XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A group leading enterprise integration of digital twins is the Orlando Economic Partnership (OEP). The firm named the OEP’s digital twin one of the next “big things” in XR technology in 2023. Leading into the new year with firms like Microsoft and Apple promising to change how the world works with immersive solutions.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 1, 2023

For now it counts Apple, Pixar, Adobe, Autodesk, and NVIDIA as foudning memebers, with general members including Epic Games, Unity, Foundry, Ikea, SideFX, and Cesium. Khronos Group, the consortium behind the OpenXR standard, launched a similar USD initiative in the past via its own Metaverse Standards Forum.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

percent YoY for 2023. The Dublin-based IT consultancy has outlined a Metaverse Continuum Group to facilitate digital transformations for businesses. Multinational XR firms like Lenovo, ByteDance’s Pico Interactive, HTC VIVE, Varjo, and Microsoft are leading the charge for immersive transformations.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

But there’s even more: Unity has already published a page about how it is possible to build for the Quest 3 using not only the XR Interaction Toolkit, but also AR Foundation. Unity page also confirms that the headset will provide plane detection, so you will be able for instance to detect the walls and the desks in your room.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The group will consist of more than 50 Founding Members and Collaborators from across the world. It’s an impressive first… pic.twitter.com/5so90Uw6iS — Patrick Moorhead (@PatrickMoorhead) December 5, 2023 Also, the initiative aims to “responsibly advance the ecosystem of open foundation models with diverse modalities.”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 17, 2023

Microsoft and Autoliv China Autoliv China, a manufacturing innovator, collaborated with Microsoft and DataMesh to implement digital twin technology, 3D data visualization, and artificial intelligence in their operations. Trainees also get to practice in real-life scenarios that would be dangerous to access in the real world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

The omniverse solution is available as a platform-as-a-service offering, running on Microsoft Azure. Cavrnus Otherwise known as Cavrnus VR, Cavrnus is a Metaverse builder platform , designed to help every creator share their vision of a metaverse on the internet.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

I’ve very limited time, but luckily this week has not been very relevant for the ecosystem, so I’m managing to write this newsletter anyway Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) AltspaceVR shuts down In one of the saddest moments of the latest years in VR, AltspaceVR has closed its doors.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2023

Neil Trevett, President, Khronos Group , explained that interoperability was essential to the Metaverse scaling to its full potential “beyond siloed games, experiences, and worlds.” Additionally, the organisation supports several Forum Exploratory Groups to build consensus on charters for future Working Groups.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

link] — Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) May 9, 2023 Back in the day, if you wanted to offer an experience to people, you had to create a full-fledged application from scratch, but now there is another possibility and it is the one of building an experience inside an existing platform. Photoshop is doing the same.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

The latest Q2 2023 operating loss of Reality Labs has been around $4 billion. I think we’ll understand the real situation Meta is in during this holiday season: Meta is betting a lot on having a fantastic end of 2023, and if it is not going to happen, then the company may be in trouble.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

All you need to do is get in touch [link] pic.twitter.com/o8VKifqGdl — Igloo Vision (@IglooVision) October 13, 2023 Formed in 2007, the company began building its geodesic domes for projection-mapped immersive spaces. This platform uses Microsoft Teams for calls, Microsoft Office apps like Powerpoint, Miro, Alleo, Power BI, and many others.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

trillion) of the overall retail market — and expected to reach 22 percent by 2023 — brands know they need to create standout digital shopping experiences. A study from Boston Consulting Group found that 9/10 brands are using, or plan to use, AR in their marketing. And with e-commerce making up 16.1 percent (about $4.2

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 3, 2023

From Zoom to Microsoft, both platforms and others are helping to facilitate a better-connected world. WEF: Future of Jobs 2023 The World Economic Forum (WEF) released its Future of Jobs Report 2023 last month. XR developer hubs like NVIDIA Omniverse, Unity, and Unreal also contain integrated emerging tools like AI.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In its report, the WEF named the “Medical Metaverse” among its top emerging technologies of 2023 – alongside flexible batteries, genAI, sustainable aviation fuel, designer phages, wearable plant sensors, spatial optics, flexible neural electronics, sustainable computing, and AI-facilitated healthcare.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on. Why and how has it started?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I think that for a small startup that is shipping its first product, it may make a lot of sense: for a company of that size, it is better to handle a smaller group of high-paying customers than doing the opposite. Also the price is getting closer to that plan, with the device now expected to retail for $1300.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JULY 26, 2023

Doing so will also provide greater interoperability with additional platforms such as Unity and Xcode, among others. Citing informal social media polls ahead of the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2023), Latta stated that many had resorted to “clickbait,” rather than trialling the headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The firm’s first XR headset is due soon, and with it comes a spatial computing ambition that draws similarities and differences to Lenovo, Microsoft, Meta, HTC VIVE, and other XR headset vendors. Apple is gearing up for the Vision Pro debut. The Benefits of XR Interoperability and Cross-Pollination Competition is clearly at large.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

On the enterprise side, many AR headsets, from firms like RealWear and Microsoft, for on-site usage provide eye and hand-tracking features to optimize workplace operations and communications. How has eye and hand-tracking tracking technology advanced in 2022 and 2023?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

The solution also includes access to unique avatar creation tools, breakout groups, and more. Microsoft Mesh allows companies to create immersive experiences they can share with users anywhere, on any device, using mixed reality applications.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Roblox was already on App Lab, where it had more than one million downloads, and now is going to be available on the official Quest store Asgard’s Wrath 2, coming on Quest Store on December 15th, 2023. Also, it lacks integrated audio, which in 2023 is a big issue.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2023

The solution also includes access to unique avatar creation tools, breakout groups, and more. Microsoft Microsoft first made it’s entry into the immersive collaboration environment with AltSpaceVR, before branching out into the Mesh solution for Microsoft Teams.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. You can see this in today’s AR products (and despite what Microsoft or Magic Leap call their devices, they really are augmented reality devices that you wear on your face).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Instead, he has concentrated his journalistic efforts on a stereotypical dystopia of avatars and social media white elephants from a caricatured Meta, Microsoft AltSpaceVR, and Decentraland. Don’t forget to catch the XR Awards on 25 May, 2023, where we celebrate the victories of the global immersive industry.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Then we have a new report from The Verge that says that the upcoming Apple visor is coming with an M2 chip (we knew that); Kuo saying that Apple will release its visor in January 2023 (we knew that); Apple AR glasses (not the headset, but the glasses) have now entered the design development stage and should release in 2024 (again, we knew).

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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. Image by Khronos Group). Yes, it’s a lot of time, but these are realistic projections.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

On the enterprise side, many AR headsets, from firms like RealWear and Microsoft, for on-site usage provide eye and hand-tracking features to optimize workplace operations and communications. How has eye and hand-tracking tracking technology advanced in 2023?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Smart glasses give remote experts a see-what-I-see view of the work, providing step by step oversight through Microsoft Teams, Webex, Zoom, or some other common application. XR Today: What innovations in AR smart glasses display technology and lens components are coming in 2023?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Valve software is a very funny place because they don’t have a formal management , so it’s kind of all self-organizing… and if they don’t feel like as a group doing half-life 3, or half-life VR, it just won’t happen. Let’s do it”. It’s an interesting place to work. It’s so difficult.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So a group called SPACES -- out of LA -- and they had locations all over the world. Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months. Alex: Mm-hm. Hey Shiraz, what's up?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So a group called SPACES -- out of LA -- and they had locations all over the world. Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months. Alex: Mm-hm. Hey Shiraz, what's up?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So a group called SPACES -- out of LA -- and they had locations all over the world. Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months. Alex: Mm-hm. Hey Shiraz, what's up?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

VR in 2022-2023 will definitely enter the mainstream market , and I wonder if it will just be because of Quest or there will be some other devices. I don’t think we’ll see the launch of a Quest 3 this year (it would compete directly with Cambria), but I think we’ll see some revelations about it, and a 2023 release.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The transition to the new business program for Quest is starting now in beta mode, and the full release should happen in 2023. Unity has built this nice demo using the Presence Platform. I’m very curious about its consequences. Read more about this news: New Oculus For Business program: [link]. Project Nazare. Presence Platform.

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