VRScout

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In the video provided, Huaishu wears an Oculus Rift headset outfitted with an Ovrvision stereo camera as he designs a 3D model of a teapot in a 3D space using a pair of slightly-altered Oculus Touch controllers. The interactive fabrication system combines AR CAD editing with precise robotic control.

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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. PixelStrikeInc brace yourself…the memes are coming. pic.twitter.com/MbJZV8aOdf. Magic Leap availability.

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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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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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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. Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). So, are you ready?

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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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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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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. Microsoft: As Microsoft increases its focus on the XR space, it’s not just working with Meta but a range of different vendors too. Which Companies are Already Investing In Interoperability?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Oculus Quest gets hand tracking. Last week, the runtime v12 of Oculus Quest has been rolled out , and this took with it lots of interesting updates. To start, now the Oculus Link is more stable and it is compatible with some AMD GPUs. Oculus Quests have started getting vocal commands in the menu. Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2020

patents done by Fairview Research reveals that Facebook has made a significant surge in its year-over-year ranking for patents granted in 2019, something partly owed to its increased number of patents surrounding augmented reality. 2018 Grants. Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC. An analysis of U.S. 2019 Grants.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft ramps up distribution of HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Microsoft is working to improve the distribution of its latest devices: HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. This is even more than the 20,000 concurrent users of early 2018 when the app went viral on Twitch. Other relevant news.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

This year was going to be the year of augmented reality, but by the end of 2018 market analysts were pointing to 2020 or 2021 as the “golden year” of AR. Just three months ago, the company revealed it’s putting 17,000 Oculus Go headsets in Walmart stores for employee training. The company’s direction is unclear.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 22, 2020

The was a lot going at CES 2020 this month when it came to virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) technologies, with Spatial ‘s collaboration tool of particular note. The software also supports VR headsets like Oculus Quest and integrates with Microsoft Teams.

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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. Oculus products have gone pretty well during the Black Weekend. Adobe acquires Oculus Medium.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Also touched on was the outlook of augmented and mixed reality, stating combined earnings of $30.4B However, the report did lump together Pokémon GO, which earned 96% of all AR software revenue in 2016, and MR devices like the Microsoft HoloLens proving not yet ready for consumers. billion in 2017, rising to $9.1

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 20, 2018

Recently unveiled updates to Microsoft’s social VR platform will allow anyone to build customizable VR spaces. The two new world-building kits are based on Altspace’s most popular environments: Campfire and Alien World / Origin but Microsoft says they’re aiming to release more kits soon, as well as allowing for more customization options.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Microsoft product lineup surprised everyone today, but the biggest surprise was planned for VR fans. Not only are these devices cheaper than the Oculus Rift and Vive, but Microsoft says they’re better too. Following that, presentation continued with several features using Microsoft HoloLens. Stay tuned. Stay tuned.

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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%. Image by Microsoft). The problem is: it seems that in latest update Oculus has removed this feature….

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft Teams to integrate Mesh in 2022. With a surprise move, Microsoft has announced that in 2022 it will integrate Microsoft Mesh, its framework to create shared XR experiences, inside Microsoft Teams. And if they have these features from Microsoft, they won’t need to get them from Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I have to say that this “leak” comes in a very timely fashion , by chance exactly at the moment when Facebook was building the hype for Oculus Quest 2 Pro , convincing so some people to wait for Valve’s moves before buying the new Oculus headset. Microsoft is going to release a database of synthetic faces.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. Thanks Gianluigi Perrone for the tip!). Peggy Johnson is the new CEO of Magic Leap.

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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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VRWorld

JANUARY 5, 2018

By the end of 2018, Drop Software is hoping to have shipped Drop for Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality. This will be Drop Software’s real test: can they compete with big companies like Oculus and Microsoft on their own home turf? Soon, this favorability may be expanding to other VR headset users.

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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. “It’s more than Microsoft can be said to be doing.” That’s by design.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

— Alvin Wang Graylin (@AGraylin) March 28, 2018. This lets you experience scenes that are a bit more complex than the ones that you can live on Microsoft’s device; The field of view is 40° Horizontal and 30° Vertical. It is still like a window to the augmented world. Coat was designed with a #VivePro by #Pronouce !

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VRWorld

JANUARY 23, 2018

The headset is shipping this month (January 2018) to its supporters. #9 This came to the VR industry in a big way, when an intellectual property lawsuit saw Oculus on the hook for some $500M in damages in a February ruling. 7 – Mixed Reality Update in Windows 10. 5 – Oculus vs. HTC price war. HTC price war.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Meanwhile, Sony, Oculus , and HTC continue to dominate the VR hardware marketplace, with an 86% combined market share. One driver of headset acquisitions was a temporary-turned-permanent price cut by Oculus in Q3, who matched Playstation’s VR headset price point at $399. Cultural factors also appear to be driving VR demand.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

Well, if the rumor becomes reality, this would mean that all next Apple devices will have both front and back depth cameras, for high-precision Augmented Reality and 3D reconstruction. In 2018, this was mindblowing. Microsoft releases Azure Remote Rendering. Why is this a big deal? supports VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

It’s very exciting to meet somebody as passionate as you are about bringing augmented reality to the enterprise. Late 2018 I left Vuzix and started Lance-AR, because I was just frustrated. Frustrated with the lack of companies deploying augmented reality at scale. Lance, welcome to the show. Lance: Sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

It’s very exciting to meet somebody as passionate as you are about bringing augmented reality to the enterprise. Late 2018 I left Vuzix and started Lance-AR, because I was just frustrated. Frustrated with the lack of companies deploying augmented reality at scale. Lance, welcome to the show. Lance: Sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

It's very exciting to meet somebody as passionate as you are about bringing augmented reality to the enterprise. Late 2018 I left Vuzix and started Lance-AR, because I was just frustrated. Frustrated with the lack of companies deploying augmented reality at scale. Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Once computers understand space, we can use these informed computers to edit our real world by placing digital objects and information in it and view this all through a transparent digital screen like smart glasses or even our smartphone: this is Augmented Reality or AR. Augmented Reality ads are not new. Source: Ikea.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

The term “augmented reality” wasn’t officially coined until 1990, but the 80s also saw important breakthroughs in the space. Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The first Oculus Rift prototype reignited the conversation when it arrived in 2012.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

Talking about more reliable leaks, developer Luboš V with the support of Basti564 has found references of a multiplayer Oculus Home in the Quest firmware, so it seems that very soon the home space of the Quest will let everyone invite more people. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies.

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