ARPost

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Joe Michaels of HaptX will also present “Drop the Controller: How Realistic Touch Feedback Increases Your Effectiveness in Enterprise VR.” Bar-Zeev is currently in consulting and advising but has done work for the likes of Apple, HoloLens, Second Life, Google Earth, and more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Image by Google). Google is reportedly working on an AR operating system. In some of my past newsletters, I warned you that we shouldn’t forget about Google/Alphabet in the race to our mixed reality future. Now we have finally an official confirmation of the fact that Google is working on an AR device. Tilt Brush).

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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. Other relevant news. Image by North). News worth a mention.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Drag-and-drop digital assets in real-time using LITHO’s AR controller. The app is called Diorama and it works with your smartphone in combination with LITHO’s wearable AR controller by letting you add digital props into your film in real-time while you’re filming. Diorama comes with a number of pre-installed props to use.

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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. Top news of the week. Image by Sony). PSVR 2 is probably coming in 2022 and with a slow transition. I admit that this news caught me a bit off guard.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Oculus Quest’s parallel content distribution platform slated to come in Q1 2021. Facebook announced some months ago that it was going to release a new opener content distribution platform parallel to the Oculus Store and this week it has revealed that it is going to launch it in Q1 2021. A new HTC headset may come in 2021.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 26, 2021

As Facebook and Apple begin to fire up more projects in the AR/VR world, Google has spent the last year shutting down most of their existing projects in that space. Today, the folks at Google announced they had ended active development of Tilt Brush, a VR painting app that was one of virtual reality’s early hit pieces of software.

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VRScout

APRIL 3, 2022

In January 2021, Google officially ended support for its popular VR painting app Tilt Brush , much to the dismay of the digital art community. You can now paint complex works of art with friends in mixed reality. That said, it wasn’t all bad news.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2021

No matter how you define the metaverse or the role that you think it plays, Google AR Partnership’s Global Head of Creative, Matthieu Lorrain, said that it was contributing to a period of “post-reality.”. The model is then displayed on a Looking Glass holographic display manipulated with an air controller designed after medical equipment.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Google's mobile operating system is evolving again. On Thursday, Google released the first developer preview for Android 13. Until now, only Google's own apps would get the dynamic coloring depending on the wallpaper/theme you used. Credit: Google. Credit: Google. But in Android 13, this will extend to all icons.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 3, 2023

Additionally, significant technology and extended reality (XR) firms like Google and AT&T have provided Magic Leap funding since the company’s debut in 2010. The product contains a headset, controllers, a separate computing device, and accessibility add-ons. Bluetooth connectivity for headphones, keyboards, and controllers.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 12, 2024

The email laid bare his strategic thinking and how the Oculus acquisition was a long-term bet to outmaneuver Apple and Google, two companies that had a significant strategic advantage over Meta. Apple and Google held (and continue to hold) the keys to the smartphone castle. “The strategic goal is the clearest.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The VR ecosystem can end 2021 with a big smile on its face. This has been thanks to its massive growth: according to Rec Room’s Shawn Whiting, in March 2021 the total number of users was 2 million, while now they are 37. A look back at 2021. It’s the end of the year, and it’s time to look back at what has happened in 2021.

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Upload VR

MARCH 20, 2024

While Apple Vision Pro validated much of what Meta (formerly Facebook) did in VR over the last decade, the headset also echoes work under Google's umbrella at Job Simulator development studio Owlchemy Labs. Owlchemy Labs has a prominent history when it comes to hand-tracking controls. So yeah, it felt like a huge vindication."

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ARVR

APRIL 9, 2021

Just recently Weather Channel drove a virtual car through the studio to show how vehicles lose control on snowy or icy roads. Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 What is ARCore? ARCore is a Google SDK. For example, the broadcasters are using augmented reality to display a 3D tornado, or flooding, or hurricanes.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

minimum Controls: touch, voice. You can control your glasses by swiping and tapping your fingers on the frames , as you could do with Google Glass back in the days. Is this 2021? ac Wi-fi, Bluetooth 5.0 Compatibility: iOS 13, Android 8.1 Features of the glasses (Image by Ray-Ban). Functionalities.

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ARPost

MARCH 12, 2021

Many leading technology companies such as Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Google are investing billions into developing these technologies. See Also: AR Apps With Artificial Intelligence in 2021. AI will come to life with AI-controlled avatars participating in VR worlds and advising as our own AR advisors and consultants.

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AR Insider

MARCH 30, 2021

This is the topic of ARtillery’s recent report, Spatial Computing: 2020 Lessons, 2021 Outlook. Spatial Computing: 2020 Lessons, 2021 Outlook. Google is meanwhile motivated toward wearables to maintain direct touchpoints to users. This was the same strategy that drove Google’s Android OS years ago. Warming Up .

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2022

Let’s see how to build a Unity 2021 application with OpenXR. Instead of making the application ourselves, I’m going to let you download an already-prepared sample application , so we can skip all the creation process and have out of the box an app that lets us test both the headset and the controllers interactions.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 22, 2024

The international media conglomerate is in the headlines this week with its Holotile breakthrough, a prototype device that acts as a VR input treadmill, allowing various users to walk around a shared virtual environment without requiring a controller. If the past repeats itself, we may find out at the end of the year.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

As for the controllers, they look like a mix of the Oculus Touch and the controllers of the Vive Focus Plus, with some important ergonomic adjustments. This Quest-Focus-Neo mix will be launched in China on May, 10th 2021. The only drawback is the controllers’ tracking. Is Google collecting the pieces for an XR headset?

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Google is meanwhile motivated toward wearables to maintain direct touchpoints to consumers. This was the same strategy that drove Google’s investments in the Android OS years ago. Just like with mobile devices, Google can position itself closer to users as a “Trojan horse” for search. Trojan Horse.

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ARPost

MAY 16, 2023

Bar-Zeev has worked in XR since 1992 including co-founding Google Earth, serving as a consultant for Linden Labs, a principal architect for Microsoft, advisor for Tilt Five and Croquet, and president of the XR Guild. A phone can be an AR viewer but also serves as a controller for the headset via an adapter called “the pack.” “We

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 7, 2021

The Google Nest Mini is tiny but powerful, giving you wide-ranging control over your smart home, and doing things the Echo Dot cannot.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

One of the unique elements the company developed was a physical control on the headset which created a seamless transition between a fully immersive VR view and a passthrough AR view—this was at a time when most headsets were either strictly AR or strictly VR, but not both. Alas, Vision Pro was announced in 2023 and shipped earlier this year.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Solutions like Google Cardboard promise to turn the mobile phone into a VR headset – and actually do a good job for viewing, through providing virtually no controls. Since these first orders are already finished, the headset now costs $40, with shipping anticipated to take place in April of 2021.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

See Also: “Facebook” Is now “Meta” and Other News From Connect 2021. Google’s real-time face and body tracking; Source: Google. Friction in using VR/AR needs to be reduced, users need to be educated on how to scan and detect surfaces in their physical space to orient themselves, and controller layouts need to be learned.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Google shuts down Google Poly. Google is continuing its tradition of killing all the interesting AR/VR projects it kickstarted and this week has killed Google Poly, the community-driven 3D objects database. More info (Google shutting down Poly) More info (Sketchfab as an alternative) More info (Petition for Google Poly).

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Digital Trends

MAY 18, 2021

You'll soon no longer need to download Google's remote app for Android TV. The company plans to embed the app's functionality into all Android smartphones.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Among other signs, Google fell short of expectations due to YouTube ad revenue declines. Among ad-supported tech giants, Google is perhaps the least affected because, though it faces macroeconomic headwinds, its ad targeting is based on explicit per-search user intent (first-party data). For those unfamiliar, the $3.99 million to date.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2022

But it brings many innovations: the field of view is much bigger, especially on the vertical side , and this makes the visuals much more enjoyable the controllers now feature inside-out tracking with onboard cameras. Google and Waymo evolve NERF to cope with cities. VR users grew up in 2021 by 11%. Meta has been warned.

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Upload VR

APRIL 26, 2024

The company has repeatedly spoken of its intentions to bring AR glasses to market since 2017, and in 2021 revealed the effort is called Project Nazare. Further, Ma's report explained that because the material is used in military radars and sensors, the US government imposes strict export controls on it.

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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. Facebook has also brought another innovation to the Quest Store, that is subscriptions. Other relevant news.

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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 Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 WebXR Toolkits ?

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

A smart home hub is the control center for different devices and their apps. Home Depot’s Hubspace app takes the confusion out of setting up a smart home with one app to control a wide array of products that are easy to set up and easy to use, such as lights, outlets, and ceiling fans. You absolutely can. Credit: Hampton Bay.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 1, 2024

Now, it appears that a wider breadth of vendors and service providers will populate the XR marketplace, building a future shy from Meta’s 2021/22 hold on the market. Although HTC VIVE also provides user tracking for its XR headsets, the company still believes controllers hold value.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

It doesn’t have controllers (you just use your hands), but you can buy external controllers by Finch to use with it. billion AR-compatible devices at the end of 2021 , with the 2nd and 3rd places occupied by Facebook’s Spark AR (1.6 Both Facebook and Google have decided to double down on AR effects inside calls.

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