XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 11, 2023

HTC VIVE debuted its VIVE XR Elite at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023 in January for roughly $1,200. Multiple tech giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple , and others have trimmed their expenses due to recession woes and slower-than-expected sales.

Eye Tracking 91

Eye Tracking Software Apple Amazon 91

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is probably going to announce Vive Flow. With a surprise move, HTC Vive has started teasing the launch of a new product. The company has set up a virtual event on the platform ENGAGE (of which HTC is an investor) for October, 14th 2021 at 8 am PDT. Apple Maps are going AR.

HTC 289

HTC AR Oculus Gaming 289

VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

I think this is a good thing, as the gigantic pockets of Apple, Google, Magic Leap, Huawei and such like will help fund the creative endeavours of a whole new content ecosystem.”. Speakers from goliaths like Amazon, Ford, and IKEA will rub shoulders with Vancouver up-and-comers including Motive.io

AR 273

AR Magic Leap Conference North America 273

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

billion from companies listed below like Google and Qualcomm. Google – NASDAQ: GOOG – Cardboard, Google VR, Daydream & Tango, VR cameras, Tilt Brush. HTC – TPE: 2498 – Headset, Content Delivery Platform (non-gaming). Amazon – NASDAQ: AMZN – VR Content & Game Engine. Unconfirmed.

Industry 100

Industry Magic Leap Samsung Google 100

The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

More info Some news about Apple Vision Pro The news and rumors about Vision Pro never end. In these two weeks, we got to discover that Apple is planning to organize demo sessions of Vision Pro inside the Apple Store venues and that in the beginning, the only way to buy a Vision Pro will be going to an Apple Store.

AR 350

AR Apple Unity Ukraine 350

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

After one month from its official announcement, Facebook has released the Oculus Quest 2, that from the 13th of this month can be purchased online on the Oculus Store or on official resellers (like Amazon) or offline on partner stores (like Best Buy). Apple launches iPhone 12, Pro models have Lidar sensor.

AR 310

AR Oculus Apple Gaming 310

Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Apple Vision Pro Specs, Features & Details Apple officially revealed the full Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own. But does it deliver?

Apple 145

Apple Eye Tracking Hand tracking Video 145

The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC is teasing a new headset. HTC is teasing a new piece of hardware again, and this time most probably it will be a VR headset. HTC loves playing with the words, so “get down to business” can be a reference to the fact that it is a “business headset”. Top news of the week. Not much, honestly.

HTC 438

HTC Google Razer Oculus 438

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Facebook and Apple will jumpstart the smartglasses ecosystem.

Augmented Reality 475

Augmented Reality Magic Leap AR Apple 475

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. Is this really what Apple wants? (Thanks Robert Scoble for this news!). base stations and a 20m fiber cable.

Hand tracking 231

Hand tracking AR Oculus HTC 231

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. The rise of enterprise.

Virtual Reality 518

Virtual Reality Trends China HTC 518

ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. ARKit  — ARKit is one of the powerful AR SDK released by Apple on 2017 to build AR solutions using iOS devices. It has applications in training and educational use cases. onto the actual camera view.

Augmented Reality 246

Augmented Reality AR Machine Learning Data 246

The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

Augmented Reality 162

Augmented Reality Google Machine Learning AR 162

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

Apple ARKit 3.5 It is no mystery that Apple is currently the best mobile augmented reality company, and the latest update to ARKit confirms this. I really can’t wait to see the Apple AR glasses…. The game would already work in a street close to Apple’s HQ. Oculus Quest is available again in some countries.

Apple 228

Apple AR Eye Tracking Virtual Reality 228

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google.

San Francisco 100

San Francisco HTC Unity Conference 100

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The HTC Vive Cosmos may release soon for €799. We all know that the Vive Cosmos should release very soon since HTC revealed me that the release date would have been in Q3 2019 and Q3 ends at the end of the month. Internal iOS 13 code seems to point at Apple AR glasses. It’s time for some amazing VR news, isn’t it? Who knows.

AR 188

AR Oculus Virtual Reality Survey 188

VirtualiTeach

APRIL 9, 2019

Last week HTC Vive launched their much-heralded Viveport Infinity subscription service. Imagine if Apple offered schools something like this - all the apps you want from The App Store for a set fee. link] 7/ Amazon Odyssey. VR #Vive #HTC I think it's fair to assume that the upcoming Vive Cosmos will also be supported.

Education 52

Education Amazon Apple HTC 52

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

If you look at someone like Apple, they aren’t about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. It’s frustrating to have companies say, you know, “we tried VR.

Training 78

Training AR Data Augmented Reality 78

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

If you look at someone like Apple, they aren’t about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. It’s frustrating to have companies say, you know, “we tried VR.

Training 78

Training AR Data Augmented Reality 78

XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

We plan to go online with it on Amazon or Netflix and present it like that, and then have it be an additional thing that maybe Netflix or Amazon has on their platform in the Oculus or HTC. And we put this kind of like Apple-esque music over it, and made this cute little commercial and it never saw the light of day.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco San Jose Filming California 60

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

If you look at someone like Apple, they aren't about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. They're much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC. It's frustrating to have companies say, you know, "we tried VR.

Training 60

Training AR Data Augmented Reality 60

VRWorld

APRIL 30, 2017

“ HTC Vive ecosystem expands with eye tracking. The module is called the aGlass and it will be available for “limited pre-order sales” next month, according to HTC. ” Sky is the limit but AR is now here, NASA sightings in Apple. link] 7invensun-eye-tracker-for- vive/. link] a-hire/.

Eye Tracking 40

Eye Tracking Latency Samsung Apple 40

XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

HTC with Vinay [Narayan], who’s always wonderful. Amazon will be there talking about Sumerian, and then a couple other with immersive storytelling and volumetric capture, that will be announced this week too. .” And then we’ve got workshops too. Alan: Oh, tell me about the workshop! That’s important.

AR 78

AR Conference Canada Training 78

XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

HTC with Vinay [Narayan], who’s always wonderful. Amazon will be there talking about Sumerian, and then a couple other with immersive storytelling and volumetric capture, that will be announced this week too. .” And then we’ve got workshops too. Alan: Oh, tell me about the workshop! That’s important.

AR 78

AR Conference Canada Training 78

XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. The one thing that created that image now, in the streets, that I would have expected like XR to do; it’s those air pods from Apple. Seeing that Apple, of course, at one point bought… what was the company again?

Automotive 78

Automotive Magic Leap Course Industry 78

XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

HTC did something with Batman; that Game of Thrones thing; some of the demos that Magic Leap had really. The one thing that created that image now, in the streets, that I would have expected like XR to do; it’s those air pods from Apple. Seeing that Apple, of course, at one point bought… what was the company again?

Automotive 78

Automotive Magic Leap Course Industry 78

XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

HTC with Vinay [Narayan], who’s always wonderful. Amazon will be there talking about Sumerian, and then a couple other with immersive storytelling and volumetric capture, that will be announced this week too. .” And then we’ve got workshops too. Alan: Oh, tell me about the workshop! That’s important.

AR 60

AR Conference Canada Training 60

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 31, 2016

When you think about things like intelligent assistants, we have embedded services like Siri from Apple, Google Home, Amazon Echo with Alexa. Valve and HTC have the Vive. Apple historically has been more closed and done extremely well. That’s the next step for expanding the VR market. Facebook has Oculus.

Trends 135

Trends Las Vegas Hardware Automotive 135

The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

HTC Vive is at the second place; Oculus Quest, even if it is so new, has already gathered a lot of interest from developers; Gaming is still the most popular content developed in XR, but now there is also interest in other kinds of applications , like entertainment (e.g. Apple moves top executive to AR glasses team. That is huge.

Samsung 192

Samsung Survey Oculus AR 192

The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Apple is entering the XR field, and Facebook is currently dominating the VR market. Apple headset may be very lightweight. According to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the upcoming Apple visor should weigh around 3–400g, which is much lighter than current headsets on the market, including the Quest 2.

Survey 295

Survey Apple AR Samsung 295

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. And then there’s Amazon, they have Sumerian. Or in Canada, USDZed.

Technology 78

Technology Education AR Architecture 78

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. And then there’s Amazon, they have Sumerian. Or in Canada, USDZed.

Technology 78

Technology Education AR Architecture 78

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. And so we have something meaningful come from HTC Vive with the Focus, or Focus Plus. As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. And then there's Amazon, they have Sumerian. You have Apple, with ARKit.

Technology 60

Technology Education Architecture AR 60

The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

In the end, it has not been Apple or Facebook, but Snap to make its first move in the AR glasses space. Google unveils Starline communication solution. At Google I/O, Google has announced Project Starline, an interesting project it has worked on for five years. Top news of the week. Image by Snap).

AR 231

AR Google Machine Learning Haptic 231

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

I’ve used Google search to find all the pages with references to Del Mar in the Oculus website, and all the docs are identical to the previous versions. In the meantime, even HTC that was safe until now is having troubles in manufacturing the external tracking faceplate , whose release date will be delayed. Yes, Android, Google.

Oculus 203

Oculus Magic Leap AR Augmented Reality 203

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

This kind of seamless interface is great and it is exactly the same one that HTC already offers with the Vive Focus Plus and Viveport Streaming and that I’ve tried and appreciated. I guess Oculus will aim at something similar, because it is very handy (Image by HTC Vive). Rift line gets discontinued.

Oculus 543

Oculus AR Data Gaming 543

Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In fact, the device sold out at retailers such as Amazon, Walmart and Newegg. HTC Vive Retires. The HTC Vive was phased out in October, replaced by the Vive Cosmos , which was priced at $699. Google Ends the Daydream. VR Therapy. A University of Barcelona study documented the therapeutic effects of virtual body swapping.

Augmented Reality 207

Augmented Reality Magic Leap AR Immersion 207