ARVR

APRIL 5, 2021

That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.” It’s not the revolutionary platform shift touted circa-2016. This was the same strategy that drove Google’s Android OS years ago.

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ARVR

MARCH 24, 2021

That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.” It’s not the revolutionary platform shift touted circa-2016. In fact, Google is a natural candidate to build this physical-world index.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Though it’s not as costly as PC-based VR, getting into mobile VR can still be expensive if you don’t have the hardware to run it. over on Amazon , while a 32G Pixel is $680, the Moto Z is $449. Tagged with: Axon 7 , google daydream , ZTE. ZTE’s Axon 7 is helping lighten that load a bit. ″ AMOLED display.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

diagonal, which feels so 2016. Google unveils Starline communication solution. At Google I/O, Google has announced Project Starline, an interesting project it has worked on for five years. I think it can become just the nth XR project that Google will abandon. Digilens shows a reference design for AR glasses.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google.

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ARVR

JULY 1, 2020

Image : Street artist KAWS just launched a global AR art gallery that changes how we think about both the museum, space, and the nature of street art With the onset of 5G’s mobile edge computing (MEC) networks, the internet is getting some serious new hardware. Take this 2016 figure released by Accenture as guidance to commercial insurers.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

Because of ongoing Covid lockdowns in China, Pimax were unsure if the controllers would ship with batteries (held at another warehouse location), so advised me to purchase them on Amazon and provided a link. Google searches are very revealing. Pimax headset listed on Amazon (Image by Amazon, provided by Rob Cole).

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes. Both Azure Spatial Anchors and Google Cloud Anchors are leveraging existing strengths in mapping towards the AR Cloud. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.

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VRWorld

APRIL 28, 2017

Since Magic Leap’s inception in 2011, there has been great innovation in the technology sector focused in the virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality (MR) space with Magic Leap trying to create a new hardware interface designs. Google discontinued the interface in January 2015.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Gaming On-Demand Google's Stadia streaming gaming service may not exist in 2023 - it proved to be a great idea, backed by solid technology, that just didn't catch on with consumers. Amazon and Netflix also entered the market, with Netflix taking a different approach by offering downloadable game content on users' devices.

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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. That Damn Battery Arguably the fiercest hardware debate right now in the industry is what to do with the damn battery.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Someone from a major company (Amazon, Apple, Microsoft), with pockets big enough to be able to compete with the rich Facebook, giving users an alternative and stimulating Facebook in doing even better. Road To VR) More info (Steam Hardware Survey?—?Upload Monopolies are never good for consumers, and we need a competitor to show up.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 11, 2016

They accounted for 86% of the number of investors in AR/VR startups in current quarter of 2016. Alibaba and Amazon. Certainly Magic Leap won big by attracting Google, Qualcomm, Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, among other investors. And that is the 9th straight quarter of investment trending upwards.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 31, 2016

I also spoke with Curran about the big trends at CES 2016. When you think about things like intelligent assistants, we have embedded services like Siri from Apple, Google Home, Amazon Echo with Alexa. billion industry in 2016, but it’s far below some expectations as far as the number of units going out the door.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

We provide estimates on hardware numbers for consumer and enterprise; hardware shipments, hardware revenue for VR devices, AR/MR devices. We tried to making a Google Cardboard thing,” and they made a little marketing kitschy thing. So that’s not really a number we provide.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

We provide estimates on hardware numbers for consumer and enterprise; hardware shipments, hardware revenue for VR devices, AR/MR devices. We tried to making a Google Cardboard thing,” and they made a little marketing kitschy thing. So that’s not really a number we provide.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

We provide estimates on hardware numbers for consumer and enterprise; hardware shipments, hardware revenue for VR devices, AR/MR devices. We tried to making a Google Cardboard thing," and they made a little marketing kitschy thing. So that's not really a number we provide. So, office buildings, your house, or wherever.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

You know how federal agencies and corporations (Google, Facebook, Amazon, et al) can surveil you with impunity and track your habits? — Zzzaaaaaaaaaaccchhhh (@z_laked) June 25, 2016. A crowd favorite was “Special FX Master,” a combination of hardware and tablet interface to let children (or adults—nobody’s judging!)

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. We have a Google Doc-style, real-time collaborative editing, where you can have as many people as you want in a project, but you’re also giving them permission to edit the project. To learn more about Torch, you can visit torch.app.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. We have a Google Doc-style, real-time collaborative editing, where you can have as many people as you want in a project, but you’re also giving them permission to edit the project. To learn more about Torch, you can visit torch.app.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. We have a Google Doc-style, real-time collaborative editing, where you can have as many people as you want in a project, but you're also giving them permission to edit the project. To learn more about Torch, you can visit torch.app.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

They come to the show to actually buy software and hardware because they really understand the need and understand what it can do, at least to a certain degree. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?]. And the results were pretty amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

They come to the show to actually buy software and hardware because they really understand the need and understand what it can do, at least to a certain degree. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?]. And the results were pretty amazing.

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