XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

The company’s XR portfolio covers everything from augmented reality smart glasses to a cloud-based platform for digital workflow creation. Recently, Meta introduced the Meta Quest Pro , with a focus on serving the enterprise VR space. There’s also the 5K Super headset, with full SteamVR tracking capabilities and a 200-degree FOV.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 24, 2023

From the nth rumor on the Apple headset to the announcement of the Pico 4 Pro in China, there have been a few things happening that you as an XR enthusiast can’t miss. This week we had quite a few interesting pieces of XR news. Here in this roundup, of course, you can find them all. without writing code.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Then the wish to compete with Apple may not become a reality: when the Vision Pro was announced, Samsung didn’t expect such cool features from it, so it delayed the announcement of the headset to have the time to increase its capabilities. The first world to launch is the game Super Rumble, created by a dedicated internal content team.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The design of Oculus Quest 2 Pro and controllers has been leaked. Reddit user Samulia has been able to find in the runtime of Quest 2 some video tutorials for the user (shared on Twitter by Basti564), and in them, it is clearly visible a device that is not the Quest 1 or Quest 2, but a much better device, most probably the Quest 2 Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The hype for the Apple Pro is starting to deflate and it is possible to see that from some cues: for instance, there are more critics of the headset and fewer articles are talking about it. Together with them, there could be also some other companies, like Huawei and Pico (Bytedance) , which are also rumored to work on Vision Pro competitors.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 4, 2023

Moreover, Kuo noted that Apple will launch the AirTag 2 with Vision Pro compatibility, which is also due next year. Kuo explained: I believe that spatial computing is a new ecosystem that Apple wants to build, using Vision Pro as the core to integrate other devices, including AirTag 2.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2022

Cambria will be a pro headset to substitute your laptop. In the long post talking about Meta’s future, Zuck has said that Cambria will be a pro headset aimed at professionals that want to work in VR. With its usual super-neat marketing images, Varjo has released Reality Cloud, its cloud streaming service for Varjo headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Anyway, analyzing its situation at the present time, you can find the following problems: The passthrough is blurred and black and white , so it doesn’t offer a believable augmented reality. If they just improve the cameras (maybe in the Quest Pro?) You can’t even provide a custom shader for the passthrough.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Meta Platforms has now entered new territory with Chinese tech giant MediaTek as it explores a partnership for its future augmented reality (AR) smart glasses. The latter has been supplying compute power for Meta’s Quest product lineup, including the Quest 2, Quest Pro, and Quest 3.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Since we are still in the hype phase for the Vision Pro, this roundup will still be centered a lot on Apple’s device, simply because almost all the VR magazine articles, the Tweets, and whatever people in XR are saying, at this moment is always about the Vision Pro. A single pixel is just the size of a blood cell!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Image by Mojo Vision). Mojo Vision CEO has worn a working smart contact lens. Drew Perkins, the CEO of Mojo Vision, the company working on smart contact lenses, has fulfilled the dream he had envisioned 7 years ago: he finally wore in his eyes a functioning smart contact lens. Other relevant news. Learn more.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 21, 2023

Google’s venture into Augmented Reality has been steeped in problems practically from day one. Google Glass was part of this vision. Google wanted to capitalize on the mystery and excitement around augmented reality. The company wasn’t “augmenting reality” as it claimed with its device, just supplementing it.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

With all the phone and watch and TV and game and chip and other chip news coming out of Apple’s big event, it was easy to forget the company’s longest-running background process: an augmented-reality wearable. That’s by design. Hard to StarBoard. First came StarBoard. So far, so unprecedented.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The word “AR” changes everything since Oculus must now s hift also towards augmented reality. There’s only one exception to the above rule and it is augmented reality. And now, we have the super-polished Quest. Testing the Vive Pro with the Vive Wireless Adapter. Or better… of XR DEVICES.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2018

I expected a lot of AR/VR news from there, like the announcement of the price of the Vive Pro or the release of the Oculus Go by Xiaomi and Facebook… but actually I’ve been disappointed by everyone. In Barcelona, various journalists have been able to try the new Vive Pro and the Vive Pro with the new Wireless Adapter.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Read on for my breakdown of the Vision Pro hardware and software and the experience they enable. UploadVR David Heaney If you want to read an on-paper specs breakdown of Vision Pro, you can do that here.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It has to be seen how the shipping service will be : all people were super-impressed by the incredibly fast shipping and the dedicated first-use assistance service offered by Magic Leap. Coming later on in 2019… this could really add intriguing possibility to augmented and mixed reality applications. Object Recognition.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

I have been working in the immersive space since 2015 and my personal vision is to inspire and educate people to think and act in a socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable way. MetaVRse One App: Our unique One App solution unlocks Augmented Reality by installing a small utility application (16mb).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Project North Star is an opensource reference design for a wide-FOV augmented reality headset that Leap Motion (now Ultraleap ) has given to the community. Noah also took it around with a super-elegant suitcase. Shadow Creator Action 1 Pro. Me wearing The Shadow Creator Action One Pro. North Star AR headset.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 25, 2024

Sebastian Beetschen also noted that during the years working in the industry, Almer has “learned a lot” about designing XR devices that are “super adaptable” and provide flexibility for workers’ preferences. This allows AR-backed content to be hosted without prior programming experience.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 23, 2023

This means that using a prescription lens of standard glasses, is able to provide AR augmentations that have 3D stereo effect and focus at different depths like real objects. This new optical engine will be showcased at AWE, and I hope to be able to go hands-on with it. Good luck to him for his future!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

I have already written one mega-roundup post of that event, so I will just super-briefly summarize it again here (I’m tired summarizing the Connect! :O). Huawei is advertising these glasses as competitors of Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Pro, but don’t get mislead by this. Oculus bets on Oculus Quest at OC6. An audio-only device.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Alan: Hey, everyone, I'm Alan Smithson, and today we're speaking with John Martin, the CEO and co-founder of BUNDLR, an augmented reality platform company empowering training, learning, and development innovators with on-demand and mobile immersive experiences. All that and more, coming up next on the XR for Business podcast.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Alan: Hey, everyone, I'm Alan Smithson, and today we're speaking with John Martin, the CEO and co-founder of BUNDLR, an augmented reality platform company empowering training, learning, and development innovators with on-demand and mobile immersive experiences. All that and more, coming up next on the XR for Business podcast.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Me wearing the Magic Leap One: the Lightpack makes sure that the headset is super light. It is still like a window to the augmented world. Let me explain that better: in HoloLens, you have a transparent glass all around your vision, so you can see all the real world, and in a certain abrupt region, the virtual elements pop up.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 30, 2021

I am super busy working on the last touches for the Venice VR Expanded world on VRChat. I just hope its vision will be a good one and not the usual one of ads and data harvesting…. Top news of the week. Image by JD.COM). Bytedance reportedly acquires Pico for 5B RMB while it also pushes on mobile AR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The quality of the visuals, in general, was also quite good, but it was not perfect: the colors were a bit washed out, the holograms were a bit transparent (like in all AR headsets), and the pixel density was not super-crisp. Many people can play around the table at a game all together, having fun in a new and innovative way.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 22, 2021

At AWE 2021 , I have finally been able to meet in person the people from Mojo Vision , the amazing startup that is working on AR contact lenses that I have interviewed some months ago. I am very fascinated by the idea of augmented reality lenses, so as soon as I saw they had a private demo room, I ran towards its door begging for a demo.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Alan: Hey, everyone, I'm Alan Smithson, and today we're speaking with John Martin, the CEO and co-founder of BUNDLR, an augmented reality platform company empowering training, learning, and development innovators with on-demand and mobile immersive experiences. All that and more, coming up next on the XR for Business podcast.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

I bet that Oculus has squeezed all the computational power possible thanks to super-optimizations, as it has done with the Go, so it will allow some cool games to run on it… but I don’t expect miracles. My vision of the Oculus Monterey (Image modified from an Oculus image). Oculus Monterey. But what the heck is Monterey?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

Another feature that has been praised by many is the RGB color AR passthrough, which has some warping and not the same depth as the Quest Pro’s one, but it features a very detailed resolution. The price is $1100, which makes it in direct competition with the Quest Pro. Many people were impressed by this.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

So to make it work I really needed to build a community of about 100 people around the book, many providing augmented scenes and many actually contributing thought leadership and reporting. Otherwise, if it’s interrupting you, I don’t see how that’s possibly a welcome augmentation, right? Alan: Awesome.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

So to make it work I really needed to build a community of about 100 people around the book, many providing augmented scenes and many actually contributing thought leadership and reporting. Otherwise, if it’s interrupting you, I don’t see how that’s possibly a welcome augmentation, right? Alan: Awesome.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

He said in his social media post, Today we are proud to announce that Red 6 and Boeing have completed the first augmented reality test flight with Red 6’s ATARS and ARCADE. The change makes it possible for both new and existing apps for the iPhone and iPad to run on the Vision Pro device.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! To ring in 2021 we released our first AR effect on the new iPhone 12 Pro, using LiDAR technology which allows us to create effects that interact with your environment – visually bridging the digital and physical worlds.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Yesterday, I have dressed as a fortune teller and I have given you my predictions for augmented reality in 2019. The only exception to this rule seems to be the Samsung Odyssey+, that offers features somewhat comparable to the ones of the Vive Pro, but costs only $500. At least, that is my vision. How has VR performed in 2018?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

This has not been the most interesting week in AR, VR, but I think that in the next times we’ll see some shots fired: in some days there will be the F8, the official shipment of the Vive Pro 2, then the Apple WWDC conference! The first device that has been reviewed by many Youtubers is the Vive Pro 2. News worth a mention.

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