Tech Trends VR

MAY 2, 2018

The Brazilian-born inventor gets recognition for his groundbreaking work with the Microsoft Hololens. The HoloLens incorporates several patent-protected Microsoft inventions, including Kipman’s motion sensors initially brought to market for the Xbox Kinect video game controller.

Microsoft 207

Microsoft Trends Machine Learning Data 207

XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Then, it requires hours of work and you, the trainer, at the end of the day, receive basic data of that experience. Roblox and NIKE Digital famously debuted NIKELAND in November 2021, reaching approximately seven million members from roughly 223 countries at the time.

How To 187

How To Training Tools AR 187

Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2020

That expansion will start in 2021 with the addition of action and adventure games. While other companies like Amazon, Google, NVIDIA, and Microsoft are building out their own cloud game streaming services, none of them have both a standalone VR headset and a major VR ecosystem for a complete end-to-end solution.

Oculus 348

Oculus Latency Gaming Strategy 348

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 27, 2023

The news comes amid a massive wave of layoffs across the tech industry, with Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, and many others launching a second round of job cuts. ” Sweet stated that cloud computing, data, artificial intelligence (AI), and security continued to lead company strategies.

Microsoft 93

Microsoft Singapore India Washington 93

ARVR

MARCH 24, 2021

This is the topic of ARtillery’s recent report, Spatial Computing: 2020 Lessons, 2021 Outlook. Also known as mirrorworld and other monikers, it’s about data that’s anchored to places and things that AR devices can process into meaningful content. Key questions include, what did we learn in the past year? and its many subsegments?—?sit

AR 130

AR Data Google Automotive 130

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 27, 2023

The EU has consistently cracked down on data privacy concerns from Meta’s transatlantic data flows over the last few years, leading to a settlement in March last year. Companies such as Alphabet, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon, Apple, and Tesla also reported a rise in earnings following their respective layoffs.

China 73

China United Kingdom Data Washington 73

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. Microsoft admits display problems on HoloLens 2. Microsoft negated the issue, but now, after continuous reporting from users, it has been forced to admit it.

AR 204

AR Oculus Magic Leap Microsoft 204

The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Meta’s earnings report for 2021 has both lights and shadows. We were all waiting for it, and then it finally arrived: Meta has finally released its earning reports for 2021, and for the first time it treated its Reality Labs division as a separate entity, so we know how well it is performing. Top news of the week. Image by Meta).

Virtual Reality 369

Virtual Reality Microsoft Data Machine Learning 369

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft has released more specifications for its upcoming XBOX Series X, and from these data is clearly possible to see that it will be compatible with VR headsets. This reinforces my belief that Microsoft in 2021–2022 will add VR support to it , to fight the PSVR when the market will be riper.

Hand tracking 240

Hand tracking AR Oculus HTC 240

EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

This year was going to be the year of augmented reality, but by the end of 2018 market analysts were pointing to 2020 or 2021 as the “golden year” of AR. HoloLens got a major software update , and Microsoft introduced new enterprise mixed reality applications like Microsoft Remote Assist and Microsoft Layout.

Magic Leap 58

Magic Leap Training Wearables Immersion 58

The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. 2021 will be a building year , where after the virus the world is rebuilding its economy, and consumers will start seeing and experimenting with these new XR technologies. There will be much more excitement than now.

Apple 524

Apple Oculus China Magic Leap 524

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

When Microsoft won a $22B dollars contract with the US Army to develop a special version of HoloLens that could increase the “lethality” of troops, the news made strides worldwide. From a technology standpoint, this is great news, because this data set will help a lot the research in AI, AR, and robotics.

Magic Leap 502

Magic Leap HTC Training Virtual Reality 502

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

They “will incorporate some of the key features found in the DualSense wireless controller, along with a focus on great ergonomics”; There will be a “new generation” of games and experiences for it; It is still under development and won’t launch in 2021. MWC Shanghai 2021 showcased some XR technologies. More info (Qualcomm AR Viewer?—?Road

Sony 388

Sony Oculus Unity AR 388

The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

All these data can be very precious for many research centers and industries (just think about how heart rate could be used to verify how calm you can be during a dangerous situation), and so this headset will surely be bought by many companies. The consumer store also features good VR games like Superhot VR, Red Matter, and Synth Riders.

Eye Tracking 372

Eye Tracking HTC China Amazon 372

The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While the first version was an all-in-one with diffractive waveguides like Microsoft HoloLens, the new one is an all-in-two light device that connects to your smartphone and uses birdbath optics. If you want to buy it, it is already backordered, and new purchases will be shipped in 2021. What a weird decision…). Other relevant news.

AR 253

AR Oculus Augmented Reality China 253

AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic).

Magic Leap 156

Magic Leap AR Microsoft Apple 156

The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

This week there’s been a new AMA from Andrew Bosworth (I guess AMA now stands for Andrew’s Massive Answers), this time together with her data majesty Mark Zuckerberg. A decent budget for Microsoft and Facebook… but something impossible for companies like HTC or Magic Leap (do you remember when we all thought that $2.5B

Magic Leap 353

Magic Leap AR Tips China 353

Building the Metaverse

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Amazon, Netflix, Google) were built on this ecosystem, or benefitted from expanding into it (Microsoft, Apple). From Serverless to Distributed Blockchain Computing Serverless software is a bit of a misnomer: it is a software development pattern that allows data storage and other server-authoritative functions to occur in the cloud?—?while

Architecture 59

Architecture Software Examples Google 59

XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 18, 2023

In December, Ammaar Reshi created and sold a children’s book that he wrote using Chat GPT and physically published via Amazon Kindle Publishing in an exceedingly short time period. Chat GPT leverages knowledge from various channels to compile general-purpose aggregated data the bot writes in a chosen style or format.

Training 245

Training Microsoft Machine Learning Immersion 245

Mashable VR

JUNE 18, 2022

SEE ALSO: Amazon used AI to promote diversity. Google Photos learned how to do so using a neural network, which analyzed enormous sets of data in order to categorize subjects like people and gorillas — clearly, incorrectly. Companies like Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon also face the same biased AI issues.

Google 117

Google Amazon New York Groups 117

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

A worker wearing HoloLens 2 (Image by Microsoft). So, I envision the main companies in the field, like Microsoft and Magic Leap, to put their efforts into improving their platform to offer better services to their enterprise customers. Let me be very honest: I’m not expecting that much from this year in augmented reality.

Augmented Reality 387

Augmented Reality Magic Leap AR Technology 387

The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

The technology behind it is pretty cool: you have some cameras (I guess RGB + depth) that scan yourself live in 3D , compress the data with a special Google algorithm, send it to the other peer, where it gets decompressed and reconstructed in real-time on a light field display. Quest 2 recalled from Amazon EU for skin irritation issue.

AR 240

AR Google Machine Learning Haptic 240

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

And it has not been only Facebook this time: also companies like Microsoft and Epic started promoting the metaverse (Epic got $1B to develop it), and this has created a big tsunami in the tech world. And not all experiences are better in VR: supermarkets in VR are not a thing because buying in 2D on Amazon is much more efficient.

AR 482

AR Magic Leap Video Trends 482

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

This is not a tweet, it is a #metaverse message… #VirtualReality #VR #AR pic.twitter.com/f9aDJ2mbc3 — TonyVT SkarredGhost (@SkarredGhost) July 25, 2021. If it manages to enter the European market, it means that Meta can sell many millions of headsets more than in 2021. The metaverse hype will cold down. Accessories.

Virtual Reality 495

Virtual Reality Eye Tracking Apple Government 495

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

It is the console business model: selling the hardware undercost so that subsidize it with exclusive software, and your data in this case. You’re paying only $299 because you are not paying only with your money, but also with the data that Facebook will harvest from you to propose to you better ads. Accessories.

Oculus 545

Oculus AR Data Gaming 545