ARVR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. It let you essentially fly around a city, sort of like Google Earth but in three dimensions. In fairness, Google Earth offers 3D features. And Google Earth VR , lets users fly around cities in strikingly immersive ways.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

There is not only the problem of the timezone but also the unknown of the internet connection and the inability of reaching Western websites like Google. While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. This way I also unlocked the Discord app that was unavailable until that moment.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 18, 2017

Before my demo at Google I/O, Google’s head of VR Clay Bavor outlined a series of caveats and expectations for what I was about to experience. The demo, according to Google, would reset after each journalist so the hardware would see the room fresh each time after each person donned the headset. WorldSense.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. Huawei has upgraded its sleek VR glasses and now they support 6DOF movement and 6DOF controllers that are very similar to the Oculus Touch. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I think that Gartner was not referring to the consumer market, where VR is still unripe (even if devices like the Oculus Quest and the Vive Focus Plus are helping it in becoming more widespread), but at the B2B one, where VR is already helping companies to spare money (e.g. thanks to a better training).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I have to say that this “leak” comes in a very timely fashion , by chance exactly at the moment when Facebook was building the hype for Oculus Quest 2 Pro , convincing so some people to wait for Valve’s moves before buying the new Oculus headset. Microsoft is going to release a database of synthetic faces.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2019

Like Google Cardboard before it, the Labo VR Kit for Switch is effectively a drop-in holder for the console, with lenses which each see one half of the screen for a stereoscopic view. The April launch timing for the Switch Labo VR Kit is quite interesting considering Oculus’ upcoming Quest headset is also set to launch this Spring.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 30, 2020

” He also pointed out the development over at Amazon, where last month the company announced AWS Wavelength for ultra-low latency 5G computing at the edge, something that will have a direct impact on using and building the next generation of AR and VR headgear. “The industry is firing up 5G and that will also be a big push.”

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Metaverses are in line with the tech trend Oculus Quest reported sales growth, which indicates higher accessibility of VR equipment for the general audience. Thirdly, network latency is always there and always causes problems; usually, the Internet connection is not enough to cater to all the needs of metaverses.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Moreover, last year, Nreal partnered with University researchers and Microsoft to leverage its smart glasses technology as a medical device. In the background, major immersive tech vendors like Meta, Apple, and Microsoft are exploring what innovations are required to drive the space. The world of smart glasses is coming closer.

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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). Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Sounded good.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

But I would wait to rejoice from it: VR requires a very short motion-to-photon latency, and as of today no cloud rendering service can offer such low latency in every possible location of the user. The “metaverse” was not a key topic inside “Microsoft Build”. There’s still no word on when Mesh will be released. Other news.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Right now we’re stuck thinking in terms of head-mounted displays (HMDs), like the Vive or the Oculus. AR mode will be everywhere else: calling a heads up display of Google Maps on the street, stopping to catch a Pokemon in a field, or scanning the person in the coffee meeting across from you to cross-reference their LinkedIn profile.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes. Both Azure Spatial Anchors and Google Cloud Anchors are leveraging existing strengths in mapping towards the AR Cloud. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.

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CraneMorley

AUGUST 1, 2023

This means that there are still some challenges to overcome, such as latency and bandwidth issues. Microsoft is also working to develop new technologies that will enable the industrial metaverse, such as: 5G: 5G will provide the high-speed, low-latency connectivity that is needed to support the industrial metaverse.

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Road to VR

MARCH 4, 2019

Nvidia has GeForce Now, Sony has PlayStation Now, and both Google & Microsoft have their own future cloud gaming projects in the work too. and Intel, was delivering a total latency between 4 – 6 ms through their mock-up 5G network. Image courtesy Ericsson. thinks will fit into a real-world use case.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. January 2016.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

GB: Mike Abrash, formerly of Valve, now at Oculus, their chief scientist, he made this interesting observation about Moore’s Law. GB: Google Glass. I look at Google Glass and it was really interesting. Above: Microsoft’s HoloLens in action. Image Credit: Microsoft. Or it’s a Google problem.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2019

My current super-elegant Oculus avatar. Oculus avatars are consistent over all Oculus experiences (unless they are overridden by the developer). Geolocation will definitely start playing a larger role since that will be the limiting factor for latency. The experiments with Minecraft and Doom are just examples….

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

Like one of the things I did some work with zero latency and they did some work with the Australian Army in building simulations. I know a guy that was looking in London for a year trying to find a location for Zero Latency location, and he couldn’t. They actually sold their cell phone division to Google to focus on VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. Tools like that, like Chalk, and I think Microsoft has their version of it as well on Hololens and other things. Alex: Near zero latency. Obviously, you're going to have some serious latency issues if you're trying to do persistent XR with Starlink.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. Tools like that, like Chalk, and I think Microsoft has their version of it as well on Hololens and other things. Alex: Near zero latency. Obviously, you're going to have some serious latency issues if you're trying to do persistent XR with Starlink.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

Like one of the things I did some work with zero latency and they did some work with the Australian Army in building simulations. I know a guy that was looking in London for a year trying to find a location for Zero Latency location, and he couldn’t. They actually sold their cell phone division to Google to focus on VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. Tools like that, like Chalk, and I think Microsoft has their version of it as well on Hololens and other things. Alex: Near zero latency. Obviously, you're going to have some serious latency issues if you're trying to do persistent XR with Starlink.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I mean, we have access to the world’s information — I can Google pretty much any details — but it just gives me the information. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. Now, I don’t even have to pull my phone out; I can just ask Google and every answer is there.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I mean, we have access to the world’s information — I can Google pretty much any details — but it just gives me the information. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. Now, I don’t even have to pull my phone out; I can just ask Google and every answer is there.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So Metastage uses Microsoft’s volumetric Hcap, holographic capture.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift was launched in the spring, it was disappointingly bundled with a Microsoft Xbox controller – and we’ve eagerly been awaiting the native Touch Controllers. GOOGLE DAYDREAM SCORES NETFLIX AND HBO APPS. valuation) from huge names like Google, Alibaba, and Andreeson Horowitz.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy's or you walk into any retailer, they're selling you the Amazon Echo and they're selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So something like an Oculus Go, for example, allows you to look around and be inside of a video.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So Metastage uses Microsoft’s volumetric Hcap, holographic capture.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

A worker wearing HoloLens 2 (Image by Microsoft). So, I envision the main companies in the field, like Microsoft and Magic Leap, to put their efforts into improving their platform to offer better services to their enterprise customers. Let me be very honest: I’m not expecting that much from this year in augmented reality.

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