Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In 2018 it partnered with Google on the $400 Mirage Solo , the first standalone headset with positional tracking launched outside China – though it was overshadowed by Facebook’s $200 rotation-only Oculus Go. Lenovo has a relatively long history in VR.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 9, 2018

Tech startup Looxid Labs announced this week that it was awarded a Best of Innovation Award in CES 2018’s Virtual Reality category for its LooxidVR headset. Previous winners in the category have included Samsung, for their Gear VR headset, and Google, for their Tilt Brush 3D/VR painting system.

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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. — Magic Leap Developers (@magicleapdevs) October 10, 2018. — Andre Elijah (@AndreElijah) October 13, 2018.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

— Ian Hamilton (@hmltn) May 22, 2018. Our friends over at UploadVR also have an interesting piece on Google And LG’s new 1,443 PPI VR display , also debuted at SID earlier this week. I could still see the screen door effect on the highest PPI Samsung display.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 14, 2023

According to the now-deleted article from Gyro Technology, the upcoming headset will leverage four tracking cameras, a pancake lens, two RGB outward-facing cameras, a depth sensor, eye-tracking, hand-tracking, OLED microdisplays, and Samsung’s Exynos 2200 chipset.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 15, 2018

SEE ALSO Google & LG Detail Next-Gen 1,443 PPI OLED VR Display, 'especially ideal for standalone AR/VR'. Foveated rendering ties closely with eye tracking, the technology that Abrash thought was the most risky of his predictions in 2016.

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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. million pixels per eye resolution, 4K video output, 120Hz refresh rates, and 256 GB of storage space. It will also include numerous upgrades, including a 70-degree field of view (FoV), 2.5

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Google’s ARCore technology was used for the augmented reality overlays, the Google Cloud Vision AI API for object detection, as well as early access to some of Google’s cutting-edge Human Sensing Technology that could detect emotional expressions of the participants.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Jokes apart, what has happened in AR in 2018… and what can you expect to happen in 2019? Augmented Reality in 2018. More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. Yes, there have been some nice AR apps launched in 2018 (like Ikea Place), but mobile AR usage is really lagging. Google Maps in AR).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 3, 2023

Previously, Saudi Arabia gave Magic Leap roughly $400 million in a 2018 funding round. Additionally, significant technology and extended reality (XR) firms like Google and AT&T have provided Magic Leap funding since the company’s debut in 2010. Head pose and eye-tracking. 120 Hz refresh rate. Spatial audio.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

How has VR performed in 2018? Let me do some speculations… Virtual Reality in 2018. Virtual Reality in 2018 has not performed that awesomely good : in my opinion, it has just laid the foundations for the success that will come in the upcoming years. 2018 has been the year of standalone headsets. PC VR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2018

They also acquired various startups (like VRVana that made AR/VR glasses and SMI that made eye-tracking) to create that. Apple reportedly working on a headset for 2020 with “8K” per eye. Here’s @oculus chief researcher Michael Abrash suggesting we’ll have “4Kx4K” per eye by 2021. Apple is aiming at 8K per eye in 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Facebook has not done well in the past in guaranteeing user privacy and I’m afraid of what it can do with my data, especially when in the future there will be eye tracking, emotion tracking and such. Google ARCore now adds depth detection. More info (Firefox Realities update) More info (Google Chrome 79).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Well, with this new chip, headsets will: Have a resolution of 3K per eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously (12 in total for the device). Some weeks ago, the CFO and the executive John Gaeta have left the company, and now we learn that i n 2018 two high profile members like Sundar Pichai and Paul Jacobs have left its board as well.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The first change was with Snapchat itself with the introduction of AR programmatic advertising in 2018 which dramatically reduced the price of augmented reality advertising to the same price as regular Snap ads. While not swapping anything out, Google is attempting to make the world an ad through its visual search app–Google Lens.

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Road to VR

MARCH 21, 2018

At GDC 2018 Oculus’s dedicated hour long session was a treasure trove of new and updated information (If you missed it you can re-cap via our live blog coverage right here). SEE ALSO Google Shares New Research into Foveated Rendering Techniques.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google. Image by Acer).

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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? Charlie: Yeah it’s Google Glass. Google put in 500 million dollars.

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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? Charlie: Yeah it’s Google Glass. Google put in 500 million dollars.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 20, 2017

This less expensive unit is said to be available by the end of this year while GF-LD with SteamVR Tracking is aiming for availability to developers in the middle of 2018. Both headsets are said to feature a Tegra chip and 2560 x 1440 OLED displays, along with Leap Motion, front-facing stereo cameras and eye-tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. It will be the first consumer headset with eye-tracking and foveated rendering, and also the first one to feature haptics directly on the headset.

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EnterpriseWear

MARCH 4, 2019

In a recent mailer campaign to convey the importance of professional alarm monitoring services, ADT sent out Google Cardboard-like VR headsets that put recipients into a simulated life-threatening situation. The result: Many units haven’t reported a single dog attack since adopting the VR training system in November 2018.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Until now, this graph has been realistic during all the XR over-hyping and the depressions: it forecasted the winter of VR in 2017-2018, and the new growth in 2019-2020, so I keep trusting it and I think you should do that, too. I also imagine them trying to add enterprise-oriented features like eye-tracking in all their devices.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The sentence in Chinese say something like: “explore the world, there are a lot of interesting things” I think it is some kind of word pun, since searching the last three characters on Google Translate, I actually found “Focused” as the translation and the device is the Vive Focus. Thanks to Miss S.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: Well, actually, what was interesting for me being at Laval is, I put on a — for the first time — a VR architecture event… actually, over a year ago, now; this was January 2018. The other thing that they’ve got coming is eye tracking for their VIVE. We had good participation. Really simple.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: Well, actually, what was interesting for me being at Laval is, I put on a — for the first time — a VR architecture event… actually, over a year ago, now; this was January 2018. The other thing that they’ve got coming is eye tracking for their VIVE. We had good participation. Really simple.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

2016 provided hints of where Facebook, HTC, Sony, Google, and more will take their headsets in the near future, but where does the industry’s best and brightest think we’ll end up this time next year? Wireless headsets and eye tracking and whatever aren’t going to be game changers, we already have the hardware to change your life.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

actually, over a year ago, now; this was January 2018. If you put it into Google Cardboard mode, where you put the phone into a viewer, this cube comes to life in your hands, and they've done it really elegantly. The other thing that they've got coming is eye tracking for their VIVE. We had good participation.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 13, 2018

— Lucas Rizzotto (@_LucasRizzotto) August 9, 2018. And in the future there will be other big players like Apple , that already plans to revolutionize augmented reality, Google that for sure will want to revenge the Google Glass and Facebook , that is already experimenting with AR inside Facebook Reality Labs (Abrash has confirmed this).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

This is the current SteamVR controller pricing in GBP (shipping to UK) at the time the article was written: HTC Vive controller (2018) single £193 includes free shipping and tax HTC Vive controller (2018) pair £386.00 Google searches are very revealing. (Image provided by Rob Cole).

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I think there’s an inherent risk of collecting eye tracking data, and positional head tracking data, and more data about individuals. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?]. Alan: USDZ, anyone? Ori: That’s exactly right.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I think there’s an inherent risk of collecting eye tracking data, and positional head tracking data, and more data about individuals. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?]. Alan: USDZ, anyone? Ori: That’s exactly right.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. So I know AGCO is using Google Glass all over. I think 2018 was a little disappointing, in terms of the solutions themselves. Google has some easy tools. But there’s a lot going on. And there were all these headlines, “Glasshole” articles. Alan: Really?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. So I know AGCO is using Google Glass all over. I think 2018 was a little disappointing, in terms of the solutions themselves. Google has some easy tools. But there’s a lot going on. And there were all these headlines, “Glasshole” articles. Alan: Really?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. So if you want to know more about this, it's brainxchange.com and just look for EWTS, or just Google "Enterprise Wearable Technology Summit". So I know AGCO is using Google Glass all over. I think 2018 was a little disappointing, in terms of the solutions themselves.

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