VRScout

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Google has announced a $1.1 billion cooperation agreement under which certain HTC employees – many of whom are already working with Google to develop Pixel smartphones – will join Google. Separately, Google will receive a non-exclusive license for HTC intellectual property (IP). Google VR & HTC.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 27, 2021

Google announced it has stopped active development on Tilt Brush (2016), the company’s VR paint app. Even before Google discontinued its home-spun Daydream platform in 2019, it was fairly apparent that the company’s interest in developing both VR hardware and software had substantially waned. All is not lost though.

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Road to VR

MARCH 4, 2024

A report from The Information last week alleged Meta and Google held talks in effort to bring Android XR to Quest. Google abandoned Daydream after less than 2 years, while Meta grew Oculus (now Quest) to tens of millions scale,” explains Heaney. million apps built for iPhone in addition to 1,000+ visionOS native apps.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

After a mixed year for VR hardware sales in 2016, two new separate reports are painting a more optimistic outlook for the VR market going forward. In a new consumer VR report just released by SuperData Research , the findings show that global VR hardware revenue is expected to hit $3.6 billion in 2017, up 142% year-over-year.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Samsung has partnered with Google to make an XR headset, although the South Korean tech giant hasn’t tipped its hand on what to expect just yet. Despite its $3,500 sticker price, Vision Pro has shown that big and expensive is okay as long as you can engage diehard fans with compelling hardware and greater ecosystem integration.

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Upload VR

APRIL 22, 2024

Quest will remain only as the hardware brand for Meta's first-party headsets. Today's news comes just under two months after it was revealed that Google tried to convince Meta to abandon the Quest platform (now Horizon OS) and switch to its upcoming Android XR platform, expected to be announced at Google I/O in three weeks.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Google Daydream will provide organizations with VR training and equipment rentals. That’s why Google is launching a new program dubbed Daydream Impact , with the hope of helping organizations and creators utilize virtual reality to take their programs to the next level.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 4, 2024

It inherits all the advantages of the base XR2 Gen 2 architecture, including the hardware acceleration for camera passthrough that is said to reduce end-to-end latency to around 12 milliseconds. It's a more premium option for higher-priced headsets, including those designed to take on Apple Vision Pro. Details here: UploadVR David Heaney

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Road to VR

APRIL 11, 2019

Optimization is no easy task, especially with the limited resources of mobile hardware like the Snapdragon 835 processor in the Oculus Quest. In nine minutes, this crash course offers up an indie-dev focused overview of optimizing VR games built in Unity for mobile hardware like Oculus Quest. Don’t make photorealistic games.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Here’s a roundup of news from ‘day one’ of our GDC 2018 coverage. The company is still heavily involved with VR development however, and are expected to present some new technology with Google at Display Week 2018 in May. Vive Pro headset launches April 5th for $800, original Vive drops to $500. Image courtesy HTC.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 27, 2024

That’s a question being posed after The Information reported recently that Google had approached Meta partner with its new software platform — Google Android XR — that is being developed for virtual reality. If they partnered more formally on Android XR, Google would be willing to offer greater access to those apps.

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Upload VR

MAY 11, 2023

During its I/O 2023 conference, Google said it will share more about its 'Android collaboration' with Samsung on 'immersive XR' later this year. Samsung revealed in February that it was partnering with Google and Qualcomm to develop XR hardware, with Qualcomm providing the chipset and Google handling "the software".

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Upload VR

JANUARY 29, 2024

Any phone maker can integrate the open-source core of Android for free and without permission, and can integrate Google's services and the Google Play Store by agreeing to certain compatibility criteria and preinstalling Google's suite of apps. Further, Google itself is seemingly preparing to be the Android of XR with.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In 2019, the demand growth for augmented reality and virtual reality engineers skyrocketed 1400% from the previous year, surpassing the demand for blockchain engineers (the most in-demand skill in 2018). After emerging from stealth in 2018, Spatial has been making news for its holographic enabled meeting platform.

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ARPost

MAY 16, 2023

The company is currently launching new hardware and a new product package, so we spoke with CEO and co-founder Jay Wright for a software demo and an explanation of the new release. While Wright left Vuforia in 2018, it remains PTC’s main enterprise augmented reality arm. Now, one app can do both jobs.

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ARPost

JULY 20, 2022

MeetKai has been around since 2018 and actually specializes in business-to-business AI assistant solutions. In this capacity, a number of readers have already used AI services from MeetKai, though behind the label of hardware companies and app developers. An Introduction to MeetKai. The company also has the scale problem solved.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 14, 2021

She has collaborated with companies and organizations, such as Disney and Google, to bring their ideas to new, more expressive heights. According to Sabby, she first learned about VR in 2018. “ I learned about VR in 2018 and experienced it on the Google Cardboard mobile viewer, ” she told me via email.

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ARVR

AUGUST 8, 2022

Focals by North In October 2018, the Kitchener, OT based company North, introduced a consumer AR glasses called Focals. Detractors dismissed the Focals as just another re-spin of Google Glass, with the Verge dubbing it a ‘smartwatch for your face’. But, alas, there was a fatal flaw?—?the So is that the end of the story? Perhaps not.

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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 move to 2018 by the Proto Awards comes when the emerging mixed reality industry is in a transitional period.

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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. Dev hardware, financial support, engineering support and marketing promotion can all be yours. pic.twitter.com/MbJZV8aOdf.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

But did you know that before there was Pokémon GO , Niantic launched a sci-fi-based AR game called Ingress Prime that used OpenStreetMap and Google Maps to create a citywide geocaching game of capture the flag? More importantly, what will this merging of technologies do for AR in general?

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Peter Graham

AUGUST 20, 2019

For those not interested in Hello Games’ title – or more accurately those on Oculus Quest or Google Daydream – then indie studio Orange Bridge Studios will be releasing End Space for both headsets at the end of the month. on Oculus Store, Steam and Google Store. End Space 1.0.5

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Delight XR

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

With the technology advancing every year, the hardware is getting cheaper and the software base is growing steadily. In other words, virtual reality becomes affordable and thanks to massive price drops and discounts on hardware and software bundles, now is the perfect time to get your own VR headset and discover what all the hype is about.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

They’re just not ready to fork over the dough for a pricey gaming PC or they don’t have a compatible mobile device that makes snatching up a Samsung Gear VR or Google Daydream View an easy purchase decision. There are large swaths of consumers sitting on the sidelines waiting to jump into VR. Would love to hear about your experience.

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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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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Picking up where we left off with Apple , Google and Bose’s hearables strategies, what’s the revenue outlook? But the hardware always comes first. That process is underway as Apple, Google, Bose and others are seeding the audio AR opportunity by conditioning the user behavior. billion in 2018 to $27.1

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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. That has included a lot of different hardware support, some of which is still relevant while others less so. Affecting Unity 2019.3

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VRWorld

JANUARY 9, 2018

Imaging technology firm YI Technology today announced details of its YI Horizon VR180 Camera at CES 2018 in Las Vegas. The camera, created in collaboration with Google’s Virtual Reality team, is billed as an easy-to-use, stereoscopic 3D camera. The post CES: YI Technology and Google introduce VR camera appeared first on VR World.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 28, 2018

Although we are likely to see incremental improvements to many popular VR headsets over the next twelve months, it appears some of the biggest VR news in 2018 may be focused on entirely new headsets from popular and less prominent manufacturers alike. The post The most anticipated VR headsets of 2018 appeared first on VR World.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 26, 2017

Earlier this year HTC became an official partner with Google in producing a Daydream-based standalone VR headset under the Vive brand. It looks like it will access HTC’s storefront, called Viveport, to get to virtual worlds rather than Google Play. Where Are My Hands?

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Google has announced that they are moving on from Tango, their augmented reality platform, in favour of their newer ARCore platform. We’re turning down support for Tango on March 1, 2018,” the Tango team said in a Tweet. The result is that less sophisticated, more ubiquitous hardware (e.g.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Google’s newly announced Daydream Impact program is a philanthropy project that provides organizations, nonprofits, and advocates for change with resources, tools, and training to create immersive VR content to support their cause. The course starts off by outlining basic hardware requirements and pre-production checklists.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

“We will set out immediately to continue the transition from building the worlds’ best consumer hardware to also building complete services around them to make them easy to manage and deploy.”. ” Early last year HTC sold off much of its smartphone team to Google in a $1.1 Probably. .

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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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VRScout

MAY 29, 2019

When Facebook acquired Oculus in 2014, many were curious as to why a social media company, whose track record with hardware included a phone that failed just a year prior to the Oculus purchase, would be interested in buying the plucky VR startup for over $2 billion dollars. Image Credit: Benjamin Formaker-Olivas.

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