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

It’s exactly the same use case as the IKEA couch example, but it’s a different industry, and the ROI is much, much faster. No special hardware needed; just wave your phone around, and it builds that 3D model. And that was kind of the germ; the start of the company. It really does make a difference.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

It’s exactly the same use case as the IKEA couch example, but it’s a different industry, and the ROI is much, much faster. No special hardware needed; just wave your phone around, and it builds that 3D model. And that was kind of the germ; the start of the company. It really does make a difference.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 2, 2019

Give us an example of one of the best ways that this has been used to date. So, I mean, our solution is compatible with all of them, because it’s based on Unity and Unreal and basically on the game engine. It’s funny that… the Super Bowl, for example. They’ve invested so much into hardware and everything.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 2, 2019

Give us an example of one of the best ways that this has been used to date. So, I mean, our solution is compatible with all of them, because it’s based on Unity and Unreal and basically on the game engine. It’s funny that… the Super Bowl, for example. They’ve invested so much into hardware and everything.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

” So, in our world, Unity — and let’s not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there’s Unreal. For example, we built a couple wayfinding demos for Torch that have always gotten huge response online when we post videos. There’s these other engines– Alan: Improbable. Paul: Yeah. Media companies.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

” So, in our world, Unity — and let’s not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there’s Unreal. For example, we built a couple wayfinding demos for Torch that have always gotten huge response online when we post videos. There’s these other engines– Alan: Improbable. Paul: Yeah. Media companies.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

So, in our world, Unity -- and let's not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there's Unreal. For example, we built a couple wayfinding demos for Torch that have always gotten huge response online when we post videos. One of my favorite examples -- I will qualify it with they are not using Torch yet -- but ABC News Australia.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. But then you look at Unreal. But imagine your frontline healthcare worker, for example, in a hospital.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. But then you look at Unreal. But imagine your frontline healthcare worker, for example, in a hospital.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. But then you look at Unreal. But imagine your frontline healthcare worker, for example, in a hospital.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

For example, if you want to do an architectural visualization, it may be better to do that in VR, because you’re able to completely shift your context and be completely immersed with that environment. But that’s at least some of the ways that I’m seeing a little bit of the differences for. But once the WebXR 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

For example, if you want to do an architectural visualization, it may be better to do that in VR, because you're able to completely shift your context and be completely immersed with that environment. But that's at least some of the ways that I'm seeing a little bit of the differences for. But once the WebXR 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

For example, if you want to do an architectural visualization, it may be better to do that in VR, because you’re able to completely shift your context and be completely immersed with that environment. But that’s at least some of the ways that I’m seeing a little bit of the differences for. But once the WebXR 2.0

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

The OSVR goggle – called the Hacker Development Kit – has seen several major hardware improvements. VR arcades, for instance, might use custom hardware or professional tracking systems. For example, head tracking can come from optical trackers or inertial ones. We saw exponential growth in participation in OSVR.

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 23, 2022

After laying the groundwork with history and definitions in the first four chapters, in Part II of his book Matthew Ball discusses in seven chapters the various components which he feels go into the building of a metaverse: networking, computing, virtual world engines, interoperability, hardware, payment systems, and blockchain technology.

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