Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

We talk to the first developers to join Microsoft’s HoloLens partner program about what the future of Mixed Reality looks like. Object Theory are pretty much the oldest Mixed Reality company around, having launched in June 2015, before the HoloLens had even started shipping.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Google was the first major technology company to release a head-worn computer when it introduced Google Glass in 2013. Google’s approach was significantly lighter and simpler than what’s come since.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

recently teased an update to their project that aims to replicate the official Microsoft version of Minecraft for HoloLens, the company’s $3000 AR headset, and put it on mobile devices capable of running Google’s ARCore and Apple’s ARKit. Now, with the release of Google ARCore and Apple ARKit, Speak Geek?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 8, 2017

While Firefox has supported the Oculus Rift since 2015, it’s only now that the browser joins competitors Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge in supporting the WebVR open standard. Firefox still leads Edge in supported hardware – Microsoft’s browser only supports the Windows Mixed Reality Headset.

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EON Reality

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Left: Visitors interact with a Football Experience on the Ibench Mobile Right: Oculus HMD and Microsoft’s Kinect make for a fun interactive experience. Sports experiences can be viewed anywhere with mobile Virtual Reality technology and headsets like Zeiss VR ONE and Google Cardboard. appeared first on EON Reality.

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XROM

JULY 26, 2023

Singapore VR/AR conference announces speakers from Meta, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, 3M, IMDA, HTC, among others. Global technology giants on the agenda include Meta, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, Lenovo, and Qualcomm. Schussler (Deutsche Telekom).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 24, 2017

That said, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook all have headsets in development that offer inside-out positional tracking — meaning the headsets don’t need any separate external hardware to find the precise location of the headset in a given space. The startup company was founded in 2015.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Efforts to construct and expand the Metaverse were sparked by Meta Platform’s major pivot in October, which saw Microsoft, NVIDIA, HTC VIVE, Qualcomm, Google, Varjo, and dozens of other tech giants enter the race for prime positioning to build the virtual and connected world. Pavia and the Cardano Metaverse. Somnium Space.

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2018

spec include Firefox Release 55, Oculus Browser, Samsung Internet, & Microsoft Edge. But Google Chrome and the WebVR developer community has been waiting for the official launch of what was being referred to as the WebVR 2.0 106: Josh Carpenter at GDC 2015. 112: Brandon Jones at GDC 2015. Support Voices of VR.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 29, 2020

Among tech’s big five — Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook — all but Facebook have crossed the mark. Apple was first, followed by Microsoft and Amazon (which has since dipped below the mark). Altogether the big five now account for more than 17 percent of the S&P 500, up from 11 percent in 2015.

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ARVR

JULY 9, 2020

Google launched Google Glass , and Microsoft launched HoloLens , a head-mounted display (Krevelen, 2010)(Jaimini, 2016). 2010s : Companies are investing in the potential of this area like Google with ARCore and Apple with ARKit (Papagiannis, 2017). Evolution of Augmented Reality (Craig, 2013) by fernanda rodríguez.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2020

billion since its initial Series A financing in 2014, garnering cash from the likes of Google, Alibaba, Qualcomm, and Andreessen Horowitz over the years. And it probably won’t until it can at least replicate the success of Microsoft’s purely enterprise-focused HoloLens headsets.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 2, 2017

TV and movie streaming service Netflix has already dipped its toes into the VR waters with apps on Gear VR and Google Daydream, but now the company behind it is looking towards mixed reality too. Tagged with: netflix Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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ARPost

MARCH 12, 2021

Many leading technology companies such as Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Google are investing billions into developing these technologies. It took place from the 1980s (when these were initially introduced into the markets) to 2015 (when they were finally fully adopted). I am not the only one who has identified this trend.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

Samsung confirmed at CES in January that its Oculus engineered Samsung Gear VR headset had passed an install base figure of 5 Million and more recently Google affirmed that it had shipped over 10 Million Cardboard viewers. SEE ALSO What VR Headset Makers (not analysts) Have Actually Said About Sales Expectations.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this weekly VRScout Report, Google Earth in VR is a rush, Facebook analyzes your face w/ augmented reality, GE uses AR to talk to machines, the funding wrap-up, cure lazy eye with VR, and more…. GOOGLE EARTH IN VR IS A RUSH. GE USES AR TO TALK TO MACHINES IN MICROSOFT PARTNERSHIP.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Credit: Alex Perry / Mashable / Microsoft. If the keyboard your desktop or laptop came with has a Windows key on the lower left and an “Enter” key instead of a “Return” key, chances are you’re using Microsoft’s iconic Windows OS. How to find out which version of Windows you have.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The service shut down yesterday — it had launched in beta in March 2015 and raised $2 million total. The startup was competing against Jaunt, Littlstar and giants like Google’s YouTube to host 360-degree immersive content. 360-degree video hosting service Vrideo is gone.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Google , Intel, Facebook and Microsoft have all either already begun or announced significant VR initiatives in the past 12-24 months. As the virtual reality industry makes its way through this highly important first year of commercial availability for its flagship headsets, it is being bolstered by most of the major tech companies.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

In 2015, Snapchat acquired Looksery for $150M. Did Seebright just release the augmented reality equivalent of Google Cardboard? If you haven’t yet had the pleasure of experiencing the HTC Vive’s roomscale virtual experience, you should check the Microsoft, Game Stop, or Micro Center location closest to you!

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Market research reports have shown that in 2015 the revenue was $0.66 The leading producers of VR headsets like Sony, Oculus, Google, HTC, and Samsung, mainly focus on creating cost-effective devices. Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft are expected to reduce the prices for their game products in the coming years. billion and $9.6

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The N21 boots up in just three seconds to the convenient, clear-cut Chrome operating system, which has integrated browser security, automatic updates, and is pre-loaded with useful Google apps like Gmail , YouTube, and Maps. The 180-degree rotating camera, 720p HD webcam and integrated speakers, and 9.5-hour

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 28, 2017

I had a chance to catch up with Blau at Google I/O on May 17th, 2017 where we talk about the state of the VR & AR industries and what some of the potential catalysts for consumer adoption might be. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2016

Many consumers have yet to even experience more accessible VR headsets like Google Cardboard or Gear VR — leaving quite a bit of head room for growth. billion visits to retail gaming and gaming-related websites over 2015 and 2016. HTC Vive most talked about headset on social media.

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 5, 2023

OpenAI was founded in December 2015 by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba, and John Schulman. In January, Microsoft expanded its long-term partnership with Open AI and announced a multibillion-dollar investment to accelerate AI breakthroughs worldwide. in funding over seven rounds so far.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Emteq Ltd was founded in 2015 to improve lives through the development of facial sensing healthcare solutions and is applying its technology to VR. He was tech lead on the BAFTA-award-winning Monument Valley (2014) and co-directed Gear VR hit Land’s End (2015). Solomon Rogers – Founder, REWIND. Pete Short – CTO, Breaking Forth.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 4, 2017

over the 2015–2020 forecast period in any sector other than digital reality. Google is adding augmented reality stickers for the Pixel, including official collections based on Stranger Things and Star Wars, among other franchises. Google, Microsoft and Facebook all have competing AR developer platforms.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Even at the low side of 100,000 units, that’s in the neighborhood of how many Oculus Rift DK2s were shipped globally , which at the time of launch in 2015 cost nearly one-sixth of the price of ML One. Abovitz reportedly later reduced that number to 100,000 units. Image courtesy AT&T, Magic Leap.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2014, 2015 and 2016 The Proto Awards were held to recognize some of the groundbreaking efforts pushing forward the emerging medium of VR content. Apple’s eye-catching ARKit is on the verge of release alongside a series of Microsoft-backed VR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2019

Holo4Labs is a solution developed by Poland-based company Solution4Labs (together with its parent company TenderHut and its partner SoftwareHut) that aims in improving the efficiency of scientific lab workers thanks to Microsoft HoloLens. Holo4Labs aims exactly at solving these and other problems exploiting Microsoft HoloLens.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 5, 2017

Riccitiello said in a press event and in our interview that Unity-based games were installed more than 16 billion times in 2016, up 31 percent from 2015. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”. Sweeney said that Unreal Engine had its best year of all time in revenues, and then 2016 revenues doubled the 2015 numbers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. According to GamesIndustry.biz, Sony is closing its Manchester-based game studio, that it opened in 2015 to produce ‘AAA’ PSVR exclusives. Google Glass 2 is now available for direct purchase. This is what Google Daydream is now useful for (look at the answers). Great post.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2024

The recently released report noted how “Meta employees see the Quest and its software ecosystem emerging as a primary alternative to Apple in the space, filling the role played by Google’s Android in smartphones.”

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Apple has watched over the last few years as the likes of Samsung, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Intel, Qualcomm, and more have made initiatives in the immersive technology space into significant parts of their forward-looking strategy. Acquisitions. See Also: 3 Moves Oculus is Borrowing from Apple’s Marketing Playbook.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

Furthermore, my involvement is primarily confined to one particular social VR platform, AltspaceVR, owned by Microsoft, making most of my experience the product of a niche within a niche within a niche. Microsoft has been very active in this area for years and their video on the history of flight simulation is a good introduction.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The firm’s first XR headset is due soon, and with it comes a spatial computing ambition that draws similarities and differences to Lenovo, Microsoft, Meta, HTC VIVE, and other XR headset vendors. Earlier this month, reports highlighted how Google and Samsung face a “ great fear ” when Apple releases new products.

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EnterpriseWear

AUGUST 1, 2018

Ideas on the ground and on board: The airport industry first began toying with wearable technology with the release of the original Google Glass in 2013. 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.

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