Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2018

There wasn’t a specific announce surrounding support for VR games (see update), although as Khronos Group’s OpenXR standard marches ever onward in its mission to make market fragmentation a thing of the past, it’s possible those “open platforms” will also include VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Around the world, countless companies and groups are already reaping the benefits of extended reality technology. Meta Oculus and Aptiv. In 2019, the company started a new initiative to bring “Lean Six Sigma” processes to the entire Aptiv supply chain. Microsoft HoloLens and GE. Varjo and the Finnish Air Force.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. In a post summarizing the results obtained in 2019 and talking about the future projections for 2020, Valve has teased interesting news for next year, saying that SteamVR 2.0 I really hope so. No availability.”

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2020

After a slow start, 2019 rounded out to be an undeniably strong year for consumer VR, setting up a springboard into a big 2020. 2019 started out slow as the industry waited with baited breath for the launch of the latest wave of headsets, but things started heating up once they finally hit the market. Oculus Quest. Valve Index.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Going into 2019, the industry eagerly awaits HoloLens 2 and Glass Enterprise Edition 2, as rumors swirl around the possibility of AR glasses from Apple and/or Facebook in the near future. Just three months ago, the company revealed it’s putting 17,000 Oculus Go headsets in Walmart stores for employee training.

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ARVR

JANUARY 11, 2021

Some popular examples include the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and the Vavle Index. This can be done with a headset that allows you to see through or a modified pair of glasses, such as Google Glass, or Microsoft Hololens. So what makes augmented and virtual reality so special? This problem is likely to get worse as the technology improves.

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Xu, now chief executive of Nreal, one of China’s highest-funded AR startups , is among a group of entrepreneurs uniquely positioned to build world-class hardware. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips are used almost exclusively by serious players, from Facebook’s Oculus Quest in the U.S. to Pico and Nreal in China.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The company was founded by Rony Abovitz in 2010, attracting high-profile investments from companies including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., s Oculus Rift. It is attempting to construct a light-field chip using an approach known as silicon photonics. Qualcomm Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s

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VeeR VR

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Oculus has announced the all-new standalone named Oculus Quest at 5th annual Connect developer conference. While Oculus Go is roughly “80 percent media and 20 percent gaming,” said Oculus chief technology officer John Carmack, the Oculus Quest is emphatically gaming-focused. Don’t know which VR headset to buy?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). At GDC, the Oculus Go has been one of the main characters. First of all, Oculus has showcased all its main technical characteristics : I advise you to read the post dedicated to that on Oculus blogs , where Chris Pruett introduces you to them.

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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. Microsoft has been very active in this area for years and their video on the history of flight simulation is a good introduction.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

This signs seems to say: 2019 World Conference on NO VR INDUSTRY. And there are booths of many important companies : Lenovo, Microsoft, HP, Huawei, GoPro, etc… so this event has cool stuff to showcase. One of the AR devices that I wanted to try out since the moment I talked about it on my post about CES 2019 is RealMax.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2020

Khronos Group, the consortium behind the OpenXR industry standard, today announced that it has begun officially certifying products that correctly implement the OpenXR standard. Additionally, the group has added new extensions to the standard to support hand-tracking and eye-tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The total revenues on the Quest Store alone had been $1B since its foundation in 2019, and this shows that many people are enjoying Quest games. These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. Reality Labs had $2.3B

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg talks about the future of VR and AR at Facebook’s recent Oculus Connect conference. It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. The tech industry is gearing up for a new paradigm shift.

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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. Let’s enjoy it without craving for a mainstream explosion that likely won’t happen yet.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

In September of 2016, I attended a group meeting with some folks in Dallas, and then by January of 2017, we had our first major product in a school. It’s also we generally put that out there as a free download on the Windows Mixed Reality store and Oculus as well as VIVE. We set to work figuring it out. Steve: It is.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

In September of 2016, I attended a group meeting with some folks in Dallas, and then by January of 2017, we had our first major product in a school. It’s also we generally put that out there as a free download on the Windows Mixed Reality store and Oculus as well as VIVE. We set to work figuring it out. Steve: It is.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

In September of 2016, I attended a group meeting with some folks in Dallas, and then by January of 2017, we had our first major product in a school. It's also we generally put that out there as a free download on the Windows Mixed Reality store and Oculus as well as VIVE. We set to work figuring it out. Steve: It is. Alan: Excellent.

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ARPost

MARCH 31, 2023

So, in the past few weeks we have seen big tech, including Meta and Microsoft, announce massive layoffs , mostly to their XR division and at the same time, pivoting towards artificial intelligence and generative content. Despite the news, this year’s DEAL expo was as busy as ever. Perhaps more like 60fps or 45fps with reprojection to 90hz?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

What can people expect from VR Days 2019? We have Brandon Harper, he’s a designer at Hololens at Microsoft, with an amazing story to tell. You know, Jack McCauley, he was one of the founders of Oculus. What can people expect from VR Days 2019? VR Days is less than a month away. And let’s get into it.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 20, 2016

And this system, configured “as is” – costs as much as one of those “AMD announces, but you can’t actually buy” CyberPower $499 VR Ready computers paired with an Microsoft Xbox One or Sony PlayStation 4. Or That PC with Xbox One Slim and PlayStation 4… you get the picture.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

What can people expect from VR Days 2019? We have Brandon Harper, he's a designer at Hololens at Microsoft, with an amazing story to tell. You know, Jack McCauley, he was one of the founders of Oculus. What can people expect from VR Days 2019? Benjamin: Well, thanks for having me, Alan. VR Days is less than a month away.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

What can people expect from VR Days 2019? We have Brandon Harper, he’s a designer at Hololens at Microsoft, with an amazing story to tell. You know, Jack McCauley, he was one of the founders of Oculus. What can people expect from VR Days 2019? VR Days is less than a month away. And let’s get into it.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

It got the attention of all the press at CES 2019 revealing an AR glass that is light, fashionable, and affordable. The unit runs over a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Chipset , offering so more horsepower than the Oculus Quest. The Oculus DK2 crashed continuously, and had a very simple runtime, for instance.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. This group created a VR experience where you’re wearing the VR headset, and it’s this magical fairy, and there’s a whole story, and then they give you the needle before you even know what happened.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. This group created a VR experience where you’re wearing the VR headset, and it’s this magical fairy, and there’s a whole story, and then they give you the needle before you even know what happened.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. This group created a VR experience where you're wearing the VR headset, and it's this magical fairy, and there's a whole story, and then they give you the needle before you even know what happened.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 28, 2019

For anyone listening — I suppose from the C-suite — who’s worrying about their group trips going away: I think, if anything, it would improve the return on investment from those trips in the future. I know one of the things you mentioned earlier was smaller groups. Not just your software developers.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 28, 2019

For anyone listening — I suppose from the C-suite — who’s worrying about their group trips going away: I think, if anything, it would improve the return on investment from those trips in the future. I know one of the things you mentioned earlier was smaller groups. Not just your software developers.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 28, 2019

For anyone listening -- I suppose from the C-suite -- who's worrying about their group trips going away: I think, if anything, it would improve the return on investment from those trips in the future. I know one of the things you mentioned earlier was smaller groups. We work the same on your iOS device as you do in your Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

The working group, that includes all the major XR companies (Oculus, HTC, Intel, NVIDIA, Valve, etc…), facilitated by the Khronos group, has finally agreed on a set of specifications, after having listened to all the feedback that come after the release of the version 0.9. has been released. have been released.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Vive took the early market by storm , launching out the box with full roomscale support and tracked motion controllers , whilst Oculus could only launch their Rift CV1 with seated support and an Xbox game controller. Pretty much the same groups but now there were even more of them. Who was buying it? Lots and lots and lots.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I was working a school group here known as GESS -- which is the acronym for Jumeirah English Speaking School -- also broadly referred to as GESS Dubai now. He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there. The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I was working a school group here known as GESS -- which is the acronym for Jumeirah English Speaking School -- also broadly referred to as GESS Dubai now. He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there. The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As researchers continue to push the boundaries of what is possible and companies like Microsoft prototype new haptic devices, we can probably look forward to a near-future where the virtual world will not only look realistic, but also feel real to all our senses. The post Top 10 XR Trends for 2019-20 appeared first on Tech Trends.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I was working a school group here known as GESS -- which is the acronym for Jumeirah English Speaking School -- also broadly referred to as GESS Dubai now. He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there. The one thing obviously that is already clearly missing from this mix, is the word Oculus.

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