Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2024

View post on imgur.com Released in 2018, Magic Leap’s first headset actually had a lot in common with Vision Pro; it was multi-thousand dollar standalone mostly targeted at developers and professionals. ” Palmer Lucker donning ML1 | Image courtesy Palmer Luckey There are a few more reasons ML1 didn’t fare well.

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ARPost

MAY 16, 2023

For the last few years, Campfire 3D has been expanding the world of “holographic collaboration” with a custom headset and base station as well as software that works in headset-based mixed reality and virtual reality, mobile-based augmented reality, and now on desktop 3D. Now, one app can do both jobs.

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GizModo VR

APRIL 1, 2021

In late 2018, Microsoft struck a $480 million deal with the U.S. Army to deliver augmented reality headset prototypes based on its HoloLens system. Well, it appears the military is a fan because it’s inked a contract to get a whole lot more of them. As in, over 120,000 headsets worth up to $21.88

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The tech industry’s next bet is a series of technologies usually called augmented reality (AR) or mixed reality. All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Here’s what the biggest companies in tech are doing to try and make augmented reality the next big thing.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

This app helps you make up your mind with ultra-realistic Augmented Reality menus. The Augmented Reality retail showcasing market is expected to show a 133% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) over the next five years, reaching $24.4B, according to the IDC Click To Tweet. Our view numbers went from 20K to 1MM in a week.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

2018 will see the introduction of a number of ‘smartglasses’ Initially, very few of these products will be capable of augmented reality, but many of them will be (or already are being) conflated with AR. Image courtesy Google. Google Glass. What Are Augmented Reality (AR) Glasses?

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

According to CBINSIGHTS , tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) have all been acquiring AI startups aggressively in the last decade. According to a report by Zion Market Research , the global augmented and virtual reality market was valued at around US$26.7 Mobile Augmented Reality.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

They optimize the content for augmented reality, then manage and distribute it agnostically to all AR-supported platforms for their clients, which now include Dominos, Grubhub, Subway and Dunkin. You can even preview what your wedding cake would look like at Magnolia bakery. Image Credit: Kabaq.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 21, 2018

Google harnesses the power of photos and street view to deliver simplified VR development for teachers and students. At its annual I/O Developer Conference in Mountain View, California Google announced the launch of Tour Creator , a new tool that easily allows anyone to create interactive content in Virtual Reality.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 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. The updated ceremony is planned to be a showcase looking at both virtual and augmented reality.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

” It has taken place in LA in October, 9-10th 2018 and has been attended by various believers, innovators, developers and journalists. — The Digital Acid (@thedigitalacid) October 11, 2018. The popular Angry Birds game, but for immersive augmented reality. pic.twitter.com/MbJZV8aOdf. Magic Leap availability.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Augmented reality is a technology that allows us to superimpose digital information into the real-world environment. In this article, we will discuss on augmented reality. Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

As with every big event, I’m writing a post to try to summarize the most important news that have come out from the GDC 2018 … so that if you have lost something, you just need to read this post to get in par with the rest of the world. — Benjamin Lang (@benz145) March 23, 2018. So, are you ready? Let’s start!

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

Here’s the full press release for VRLA 2018 ( Road to VR readers can save 15% on passes, details here ): Announcing VRLA 2018 Keynotes & Expo Highlights. The Biggest Immersive Tech Event of the Year Returns May 4-5, Exploring “A New Reality.”. Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

Back in 2018, as part of the IBC Masterclass on VR technology, Rob Koenen shared his vision of the future of virtual reality. The Microsoft HoloLens solution already has many mixed reality partners, designing independent software, systems integration solutions and hardware to accompany the MR environment.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 25, 2020

Videogame engine Unity has supported the XR industry from the early days of virtual reality (VR) through to the current crop of augmented reality (AR) hardware. It’s worth noting Gear VR and Google VR will remain supported in Unity 2018 LTS for developers working on existing projects. Affecting Unity 2019.3

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Sophia Dominguez // SVRF (New York, NY) – the first search engine for immersive content for virtual reality and augmented reality. The founders received a Microsoft mixed reality headset and are currently enrolled in the WXR Mentorship Program beta. — Sarah Hill (@SarahMidMO) January 6, 2018.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 8, 2018

There are plenty of players like Microsoft HoloLens and DAQRI which consistently deliver not only cool demos, but real use-cases for holographic Mixed Reality Click To Tweet. Considering how much flack Microsoft gets for its FOV, it seems unfair to cut Magic Leap any slack on that.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The report suggests that premium headset shipments like Google Daydream will see more growth over light mobile headsets. Google Daydream will sell the most premium headsets in 2017, getting 6.8M Also touched on was the outlook of augmented and mixed reality, stating combined earnings of $30.4B billion by 2021.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 7, 2018

Given the considerable hype that has been building up around Virtual and Augmented Reality, you might expect more publishers to have dedicated resources to these technologies, whereas the reality is that much of what we’ve seen so far has been limited to variations of Augmented Reality books.

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VRWorld

MAY 2, 2017

During its newly established EDU event, Microsoft announced Windows 10 S (S for Student, not for Superman ), a new Surface laptop and several partner PCs. Years ago, Microsoft dominated schools with affordable Windows PCs, taking a back seat when Apple rebuilt itself with the iMac and then MacBook. Let us find out. Surface Laptop.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Their first MR project used Google Tango and the Microsoft HoloLens to bring a rare digital tank from their game to a real-life exhibit at the Tank Museum at Bovington , UK. Apple ARKit, Google ARCore and Facebook Camera Effects could deliver more than 900 million installed base by the end of this year, jumping to nearly 3.5

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Unlike the second version, the first iteration spent most of its early years in stealth mode, teasing its Magic Leap 1 headset in 2018. Now, as Microsoft and Qualcomm alumni, Chief Executive Peggy Johnson has advanced the company’s position as a top-tier enterprise product.

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VRScout

AUGUST 10, 2018

In May 2017, Owlchemy Labs was acquired by Google. There’s not too many people who are really looking into our use case of enterprise for virtual reality and augmented reality.”. After scoring a partnership with Microsoft, they’ve talked at length about relocating to San Francisco.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 30, 2020

The worlds of virtual and augmented reality have yet to land on the applications and hardware to truly spark mass-market, consumer interest in the space, but in the meantime, a startup building mixed reality services for business users has raised a round of funding, underscoring the opportunity in enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Augmented Reality is being a great tool for e-commerce: AR tools have increased the user’s likelihood of purchase by 11 times; Build.com found that the return rate after selecting items in AR has decreased by 22%. More info (Use Google Translate). Google Chrome now supports WebAR. Image by Microsoft).

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Even though it is still in its early stages, augmented reality glasses and software are already being used as a tool to train workers on how to repair manufacturing equipment and to teach new surgeons how to best perform their jobs. Take AR for example.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This means that if you employ 4 for tracking, you can still use two for instance for eye-tracking and one for lips tracking; Be able to finally offer passthrough augmented reality with appropriate resolution and framerate. Adobe acquires Oculus Medium. In a surprise move, Adobe has bought Oculus Medium from Facebook.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

With all the phone and watch and TV and game and chip and other chip news coming out of Apple’s big event, it was easy to forget the company’s longest-running background process: an augmented-reality wearable. “But the StarBoard stuff presents exactly that: a Google Cardboard sort of functionality for iPhones.

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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. There is a spectrum of relationships between the consensus reality we commonly share and various synthetic ‘realities.’

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Now the pivot comes too little, too late: Microsoft is years ahead of its competitors in offering services for big companies (Azure is a fantastic solution in this sense), and Magic Leap is really behind in this. Google ARCore now adds depth detection. More info (Firefox Realities update) More info (Google Chrome 79).

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VRWorld

JANUARY 9, 2018

AI and robotics firm Rokid has unveiled a prototype of its planned augmented reality product, Rokid Glass, this week at CES. Reportedly, the glasses will operate as a standalone headset, but also provide functionality to connect to smartphones or other devices via Bluetooth or WiFi to bolster processing power and network range.

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AIXR

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The story came to greater prominence when it was adapted into a 2018 film directed by Steven Spielberg. Meta SEO With Meta (formerly Facebook) committing to the Metaverse, all eyes are on fellow digital juggernauts such as Google, Bing, and Microsoft to see which – if any – becomes the next to buy into the Metaverse in a big way.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 25, 2016

So while there is huge long-term potential for AR/VR, there could be just a few billion dollars of revenue this year, a progressive ramp in 2017 and a hoped-for inflection point in 2018 (when AR roadmaps have long enough battery life with cellular capability for telcos to cross-subsidize mobile AR as smartphone replacements).

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2022

As first reported by GMW3 , Magic Leap appears to be flushing excess stock of the 2018-era AR headset via the Amazon-owned online retailer Woot. . Launched in 2018, Magic Leap straddled an uneasy rift between enterprise and prosumers with ML 1 (known then as ‘ML One’). Image courtesy Magic Leapgic leap.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Hyper Reality Partners has raised $20M to relaunch The Voi d, it has acquired its previous IP for $2M and it is going to propose the same amazing LBEVR experiences but with a new business model, with entertainment centers that are not only centered on warehouse-scale VR experiences but also offer traditional gaming stations and food and beverages.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass? But in my opinion, I don’t think the killer app of virtual reality is games.

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