XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Meta Platforms has announced plans to launch its new, more consumer-focused Quest 3 device later in the year, featuring its Meta Reality platform. News reports revealed that the Meta Reality platform will shift virtual reality headsets to augmented reality seamlessly.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2. In the end, the rumors were correct and HTC launched two headsets at VIVECON: the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. But this device got also some criticism: first of all , HTC has not released new controllers and still sells it with the old Wands.

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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.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

Eye tracking is, in my opinion, a technology that will disrupt completely the VR ecosystem , exactly as room-scale did with the first HTC Vive. It uses eye tracking in various fields and has released a product for Virtual Reality called aGlass. FOV: >110° (adapted to HTC Vive). 7Invensun logo (Image by 7Invensun).

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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.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! Facebook and Apple will jumpstart the smartglasses ecosystem. 2021 is going to be an interesting year for AR.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Going into 2019, the industry eagerly awaits HoloLens 2 and Glass Enterprise Edition 2, as rumors swirl around the possibility of AR glasses from Apple and/or Facebook in the near future. The pilot, which used an iPad and HTC Vive powered by Marxent’s 3D Cloud Service, showed that VR increases average order value by 60%.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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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. 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.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2024

In my article about the craziest XR devices out there , I mentioned Ekto VR , the shoes that let you walk in real life to walk in virtual reality. From a vision level, we’re fulfilling the sci-fi promise of virtual reality, but so many of us in this space are doing very similar things. Tony: Yes, that will be cool.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

BUT today is the day of the WWDC, and who knows if Apple will tease something about AR glasses. A decent budget for Microsoft and Facebook… but something impossible for companies like HTC or Magic Leap (do you remember when we all thought that $2.5B More info (HTC Vive Pro 2 review) More info (HTC Vive Pro 2 review?—?cached

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Is Apple partnering with Valve on AR? A report by DigiTimes claims that Apple is partnering with Valve for the production of its AR glasses. The news would be incredible: Apple is a company that knows how to create something usable and cool to see, while Valve has a long expertise in experimenting with AR and VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Oculus and HTC had been holding details surrounding Rift and Vive launch windows close to the chest, probably because they had delays to announce and need to nail down new plans. First, HTC delays the Vive until April 2016, with plans to show an updated developer kit at CES in January. In December, these plans become known.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Amazon has announced some weeks ago “Wavelength”, a new offering of its AWS services, that should provide “single-digit latency” over 5G networks. Secret Oops is a nice AR game for Apple Arcade (and it is made by Mixed Bag, a studio from my city!) Better Adoption = Better ROI.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

This year we had the launch of two amazing 6 DOF all-in-one Virtual Reality headsets : the Oculus Quest and the HTC Vive Focus Plus. USB should have OTG enabled; Battery : 3 hours nominal duration; Vive Focus Plus and controllers (Image by HTC). The official boxes of the Oculus Quest (above) and Vive Focus Plus (below).

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. 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. .”

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. 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. .”

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple announces the release date of the Apple Vision Pro During the last few days, the rumors about possible release dates for the Apple Vision Pro have intensified , and someone talked about January, 27 as the day of the launch. The headset will be available for purchase in the U.S.,

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But then there’s the Virtual Reality, Toronto; VRTO: That one is a small but very powerful group. 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. .”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Curran also thinks augmented reality and virtual reality will be hot, and that companies that wrap everything up in effective services will win consumers’ hearts. When you think about things like intelligent assistants, we have embedded services like Siri from Apple, Google Home, Amazon Echo with Alexa.

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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. I think the more specialized the training is, the better fit it is for PC.

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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. I think the more specialized the training is, the better fit it is for PC.

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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. I got in VR, I operated the machine, I drove it around, I killed some virtual people.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

No grey zones like HTC did in the past. Apple headset will not be focused on gaming. A new report seems to suggest that the upcoming Apple headset won’t be focused on gaming at all. For sure mixed reality should be big with this headset because this device is being released in preparation for the future Apple AR glasses.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The fact that the studio behind such a popular game has decided to have a VR port is the sign that Virtual Reality has started to become interesting for famous indie studios. And the fact that there will be a VR version of this important game will give virtual reality even more awareness and popularity inside the gaming community.

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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. And I expect that– Gartner doesn’t even put virtual reality in its emerging technology, because it doesn’t really consider it to be emerging anymore. It emerged.

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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. And I expect that– Gartner doesn’t even put virtual reality in its emerging technology, because it doesn’t really consider it to be emerging anymore. It emerged.

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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. And I expect that-- Gartner doesn't even put virtual reality in its emerging technology, because it doesn't really consider it to be emerging anymore. You have Apple, with ARKit.

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The Apple is a Chinese, Japanese and Korean co-production which won Best Multi-Person Experience award at Raindance Click To Tweet. The Apple is a Chinese, Japanese and Korean co-production which won Best Multi-Person Experience award at Raindance. This is a room-scale (50m2) multi-person VR experience for up to 4 people.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

As always in January I like to play the speculation game and make my personal predictions for augmented and virtual reality for the new year (2022, in this case). It will also be a defensive move against Apple. Apple could announce its headset. Apple could announce its headset.

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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. Quest 2 recalled from Amazon EU for skin irritation issue. Facebook is working with Amazon to solve all the bureaucratic stuff and we hope that sales can start again soon. HTC had $210 million as the total revenue for 2020.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

It’s, “my current reality doesn’t serve my need to go do something. I need to be in this augmented or this virtual reality. And I think nobody really knows what Apple is working on. You can virtually design and test and put into practice some of these methods utilizing XR today. ” Right?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

It’s, “my current reality doesn’t serve my need to go do something. I need to be in this augmented or this virtual reality. And I think nobody really knows what Apple is working on. You can virtually design and test and put into practice some of these methods utilizing XR today. ” Right?

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