Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

I had a chance to walk the showroom floor of VRLA 2017 with Root where he took me on a guided tour through the history of VRLA, his thoughts on AR, using VR for film production, the future of privacy in AR/VR, as well as why he is interested in seeing where eSports in VR is headed. Katie Kelly, Head of Engagement, AltspaceVR / Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. Magic Leap.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 24, 2022

Founded in 2017, Vrgineers offers virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR) pilot training systems for businesses and the military. Microsoft Windows Operating System compatibility. Compatible with Steam VR and OpenXR drivers, Unity, Unreal Engine, and other game engine plugins, as well as C++ libraries such as Direct X, OpenGL, and Vulcan.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

Demonstrated live on-stage during the Unity Vision Summit, you can already try it out for yourself in the Unity 2017 beta. The two designs will be licensed to a select group of commercial partners… and the x24 claims to shoot 8K with 6 degrees of freedom. ICYMI: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW FROM FACEBOOK’S F8 CONFERENCE.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

At GDC 2017 LG showcased a virtual reality headset that was SteamVR compatible: it was a game-changing moment since for the first time a new non-Vive headset would have been compatible with SteamVR tracking and ecosystem. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. For example, Lumberyard from Amazon is released for creating games and VR experiences, while both Unity and Epic reveal in-VR tools to speed up the development process.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Image by Khronos Group). I can’t imagine what company can steal Facebook’s thunder.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 25, 2017

It's adopted by industry leading graphics engines such as Unreal Engine 4 , Unity 5 and Amazon’s Lumberyard to provide developers an easy path to take amazing in-game shots. List of games that you can use Ansel with: As of December 25th, 2017, Ansel is compatible with the following 13 games: 1. What's Nvidia Ansel? Watch Dogs 2.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Martin is also part of the Khronos Group, an organization working on the open standards for spatial web and 3D world. So all the way up to-- we did VR stuff with ARKit in 2017 -- if I don't say wrong -- then all the way up to there it was marker based. It's in the 3D Formats Working Group. Martin, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Martin is also part of the Khronos Group, an organization working on the open standards for spatial web and 3D world. So all the way up to-- we did VR stuff with ARKit in 2017 -- if I don't say wrong -- then all the way up to there it was marker based. It's in the 3D Formats Working Group. Martin, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Martin is also part of the Khronos Group, an organization working on the open standards for spatial web and 3D world. So all the way up to-- we did VR stuff with ARKit in 2017 -- if I don't say wrong -- then all the way up to there it was marker based. It's in the 3D Formats Working Group. Martin, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So a group called SPACES -- out of LA -- and they had locations all over the world. Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months. Alex: Mm-hm. Hey Shiraz, what's up?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So a group called SPACES -- out of LA -- and they had locations all over the world. Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months. Alex: Mm-hm. Hey Shiraz, what's up?

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Machine Learning Education Apple Technology 78

XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

It was one of the 2017 games of the year. But really kind of around that time -- 2017 -- we started to feel like it was getting way too crowded in the games business, and we were starting to look around and try to figure out what we could do with our experience in high-performance graphics and making cool experiences, immersive experiences.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

It was one of the 2017 games of the year. But really kind of around that time -- 2017 -- we started to feel like it was getting way too crowded in the games business, and we were starting to look around and try to figure out what we could do with our experience in high-performance graphics and making cool experiences, immersive experiences.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So a group called SPACES -- out of LA -- and they had locations all over the world. Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months. Alex: Mm-hm. Hey Shiraz, what's up?

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

A WebVR Community Group to decide on WebVR standards was formed by Mozilla, Google, Samsung, Facebook, Intel, Microsoft and other major tech players, with Apple recently joining the community in July this year. Diego (@dmarcos) July 6, 2017. Diego (@dmarcos) August 9, 2017. David Lyons (@davidscottlyons) July 28, 2017.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

It was one of the 2017 games of the year. But really kind of around that time -- 2017 -- we started to feel like it was getting way too crowded in the games business, and we were starting to look around and try to figure out what we could do with our experience in high-performance graphics and making cool experiences, immersive experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. The name was of course inspired by “The Unity Cube” application (Image by Rob Cole). Image provided by Rob Cole). Image by Rob Cole). The Guncube.

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VRScout

MAY 4, 2017

Virtual Reality continues to evolve, Constrained Reality is a Renowned Biologist’s take on the mind’s VR “software,” Mixed Reality is bringing it all together—and Vision Summit 2017 is where the industry’s ideas and the innovators came together. When it comes to changing the game for XR, Unity Technologies just can’t stop.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 19, 2019

We watched that peak of inflated expectations really take off in 2016/2017, and then -- as a lot of people have felt -- there's been this Winter of VR, as some people will call it, where these initial use cases are being ironed out. It can't just be small groups of people, "oh, these five people did better." Taylor: Sure, yeah.

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