XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Let’s talk about how you guys are using VR and 360 video to make better training. Lorne: Yeah, that’s that’s one of our bigger use cases with Toyota, where we’re training about 10,000 employees currently using 360 video, in immersive training scenarios in VR. So let’s dive in there.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Parallel with new, more powerful and higher resolution VR headsets, improvements to NextVR’s technology are bringing promising new levels of quality and volumetric capability to VR video content. Attitudes toward 360 video content among high-end VR users are generally quite bad. Live Volumetric Video.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Let's talk about how you guys are using VR and 360 video to make better training. Lorne: Yeah, that's that's one of our bigger use cases with Toyota, where we're training about 10,000 employees currently using 360 video, in immersive training scenarios in VR. So let's dive in there. They're also testing retention rates.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Let’s talk about how you guys are using VR and 360 video to make better training. Lorne: Yeah, that’s that’s one of our bigger use cases with Toyota, where we’re training about 10,000 employees currently using 360 video, in immersive training scenarios in VR. So let’s dive in there.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 22, 2020

To better understand how social and emotional learning (SEL) is aided by XR technology and how a VR headset company can provide that assistance, ARPost held video interviews with Kinful co-founder Sam Williamson and Pico Interactive Sales and Partnerships Director Will Winston. Where Pico Comes In.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Let’s take a virtual tour with a minimum number of 10 photos (360 photos), 3 videos (360 videos), and 10 hotspots (interactions) to be put only in the videos (therefore 30 total interactions). Hardware and number of people in the crew to be selected based on points 1 and 2.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 8, 2018

Positional tracking is the dream for immersive video content, but it is a complex hardware and software challenge. While the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive surprisingly still lack support, the company has further plans to support new hardware this year, “including affordable and powerful all-in-one mobile headsets.”.

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VRWorld

MAY 8, 2017

Have you ever wanted to have 360 videos on the palm of your hand? Have you wanted to wanted to watch anything from game-plays, TV Shows, documentaries and even some other random videos? With DesignWorks, Littlstar streams video from major brands like Sony Music, The Economist, CNN and Showtime.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The rendering of the rooms themselves changes based on your hardware in a system that Baker calls “the responsive fidelity system.”. “We We detect what hardware you’re on and if we think your hardware can handle it, we throw you a higher quality environment,” Baker explained in an in-app interview last month.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Apple may not hold the majority of the PC market, but among certain sectors its hardware and software are nearly industry standards. Apple is positioning the new iMac Pro—available this Thursday starting at a cool $5,000—as an ideal machine for VR content creators (both 360 video and real-time).

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2020

AR has been on the horizon for quite some time but only now has become accessible to the masses with the Spark AR platform which exists within Instagram so it doesn’t require any additional hardware or software,” they answered in a statement. Once you reach the summit, you can take selfies or record videos to share on your IG stories.

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2017

Adding to the flexibility of the MOZA interchangeable gimbal system, the unit works with all lightweight 360-degree cameras with minimal obstruction to the field of view. Video stability is a major culprit, and 360 cameras exacerbate the problem of handheld capture severely.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 28, 2017

Virtual reality cameras have been hot hardware in the industry this past month and now Adobe is bringing innovative new software to the table as well. Earlier this week, Variety reported that Adobe’s head of Research Gavin Miller is claiming a new process for 360 video post-processing.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2019

I have had only a limited time with them inside which I have only watched 360 videos and so I haven’t even been able to use the controllers… but I think that my time with them was enough to give you my first impressions. Regarding hardware IPD setting, it lacks as well. I’ve tried it to watch an 8K video (Mr.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

During all these months, I had the occasion of reading on Linkedin about all his cool prototypes and enterprise solutions that he and his colleagues have developed inside the company, ranging from 360 videos to hand-tracked training solutions with the Quest, not to mention XR entertainment solutions for airplane passengers.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

PlayStation looks to an arcade rollout, Shazam goes augmented, AMD wants to go wireless, HTC Viveport’s new subscription service, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: IT’S NOW WAY EASIER TO COMBINE 360 VIDEO AND ANIMATION. NETFLIX LOOKS TO GET AUGMENTED.

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VRScout

JANUARY 4, 2020

Like any fledgling hardware, however, the device is not without its faults, the most vocal being a heavy front-end that can cause additional stress to a user’s neck during extended play sessions. Still, I could definitely see myself using the counterweight while watching movies or less-intense 360 videos. .

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ARVR

JUNE 27, 2022

We’re getting better on hardware and high quality content, but how do we actually distribute the fabulous 360 degrees pieces? You can also film 360 degrees movies by yourself using any of the amateur spherical cameras. Hardware ?—?you Entirely asynchronic playback, some couldn’t event launch the video.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The 60Hz mode is only allowed for 360 degree videos, not apps & games. Any app that plays 60 fps video should consider 120 fps display — it avoids the flicker of 60 fps display, and makes imperfect release tempo less harsh. The refresh rate of Quest 2 is set per-app by the developer.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2022

After the review of the Huawei VR glasses we did together, this time I interviewed him and FXG’s CTO Wilson Li about the incredible work they’re doing with VR videos in China. FXG has released a professional 180 VR camera able to record 12K (6K per eye) videos and is collaborating with Pico in the realization of VR concerts.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 8, 2017

As announced at the GPU conference today, Nvidia is releasing new software development kits (SDKs) for VRWorks that will help to enhance VR experiences running on the company’s hardware. Next up is real time stitching for the VRWorks 360 Video SDK, which is being released in public beta today.

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ARVR

JULY 1, 2020

Photo by My name is Yanick on Unsplash It is a common misconception is that you need specialised equipment and expensive hardware to use AR. While such cutting edge hardware exists, the device you need to dive into the world of augmented reality is likely already in your pockets?—?your Check out the video below.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2019

The new Insta360 Evo camera, that is able to shoot 360 monoscopic videos or 180 3D videos, will be able to stream live content directly to the Vive Focus. Vive 6DOF videos. The Vive Video platform will start offering a “6DOF Lite” mode for videos. This is amazing and I want to try it.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 26, 2018

It is assumed that the cost of hardware and the complexity of production are the obstructions for the massive adoption of virtual reality. Virtual reality is an underestimated field that could bring changes to medical therapy, professional training, and life experiences for both consumers and business beyond videos and games.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2016

360 videos are hot commodities right now. Everyone from Facebook to YouTube to Snapchat is tripping over themselves to integrate spherical video into their platform. There’s a boom happening in demand for 360 content and the hardware to make it happen, but what about the techniques? See you in class!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

XCOM Labs has worked on all the layers of this solution: the network architecture, the hardware, and the streaming protocols. There was a grid of like 16 of them on the ceiling to create the network for the headsets. I hope you have enjoyed all these articles of mine about AWE!

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Upload VR

JANUARY 15, 2024

In 2016 it released a compact smartphone-tethered headset for viewing 360° videos, to terrible reviews, and in 2017 it showed off a PC-tethered SteamVR headset prototype that it never shipped. LG had a very short history in VR. So what exactly will this new headset be?

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ARPost

MARCH 3, 2022

A lot of people don’t understand the difference between 360-degree video and virtual reality – and in some cases, the difference can be pretty subtle. It would be handy if hardware provided a line in the sand, but this isn’t the case – both kinds of experiences can be viewed in either VR headsets or flat displays.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2017

Google’s newly announced Seurat rendering tech purportedly makes use of ‘surface light-fields’ to turn high-quality CGI film assets into detailed virtual environments that can run on mobile VR hardware. You can see a teaser video heading this article. Star Wars Seurat Preview.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 19, 2017

This is however independent from the fact that Facebook’s desktop/mobile app is hardware agnostic, making it an interesting, but altogether understandable move by the social network giant in effort to gain more users (and more user data) so they can further refine their social VR platform.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2017

Designed in partnership with Oculus, the Gear VR hardware platform delivered the first high-quality mobile VR solution back in November 2015 (beating the consumer version of the Oculus Rift to market) and has only recently received notable competition in the form of Google’s Daydream platform.

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Peter Graham

JULY 25, 2019

When Amazon features on VRFocus it’s usually because of another retail promotion offering some hefty virtual reality (VR) hardware discounts. This week, however, Amazon takes another step into the VR realm by launching its Prime Video service to mobile headsets Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Quest.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Google CEO Sandar Pichai also announced the first Daydream-ready phone designed called Pixel, which also has native hardware support for their artificial intelligent Google Assistant technology. On October 4th, Google revealed Daydream View, which is their reference design for their mobile VR headset.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

Today at I/O 2017 Google introduced Seurat, a new rendering technology that’s designed to take ultra high-quality CGI assets that couldn’t be run in real-time even on the highest performance desktop hardware, and format them in a way that retains their visual fidelity while allowing them to run on mobile VR hardware.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2024

Learner onboarding is still an issue because there exists a knowledge gap for individuals who do not understand how to use a headset, which is an intimidating factor for many current XR hardware adopters. In time, mentors can roll out increasingly sophisticated MR experiences, software, and hardware to assist with scaling and user onboarding.

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VRScout

JUNE 21, 2017

It’s interesting to note that although Nintendo did not directly develop this virtual version of the 2005 arcade classic Mario Kart GP , it is an official remake and has Nintendo’s blessing… but the experience will be using the HTC Vive and not Nintendo hardware (will the Nintendo Switch soon be the first VR-compatible hardware from Nintendo???).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 24, 2017

The new unit is being positioned as an affordable, portable, easy to use system that will allow creators to make high quality 360 videos more easily. In addition to the hardware, the Halo will also be able to take advantage of Google’s cloud stitching technology. The entire rig weighs less than eight pounds.

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