ARPost

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The technology has its limitations, but there are two main reasons that users and advertisers alike love it. Then, just earlier this month, they formed a partnership taking steps to give property owners control over their digital space. Last spring, they rolled out an updated version of their AR content creation platform.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Oculus Touch motion-tracked controllers have launched today after 8 months of the Rift solely supporting gamepad experiences. So today’s episode of the Voices of VR podcast is an op-ed analysis comparing the Touch controller and room-scale tracking technologies, as well as the overall content and developer ecosystems.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Leap Motion builds the leading markerless hand-tracking technology, and today the company revealed a update which they claim brings major improvements “across the board.” ” The upgraded tracking and improved developer tools are available in beta today on Windows , alongside three new demos to try it out for yourself.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Since launching back in 2012, the C-Lab initiative has been hard at work developing industry-changing technology that pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with virtual and augmented reality. Let’s take a quick look at what we can expect to see: TraVRer: A 360-degree travel app with impressive control.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

IBM predicts that AI will unlock the next generation of interactivity for XR experiences, describing in the 2021 Unity Technology Trends Report that the maturity of AI will play a key role beyond hand tracking, and into the world of voice. IBM’s key technology in this area is Watson, their AI assistant. NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2023

Analog Concerns Oculus Rift prototype demo with Xbox controller, 2012. Lets balance that legitimate concern by examining where Apple is and what the company potentially loses by leaving controller-based VR and even traditional gaming experiences out of Vision Pro's picture. This is happening.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The technology allows people to create ‘virtual’ landscapes and environments that simulate the real world. billion in 2028, revealing just how intrigued investors are in developing the emerging technology. Meta, Pico, HTC VIVE, and Varjo headsets all incorporate this new technology. billion USD in 2021 to $84.09

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Thanks to the efforts of Australian-based star-up Voxon, a futuristic technology from a galaxy far far away is now a reality with the development of Voxon VX1 3D volumetric arcade machine. The VX1 comes with a cupcake-sized, third-party 6-access controller to help navigate various content and manipulate volumetric images.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 19, 2018

The game is exclusive to the Oculus platform and designed “from the ground up” for the Touch controllers, coming from the studio behind Chronos (2016) and Dead & Buried (2017). The procedural technology makes for randomised locations and encounters, and the vast array of weapons allow for “over 2000 possible variations”.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

And since it’s Sunday and it’s a bright day outside of the window, I want to restart writing articles with something bright and funny … a satirical post about all the hype around technology that I’ve seen these months. I also wonder what the two AIs will speak together about… taking control of Skynet?).

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2017

Founded in 2010, Leap Motion would release its initial product (today called the ‘ Leap Motion Controller ‘) in 2012, a desktop-focused peripheral which offered touchless hand-tracking. However, one place in VR still seems like a potential sweet spot for Leap Motion’s hand-tracking tech: mobile.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

While there’s certainly a range of exciting games and other VR software coming soon to first-generation hardware, it feels like the market is steadily turning its attention toward next-generation technologies, and fostering a renewed sense of excitement and momentum. Image courtesy Facebook. Valve Knuckles. Image courtesy @AntonHand.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Designed as a natural motion interface for PC and Mac, the original Leap Motion Controller began shipping in volume in July 2013, for $80. However, the Leap Motion Controller’s hardware was finalised in 2012, and we’ve been waiting patiently for the second phase of Orion, a brand new tracking system designed for VR and built in to headsets.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2021

However, technological advancement has generated new opportunities to apply virtual reality to more than just video games. While technology is constantly changing in the digital world, it is crucial to investigate how advancement in technology can impact learning. Virtual reality has been a known concept for the past 32 years.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While VR stuff is admittedly going to be tough since Apple decided not to support VR motion controllers , that list of stuff is growing, with games like Blackbox, Game Room, Puzzling Places, Super Fruit Ninja, Synth Riders, Tiny-Fins, What The Golf?, and Wisp showing Vision Pro users what’s what.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 13, 2017

They are all unabashed fans of science fiction, and yet they have to deal with the realities of where technology is. Underkoffler has been trying to make the vision of the 2002 film Minority Report , where actor Tom Cruise uses “data gloves” and gestures to control a transparent computer, into a reality.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2017

Facebook could control the platform upon which future AR hardware is built, although the company will face fierce competition from others who are trying to make AR a reality. Microsoft has invested aggressively in the technology: it unveiled its HoloLens AR headset two years ago.

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Life at the Feeding Edge

JUNE 29, 2021

Using the old Microsoft Kinect c ontroller then the newer version 2 ( 2012 and 2014 even longer ago than I thought ). What was not quite working though was dealing with the speed of movement using camera technology at the time. A digital mirror could help overlay the optimum moves over the live performed moves and so on.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 2, 2018

Kipman started his professional career at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, right after graduating from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2001. In a career spanning more than 15 years as a developer for the company, he has been named as the primary inventor on more than 150 U.S.

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AllThingsVR

AUGUST 11, 2016

Eyefluence Is Bringing Eye Tracking Tech To The “Next Generation of VR Headsets” Last night I was invited to a press-only evening showcase for a technology that I have come to believe will be truly instrumental in both virtual and augmented reality’s eventual rise to dominance. Read more here.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2016

What this means is that when you place a virtual object on your hand, you would feel pressure at many points of contact instead of just a general vibration from a controller. Road to VR went hands on with AxonVR’s haptic skin technology in a demo at this year’s IMMERSE Summit. The post AxonVR Raises $5.8

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 22, 2022

Rather, it is about us learning to work alongside smart, automated technology that will augment our capabilities while allowing us to focus on skills that are uniquely humans. Amazon says that since it introduced robots to its warehouses in 2012, it has also created over a million human jobs. Agricultural Robots. Kitchen Robots.

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Road to VR

JULY 6, 2016

Apple has just been granted another AR/VR related technology patent, to add to their growing list. It’s common practice for large corporate technology enterprises to try to secure future IP ‘just in case’ they ever choose to pursue it.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Brendan Iribe was one of Oculus founding team members back when the company formed in 2012. As we’ve grown, I really missed the deep, day-to-day involvement in building a brand new product on the leading edge of technology.” At present, that leaves Oculus without a executive head.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

A direct tie-in to Ralph Breaks the Internet, the sequel to Disney Animation Studios’ 2012 smash-hit, Wreck-It Ralph, Ralph Breaks VR will be available at select VOID Experience Centers beginning November 21st. Upon entering the experience, the first thing you notice is the lack of any controller peripheral.

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Upload VR

JULY 3, 2023

If you're unaware, Luckey founded Oculus VR in 2012 to launch the Kickstarter campaign that would eventually lead to the consumer Oculus Rift in 2016, after two publicly sold development kits. You have to make the technology accessible and affordable if you eventually wanna have a billion people using it.

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AR Insider

JULY 15, 2021

Automatic electric tinting sunglasses is another desirable feature for sunglasses, but the options are limited by technology. With Project Aria, they’re already testing AR tech out in the world, in advance of the ideal display technology. 2022+: Privacy Controls. The goal is not to overly control us against our will.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

The devices will use positional tracking (which will not require any external sensors) developed from expertise learned through creating Google’s Tango mapping technology and optimized for virtual reality. MICROSOFT’S UPCOMING MOTION CONTROLLERS. THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE DISAPPEARING STORY APPS CONTINUES. WEIRD OR AWESOME?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Eric is the co-founder and co-organizer of the HoustonVR Meetup , and an event manager for the Immersive Technology Conference. Photography by William Golden, Director of the Immersive Technology Conference. He has been a professional computer programmer for over 20 years.

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Delight XR

AUGUST 7, 2022

Even though the technology has been around for years, the current generation of products and devices gets closer than ever to the VR’s original promise: getting elsewhere and connecting to whatever matters most to you. With the technology advancing every year, the hardware is getting cheaper and the software base is growing steadily.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 18, 2017

This short, sweet little movie from 2012, directed by Jake Schreier, doesn’t depict a dystopian future in which VR ruins our lives but instead a more plausible vision of years not too far from now in which A.I.-controlled controlled domestic robots assist the elderly with every day care.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 8, 2017

Montreal-based Minority Media, which also created the groundbreaking PSN title Papo Y Yo in 2012, created the dinosaur undersea adventure game that launched on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets in May 2017. The headsets and the technology for continuous virtual worlds and the blockchain for ecommerce, all the pieces are here.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Anyone involved at the intersection of real estate and Virtual Reality has probably experienced a immersive walkthrough made with Matterport technology. It sounds like you guys had a pivot somewhere around 2011–2012 when you had that realization. tl;dr — VR wasn’t even around when Matterport was founded.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

[ Editor’s note: Timothy Rogers has been a valued member of the OpenSim community since he launched SoftPaw Estates back in 2012. That evolved into the Zetamex OpenSim hosting company, which has been ranked as one of the top hosting providers since 2013 in our annual reader surveys and is the company behind the ZetaWorlds grid.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Most people have already heard of both “Meta”, the world-leading technology company, and the “Quest” line of VR headsets. The transition to the new branding paved the way for Facebook to dive deeper into the world of immersive technologies. It comes with sleek, ergonomic controllers without the tracking rings used on previous devices.

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Even though the technology has been around for years, the current generation of products and devices gets closer than ever to the VR’s original promise: getting elsewhere and connecting to whatever matters most to you. With the technology advancing every year, the hardware is getting cheaper and the software base is growing steadily.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 18, 2023

Technology was an issue. When I set out to make an omnidirectional treadmill back in 2012, I had three criteria for myself. So you can’t have any menu systems, can’t have any difficult control systems, you have to simplify it all. What was the problem? (2:53) The consumer market for VR just wasn’t there yet.

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