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What F8 2017 Means for Mass Market Adoption of Immersive Technologies

VRScout

Now, let’s consider the key takeaways related to AR, VR and 360 ° content and review how they will influence the mass market adoption of those immersive technologies. At last year’s F8, the key focus was on Messenger and, to a certain extent, Live video. Augmented Reality. This year, the star of the show was Augmented Reality.

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Apple’s Job Listings Seek ‘VR File Format Engineer’, ‘VR Pipeline Engineer’, & More

Road to VR

Now that Apple is being open about their interest in VR the company is publicly listing new job postings for a number of roles seeking candidates with VR expertise. Two of the latest listings suggest the company is exploring VR video codecs and file formats. See Also: Apple Adds VR Rendering Essentials to MacOS via Metal 2.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.01): Meta still committed to the Metaverse, Jio launches Dive headset, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Many journalists have been speculating lately that Meta was abandoning the vision of the metaverse and that the new focus of the company was towards AI, the shiny technology of the moment. So I wonder if this suspension could also change Microsoft’s future plans concerning the M-word. The reason, was unexpectedly, cloud gaming.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.25): new rumors on Apple Glasses, Oculus Quest anniversary, HP Reverb G2 and more!

The Ghost Howls

Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. In the end, technologist Jon Prosser has revealed the main details he knows about the Apple Glasses. Well, on another website, I’ve been able to find someone that reading some Apple’s documents has found pictures of strange colored circular tags that may act as QR Codes for Apple devices.

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Adobe To Launch AR Features ‘As Fast As We Can,’ Exec Says

VRScout

Between 360 video, virtual reality, and augmented reality, I think augmented reality has much bigger opportunities,” Asher said. ” Adobe unveiled its first foray into AR with a proof-of-concept Microsoft HoloLens app that overlays 3D data visualizations on products in a store. “I Image/Video Credit: Adobe .

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Pixvana Reveals 10K VR Video Player and Publishing Platform ‘SPIN’

Road to VR

Pixvana , a cloud-based VR video company, today announced their much awaited solution for publishing and streaming 360 video, a platform that promises to deliver up to 10K resolution streaming playback from the cloud to your VR devices. Even 4K video spread across a 360-degree sphere leaves much to imagination.

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Can Pixvana FOVAS Technology Resolve Resolution Issues in VR?

VRWorld

Its founders claim to be a proven team of industry experts from their former senior roles at Apple, Adobe, Microsoft and Lucasfilm. The key to Pixvana’s technology is implementing a view-dependent streaming, similar to Oculus’es own Asynchronous Time Warp, Asynchronous Space Warp and Quick Response Queue.