ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

Source [link] Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (VR and AR) have had a noticeable presence in the news lately. Apple seems to be cornering the popular entertainment industry, with the acquisition of NextVR, as industry rivals such as Magic Leap focus on enterprise solutions. Mozilla has recently released the 2.0

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2021

Tech giants such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft have invested heavily into AR, VR and MR to speed up mass adoption through both hardware and software solutions.” ” “ XR Casino has first mover’s advantage in providing XR SaaS solutions to online, traditional casinos and sports betting companies.

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ARPost

JUNE 4, 2020

Augmented reality is here to stay, and the number of smartglasses that will become available in the next two years announce a decade of change regarding smartphones and tablets. Smartglasses will allow for a handsfree browsing of augmented reality content, enhancing our user experience with handsfree branded content.

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ARVR

JANUARY 22, 2021

10 of my Tech Predictions for 2021 By Tim Frank Andersen, Chief Digital Officer?—?Charlie Charlie Tango The Netflix movie ANON is a great showcase of one possible AR enhanced future 2021 already looks to be a year full of technological breakthroughs. One of the most anticipated is Augmented Reality. Focals, by North? —?a

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 9, 2022

Users can stream virtual and mixed reality experiences from the cloud for the first time ever. Magic Leap. Though the Magic Leap start-up might have struggled to find its footing when it first launched several years ago, the company has since repositioned itself as an Enterprise solution for XR, to great success.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

WebXR is a JavaScript application programming interface (API) that enables applications to interact with augmented reality and virtual reality devices, such as the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard or Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR), in a web browser.?—?Wikipedia Other Extended Reality (XR) Toolkits ?

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

Samsung confirmed at CES in January that its Oculus engineered Samsung Gear VR headset had passed an install base figure of 5 Million and more recently Google affirmed that it had shipped over 10 Million Cardboard viewers. billion in 2021. billion in 2021,” states IDC’s report. Meanwhile, VR headsets grow from $2.1

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 has been teased. Magic Leap is back: CEO Peggy Johnson has just unveiled in a post on the company blog the Magic Leap 2 , the new version of the AR glasses from the company in Florida. Lone Echo 2 is one of the best games of 2021, but….

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2022

This could be a great feature: having the possibility of accessing a shared augmented reality space with just a link, sounds a lot like the evolution of the internet, that is the M-word. Image by Magic Leap). First previews show Magic Leap 2 qualities. Google and Waymo evolve NERF to cope with cities.

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2023

billion in 2021 to $35.1 As seen in the Google Glass era, consumer acceptance and comfort for face-worn hardware (with a camera, no less) is a critical gating factor, and will take a while to overcome. It coupled this pivot with a second swing at AR glasses: Magic Leap 2 (ML2). billion in 2026.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

Zapbox is basically a plastic cardboard for augmented reality Zappar is working on since many years. Zapbox allows you to use your phone on a specific holder that stays on your head to have screen-through augmented reality always in front of your eyes. A wand with a dedicated pattern on it is used as the 6DOF controller.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Augmented Reality is being a great tool for e-commerce: AR tools have increased the user’s likelihood of purchase by 11 times; Build.com found that the return rate after selecting items in AR has decreased by 22%. More info (Use Google Translate). Magic Leap plans dev days and dev programs. News worth a mention.

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ARPost

APRIL 29, 2021

The platform, which won last year’s Auggie Award for Best Enterprise Solution, is compatible with MR headsets like HoloLens and Magic Leap. See Also: Which Startups Are Hiring for Augmented Reality Jobs? TechSee is an AR solution that employs augmented reality to identify and contextualize objects in the physical world.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

The Quest 2 is quite powerful and so Facebook has confirmed tha t in 2021 there won’t be the need for a Quest 2 Pro as some people were supposing. NVIDIA doubles down on Cloud Rendering and Omniverse at GTC 2021. On the client side, the system will become compatible with iOS devices, and a Magic Leap client has also been developed.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

At the same time, Facebook could have an approach similar to the one that Google has with Android: theoretically you can use an Android phone without a Google account, but good luck in doing it : since my phone is Chinese, I don’t have Google services and I can assure you that it is a true pain in the a**. Image by Google).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Chinese electronics manufacturer Xiaomi has debuted its Wireless AR Glass Discovery Edition, leading to the company’s first-ever wireless augmented reality (AR) smart glasses. The prototype featured magnetic, compartmentalised parts for detaching and reattaching for greater portability.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

How Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) can transform Education 3. How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are Revolutionizing Healthcare On the very day that I defended my monograph Facebook announced its own AR program: Project Aria. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Ways to Get Your Business into VR 2.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2018

But Ian Hamilton of UploadVR remembers how Michael Abrash (someone that has some knowledge over AR and VR), predicted 4Kx4K per eye displays for 2021. Here’s @oculus chief researcher Michael Abrash suggesting we’ll have “4Kx4K” per eye by 2021. I’m a little confused by these numbers. pic.twitter.com/AHglhzpzSt.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. Magic Leap raises other $350M.

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AllThingsVR

JANUARY 12, 2017

Our new base case is that mobile AR could become the primary driver of a $108 billion VR/AR market by 2021 (underperform $94 billion, outperform $122 billion), with AR taking the lion’s share of $83 billion and VR $25 billion. Magic Leap also received a boatload of speculation about the tech it used to raise $1.4

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Preorders are open now with just a little deposit of $10, shipping in 2021. Viveport is improving a lot, and now HTC is also launching the Vive XR Suite , which will be distributed thanks to the support of a strong network of partners like HP, NVIDIA, Baidu (the Chinese Google), and Accenture.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Regarding the Quest, Facebook listened to all our complaints about the too strict content curation and said that it is working on a new and more open content distribution platform to be released in 2021. Google is going to buy North. Google adds depth APIs to ARCore. The deal should be in the price range of $180M.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

I was expecting a PSVR 2 launch in 2021, but then suddenly Jim Ryan in an interview with The Washington Post has commented on VR with these exact words: PlayStation believes in VR. Coming in May 2021 , with first units sents to reviewers in January 2021, because the product is almost ready. Top news of the week.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

We're going to be talking about the investment landscape of virtual and augmented reality as it pertains to investment in startups, companies going public. Over the last few years, there has been an enormous amount of capital invested into virtual and augmented reality startups, in the hundreds of millions, billions of dollars.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

We're going to be talking about the investment landscape of virtual and augmented reality as it pertains to investment in startups, companies going public. Over the last few years, there has been an enormous amount of capital invested into virtual and augmented reality startups, in the hundreds of millions, billions of dollars.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

So I’m excited to get those into people’s hands and to continue to make progress on the journey toward full augmented reality glasses in the future.” This also aligns with comments that both he and Snap CEO Evan Speigel have separately made about AR’s fully-baked form being more of a 2030 reality. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 4, 2019

In two years Spatial Computing, including Facebook’s Oculus VR headsets (we hear Facebook is working on Spatial Computing glasses too, along with many others like Microsoft, with its HoloLens, and Magic Leap) will have very advanced 3D imaging technologies and eye sensors, along with cameras and microphones. Same with Google.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. Both Azure Spatial Anchors and Google Cloud Anchors are leveraging existing strengths in mapping towards the AR Cloud. Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

The term “augmented reality” wasn’t officially coined until 1990, but the 80s also saw important breakthroughs in the space. In the intervening decade, virtual reality has begun to take on outsized influence at the company, culminating with its 2021 rebrand to “Meta.” They were slick, they were robust.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

We're going to be talking about the investment landscape of virtual and augmented reality as it pertains to investment in startups, companies going public. Over the last few years, there has been an enormous amount of capital invested into virtual and augmented reality startups, in the hundreds of millions, billions of dollars.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Stay tuned on this blog, because in some days I will publish an EXTRAORDINARY interview related to one of the most awaited VR games of 2021! Last year, Facebook announced that it was going to release in 2021 a new side content distribution platform for the Oculus Quest. Google makes Tilt Brush opensource. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

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. 2022 may be the key year when they actually buy it, also thanks to Apple , an d finally, the market will reach the magic number of 10 million devices. .

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2019

Charlie is also a book author and after the success of his previous book Metaverse , now he’s launching his new book, “Convergence” , that is all about the present and the future of augmented reality. Wikipedia, Google, Yelp, selfies, other forms of social media. VR, perhaps 2020, or 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

The first one is about numbers: Snap has claimed that more than 170M users use augmented reality on its platform every day. Look at these numbers again: while we are all dreaming about AR glasses and experimenting with cool niche AR gadgets like the Nreal Light , 170M people are already using augmented reality on their phones.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Today’s guest is Paul Reynolds, the CEO of Torch, a really exciting augmented reality platform. It’s a mobile augmented reality development and deployment platform for enterprise. Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 – since before the interwebs!

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Today’s guest is Paul Reynolds, the CEO of Torch, a really exciting augmented reality platform. It’s a mobile augmented reality development and deployment platform for enterprise. Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 – since before the interwebs!

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

So a company which unfortunately is no longer in business, ODG, created an oxygen mask for pilots, which allowed the pilots to operate a plane using augmented reality when the cockpit was full of smoke. Why would a company need some sort of augmented reality, where it’s capturing the world’s data? Terry: Sure.

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