Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 15, 2018

Can immersive technologies help struggling bricks-and-mortar retailers to create new shopping experiences and gain an edge against the likes of Amazon? Japan, Florida or Scotland, are all only a few clicks away. The past decades have seen a dramatic decline in traditional retail spaces as more people shift towards online shopping.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. Some news on content. More info (Vertigo Remastered) More info (Mega Man VR).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This week we had tons of news about new upcoming augmented reality glasses and smartglasses: Oppo has revealed the second iteration of its augmented reality glasses. They are most popular in the Far East of the world (Japan, China, Korea), but are becoming increasingly important also here in the West.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Once computers understand space, we can use these informed computers to edit our real world by placing digital objects and information in it and view this all through a transparent digital screen like smart glasses or even our smartphone: this is Augmented Reality or AR. Augmented Reality ads are not new. Source: Ikea.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

But the partnership seems pretty weird : the two companies have very different visions of the world, and it is not clear how they could partner in that, also because they both have their own store (Apple Store and Steam) that for sure they want to take to augmented reality. Great times ahead for augmented reality!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The first one comes from Japan (of course), and it is the prototype of a “lickable TV” (that you can see in the header image of this post): basically, the system prepares at exact timings a flavor mixing various liquids and then lets it slip on a screen, onto which is installed a special film. a $100 Amazon Card). Some XR fun.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

But we’d also expect to see the existing edge providers such as Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, the big cloud providers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and a host of open-source tools for automation, deployment, caching, federated learning, serverless computing and so on.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Cameron Ayres, the director of innovation at Sector 5 Digital, a digital agency specializing in augmented reality and virtual reality applications for the enterprise. That's where virtual reality, and augmented reality, and a lot of other different media come into play.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

The stocks of the headset are becoming empty on its main stores (Oculus website, Lenovo online store, Amazon US, etc…) and Facebook has stated that “it won’t replenish them”. In the West, we have Alexa, in Japan there are life-sized Waifus that can assist you Funny link. Learn more. Some XR fun. The choice Zuck has given us Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

First of all, it revealed that, according to analyst firm IDC, XREAL owns 51% of the augmented reality market. Probably the upcoming release of the Apple Vision Pro is already reinvigorating the whole augmented reality market. There is one datum that impressed me in the analysis: VR is still very concentrated in the US.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In addition to Netflix, HBO, and YouTube, Daydream also has the Hulu VR and Google Play Movies & TV apps – making Google Daydream’s video content quite impressive (as a sidenote, when is Amazon going to release a VR viewing app to stream their flat content???). AUGMENTED REALITY APP TURNS THE $1 BILL INTO WHITE HOUSE TOUR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These are the five pillars or Reality Engine (copy-pasted from its website): Reality Application Runtime ?—?8th 8th Wall’s award-winning augmented reality application framework has been rebuilt to respond to every device type. Spatialized UI ?—?Automatic The price for this device is $1000.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This comes in a moment where all the IT behemoths (Google, Amazon, Facebook) are under the scrutiny of the US government , and some rumors say that Facebook could be sued by 40 states in the US for all the shady practices of the latest times (regarding VR and not). AR Mario Kart rollercoasters are coming to Japan.

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