Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Epic Games is a prominent member of the Khronos Group working alongside a host of industry pros including Oculus, HTC, Valve, Microsoft, Google, AMD, NVIDIA, and Unity. Epic Games Store is said to launch soon and begin what Sweeney calls “a long journey to advance the cause of all developers.”

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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. HTC Vive and Penn State. With the help of the HTC Vive environment, Penn State has been able to create a comprehensive environment for training and educational immersion. Microsoft HoloLens and GE.

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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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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

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE.

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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.

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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

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. Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army. It seems that this test has been a success, and so now Microsoft has won now a bigger contract to carry on the project: $21.88B (!!)

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management). It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. Unity Reflect its a great XR tool for enterprise customers.

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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

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

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. The report also highlights that one of the regions where VR may grow more in 2019–2023 is Western Europe. Trimble stress-tests its AR helmet.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. Sounded good.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, as of 2019 — by the end of this year — they’ll kind of cross. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Dean: Yeah, I think. Alan: It seems like it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, as of 2019 — by the end of this year — they’ll kind of cross. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Dean: Yeah, I think. Alan: It seems like it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, as of 2019 -- by the end of this year -- they'll kind of cross. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high -- like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it'll be an $800 purchase. you know, they did an eye-tracking version of the HTC Vive here.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And then, as of 2019 — by the end of this year — they’ll kind of cross. I mean, it sort of makes more sense to me that, as long as the prices for the headsets are lingering up pretty high — like the Cosmos from HTC, the brand new one, it’ll be an $800 purchase. Dean: Yeah, I think. Alan: It seems like it.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

We started talking with other professionals in the field, and they always kept saying to us “If Microsoft can’t do it, how can you do it?”. High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. The official computational unit runs Android.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

He’s been pushing the envelope of this technology and software for the Microsoft Hololens, and recently built an app for the global launch event of the next generation Hololens 2. And then a lot of that feedback went back to Microsoft, to help inform where the next generation headset was going. What do I do?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

He’s been pushing the envelope of this technology and software for the Microsoft Hololens, and recently built an app for the global launch event of the next generation Hololens 2. And then a lot of that feedback went back to Microsoft, to help inform where the next generation headset was going. What do I do?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

He's been pushing the envelope of this technology and software for the Microsoft Hololens, and recently built an app for the global launch event of the next generation Hololens 2. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It works with Unity, AWS, Microsoft, Pico, Meta, HTC VIVE, and countless other leaders, to unlock opportunities for growth. In 2019, it was named the “premier VR solution” for businesses at the VR Awards. It partners with leading brands, attends industry events , and educates its community.

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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. We’re not tied to Microsoft. Amazon Sumerian.

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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. We’re not tied to Microsoft. Amazon Sumerian.

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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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. The name was of course inspired by “The Unity Cube” application (Image by Rob Cole). Image provided by Rob Cole). The Guncube.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

If developers of PC games want to invest more time to create a VR version of them (like it happened for No Man’s Sky, or Microsoft Flight Simulator, for instance), this could help a lot the PCVR market. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). Epic has implemented it, and Unity is doing that too. Accessories.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. The startup was rescued from bankruptcy by existing backer Candy Ventures in 2019. Blippar was reportedly worth $1.5 However, in June 2020, a U.S. 7- Alvin Graylin. 16- Vinay Narayan.

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