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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

As reported by Road to VR , Google recently confirmed that the latest iteration of the framework, WebVR 1.1, Speaking at the W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality last month, Megan Lindsay, WebVR Product Manager at Google stated that a beta version should launch in December 2016 followed by a stable launch in January 2017.

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MAY 17, 2017

Microsoft may have wrapped up its Build developers conference for another year, but now it’s Google’s turn. Take note however, that the latest on Google Daydream and more might not be revealed today; Google has a second session dedicated to VR tomorrow. Thursday, May 18 – VR at Google.

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MARCH 14, 2017

During GDC 2017, Khronos Group unveiled OpenXR as the name for their VR/AR API standard that’s currently being developed. ” Will Microsoft Join The Effort? The current collection of partners is dominated by those more involved in VR, including names like Sony, Oculus, Google, and more.

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MAY 21, 2017

At Google I/O 2017 developer conference this week, the company announced a standalone Daydream VR headset in partnership with Qualcomm , with Lenovo and HTC slated to release commercial versions later this year. Google also shared a small tidbit: Developers have built “more than 150 apps” for Daydream so far.

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DECEMBER 31, 2016

That’s a question that expands well beyond 2017, but there’s still a bunch of big questions we’re expecting to answer next year. Six months on from its reveal, Microsoft’s Project Scorpio remains a promising mystery for the VR industry. Tagged with: 2017 , htc vive , oculus rift , project scorpio.

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JULY 22, 2017

The smartphone will eventually die, & Apple, Google, Microsoft, & Facebook are racing to kill it @businessinsider [link] [link] — allthingsvr (@allthingsvr) July 22, 2017.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

Microsoft’s play for command of next generation personal computing can be seen today with the announcement of a series of Windows-powered VR headsets starting at $300. This is not the case with the headsets on the way from Microsoft’s partners. “The strategy has become clear. . “The strategy has become clear.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2017

Though Oculus and Samsung’s Gear VR might have had a significant headstart , Google’s mobile VR ecosystem, Daydream is poised to lead the smartphone charge in the coming months. Google wants to essentially create the Android of VR by building on top of that exact operating system.

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MAY 7, 2017

F8 2017 was held on April 18th and 19th 2017. Other technology giants with strong consumer brands have their developer conferences in the coming weeks, let’s see how they in turn contribute to stimulating the mass market adoption of immersive technologies: Microsoft Build : May 10-12, 2017. Google I/O : May 17-19, 2017.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

During today’s Samsung Unpacked event, Samsung announced plans to create new ‘Extended Reality’ (XR) hardware in partnership with Google and Qualcomm. And the software will be provided by Google. The hardware will be us. In 2020, a design patent indicated Samsung might be working on a new bug-shaped Odyssey headset.

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JULY 10, 2023

The engineering director of Google's upcoming AR/VR operating systems has quit. At Microsoft in the 90s he co-developed Windows NT, the workstation OS which became the technology foundation of all Windows versions from XP onwards. From 2017 Lucovsky led Facebook's effort to build a new operating system for AR glasses.

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APRIL 13, 2017

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. image courtesy VR First. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The 2017 Game Developers Conference (GDC) and accompanying Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) are right around the corner. There’s a lot going on at GDC every year, but with VR’s first big consumer year in the books last year, 2017 should be bigger than ever for our industry. What to Expect from Microsoft.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Samsung, in partnership with Qualcomm and Google, has announced plans to develop a new extended reality product. But when Samsung cancelled the project, I switched to the Google Pixel to stay close to Google’s VR platform. And now, both Gear VR and Google’s platform are gone.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

Microsoft has announced plans to bring support for WebVR to Edge, which succeeds Internet Explorer as the default web browser in Windows 10. See Also: Microsoft ‘Holographic Shell’ Aims to Immerse You in Windows by 2017. See Also: Google Shows HTC Vive Running at 90 FPS in Chrome with WebVR.

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MARCH 14, 2017

The wider VRWC show, meanwhile, runs from 11th – 14th and sees speakers from Microsoft, Google, and Oculus Story Studio. On display at the exhibition will be the Microsoft HoloLens, Ultrahaptics, and more. Tickets to the show are on sale now. Tagged with: VR Startups , VR World Congress , VRWC.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2016

There, Google said that the company soon plans to ship a public version of Chrome on Android with support for WebVR 1.1. It was there that Megan Lindsay, WebVR Product Manager at Google, announced that the company is working toward a public release of Chrome on Android that supports the latest WebVR 1.1

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AUGUST 9, 2017

The organizers of VR’s biggest awards ceremony, The Proto Awards, say they won’t be hosting an event in 2017. They aim to bring the awards back in 2018, skipping the 2017 season “in order to assess the changing landscape of immersive technology and entertainment,” according to a prepared statement.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

The United States (US) Justice Department launched a lawsuit against Google’s parent company Alphabet on Tuesday, reports revealed. According to the lawsuit, Google earns roughly 80 percent of its earnings from advertising. According to the lawsuit, Google earns roughly 80 percent of its earnings from advertising.

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MARCH 3, 2017

With each passing year the Game Developers Conference (GDC) becomes more and more important to the VR industry, and 2017’s iteration was no different. Rift’s 2017 Line-Up. One year on and it’s ready to debut its bigger, better 2017 line-u p, fueled by the recently-released Touch controllers. Whew, what a week.

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JUNE 16, 2017

Headset freedom seems to be virtually solved either using external sensors like Rift and Vive, or using inside-out tracking pursued by Google, Microsoft, Intel and Facebook. Here at E3 2017 I tried a pair of wireless VR prototype add-ons that worked with the HTC Vive.

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MARCH 3, 2020

Since 2017, we’ve been able to see significant growth in the adoption of AR and VR across different industries. Expeditions Pioneer Program by Google. Google helps tackle the latter with its Expeditions Pioneer Program. Teachers and staff learn how to use Google’s Expeditions app and ARCore (for Android) or ARKit (for iOS).

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

Still it took another six month or so, well into 2017, for Oculus to solidify support for three and four Sensor configurations, offering 360-degree and room-scale tracking to early adopters. Oculus Rift + Touch Price Cuts in 2017. SEE ALSO How Google's Latest VR Moves Are a Major Blow to Oculus' Mobile Strategy. Launch – $800.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The Holodeck Year 2: Growing the VR Ecosystem in 2017. Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). It’s not often you get both Oculus and Valve together days, let alone Google and Samsung, with bonus helpings of Epic Games, Owlchemy Labs, and Sensics. Stefan Walker (Google), Luca Prasso (Google).

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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. Decentraland. Somnium Space. Virtual Reality.

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MARCH 1, 2017

I tried a Microsoft prototype VR headset at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco and got the first public look at the company’s vision for mixed reality beyond Hololens. I was among a handful of journalists invited to see the internal Microsoft prototype, though I was told photos or videos for my demo would not be allowed.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2017

value) in addition to the current Fallout 4 VR bundle, which launches on December 12, 2017. Microsoft ‘Mixed Reality’ Headset Discounts. Microsoft’s Windows “Mixed Reality” headsets are now on sale for up to $100, bringing the cheapest among them to just $300. Google Daydream View Sale. Samsung Gear VR Price Cut.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

This traces back to the principle’s origin in a 2017 landmark editorial by AR veteran and thought leader Ori Inbar. Google’s Justin Quimby says this is okay as long as there are common languages — again like HTML today. Speakers’ opinions are their own. T he AR cloud has turned three.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

On February 1st, Microsoft released a preview version of Windows which comes with a slew of new features including the ability to run regular desktop apps in VR; it’s been possible to run apps from the Windows Store with Windows VR headsets but, until now, apps from outside the store—like Photoshop, Spotify, Chrome, and others—were excluded.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

Plus, it was a proprietary system, owned by Microsoft, and didn’t play well with other metaverse platforms. In its blog post, the company said that it will be focusing on other metaverse-related efforts, such as the launch of Microsoft Mesh , an enterprise-focused metaverse platform. What about Meta, Google and Apple?

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JULY 30, 2020

But AR/VR solutions are not limited to Google Glass, mobile apps for trying on shoes or accessories, and AR-based games. billion by 2023 , growing at a CAGR of 9.98% from 2017 to 2023. Thanks to GPS-based location support, users are now able to receive directions or traffic updates from Google Maps. Sponsored content.

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JULY 9, 2020

Augmented Reality Definition Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that overlays digital content (graphics, text, audio, and video) on real-world images using mobile devices, PCs, or glasses, which have an integrated camera and specialized software (Papagiannis, 2017). Read more here: AR 101?—?Augmented O’Reilly Media, Inc., Ronald Azuma.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

As we look forward to 2017 then, we’ve reached out to a bunch of industry experts and insiders to get their views on where we’re headed over the next 12 months. We asked all of these developers the same four questions: 1) What do you think will happen to the VR/AR market in 2017? 2) What NEEDS to happen to the VR AR market in 2017?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. In 2017, Apple released software called ARKit, which includes tools for software makers to determine how far away an object or wall is, if the phone is moving, or identify limbs in a human body, among other functions.

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MAY 18, 2017

Before my demo at Google I/O, Google’s head of VR Clay Bavor outlined a series of caveats and expectations for what I was about to experience. The demo, according to Google, would reset after each journalist so the hardware would see the room fresh each time after each person donned the headset. WorldSense.

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JUNE 29, 2017

As a first time visitor to ISC 2017 , I was impressed not by the products that the biggest names in the Enterprise IT Market were showcasing, but by the totally calm and poised way they were doing it. After all, Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft – all use liquid cooled data centers. appeared first on VR World.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Microsoft’s Windows Holographic VR headsets are going to run the gamut of specs like input, field of view, and resolution. The Chinese company revealed its first VR headset shortly ahead of CES 2017 in Las Vegas this week. Lenovo’s offering sounds like it might sit somewhere in the middle.

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