Tech Trends VR

MAY 2, 2018

The Brazilian-born inventor gets recognition for his groundbreaking work with the Microsoft Hololens. The HoloLens incorporates several patent-protected Microsoft inventions, including Kipman’s motion sensors initially brought to market for the Xbox Kinect video game controller. billion in 2016.

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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. Amazon is motivated for similar reasons?—?a it began to retract.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 12, 2022

The rumor that's floating right now around is mostly based on some chatter from GamesBeat's Jeff Grubb, who mentioned during a recent podcast that Microsoft is planning for an "E3-style" event in June. Electronic Arts has been doing its own event near E3 but not at the show itself since 2016. trade show.

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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. including lots of ups and downs in the intervening years. it began to retract.

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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. The Unity-based games reached a billion new devices since GDC 2016. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”. More people build an Apple with Unity than anyone else.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

However, other cloud services continued to grow, including Nvidia's GeForce Now and Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming. 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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ARVR

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In 2016 the immersive technology was globally used through the app Pokemon GO. Big names such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google are rapidly developing the technology, making it accessible to many industries. If you’re interested in AR, keep reading! In this article I’ll describe the 6 most important AR trends to watch in 2020.

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VRWorld

JUNE 19, 2016

With the conclusion of E3 2016 trade show, which took place last week in Los Angeles, California – many international guests went on for the hunt for several hot ticketed items – HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and of course, Pascal-based GeForce GTX 1070 and GTX 1080. Kudos to Microsoft for in-store availability.

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VRWorld

JUNE 29, 2017

The Sunway TaihuLight Supercomputer was awarded in 2016 the #1 position at the TOP500 , being thus the most powerful supercomputer in the world. After all, Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft – all use liquid cooled data centers. The Sunway TaihuLight Supercomputer installed at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

There’s no doubt that the announcements made on this conference might be the clearest direction where VR/MR/AR are heading as an industry, as it will happen after Microsoft Windows 10 Mixed Reality launches, as well as seeing the first sales results of next generation Oculus Rift headset.

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VRWorld

MAY 10, 2017

According to NVIDIA, the surging demand for deep learning developers will require the company to train ten times as many developers as they did in 2016. NVIDIA announced the company plans to train as many as 100,000 developers through the Deep Learning institute over the course of this year (2017).

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

From the very start, explanation for the Vive price was that the package enables “room scale VR,” with the included tracking solution (Lighthouse) and a pair of motion controllers, while the Oculus Rift only comes with a Microsoft Xbox controller. Nick Summers (@nisummers) September 20, 2016. pic.twitter.com/zg9JTNiCg8.

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

Visual augmented reality became mainstream with Pokemon Go (2016) and Snapchat filters, but its use cases are now moving beyond gaming and entertainment. For example, in 2019, Amazon extended Alexa features to pair with headphones and earbuds. Examples of Augmented Reality in Action. Mobile application.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Founded in Portugal in 2016, CEO and founder Prof. Veronica Orvalho created the platform based off her research in computer graphics, which have been used by Universal Studios, Sony, Microsoft, Amazon and other European-funded research projects. Throughout history, we have seen barriers be built, only to be torn down again.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

First, HTC delays the Vive until April 2016, with plans to show an updated developer kit at CES in January. At the end of the month, Oculus officially delays the release of Touch controllers until the last half of 2016. January 2016. February 2016. March 2016. April 2016.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 20, 2016

And this system, configured “as is” – costs as much as one of those “AMD announces, but you can’t actually buy” CyberPower $499 VR Ready computers paired with an Microsoft Xbox One or Sony PlayStation 4. Predictably, the kind of performance that Intel packs into this NUC doesn’t come cheap.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2020

And, as we found in our full review , we weren’t big fans of Quest 2’s soft headstrap, so we’d highly recommend dropping the extra $50 for the Elite Strap accessory [Amazon] if you’re serious about playing PC VR games. Fortunately a free and official plugin from Microsoft also makes it compatible with SteamVR content.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2017

Comic-Con 2016 introduced VR to fans from all over the world last year, with brands like MTV , DC Comics , Conan , FX , Suicide Squad , and Mr. Robot making quite a splash. The Tick: Amazon is bringing a virtual reality escape room to Comic-Con for their upcoming original series. Also available in VR – with both forms being demoed.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2020

The headset’s ease-of-use, solid game library, and reasonable price has pushed it to become Oculus’ best rated headset on Amazon thus far. While Microsoft and its other VR partners seem to have largely abandoned the Windows VR platform, HP surprised us in 2019 with the launch of Reverb, its second VR headset.

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VRWorld

APRIL 28, 2017

Microsoft tried to use total body immersion combined with a voice and gesture interface which became the Xbox Kinect hardware. Some parts of the gesture tracking may have made it into Microsoft new AR device, HoloLens. The company’s last financial evaluation, in February 2016, has the company worth $4.5B Kinect version 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Marc: I used to run the Majenta division of Autodesk, so I was building the legacy -- not real time -- tools for visualization in the film and TV industry, and I joined Epic in 2016. It's a bunch of sourcing right now on Amazon, it doesn't cost us much. At the time, for me it was like, "Oh my God, they're going to make it."

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Marc: I used to run the Majenta division of Autodesk, so I was building the legacy -- not real time -- tools for visualization in the film and TV industry, and I joined Epic in 2016. It's a bunch of sourcing right now on Amazon, it doesn't cost us much. At the time, for me it was like, "Oh my God, they're going to make it."

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Marc: I used to run the Majenta division of Autodesk, so I was building the legacy -- not real time -- tools for visualization in the film and TV industry, and I joined Epic in 2016. It's a bunch of sourcing right now on Amazon, it doesn't cost us much. At the time, for me it was like, "Oh my God, they're going to make it."

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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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VRWorld

APRIL 30, 2017

“ The first quarter was another record quarter, coming off a record 2016. While other major tech companies like Google , Facebook and Microsoft have raced into the VR/AR markets, Apple has been biding its time.” ” Did something new come out recently? Intel’s doing well. link] (PDF Download). link] a-hire/.

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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? Industry-leader HTML Fusion let attendees imagine the future of computing in augmented reality with Microsoft’s AR headset, the HoloLens. — Zzzaaaaaaaaaaccchhhh (@z_laked) June 25, 2016.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Outside of that, we’ve worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture. We’ve got furniture stores or any sort of eCommerce shop — Amazon, Wayfair — offering the ability to view items, to see how they’ll look in your home. We have a number of reports available.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Outside of that, we’ve worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture. We’ve got furniture stores or any sort of eCommerce shop — Amazon, Wayfair — offering the ability to view items, to see how they’ll look in your home. We have a number of reports available.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Outside of that, we've worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture. We've got furniture stores or any sort of eCommerce shop -- Amazon, Wayfair -- offering the ability to view items, to see how they'll look in your home. We have a number of reports available. So I think marketing/retail is really the big use case for AR.

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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. Microsoft’s got a great product around it. If Google is all-in on AR, Apple’s all-in, Amazon, Facebook, Walmart — like, every major company in the world gets it. He worked for Microsoft last year. Paul: Yeah.

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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. Microsoft’s got a great product around it. If Google is all-in on AR, Apple’s all-in, Amazon, Facebook, Walmart — like, every major company in the world gets it. He worked for Microsoft last year. Paul: Yeah.

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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. Microsoft's got a great product around it. If Google is all-in on AR, Apple's all-in, Amazon, Facebook, Walmart -- like, every major company in the world gets it. He worked for Microsoft last year. Paul, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?]. And when we started in 2016, it was probably the first fund dedicated to investing in areas of AR. And that’s something that visionaries in AR have been talking about for at least a decade.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?]. And when we started in 2016, it was probably the first fund dedicated to investing in areas of AR. And that’s something that visionaries in AR have been talking about for at least a decade.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. It’s a matter of months now, that Microsoft is shipping a new HoloLens; some other companies are shipping glasses. Microsoft tries to be the leader of market, but they’re not shipping. It’s not in context to my world. Magic Leap for sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. It’s a matter of months now, that Microsoft is shipping a new HoloLens; some other companies are shipping glasses. Microsoft tries to be the leader of market, but they’re not shipping. It’s not in context to my world. Magic Leap for sure.

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