XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

percent year-on-year, with augmented reality (AR) peaking 94.1 Affected companies include Meta Platforms, Amazon, and the global cryptocurrency community. Multinational XR firms like Lenovo, ByteDance’s Pico Interactive, HTC VIVE, Varjo, and Microsoft are leading the charge for immersive transformations.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Furthermore, the comparison with Microsoft doesn’t hold well: Microsoft was a software company that just didn’t have high standards, so it made products with many bugs. Amazon acquires Umbra. Amazon acquires Umbra. Amazon has just acquired the Finnish company Umbra. More info (Use Google Translate).

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

This year was going to be the year of augmented reality, but by the end of 2018 market analysts were pointing to 2020 or 2021 as the “golden year” of AR. Just three months ago, the company revealed it’s putting 17,000 Oculus Go headsets in Walmart stores for employee training. The company’s direction is unclear.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

VR training goes big with Accenture and Bank of America. This week we had two big news that endorsed the importance of training in virtual reality. The first comes from the major consultancy brand Accenture, which has just announced that it is going to deploy 60,000 Oculus Quest 2 headsets for the training of new employees.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Japanese tech firm Epson has showcased its latest iteration of Moverio augmented reality (AR) smart glasses for industrial use cases, it announced at the Augmented World Expo (AWE) 2022 Europe on Thursday. Epson’s demoed its Moverio BT-45C and BT-45CS devices at the event.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In fact, the device sold out at retailers such as Amazon, Walmart and Newegg. It goes beyond what a physical plaque could do,” says Hope Schroeder, a graduate who was part of Stanford’s augmented reality club, 4 AR/VR that developed the project. Training for Just About Anything. Sony’s Next Move. Valve’s Long Game.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Before leaving you to the news of the week, let me just tell you two things that may interest you: If you missed them, don’t forget to read my predictions about augmented reality and virtual reality in 2022; This Thursday at 5 pm CET AWE Nite Florence comes back! Some updates on Meta products. Learn more. Les Mills BodyCombat.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. We all know that this thought has not aged well, and that Microsoft has failed completely entering the phone market, with billions of loss because of that. Amazon and Tesla could be two outsider of the XR ecosystem instead.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Going forward, we can expect to see it becoming an enabler of even more technologies, including virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), the metaverse , cloud gaming, and even quantum computing. Instead, cloud service providers make it available "as-a-service," running on their own servers and data centers.

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ARVR

MARCH 22, 2022

Google could be the knowledge layer, Facebook could be the social layer, Microsoft the enterprise productivity layer, and Amazon the commerce layer. This is the AR-as-a-feature approach that gives the technology a set of training wheels. These layers will fulfill various functions.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 31, 2023

These include Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest energy supplier, became a top funder for immersive firm PIXO XR to train and upskill workers in the country.

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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

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. KLM is a company at the forefront of B2B usage of VR, having developed many VR solutions for the training of its crew. AR glasses are on the rise.

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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

JUNE 17, 2019

FRL is releasing interesting material for AI training. Facebook Reality Labs , the research center of Facebook, is releasing opensource some tools that it has created to train AI agents in virtual reality. When you have to train an intelligent agent for the real world (e.g. PTC has made some announcements.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Mr. Mike Powell, he is the head of the Microsoft Garage and the author of “Age of Smart Information,” a new book about how artificial intelligence and spatial computing will transform the way we communicate forever. ” And I guess he sent it to me on Amazon. Today’s guest is somebody absolutely spectacular.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Mr. Mike Powell, he is the head of the Microsoft Garage and the author of “Age of Smart Information,” a new book about how artificial intelligence and spatial computing will transform the way we communicate forever. ” And I guess he sent it to me on Amazon. Today’s guest is somebody absolutely spectacular.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification. Learn more.

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EON Reality

JULY 30, 2021

The introduction of the knowledge metaverse could change learning, training and performing as we know it. By bringing the knowledge metaverse to life, EON Reality will merge the physical, virtual, and augmented reality worlds to reshape the way people everywhere experience their realities.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger says that AR training can allow those workers to qualify themselves for all sorts of tasks, and have fun doing it, to boot. He has more than 15 years experience in augmented reality. That’s how we did augmented reality 15, 20 years ago. I’m really excited today. Björn: Exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger says that AR training can allow those workers to qualify themselves for all sorts of tasks, and have fun doing it, to boot. He has more than 15 years experience in augmented reality. That’s how we did augmented reality 15, 20 years ago. Transcript coming shortly]. Björn: Exactly.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg has been talking a lot about augmented reality and investing a lot, too. ” Facebook already has internal plans for the next five years and most of these new plans, and excitement, are about augmented reality. .” Back to the augmented reality devices that Zuckerberg is promising.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic). Its wizarding successor grossed $12M in its first month.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 19, 2020

It allows for sales and marketing teams to easily share augmented reality. We found a lot of challenges around sharing augmented reality online and Simply3D.io I am an architect by training. There's so many options, that you would never be able to create the augmented reality content beforehand.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 19, 2020

It allows for sales and marketing teams to easily share augmented reality. We found a lot of challenges around sharing augmented reality online and Simply3D.io I am an architect by training. There's so many options, that you would never be able to create the augmented reality content beforehand.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Johnson has worked at Microsoft and Qualcomm before, and she is a very respected executive. Yes, it will be hard against Microsoft, which is well poised in the field, but the market is so new and growing that there is the place for more than one single company. Amazon is opening its AR Beauty Salon. I’m here waiting for them.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

Just to make you understand how much money this could mean, my reader Sir Gamedev has sent me a link where one of the previous Xbox executives has revealed that the initial undercost sales of the first Xbox units cost Microsoft between $5B and $7B. was a lot of money?). Some reviews of VR hardware.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

It’s very exciting to meet somebody as passionate as you are about bringing augmented reality to the enterprise. Frustrated with the lack of companies deploying augmented reality at scale. Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!”

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

It’s very exciting to meet somebody as passionate as you are about bringing augmented reality to the enterprise. Frustrated with the lack of companies deploying augmented reality at scale. Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!”

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 19, 2020

It allows for sales and marketing teams to easily share augmented reality. We found a lot of challenges around sharing augmented reality online and Simply3D.io I am an architect by training. There's so many options, that you would never be able to create the augmented reality content beforehand.

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ARVR

MARCH 24, 2021

If Google is the spatial web’s knowledge layer, Facebook could be its social layer , Microsoft the enterprise productivity layer , and Amazon the commerce layer. our ongoing “training wheels” principle. This approach could unlock the AR cloud’s last-mile, where Google and others don’t reach.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? And one of the… I don’t know how many names I should name, but there’s definitely a large company here in KC that uses VR for training employees. Alan: okay.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? And one of the… I don’t know how many names I should name, but there’s definitely a large company here in KC that uses VR for training employees. Alan: okay.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2019

This means that in 2020, AR and VR will still be used mostly in the enterprise sector, and mostly for training and maintenance. More info (Best Black Friday deals) More info (Cyber Monday VR deals) More info (Sales on Oculus Quest games) More info (Other sales on Oculus Quest games) More info (Rift S discounted on Amazon?—?affiliate

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

It's very exciting to meet somebody as passionate as you are about bringing augmented reality to the enterprise. Frustrated with the lack of companies deploying augmented reality at scale. Alan: We've got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, "We want that!". And training is a good example.

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