AR Insider

MARCH 16, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including The latter powers Google’s Live View AR navigation tool. O ne striking realization about spatial computing is that we’re almost seven years into the sector’s current stage.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Many of you recall that I started working in VR in 2014 and my first solution was a full-body system that needed a PC, a VR headset, an array of Kinects, and some networking magic to work. New info on Microsoft abandoning the Hololens 3. And now, 8 years later, just a mobile headset could do all of this. Supports real-time filtering.

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VRScout

JANUARY 9, 2017

The 2014 acquisition of DIRECTV was a recent big move, and the company is currently in process of purchasing Time Warner (which would bring AT&T’s telecommunication holdings under the same umbrella as the Warner Bros. Having tracked [the VR/AR industry] for a couple of years now, I’m amazed at how rapidly the tools are advancing.”.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This reflects actions taken at Google, Snap, Microsoft, and Apple over the last few months regarding their respective smart glass offerings. Such innovations include its partnerships with Microsoft and Zoom, digital twin and hyperrealistic avatar construction tools , and AI-powered Research SuperCluster facility, among others.

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Initially established as part of a collaboration with Microsoft back in 2014 when the company first began work on its Hololens, the media giant is spinning out the team as it explores the broader sale of certain assets.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Some of the biggest names in social impact will be in attendance, including: Participant Media, Conservation International, the Rainforest Alliance, Connect for Climate/World Bank, and the Milken Institute, as well as tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

To prove his claims, he put on the tale the sales numbers of the Oculus devkits: “The original DK1, released in 2013 sold 70,000 units while the follow-up DK2 from 2014 sold 150,000”, he said. SparkAR is an interesting tool for creators and marketers. Microsoft has showcased a great holographic translating technology.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

Air New Zealand is one airlines provider that is testing how the Microsoft Hololens can help improve in-flight customer service. Topshop is no stranger to using VR as a marketing tool (they live-streamed a virtual catwalk all the way back in 2014), but they’ve really taken the plunge on this one.

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Bernard Marr

JANUARY 4, 2023

When Facebook purchased the headset maker way back in 2014, it was seen as the first indication that it considered VR to be the future of social media. As a way of researching what work might be like in five or ten years’ time, tools like Workrooms provide a fascinating glimpse into one possible version of the future.

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ARVR

MARCH 24, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including The latter powers Google’s Live View AR navigation tool. One striking realization about spatial computing is that we’re almost seven years into the sector’s current stage.

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ARVR

JANUARY 11, 2021

This can be done with a headset that allows you to see through or a modified pair of glasses, such as Google Glass, or Microsoft Hololens. In 2014 the number of virtual reality users worldwide was in the hundreds of thousands, but that number soared to over 280 million users in 2019.

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VeeR VR

APRIL 10, 2018

Host of Voices of VR, Kent has traveled to the top VR gatherings around the world since May 2014 to bring you a diverse range of VR perspectives and insights from over 500 makers and seasoned academics. Alan's business has worked with companies like Samsung, HBO, Techweek, Microsoft, Comcast, and many more. Sabarish Gnanamoorthy.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

We had full-body room-scale VR in 2014 , we were so cool. This lets you experience scenes that are a bit more complex than the ones that you can live on Microsoft’s device; The field of view is 40° Horizontal and 30° Vertical. This means that it is slightly bigger than HoloLens, but nothing special. Other resources.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Few months ago, Apple released a development tool called ARKit that enabled developers to add AR capabilities to their apps. This pace of development puts Apple in pole position to capture larger market share than the incumbents such as Google or Microsoft. The Verge has a good article about the first generation ARKit-developed apps.

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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. Rather than spending weeks, designers can, without changing their approach use their tool of choice in 3D, and the PanguVR engine will handle the rest— it automatically converts the whole scene into fully immersive VR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. Microsoft now sees VR as a high priority for Flight Simulator. You know, Microsoft only adds VR when people ask for it….

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EnterpriseWear

AUGUST 1, 2018

Let’s look back: Early trials: Virgin Atlantic ’s 2014 trial at London Heathrow Airport – in collaboration with SITA – included both Google Glass and the Sony SmartWatch 2. That year, SITA worked with Helsinki Airport to explore visualizing airport operations with the Microsoft HoloLens.

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VRWorld

JUNE 22, 2016

Personally, I started working back in 1996, working on “Microsoft Golf 98” I had no idea that my career is going to develop in such a way. I would say my life changed in September 2014, when I saw a 3D printed Vive prototype from Valve, and started thinking what could be done when this product becomes a reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched — what I love — VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. A lot of companies focusing on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched — what I love — VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. A lot of companies focusing on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched -- what I love -- VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. A lot of companies focusing on it. Alan: Absolutely.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

I really hope to have heard this before starting my entrepreneurial adventure in 2014. More or less one year ago, we thought about developing a tool to let people prototype in VR, like the Adobe XD of VR. Maquette by Microsoft). Suzanne Borders. Long story short, it has been a terrible idea.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies. But what happened over the past few years is, it’s become kind of the de facto interactive 3D tool. Alan: So it’s really a prototyping tool then.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies. But what happened over the past few years is, it’s become kind of the de facto interactive 3D tool. Alan: So it’s really a prototyping tool then.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies. But what happened over the past few years is, it's become kind of the de facto interactive 3D tool. Alan: So it's really a prototyping tool then.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

And we look at something like Altspace — which is a direct competitor to VRChat — and it doesn’t seem like it’s moved or changed since it was released in 2014, 2015. And Torch is an AR authoring tool that lets you create augmented reality experiences. Nothing really been improved in my opinion. Teppei: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

And we look at something like Altspace — which is a direct competitor to VRChat — and it doesn’t seem like it’s moved or changed since it was released in 2014, 2015. And Torch is an AR authoring tool that lets you create augmented reality experiences. Nothing really been improved in my opinion. Teppei: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

And we look at something like Altspace — which is a direct competitor to VRChat — and it doesn’t seem like it’s moved or changed since it was released in 2014, 2015. And Torch is an AR authoring tool that lets you create augmented reality experiences. Nothing really been improved in my opinion. Teppei: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

Alan: You’ve been doing this a while longer than myself, but I’ve been in early VR since 2014. HP and Microsoft, they’re running huge departments in this, just because they were early and learned how to do it. No offence to Microsoft, but we’re not living in Windows anymore. So companies need to do more.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

Alan: You’ve been doing this a while longer than myself, but I’ve been in early VR since 2014. HP and Microsoft, they’re running huge departments in this, just because they were early and learned how to do it. No offence to Microsoft, but we’re not living in Windows anymore. So companies need to do more.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

Alan: You've been doing this a while longer than myself, but I've been in early VR since 2014. HP and Microsoft, they're running huge departments in this, just because they were early and learned how to do it. No offence to Microsoft, but we're not living in Windows anymore. They've never been easier to use.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 19, 2019

He's been focused on growing and supporting the virtual reality industry since early 2014 at UploadVR, where he established coworking spaces in L.A. It's been sort of, like you're saying, since early 2014, with this third wave of VR kicking off. VR is going to take us back to that, but also give us a lot of added tools.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

This headset will serve to make Meta also conquer a bigger share of the prosumer market , the ones that are unsatisfied from the current Quest performances and/or want to use the Quest as a productivity tool. Meta should be more worried about Project Cambria and all its goal of making the Quest/Cambria a productivity tool.

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VRScout

MAY 4, 2017

So we provide people with the right tool so they can take their ideas and creativity to reality. Building on the fact that 91% of all HoloLens applications built in Unity, Brandon Bray, Principal Group Manager of Microsoft, announced that mixed reality will soon be available for Unity developers. Mixed Reality Goes Big League.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

He stressed many times how he wants to empower creators, and how he wants to provide free tools for content creators and cheap hardware for the users. I entered VR in 2014 after having tried an Oculus Rift DK2 : it was the startup Oculus that made me love virtual reality. There are some updates for the Horizon suite of social tools.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

After Luckey’s company was bought by Facebook for $2B in 2014, his reported net worth is $700M – so he has plenty of money to play with. MICROSOFT NABS MARK BOLAS, RENOWNED VR PIONEER. SNAPCHAT LETS THE SPECTACLES OUT OF THE BAG. Snapchat finally announced their hardware play and changed the company name to Snap, Inc.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Since the HoloLens was first released almost three years ago, Microsoft has steadily been building partnerships and demonstrating an array of industry use cases across manufacturing, engineering, healthcare, education and many others. Mixed Reality. Read the full article here. People love pornography, but what about enjoying it in goggles?

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