XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

This week, Google officially announced the retirement of its flagship smart glasses product. In a company document , the firm confirmed the retirement of Google Glass Enterprise Edition effective this Wednesday (March 15). Google will also drop official support for its enterprise-grade immersive hardware on September 15, 2023.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 20, 2023

Google parent company Alphabet announced layoffs on Friday of roughly 12,000 workers, totalling 6 percent of its global workforce. The news comes just days after Microsoft and Amazon announced cutbacks of roughly 10,000 employees. The company recently began beta testing for its Google Glass follow-up across the US in July last year.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2024

Precisely one pivot and one CEO change later, which would see Abovitz eventually leave the company, Magic Leap abandoned any notion of serving prosumers, instead appealing solely to enterprise with the launch of Magic Leap 2 in 2022. And that’s in spite of its $3,500 price tag.

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ARPost

JANUARY 13, 2023

These accolades include being named a CES® 2023 Innovation Awards Honoree , one of TIME’s Best Innovations of 2022 , and winning the Fast Company 2022 Innovation by Design Award. In just its first year of business, VITURE already received a number of significant recognitions for its flagship product, the VITURE One XR glasses.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In this guide, we’ll discuss the details of augmented reality development in 2022, including the choice of technologies and the development flow. For example, a user could point a camera at areas of their city to see what it looked like ten years ago from an archive of Google Maps. Earlier this year, ARCore v.1.31.0

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2022

One such platform, the Microsoft Reactor meetup, has united many thought leaders, tech giants, and organisations as a guiding compass for the growing community of technology enthusiasts, developers, journalists, and even senior executives. Excellent @Microsoft Reactor #meetup in #London with @VR2AR , Alexander Karim, and @seanmtracey.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

During today’s Samsung Unpacked event, Samsung announced plans to create new ‘Extended Reality’ (XR) hardware in partnership with Google and Qualcomm. And the software will be provided by Google. The hardware will be us. In 2020, a design patent indicated Samsung might be working on a new bug-shaped Odyssey headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

PSVR 2 may release during Holidays 2022. According to a report from Bloomberg, Sony may release its much-awaited next-gen PSVR headset (which I informally call PSVR 2) during Holidays 2022. Every time someone will look for that game, he would find as the first result on Google the negative review by Carmack. Other relevant news.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

If you’ve been holding out for a new Chromebook made by Google, you’ll have to keep waiting. A Chromebook team member just indicated there is no updated Pixelbook planned for 2022. Read more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 14, 2022

Here are some of the leading companies taking travel organisations towards new frontiers in 2022. Alongside Meta, Microsoft is quickly gaining steam as a pioneer in the metaverse, creating new landscapes for us to explore in the digital world. The same solutions could also pave the way for more impressive virtual travel experiences.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Although Microsoft hasn’t shown much of an investment in the entertainment and arts sector as of yet, it has a lot of potential to offer with the HoloLens ecosystem. Software like Google’s VR tilt brush allows users to create unique virtual art pieces in a completely limitless canvas space.

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2023

2022 was an incremental year for AR & VR, which both continue to gradually push forward in gaining mainstream traction. Our research arm ARtillery Intelligence’s recent report Spatial Computing: 2022 Lessons, 2023 Outlook tackles these questions. This also comes as headwinds challenge its chief competitor: Microsoft.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

While events such as CES 2023 highlighted some of the best immersive innovations, caution loomed across the industry following the hard holiday period of 2022. For example, Snap is seeing an upturn in success following immersive hardware blunders, and Google is going on strong despite significant layoffs. billion overall 2022 earnings.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JANUARY 23, 2023

Google Parent Alphabet Lays Off 12,000 Jobs Late last week, Alphabet, Google’s parent firm, laid off roughly 12,000 individuals. The move accounts for around 6 percent of Google’s global workforce. Google’s layoffs come just days after Microsoft and Amazon announced cutbacks of roughly 10,000 employees.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2023

Groups like Microsoft are leveraging a collapsing military contact to keep its IVAS device lineup alive for further funding, and HTC VIVE took note to explain the importance of enterprise end-users in discussion with the World Economic Forum. Microsoft Begin IVAS 1.2 Testing Microsoft may be fighting for Hololens.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Samsung, in partnership with Qualcomm and Google, has announced plans to develop a new extended reality product. But when Samsung cancelled the project, I switched to the Google Pixel to stay close to Google’s VR platform. And now, both Gear VR and Google’s platform are gone.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2022

Microsoft already stands as one of the biggest gaming companies in the world, thanks to the development of the Xbox ecosystem. Microsoft is one of the most exciting companies to watch for gaming companies and consumers interested in the potential of Mixed Reality in gaming.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 12, 2022

During the Meta Connect 2022 conference, the company revealed a new mixed reality mini-mission for its popular I Expect You to Die series as well as an official release date for Among Us VR. Some of their clients include companies such as Microsoft, Google, Apple, The Walt Disney Company, The National Institute of Health , and Yale.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Centralism If we take a look at metaverses developers, the list will mostly consist of the ‘big guys’: Microsoft, Meta, Epic, etc. Google and Facebook) appeared and centered everything around itself. BTW, all visuals for this article have been created by Midjourney. It’s so exciting to see where it all goes.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 9, 2022

Microsoft announced on Thursday that, starting June 30, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will be able to stream their games through the cloud using a new, dedicated app for Samsung smart TVs and monitors released in 2022. Microsoft confirmed it was working with smart TV manufacturers on streaming solutions a year ago.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Let’s take a closer look at some of the trends influencing the edge computing market for 2022 and beyond. Internet technology giants such as Google, AWS, and Microsoft are also making their own investments into the “Edge” space. Edge Cloud Computing Becomes Essential to XR.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Google is bringing Android games from Google Play to Windows laptops, PCs, and tablets. Mobile gamers who hate being tied to their smartphones just got an early holiday present. Read more.

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Anand Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Nine unofficial sources across the industry confirmed to Reuters the existence of the division, but NVIDIA has remained tight-lipped, only discussing its 2022 announcement regarding implementation of its networking technologies into third-party solutions. And since Windows runs on Arm, NVIDIA has a shot at Microsoft.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

See Also: Is 2022 the Year for Consumer AR Glasses? “At For example, Magic Leap has had a partnership with Google Cloud for the past year now. This is significant because Snap Lenses run on mobile devices that not only have limited space but also share that computing power with a slew of non-XR applications. Parents and Partners.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Rumours of renewed work on Google’s Project Iris augmented reality (AR) smart glasses have surfaced on the internet, according to reports. Originally, Google acquired technologies from North, an AR smart glasses enterprise, and debuted the project at its I/O event.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 25, 2023

Plus, it was a proprietary system, owned by Microsoft, and didn’t play well with other metaverse platforms. In its blog post, the company said that it will be focusing on other metaverse-related efforts, such as the launch of Microsoft Mesh , an enterprise-focused metaverse platform. What about Meta, Google and Apple?

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Anand Tech

AUGUST 16, 2023

To put the $150 billion number into context, the total server market value reached $123 billion in 2022 and is poised to grow to $186 billion in 2027, according to IDC. including the well-known factory in Wisconsin, it can offer localized services to customers like AWS, Google, and Microsoft, a distinct competitive advantage.

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Anand Tech

APRIL 18, 2023

SK Hynix will likely be the primary beneficiary of the HBM rally as it leads shipments of this type of memory, holding a 50% share in 2022, according to TrendForce. Analysts from TrendForce believe that shipments of AI servers equipped with compute GPUs like Nvidia's A100 or H100 will increase by roughly 9% year-over-year in 2022.

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ARVR

MAY 11, 2022

For example, Google click value is greater when local intent is signaled by the searcher, such as a “near me” or geographic modifiers like a zip code in the search query. So companies like Google, Yelp, Foursquare and many others have built businesses around this principle in driving local search and discovery?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Actually, this week, Microsoft’s new mixed reality VP Scott Evans said that Microsoft is carrying on many innovations in various technological fields, and it is expecting the right time to release an update of the HoloLens. Google may be working on a bracelet and a ring for its glasses. Other news. Learn more. Learn more.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Apple has been prototyping headsets for years, and recent reports from The Information and Bloomberg suggest that Apple could release a headset as early as 2022 that could cost as much as $3,000. All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 13, 2021

Apple, Amazon, Google , Samsung SmartThings, and Signify, the team behind the Philips Hue smart bulbs, already committed to it earlier this year. Matter is a new standard that’s supposed to make your smart home gadgets play nicely together. Matter will make it easier to pick out gadgets that work with one another, but… Read more.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 12, 2022

There's buzz about a theoretical E3 2022. The rumor that's floating right now around is mostly based on some chatter from GamesBeat's Jeff Grubb, who mentioned during a recent podcast that Microsoft is planning for an "E3-style" event in June. In 2022, you don't need to be an industry professional to "get it." trade show.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

— VR Nima (@NimaZeighami) January 5, 2022. Shiftall MeganeX is slated to launch sometime in Spring 2022, and it will be priced at around $900 , so it will also be quite expensive. The company plans to provide TactGlove DK Kits starting in the 2 nd quarter of 2022, then officially release the consumer version in late 2022.

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Anand Tech

MAY 7, 2024

The ASUS listing, which has now since been deleted, but as of writing is still available through Google's cache, highlights a model that is already in existence, the VivoBook S 16 OLED (M5606), but is listed with an unknown AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 170 processor. This first came to our attention via a post on Twitter by user @harukaze5719.

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ARVR

MARCH 22, 2022

As we roll into 2022, it’s time for our annual ritual of synthesizing the lessons from recent history and formulating the outlook for the near term. Entitled Spatial Computing: 2021 Lessons; 2022 Outlook , it joins our report excerpt series. Read the full report here … [link] Originally published at [link] on March 15, 2022.

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ARVR Magazine Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In today's podcast, I discuss Meta's recent official announcement of the Meta Quest Pro Headset as well as the rest of the news from Meta Connect 2022. In the keynote, Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg announced the device as well as several new updates, new partnerships with Microsoft, Adobe and Zoom, new games and some advanced avatar features.

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