Road to VR

MAY 18, 2022

Former Vice President Al Gore, then–Disney CEO Bob Iger and other Apple board members walked from room to room, trying out prototype augmented and virtual reality devices and software. Ive has since departed the company in 2019 to pursue his own design company, LoveFrom.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 30, 2019

L’Oréal, Ford, HTC Vive, Nestlé and more discuss the future of immersive technologies across different industry verticals in the massively popular VRX webinar series. The 2019 VRX Webinar Series includes: State of the XR Market – What are the Latest Tech Innovations and Where’s the Growth? Get access to the webinar recordings here.

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Today, HTC has revealed their latest consumer-focused headset, the $499 Vive Flow. HTC is embracing several hardware features designed around miniaturization that we haven’t seen in other headsets. The headset overall hosts a lightweight design more akin to the Magic Leap One than existing standalone headsets.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Magic Leap finally dropped to mixed reviews and BrainXchange published its Definitive Guide to Adopting Wearables, AR and VR in Enterprise. 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.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 11, 2019

So many green pigs that must be got, yet so little time… Rovio and Resolution Games have brought out a fully immersive version of their popular Angry Birds franchise for the HTC VIVE and Oculus Rift. Angry Birds VR Now Available On Oculus Rift & HTC Vive via @alicebonasio [link] pic.twitter.com/AB2V4Bldbj.

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 9, 2019

There’s just over a week to go until the European leg of the Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2019, offering a chance for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) professionals from around the world to get together, share ideas, and test the latest immersive technologies. Image credit: AWE USA 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap pivots to enterprise, lays off 1,000 employes. With a long post on Magic Leap’s blog, in the end Rony Abovitz has admitted that the company is not going that well, and has announced a new course, that should eventually lead to Magic Leap 2. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

This is the first roundup of news of this new year, and to signal a change with the past, I’ve changed the name from “VR Week Peek” to “XR Week Peek”, because, hey, I like talking about all immersive technologies and not only Virtual Reality. in 2019 thanks to new headsets like the Oculus Quest. Top news of the week. Let’s see.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2019

Image by HTC). HTC has revealed new info on the Cosmos. Every week, HTC is revealing new info on the upcoming Vive Cosmos. These are interesting specs, that make the Cosmos the best headset that HTC has ever released. At MWC Shanghai, HTC has made various announcements for what concerns virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Two days ago I was reading an interesting editorial about PSVR 2 by Scott Hayden, and my mind started wandering about the current moment of virtual reality, the stasis we live in, and our expectations for the upcoming headset. Magic Leap flopped, HoloLens is dead, and even Nreal, with its affordable Light glasses, has not taken off.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In 2019, the company started a new initiative to bring “Lean Six Sigma” processes to the entire Aptiv supply chain. According to Aptiv, even people who had never touched a virtual reality headset before were still able to take part in the training. HTC Vive and Penn State. Magic Leap and the University of Washington.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 16, 2022

According to Allied Market Research, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) aviation markets are expected to reach $23.6 Trainees could use Microsoft HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap headsets, as well as tablets and smartphones for the platform. The commercial aviation industry has earned a crucial ally in its operations.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I’m here to attend the WCVRI , a very big event about Virtual Reality in China, where I am exhibiting HitMotion: Reloaded , the mixed reality fitness game of my agency New Technology Walkers ( contact us if you need some VR development!). This signs seems to say: 2019 World Conference on NO VR INDUSTRY.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This is a simpler mechanism than the waveguides employed by Microsoft HoloLens 2 or by Magic Leap, and while it may provide a bit less immersive holograms, it is the only way to provide affordable wide-FOV glasses at the moment. Realmax has an SDK that is compatible with Unity 2017 and Unity 2019. Deal with it.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 7, 2019

HTC Vive Cosmos will work with Vive Wireless Adapter. This week, HTC has not made another big reveal about the Vive Cosmos, so we’ll still have to wait to discover more about its price and its features. It’s more a logistic thing internal to HTC, so I think most of us can not care about this :D. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

confirmed with the company that it may not be a Niantic-branded pair of glasses, but a reference design that Niantic is building with Qualcomm since 2019. All Viveport users (not only the Infinity ones) can get free passes for two upcoming big music events on Sansar (Tobacco Dock Virtual and Lost Horizons) on a dedicated website.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! Magic Leap will meet its fate. Duck Face, Magic Leap One, and me.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

We're going to be talking about 5G, virtual reality and transportation. So to introduce a little bit about South Korean XR market, South Korea's telecom operators are really striving to create the right range of immersive mixed reality content to leverage their 5G network and attract more customers. Joonmo: Thank you.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

We're going to be talking about 5G, virtual reality and transportation. So to introduce a little bit about South Korean XR market, South Korea's telecom operators are really striving to create the right range of immersive mixed reality content to leverage their 5G network and attract more customers. Joonmo: Thank you.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched — what I love — VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. You have your own podcast and news outlet, talking about all things virtual reality, VRVoice. That was wonderful. Alan: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched — what I love — VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. You have your own podcast and news outlet, talking about all things virtual reality, VRVoice. That was wonderful. Alan: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

We're going to be talking about 5G, virtual reality and transportation. So to introduce a little bit about South Korean XR market, South Korea's telecom operators are really striving to create the right range of immersive mixed reality content to leverage their 5G network and attract more customers. Joonmo: Thank you.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

In January 2014, he launched his second print titled The Startup Monthly in May 2016, he launched -- what I love -- VRVoice.co, a content vertical on all things virtual reality. You have your own podcast and news outlet, talking about all things virtual reality, VRVoice. That was wonderful. Bob: Well, I appreciate that.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers. You’ve seen a lot over the years. Dean: Yeah, I think.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers. You’ve seen a lot over the years. Dean: Yeah, I think.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You've seen it from pre-DK1 days -- where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape -- and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that's not even connected to computers. You've written countless articles on virtual and augmented reality.

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

Zappar’s Zapbox , DigiLens’ ARGO , Sony’s PlayStation VR 2 , the Magic Leap 2 , XREAL (previously Nreal) Air , and the Varjo XR 3 Focal Edition were all in the running, but the prize went to the HTC VIVE XR Elite. An earlier version of the experience had first been demod at a 2019 AWE event in Munich. We’re just so happy.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You’ve seen it from pre-DK1 days — where [it was] probably a cobbled-together a collection of flat screens, wires, and duct tape — and what it is today, where you have real consumer-grade virtual reality that’s not even connected to computers. You’ve seen a lot over the years. Dean: Yeah, I think.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

This CES has been very good for augmented and virtual reality, but it has not been exciting. Last year we had nReal showing us that AR can be trendy, and HTC making us dream with the Vive Cosmos. And in fact, Neon reminds me a bit too much Magic Leap’s Mica project. That said, let’s start!

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Carter: I’d say the main thing is augmented and mixed reality are growing fast, but mainly in the enterprise space. I’d say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. Certainly for the time being, at least.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Carter: I’d say the main thing is augmented and mixed reality are growing fast, but mainly in the enterprise space. I’d say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. So they’re… [chuckles].

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I mean, part of the reason that my work with virtual reality really took off is because I moved into this new role, and had this freedom to innovate and to explore new technologies. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. And it was kind of in parallel to that.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Carter: I'd say the main thing is augmented and mixed reality are growing fast, but mainly in the enterprise space. I'd say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. So they're. Certainly for the time being, at least.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I mean, part of the reason that my work with virtual reality really took off is because I moved into this new role, and had this freedom to innovate and to explore new technologies. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. And it was kind of in parallel to that.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2019

The Vive Cosmos is the virtual reality superstar of this CES 2019. HTC has been able to create some hype about this device, also because of the rumored features regarding the smartphone integration. Think about that for a moment: a headset that is able to exploit 5G virtual reality. And how does it work?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

The latest report on virtual reality by SuperData doesn’t offer us great news on the VR landscape. 600,000); We have always predicted that Quest would have sold 1–2M units in 2019. HTC keeps updating the Vive Cosmos. Grove is an interesting project on Kickstarter that aims at taking support groups to virtual reality.

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