XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here are some of the VR vendors making waves in the industry as of 2024: RealWear Meta Apple Goertek Pimax Pico HP HTC Vive Samsung Varjo Lenovo Valve Index Vrgineers RealWear Exploring various aspects of the immersive technology landscape, RealWear produces sensors, apps, and hardware for the XR space.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

RealWear Exploring various aspects of the immersive technology landscape, RealWear produces sensors, apps, and hardware for the XR space. They also come with powerful processors built-in to enable streamlined and immersive experiences with minimal effort. So, where should business buyers start their search for the ultimate headset?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

I’ve very limited time, but luckily this week has not been very relevant for the ecosystem, so I’m managing to write this newsletter anyway Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) AltspaceVR shuts down In one of the saddest moments of the latest years in VR, AltspaceVR has closed its doors.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Here, universities, schools, and training companies are embracing the experiential benefits of immersive XR technology to deliver lessons like never before. HTC Vive and Penn State. With the help of the HTC Vive environment, Penn State has been able to create a comprehensive environment for training and educational immersion.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Moreover, Microsoft is resparking its stake in an Industrial Metaverse, with plans to debut products in 2024. More recently, with the rise of enterprise-grade immersive software, RT3D engine service providers are promoting expanded use cases outside gaming.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

You know, I’m here for the Sandbox Immersive Festival that will begin tomorrow and I’m ready to tell you all my experience here! HTC has revealed the design of the Vive Cosmos. HTC has finally unveiled some information on the Vive Cosmos. HTC has immediately answered that 899$ is a too high estimate of the price.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

Horizon is also the immersive framework behind the firm’s Worlds metaverse platform. The OpenXR API is essential for many XR headsets from vendors such as Acer, ByteDance, Canon, HTC, Magic Leap, Meta, Microsoft, Sony, XREAL, Qualcomm, Valve, and Varjo. Meta is a crucial parenting in the OpenXR update.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2022

Attracting players all over the world to a new kind of immersive experience, XR allows game developers to connect with users on a different level. Microsoft already stands as one of the biggest gaming companies in the world, thanks to the development of the Xbox ecosystem. billion by 2028, accelerating at a CAGR of 31.4%.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) by Microsoft is an open-source toolkit that has been around since the HoloLens was first released in 2016. Microsoft-driven MRTK-Unity is a suite of components and capabilities used to speed the creation of cross-platform MR applications in Unity. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 19, 2022

After trying a multitude of different VR solutions, Sellen Construction turned to Varjo and their immersive virtual reality headsets. Microsoft and the Haas Group. The company decided they needed to update their technology as a result, and turned to Microsoft for assistance. HTC VIVE and CannonDesign.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Accessible VR avenues for consumers and enterprises allow a more comprehensive range of end-clients to access immersive technologies. Although VR hardware is growing at such a scale, immersive firms are doubling down on scaling extended reality (XR) developer talent pools to match the demand for VR software.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 31, 2023

AWE 2023 achieved this by inviting an esteemed lineup of XR firms, thought leaders, and end users, uniting the immersive technology industry at the event’s Vienna, Austria location. Sahni also highlighted how new workplace applications are coming to Quest 3, including Microsoft Mesh, Windows 365, and Adobe High Five.

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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. HOLLYWOOD LOVES HENRY.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Davis recently served as general manager for the Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. He was also a chief technology officer at Microsoft on the HoloLens project, and he was the lead programmer on Gears of War and Gears of War 2. Scott spent 15 years as an art director in Triple-A games at places such as id Software and Microsoft Game Studios.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. According to Korean media, Samsung Electronics is working with Microsoft on a new augmented/mixed reality project “involving HoloLens”. It is a big showcase demo for its Unreal Engine 5, and I have to say it is pretty impressive.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Immerse Global Summit 2022 Miami concluded on Wednesday, where some of the biggest players in the tech industry gathered to explore the future of Web3 technologies. This began with devices from Lenovo, HTC VIVE, Pico Interactive, and Meta Platforms, so the growth we’ve seen for consumer use cases has been very strong since then.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. Someone is Always Ready to Help THIS version of the HTC Vive…. From immersive volleyball spikes to underwater aquatic tours, now Getty Images has got you covered! Facebook Enables Native 360 Photos.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

video) More info (Unreal Engine with Octane Renderer) More info (Wi-fi is not enough for VR streaming). Image by HTC). HTC has not confirmed nor denied the price, but 90% of cases when this happens, the rumored price is true. Other relevant news. Vive Cosmos release is close and it may cost £700. The page has now been removed.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

Development is divided evenly across the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift platforms, each accounting for 31% of projects created, with other major VR platforms such as Samsung Gear VR, OSVR, and Daydream rounding out the bottom numbers. image courtesy VR First. image courtesy VR First. development at Carleton University, image courtesy VR First.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Without HDR, you are conscious that you are seeing the world through a screen, while with actual HDR, you can feel the proper lighting of a scene, and it immediately becomes real and immersive. Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Flow Business Edition. This is my biggest takeaway from these tests. NVIDIA Blog).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Zuck’s announcement has been reported everywhere, and this has been a very powerful endorsement for immersive technologies. Everyone with an internet connection has got to know that one of the most important companies in the world has even changed its name to focus on immersive realities and this thing called “the metaverse”.

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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. You also give 5% of net revenues per quarter although its free to use. Both are free to download and try.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

This week in XR has seen the launch of the first standalone MR headset, plus a lot of interesting news and articles about immersive realities. I wonder if Facebook has already taken the decision of leaving the enterprise market to HTC and Pico , while focusing on the much bigger piece of cake of the consumer market. Image by Lynx).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Rikard Steiber (HTC), Joel Breton (HTC). As President of Viveport and Head of Vive Studios respectively, Rikard Steiber and Joel Breton are two of the most senior figures working on the HTC Vive today. State Of Unreal: Epic Games’ Opening Session. : Tuesday, February 28th, 10:00am – 11:00am.

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VRWorld

JUNE 22, 2016

As an industry, we need immersive experiences that will show what VR brings to the table and so far, there are two experiences one should go through: WeVR’s “theBlu” for HTC Vive and Crytek’s “The Climb” for Oculus Rift. For VR engines, we have CryEngine, Unity Engine and Unreal Engine.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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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. Following the event, several global executives from the immersive tech industry weighed in on the device. Brian Meaney , Head of Product, Alteon.io

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. VeeR acquires, produces, and distributes best-in-class immersive stories and light-weight interactive experiences. web, and mobile. 4- Kshitij Marwah. 7- Alvin Graylin.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

They could make AR enter a new immersive phase that leads towards mainstream adoption. We started talking with other professionals in the field, and they always kept saying to us “If Microsoft can’t do it, how can you do it?”. It’s like 2 years (!!) But we were motivated, so we started studying the problem.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

All these different people who are making these 3D objects in these CAD programs, there’s just something that you can make design decisions lot faster when you’re actually immersed into this space. What is the return of investment for jumping into immersive? So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

All these different people who are making these 3D objects in these CAD programs, there's just something that you can make design decisions lot faster when you're actually immersed into this space. What is the return of investment for jumping into immersive? And you don't have to spend all this money to prototype these things out.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

All these different people who are making these 3D objects in these CAD programs, there’s just something that you can make design decisions lot faster when you’re actually immersed into this space. What is the return of investment for jumping into immersive? So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So really, the lessons that we learned out of XR Collaboration is this new, immersive, remote way of connecting digitally online. But the future is really taking a plunge into these immersive collaboration platforms and really honing in on that word, collaboration. But then you look at Unreal. What was your biggest challenge?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So really, the lessons that we learned out of XR Collaboration is this new, immersive, remote way of connecting digitally online. But the future is really taking a plunge into these immersive collaboration platforms and really honing in on that word, collaboration. But then you look at Unreal. What was your biggest challenge?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

One of my previous jobs — the one where I was building those immersive trainings — we were using Adobe Captivate, which is a pretty standard training software, where you make essentially interactive power points that save quiz data and such to a swarm database. We’re not tied to Microsoft. Most definitely.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

One of my previous jobs — the one where I was building those immersive trainings — we were using Adobe Captivate, which is a pretty standard training software, where you make essentially interactive power points that save quiz data and such to a swarm database. We’re not tied to Microsoft. Most definitely.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

One of my previous jobs -- the one where I was building those immersive trainings -- we were using Adobe Captivate, which is a pretty standard training software, where you make essentially interactive power points that save quiz data and such to a swarm database. We're not tied to Microsoft. HTC VIVE sold a couple million.

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