XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Leveraging its Igloo Core Engine (ICE), the company has curated a host of content in its viewing spaces, including building information modelling (BIM), metaverse worlds, 360-degree video, game engine demos, and many others. The award-winning operating system is also layer-based, providing clients with fully bespoke configurations.

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VRScout

JUNE 21, 2017

One big name that was notably missing from the VR news at E3 was Microsoft—who, contrary to many predictions, did not announce anything VR-related for Xbox. CALL FOR YOUTUBERS WHO LOVE 360 VIDEO: THE CREATORS LAB. GOOGLE LAUNCHES 3000 YEARS OF FASHION & CULTURE PLUS VR. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

For many, the 360 ° video of his daughter’s first steps was the first 360 ° video they ever watched. With it, Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated the benefits of 360 ° content and a major use case for consumers: to save and share family moments to be relived at any point in time. Google I/O : May 17-19, 2017.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 14, 2017

It’s early days for the show so we don’t have a full line-up of what’s going to be there just yet, but you can expect a pretty good variety of projects across gaming, 360 video and more as well as talks from industry leaders. The last event had sessions from Google, Microsoft, HTC and more, for example.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 29, 2016

With over one million active monthly users of the Samsung GearVR, millions of Google Cardboard units and high-end Oculus Rift and HTC Vive pre-orders, Smithson believes that brands that are early to develop unique and engaging content for VR and will have a huge advantage over their competition.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly live video show and podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. GOOGLE EARTH IN VR IS A RUSH. Made from high-res satellite imagery, aerial photography, and Street View data, Google Earth VR is surprisingly meditative when alone and fun when with a group.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

(Image by Microsoft). According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. There are both 360 video experiences and interactive CGI ones.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. More info (Camera Path and Google Drive backup) More info (Sketchfab exporting).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

I tried a Microsoft prototype VR headset at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco and got the first public look at the company’s vision for mixed reality beyond Hololens. I was among a handful of journalists invited to see the internal Microsoft prototype, though I was told photos or videos for my demo would not be allowed.

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VRScout

MARCH 24, 2018

You can explore the VR series now through the Inception app, available for download on the Oculus Rift , HTC Vive , Microsoft , Gear VR , Google Daydream , Sony Playstation , iOS and Android. “VR provides a new avenue for Refinery29 to reach their large vast network base of young women,” said Inception CEO Benny Arbel.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

Did Seebright just release the augmented reality equivalent of Google Cardboard? If you haven’t yet had the pleasure of experiencing the HTC Vive’s roomscale virtual experience, you should check the Microsoft, Game Stop, or Micro Center location closest to you! Facebook Enables Native 360 Photos.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

To make matters murkier, there’s also the recently-announced partnership between Google and HTC Vive to create new standalone mobile headsets for all Google Daydream-ready Android phones. Air New Zealand is one airlines provider that is testing how the Microsoft Hololens can help improve in-flight customer service.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! Image by Microsoft). This is the 150th Week Peek! News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Anyway, the door is not closed completely: he added to the interview “ I think we might get there [eventually], But yeah, that’s not where our focus is.” Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida has just burnt completely Microsoft tweeting “we oftentimes work hard to make things that no customers are asking for them ”. Google announces The Relightables.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

HP has fixed many of the visual problems of the headse t, and Microsoft has just released a patch on Windows 10 that aims at solving many visual issues of all WMR headsets (like Chromatic aberration). But honestly, I expected a bit more … it’s a bit weird that Microsoft hasn’t solved its biggest pain point yet. Discover more.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

Furthermore, my involvement is primarily confined to one particular social VR platform, AltspaceVR, owned by Microsoft, making most of my experience the product of a niche within a niche within a niche. If you can’t be in a flight simulator, the next best thing would be video. until Google Cardboard showed it didn’t have to be.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

But as Microsoft made very clear when we met, HoloLens is nowhere near a consumer launch yet. ZapBox – a Kickstarter-funded project from UK start-up Zappar – is proposing to leapfrog Microsoft (and everyone else) by making a MR equivalent of Google Cardboard for a hundredth of the HoloLens cost – a mere $30.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 26, 2017

In October 2017, Microsoft officially launched Windows Mixed Reality and a line-up of third party headsets for use with Windows 10, which include Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo, and future products from Asus and Samsung. These immersive headsets are compatible with VR software and applications from Microsoft Store.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Pixvana is startup company focused on developing a cloud-based video-processing at the speed of delivery over the Internet. Its founders claim to be a proven team of industry experts from their former senior roles at Apple, Adobe, Microsoft and Lucasfilm.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Google’s investment for a 7.7% Google-Jio joint venture to develop an Android-based platform for an affordable 5G phone. H266 video standard can pave the way to 8K video streaming. 266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC). Not a great evolution from Microsoft. Read about Google experiments with AR and wearables.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 29, 2019

You can Google “5G” along with any other hot technology in the same query and you can find someone telling you that somehow and at some point 5G is going to revolutionize that thing. When it comes to bandwidth however, 5G could significantly improve 180 and 360 video streaming quality. Image courtesy Microsoft.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

For example, say you’re working on a 360° video. Now, instead of telling one of your collaborators to have the bear enter “about fifteen seconds” into the video, you can tell them to unleash the beast “exactly 65 flicks after the fifteenth second.”

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores. OpenXR will finally be implemented.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

The same day of the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Hewlett-Packard has announced its new virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2 , made in collaboration with Microsoft and Valve. Valve could provide some audio-visual improvements, while Microsoft its WMR platform, with inside-out tracking of controllers. HP announces the Reverb G2.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

I’ve known them for quite a while and they’re more of a distribution platform for VR videos and content. Not only for VR, like 360 video, but also AR, and also other contents too. Teppei: Yeah, YBVR or first the streaming optimization technology for 360 video. So it’s more like AR on a Google map.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

I’ve known them for quite a while and they’re more of a distribution platform for VR videos and content. Not only for VR, like 360 video, but also AR, and also other contents too. Teppei: Yeah, YBVR or first the streaming optimization technology for 360 video. So it’s more like AR on a Google map.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

So things like Uber or Google Maps and directions were native to the phone, that were kind of useless on the PC. So that was a problem that, in the past, could only be solved with expensive depth cameras or Google Street View-style cars, or take a thousand photos and wait a day for it all to be processed.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

So things like Uber or Google Maps and directions were native to the phone, that were kind of useless on the PC. So that was a problem that, in the past, could only be solved with expensive depth cameras or Google Street View-style cars, or take a thousand photos and wait a day for it all to be processed.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

And being immersed in a 360 video, for example, makes a wonderful training tool. I think we’re sometimes overcomplicating things by creating all these really in-depth, computer graphics-heavy things, when you can just simply put a 360 camera on. We have a number of reports available.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

And being immersed in a 360 video, for example, makes a wonderful training tool. I think we’re sometimes overcomplicating things by creating all these really in-depth, computer graphics-heavy things, when you can just simply put a 360 camera on. We have a number of reports available.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

I’ve known them for quite a while and they’re more of a distribution platform for VR videos and content. Not only for VR, like 360 video, but also AR, and also other contents too. Teppei: Yeah, YBVR or first the streaming optimization technology for 360 video. So it’s more like AR on a Google map.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

So things like Uber or Google Maps and directions were native to the phone, that were kind of useless on the PC. So that was a problem that, in the past, could only be solved with expensive depth cameras or Google Street View-style cars, or take a thousand photos and wait a day for it all to be processed.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

And being immersed in a 360 video, for example, makes a wonderful training tool. I think we're sometimes overcomplicating things by creating all these really in-depth, computer graphics-heavy things, when you can just simply put a 360 camera on. Outside of that, we've worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

You know how federal agencies and corporations (Google, Facebook, Amazon, et al) can surveil you with impunity and track your habits? What about if you want to create and edit 360° video in Adobe AfterEffects? Real-time 360° VR headset monitoring while editing? Check out DEEP Inc’s Liquid Cinema. Dashwood Solutions.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

Or even 360 videos, we support that, too. Small companies like Google, and eventually people like Facebook and others, and create this revolution. So is, I think, Microsoft with Hololens. And it’s not only CAD. It’s also if you want MRI device or you have GIS data, BIM data. So it’s– or scan data.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

Or even 360 videos, we support that, too. Small companies like Google, and eventually people like Facebook and others, and create this revolution. So is, I think, Microsoft with Hololens. And it’s not only CAD. It’s also if you want MRI device or you have GIS data, BIM data. So it’s– or scan data.

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