XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Before 2019, headsets were largely tethered to PCs, and Qualcomm helped to ‘cut the cord’ and enable the next evolution of standalone devices. This began with devices from Lenovo, HTC VIVE, Pico Interactive, and Meta Platforms, so the growth we’ve seen for consumer use cases has been very strong since then.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Between that, I worked on consumer cloud software with Google for five years… managing engineering teams for Gmail, Japanese mobile, Google Labs, and social (Blogger etc.) As of 2019, we are an expanding private company with about 40 people based in Japan and funded by Japanese venture capitalists. teams for Japan.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. With a surprise move, Facebook has acquired Sanzaru Games, the company behind the best VR game of 2019, Asgard’s Wrath.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

This was a bit the philosophy of Google Daydream View, that was the first headset employing this kind of materials. Comparison of the speakers solutions in the Oculus Quest (left) and HTC Vive Focus Plus (right). The same Unity plugin is able to serve all Oculus devices and this helps a lot in developing cross-platform titles.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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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. Companies like Pico, HP, Valve, and HTC are already performing very well in this sector. The rise of enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2021

HTC is shipping the Vive Focus 3. HTC has started shipping the Vive Focus 3, so we have started reading the first reviews about it. Unity CEO predicts in 2030 XR headsets will be as popular as gaming consoles. Icosa Gallery is the new Google Poly. Still a win, but almost nothing is going to change in the future.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Or is it just a talk about glasses?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. HTC has also been smart because every time someone says “Focus” during some VR event, he’s doing some hidden advertisement for its product. The never-ending story. Thanks to Miss S. This is a big point for Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The HTC Vive Cosmos may release soon for €799. We all know that the Vive Cosmos should release very soon since HTC revealed me that the release date would have been in Q3 2019 and Q3 ends at the end of the month. It’s time for some amazing VR news, isn’t it? Top news of the week. Image by Ars Technica). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Horizon game is coming for this new headset, and some rumors talk also about Half-Life: Alyx potentially be available in the future; HTC has announced the Vive Wrist Tracker, a 6 DOF tracker for the Vive Focus 3. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

We entered so the “winter of VR”, which happened between 2017 and the first part of 2019, that is the period when virtual reality was considered “dead”, and it was very hard to survive in the ecosystem. Then in 2019, it was the Facebook Oculus Quest’s success to give new life to the ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. More and more vendors will target consumers, both with full-fledged AR glasses and with devices more like Google Glass for information display (e.g. All APIs have a plain C version.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software. But Google said no, he claimed.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2021

Gartner Hype Cycle 2019. In 2019 I saw Louis Cacciuttolo asking in some XR groups if we knew a spare developer to join VRrOOm as an employee. We of NTW started HitMotion: Reloaded because we asked HTC if it could be interested in a fitness game for the launch of the Vive Focus Plus. The amazing Unity Cube.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

A few years ago I was interviewing Alvin Wang Graylin , the HTC Executive (or “Mister President” as I like to call him), and we were talking about the book Our Next Reality he’s written together with Louis Rosenberg. It was 2019 and I had a very brief written interview with Charlie Fink about his new book Convergence.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

I mean, a lot of people just– anything you can get into Unity, you can basically get into VR or mixed reality experience, unless they’re like custom one-off apps. Then on the back-end we basically wrote this Unity converter, that takes all that geometry that gets imported into our SYNCHRO engine, that digital twin aggregator.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

I mean, a lot of people just– anything you can get into Unity, you can basically get into VR or mixed reality experience, unless they’re like custom one-off apps. Then on the back-end we basically wrote this Unity converter, that takes all that geometry that gets imported into our SYNCHRO engine, that digital twin aggregator.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

I mean, a lot of people just-- anything you can get into Unity, you can basically get into VR or mixed reality experience, unless they're like custom one-off apps. Then on the back-end we basically wrote this Unity converter, that takes all that geometry that gets imported into our SYNCHRO engine, that digital twin aggregator.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

” Alan: In my last interview, we were talking about 2019 as that year where it goes from, “you’re doing VR — you’re ahead of the game, you’re a future company,” to, “you’re not using VR? Unity is always my top one. Amazon Sumerian. Michael: It would depend on your use case.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

” Alan: In my last interview, we were talking about 2019 as that year where it goes from, “you’re doing VR — you’re ahead of the game, you’re a future company,” to, “you’re not using VR? Unity is always my top one. Amazon Sumerian. Michael: It would depend on your use case.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Alan: In my last interview, we were talking about 2019 as that year where it goes from, "you're doing VR -- you're ahead of the game, you're a future company," to, "you're not using VR? Michael: And this is why I've been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building -- there's VRTK for Unity.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

The startup was rescued from bankruptcy by existing backer Candy Ventures in 2019. In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. The company was later acquired by Google in 2010. Blippar was reportedly worth $1.5 However, in June 2020, a U.S. 7- Alvin Graylin.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

I’ve used Google search to find all the pages with references to Del Mar in the Oculus website, and all the docs are identical to the previous versions. Unity is offering 3 months of Free Learning so that you can sharp your development skills. Google will delay the release of Chrome 81 , the one that should have included WebAR.

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