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Open Haptics Ecosystem: unlock a tremendous value for the haptics market

ARVR

Disclaimer I’m opinionated and loud about Haptics. I'm also host of the Haptics Club and board member of Haptics Industry Forum. Summary: A major upside for the haptics market is locked in the impact of haptics on usages, today unknown. Haptics is hard, everyone says that. No, it is not.

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Can AI and AR Be Put Together to Offer a Unique Experience?

ARPost

Most of the big giant companies in the world are investing heavily in the field of AI. According to CBINSIGHTS , tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) have all been acquiring AI startups aggressively in the last decade. Many of the large tech giants are trying to penetrate the booming AR market.

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Walmart Files Patents For Virtual Showroom & VR Headset

VRScout

To say Walmart has been exploring the possibilities of VR and AR technology in their stores would be a considerable understatement. The second patent centers around a VR headset and haptic gloves specifically designed to deliver a virtual shopping experience you could both see and feel.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.07): PSVR 2 will cost $549, HoloLens are probably dead, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The later departure of Alex Kipman seemed to be the final nail in the coffin for the AR glasses, but a new rumor brought a bit of hope: Microsoft seemed to work together with Samsung to design consumer-oriented AR glasses. Apple AR glasses may have been pushed back to 2025–26. Anyway, things have not gone as we all hoped.

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Big XR News from Microsoft, Meta, AWS, Apple

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

In other news, Meta has recently signed an agreement with Immersion Corporation, a technology innovator in haptic technology. Immersion Corporation specializes in creating haptic patents that provide touch-based feedback technology for XR peripherals and applications. a license to our patents for haptic technologies.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.15): Google confirms headset with Samsung, Ultraleap teases a new device, and more!

The Ghost Howls

During the keynote, CEO Sundar Pichai and his collaborators announced interesting features both for AR and VR. The sentence with which they have started the tease is “Big things are in motion here at Ultraleap”, which makes me think about something big that moves… may it be a new device to perform body tracking?

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The XR Week Peek (2022.08.22): Zuck’s selfie gets viral, Meta accounts are arriving, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The Chorus headphones for Quest 2 are currently available for pre-order from Amazon and Logitech for $100 with a release date planned for September 2nd. Genee AR solutions now available for free. This means that you can use the Genee SDK to build a webpage that shows full-body AR effects of your users. Upload VR).

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