Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2023

On June 5, 2023, Apple seemed to be doing it again. Inarguably, Meta in 2023 is the leader in VR with combination of Quest 2 and Quest 3 likely to make it one of the hottest selling game consoles in the world. As I write this in 2023, Apple's ad on Twitter states: "The era of spatial computing is here." Apple Vision Pro.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2023

Google chickened out , Microsoft got distracted , and it's totally understandable if you lost interest in VR when they did. Yes, Google might still be resurgent with Android, powered by Owlchemy's insights and Samsung's hardware , and other companies might surprise with a novel strategy too. This is happening.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Microsoft, Google and Apple all have their own approaches to augmented reality and virtual reality, but the race for the face is particularly critical to Facebook and Amazon, because they have yet to establish computing gateways. Meanwhile, heftier VR products from Facebook’s Oculus and Magic Leap have mostly been for gamers.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

A wand with a dedicated pattern on it is used as the 6DOF controller. While the concept of phone holders is dead for good in VR, there are a few companies that are trying to bring it to augmented reality, exploiting also the fact that true AR headsets (like Magic Leap 2 ) are very expensive and cost thousands of euros.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Samsung XR headset may have been delayed The new rumor in town is that Samsung has delayed its upcoming headset that it is building in partnership with Google and Qualcomm. It’s been another interesting week in immersive realities, so let’s see what happened in our field in the past few days!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Who doesn’t want to do that can still use his/her Oculus account to log in until 2023 , but he/she won’t be able to use all the social functionalities of the device (like Venues, Horizon, etc…). After 2023, the devices won’t be guaranteed to work with an Oculus login.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2023 , the new device includes a trove of innovative features such as a “retina-level” electrochromic adaptive display, lighting adjustment, Snapdragon Spaces tethering, and hand tracking, among others. Therefore, it remains to be seen what Xiaomi’s IIB strategy is with potential buyers.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2023

This allowed Special Forces to control and monitor situations remotely using robots and Oakley-styled headsets. Compared to Google Glass, Microsoft’s HoloLens 2, and the Magic Leap 1 and 2, Vuzix’s products operated with an eight-hour charge, compared to rivals.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

It seems that Sony is hoping for a Q4 release in time for the holidays, but analyst Ming-Chi Kuo thinks that delays will bring the release to Q1 2023. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550. Meta is experimenting with Cloud Rendering for Quest. News worth a mention. Other news.

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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2023

Google has reportedly shelved a multi-year project that sought to commercialize an AR headset, known as Project Iris. Provided the report is true, it appears Google will now need to rely on Samsung to compete with Meta and Apple in XR. And Google’s ambitions were, let’s say, very big.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Image by Google). Meta and Google announce layoffs. This week we had the announcement of both Meta and Google laying off people. On a separate note, the Quest 2 has just been updated to Runtime v44, which brings additional parental control tools, plus finally many customization options to record videos on the device.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

Amazon, Tesla, Google, Facebook, and others, including most autonomous vehicle companies, are building the same for various purposes. ” He said “I learned Google is learning faster than we are.” ” “We instrumented Google and discovered that its AI systems are learning faster than ours are.”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For example, Microsoft is gearing up for a 2024 industrial Metaverse roadmap, which sees the firm working with groups like Magic Leap and Qualcomm to provide immersive workplace solutions that operate alongside pre-existing technology stacks. AirTag 2 with AR locational features could easily integrate into the Vision Pro MR framework.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

2022-2023 are the years when VR should grow a lot (Image by Road To VR). He’s going to kill Apple and Google Maps in 2 years , at least in places where he has a lot of cars” All these cars have 8 camera, Lidar, AI chips, and they are connected to the cloud. Why can’t it be Facebook, or Magic Leap ?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

Reading the description, it is possible to see that the VR integration is a bit weird : there’s probably no integration for VR controllers (really??) The story goes on telling that Apple VR headset had realistic visuals and sound, it was super-cool and probably we’ll see a release date of 2022/2023. News worth a mention. A must-see.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

Regarding the controllers, we know that they are similar to the Oculus Touch but with force-feedback triggers and more nuanced haptic sensations. The report also talks about capacitive sensors that can detect how distant is a finger from the handle of the controller, which i s so able to give full fingers tracking like the Index Controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2023

VR is already here VR is here to stay This talking again if VR is dead or is the new 3DTV in 2023 is just utter nonsense because VR is already here. Then the Vive arrived, introduced the disruption of room scale and 6DOF controllers, and many more people entered PCVR. It is not a continuous line, but there are many jumps.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Some of the biggest companies in tech – Meta, Google, Apple and Microsoft – are making progress, but they’ve yet to deliver a product available at a consumer level. The Magic of Tilt Five. The industry is several years from solving key technical problems that complicate the path to lightweight and general purpose AR eyewear.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 2, 2023

We present the @Lumus manufacturing partnerships with more detail than… pic.twitter.com/uAsdreYBCX — Lumus (@LumusVision) March 30, 2023 Furthermore, the company has collaborated on OLED, microOLED , and digital light processing (DLP) technologies, using device-agnostic manufacturing to “work with any micro-display.”

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

connector with OTG 3 Physical IPD adjustments Optical Positional tracking, with 4 tracking cameras Cameras have 400×400 resolution and run at 120Hz Maximum 10m x 10m tracking area and mm-precision accuracy Optical Tracked Controllers, with 32 tracking points All-PU materials fabrication, for easier sanitization 5300 mAh battery, for around 2.5–3h

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Robert Scoble

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

It brings with it a bunch of new technologies that could disrupt even Apple, Google, or Amazon, but soon will start bringing service after service to your home. The AI or software that controls robots was also very expensive and specialized. These changes go far beyond showerheads or the soap brand you use to wash your clothes, though.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Magic Leap rebrands and kills the whale.

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