Robert Scoble

APRIL 6, 2020

What if it is giving us an opportunity to collect the data we need to figure out what houses and buildings aren’t efficient enough and need new roofs, new insulation, new windows, and new pollution-control systems? What if it is showing us a way to live simpler, but happier lives? Including educating, entertaining, and traveling?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2022

To qualify, registrants need to be resident in EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, or Africa). First of all, finally, also PSVR 2 gets passthrough vision, and the possibility of setting your play area from within the headset by drawing the play space with your controllers, like in all other devices. Pico 4 Controllers have been leaked.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Curiscope created Operation Apex under the guidance of South Africa-based research and conservation organization Oceans Research. The creators also say Oculus Rift is slated for release sometime in 2018, and that the game requires Vive controllers to play.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The offline collaboration works in a way similar to version control systems, or like Dropbox , if we make a parallel with document writing. To qualify, registrants need to be residents in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, or Africa). You open the shared project, make some modifications, then save the modifications.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

The facility takes advantage of VR’s ability to immerse students in their education, excite them with interactive experiences they control, and also bring a curriculum to students not able to make it into the facility. For example, an entire facility has been fitted out for AR and VR education in Oklahoma.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

These founders are a well-rounded group of leaders and entrepreneurs with a variety of focuses— from combining brain control interfaces with VR for wellness, to creating the world’s first search engine for immersive content, to using AR to accelerate skill sets and reduce costs in the construction industry. 8 She-EOs in a virtual pool.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

It’s a good read , full of interesting anecdotes, like when it is written that Beat Saber became the testbench for the tracking of the Quest controllers , or that Asgard’s Wrath, in the beginning, was a tower defense game. Learn more (Africa XR Report) Learn more (Form to contribute). Cubism is a great case study for hand tracking UX.

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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. Additionally, we work with companies like Ohana One and Doctors without Borders, where doctors at smaller local hospitals in Africa need to perform operations they aren’t familiar with.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Meta promotes an initiative to support XR in Africa. This is how they described it to me: “In this game, players control a floppy little man, who can only move with both arms, climbing or jumping in an awkward position, to challenge difficult levels. Learn more. Huawei has started experimentation with 6G using satellites. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The game will be optimized for working on the Valve Index and especially on its controllers. The price is $1200 , and together with the glasses, you will receive a computational unit that the glasses must be attached to to work and a 3 DOF controller. The price is 50€ but there will be a 10% discount for who preorders the game.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Privacy: how we can minimize the amount of data that’s used, build technology to enable privacy-protective data uses and give people transparency and control over their data. Safety and integrity: how we can keep people safe online and give them tools to take action or get help if they see something they’re not comfortable with. .”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

I choose Africa and within minutes I am hovering a few hundred feet off the ground of a barren desert. In a second I am miles above the city, and by pointing my Vive controller this way or that and clicking the pad with my thumb, I soar anywhere I choose in the bustling virtual metropolis.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 12, 2019

When Masello and Evan, two homeless black artist/activists, break into an abandoned mansion in an affluent part of Johannesburg, they proclaim their occupation to be an artistic and political act in defiance of inequalities in land ownership in South Africa.

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Robert Scoble

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

They could use these systems to both drive the truck and have a robot figure out where each can is to pick it up (already our garbage trucks only have one person controlling such a robot). I grabbed the steering wheel and took control, also swerving around the bucket. It will soon go way further than that. Doing very advanced braking.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

But you have hands and feet controllers to move in the virtual world, so according to the manufacturers, you have 1.5DOF more (whatever it means). It has feet controllers, haptic feedback for hands, vibrational feedback for the hand, and other cool features that are missing in the most common headsets. Last Call has been released.

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Bernard Marr

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The solution, Deloitte's report suggests, is a "layer of abstraction and automation" that sits above the tangled cloud ecosystem, providing an overview in the form of unified dashboards and control panels – a solution sometimes referred to as "supercloud" or "sky computing."

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Don’t misunderstand me, the headset has also its good sides, like great lenses and amazing controllers. VRChat adds hand-tracking support and now it is possible to use it completely without controllers! The Africa XR Report tells you what is happening in immersive realities in Africa. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

When it comes to public spaces like shops and museums, self-service virtual reality isn’t really a thing yet; first-timers generally need to be told how to put on the headset, how to hold the controllers, and where to stand.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 16, 2022

Tiger is investing in Africa, TechCrunch reports , digging into the hyper-active capital disburser’s 2021 results. The group made five investments in Africa last year out of more than 300. Social giant Meta is rolling out some parental controls for its virtual reality products , which feels late but welcome. Startups and VC.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Furthermore, Vidhance for Remote Assistance provides those using remote viewing devices with direct control over direct video focal points. Currently, nearly 850 million smartphones utilise IMINT’s optical image stabilisation (OIS) software.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2020

At Stereopsia there was the new game Marvel Dimension Of Heroes, with the new two 6DOF controllers , and I thought that I would have spent my whole day playing with this headset. Lenovo Mirage AR headset and controllers. I was so happy to try a Lenovo Mirage AR headset because I’ve never tried it in my whole life. Well, actually, no.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

This collaboration also lets me offer you one special bonus: if you live in the EMEA area (Europe, Middle East, Africa), if you register for the GTC event using my referral code [link] , you can have a chance to win an NVIDIA RTX3080 Ti (worth $1200)! The answer he gave me has been the most complete I have ever had.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher in the South Africa of tomorrow, realizes something is wrong on the network. A high-tech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer program running without human control—a daemon—designed to dismantle society and bring about a new world order.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

I don’t know what to make posters or tchotchkes and things like that, but there are intermediaries of the Springboards of the world, and the Synthesises of the world and private label controlled… their parties that can help create those mixed reality videos, or help them create templates and posters. I had like six you know.”

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

I don’t know what to make posters or tchotchkes and things like that, but there are intermediaries of the Springboards of the world, and the Synthesises of the world and private label controlled… their parties that can help create those mixed reality videos, or help them create templates and posters. I had like six you know.”

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 16, 2019

I don't know what to make posters or tchotchkes and things like that, but there are intermediaries of the Springboards of the world, and the Synthesises of the world and private label controlled. What do you mean you didn't grow up with your own Finch controller? So I love that you bring that up, because the VR part is an anomaly.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 9, 2019

And we wanted to find a way that we could take the Hololens 2, and adapt it for use out in kind of safety controlled environment. And so mixed reality is allowing them to remotely — you could have an office in Toronto — remotely monitoring a mine in South Africa, sitting at their desk but wearing a device.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 9, 2019

And we wanted to find a way that we could take the Hololens 2, and adapt it for use out in kind of safety controlled environment. And so mixed reality is allowing them to remotely — you could have an office in Toronto — remotely monitoring a mine in South Africa, sitting at their desk but wearing a device.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 9, 2019

And we wanted to find a way that we could take the Hololens 2, and adapt it for use out in kind of safety controlled environment. And so mixed reality is allowing them to remotely -- you could have an office in Toronto -- remotely monitoring a mine in South Africa, sitting at their desk but wearing a device.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In my opinion, it is a controlled leak to ruin the launch of Pico 4 , which according to rumors is happening these days… but of course, I could be wrong. Some games may work out of the box, while for others it represents a very good starting point for modders to add in full motion controls , and other features.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Looking to next year, we're going to try to take that more globally into different markets in Europe and places in Asia, Africa. We look at, say, stuff like the Oculus Quest, where you can just have the headset, controllers, the certain amount of space around you.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Looking to next year, we're going to try to take that more globally into different markets in Europe and places in Asia, Africa. We look at, say, stuff like the Oculus Quest, where you can just have the headset, controllers, the certain amount of space around you.

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Robert Scoble

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The AI or software that controls robots was also very expensive and specialized. It will be followed by thousands of services, all controlled by you as long as you are talking to either the Tesla app on your glasses, or the same on one of your older tablets, phones, or computers. How many homes can afford to pay $50,000 for one?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

the USB cable for Oculus Link) and the (rechargeable) batteries for the controllers. Doing business in Italy is very hard now, but there are countries, for instance in Africa, that have not been much affected by the outbreak yet. If you don’t have enough of this stuff, Amazon is your friend.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Kathryn Bigelow: It is not a challenge as much as accepting that you are relinquishing some control over how the end product is consumed in exchange for a deeper connection to the material for the viewer. UploadVR: What are the challenges of giving the viewer freedom to explore, while also telling a story?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And you’ve got these 6DOF controllers. But I do expect to see that the Quest is going to have a lot of applications. That’s the headset that has no tether, no wires. It’s completely wireless and mobile. Alan: It’s really exciting. What’s the price point?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

And you've got these 6DOF controllers. Just in terms of, say, who would have predicted that having a little extra bandwidth, that eventually the cellphone signals that eventually was catalyzed and inspired text messaging through the accessibility needs, that something like text messaging would be able to facilitate micro-economies in Africa.

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