The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The device will be sold exclusively as an enterprise device, starting from 2022. At the event, it should just tease the new device, to then announce it formally at CES 2022. VR training goes big with Accenture and Bank of America. This week we had two big news that endorsed the importance of training in virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. 2022 could be the key year for XR. 2022-2023 are the years when VR should grow a lot (Image by Road To VR). NOKIA Windows Phone: the devices were very nice, but Microsoft arrived too late (Image by ZDNet).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Before leaving you to the news of the week, let me just tell you two things that may interest you: If you missed them, don’t forget to read my predictions about augmented reality and virtual reality in 2022; This Thursday at 5 pm CET AWE Nite Florence comes back! Some updates on Meta products. Learn more. Les Mills BodyCombat.

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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. I can’t imagine what company can steal Facebook’s thunder. VR headsets will become MR ones.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). My bet is that Apple will tease its glasses in 2021 and maybe launch them in 2022, or for holidays 2021 (it is just a speculation though, Apple never said it was going to release smartglasses). And the most requested systems will be about maintenance, remote assistance, training, and prototyping.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 2, 2024

After a somewhat problematic year in 2022 , Nvidia soared into the spotlight throughout 2023. These are the chips companies need to train cutting-edge AI programs like OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4 and Google’s PaLM 2. Earlier this year, it was revealed that Nvidia’s A100 GPU chips are training OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

I think that from the results of this battle, which will happen most probably in 2022, we will understand the trends that will drive the VR gaming market in all the upcoming years. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

It seems that so the Quest 2 Pro will be at least unveiled during the next Facebook Connect , for a potential launch in 2022. 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 was a lot of money?). Some reviews of VR hardware.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Billion ad spend by 2022. 8th Wall recently partnered with Amazon Sumerian on a WebAR ad experience where, with just a click of a banner ad, an AR experience placed a 3D Spiderman into your space for you to interact with directly in your mobile browser. Marketers have been running ads in Snapchat for a number of years now.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

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. Enterprise will account for the majority of those through at least 2022. And being immersed in a 360 video, for example, makes a wonderful training tool.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

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. Enterprise will account for the majority of those through at least 2022. And being immersed in a 360 video, for example, makes a wonderful training tool.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

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. Enterprise will account for the majority of those through at least 2022. And being immersed in a 360 video, for example, makes a wonderful training tool. Which still has its uses!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2022

NVIDIA delivered a speech on Tuesday at the SIGGRAPH 2022, revealing a fresh lineup of metaverse solutions to audiences, including virtual world-building, digital twin, and avatar platforms. Kent Bye VoicesOfVR (@kentbye) August 9, 2022. USD is an open source scene graph format Nvidia is helping develop & integrating with glTF.

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Bernard Marr

JANUARY 8, 2024

In my piece, The Top 10 Tech Trends In 2023 Everyone Must Be Ready For , published in Nov 2022, I made predictions about the year ahead. We witnessed AI's seamless integration into various business processes, significantly in retail, where giants like Amazon and Walmart exemplified this trend.

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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. This training course cost about $3,000 and was mandatory for anyone wanting to use SteamVR. Image provided by Rob Cole). Image by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

As always in January I like to play the speculation game and make my personal predictions for augmented and virtual reality for the new year (2022, in this case). This is still the situation in this first part of 2022. I think that in a good part of 2022 we will just see the VR market growing because of the huge growth of the Quest 2.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In fact, the device sold out at retailers such as Amazon, Walmart and Newegg. Training for Just About Anything. By far the most compelling use case for immersive tech at the moment is in training and simulation, and those applications are virtually endless. Losing One’s VRginity.

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