AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The tech industry’s next bet is a series of technologies usually called augmented reality (AR) or mixed reality. All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Here’s what the biggest companies in tech are doing to try and make augmented reality the next big thing.

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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! This commercial video about Google Glasses led me to immersive realities.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Augmented reality is a technology that allows us to superimpose digital information into the real-world environment. In this article, we will discuss on augmented reality. Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world.

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Cats and VR

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Amazon has basically sent many brick and mortar traditions out to the retirement home. Due to the pushes by Amazon, even ancient traditions like going to the store on Black Friday have gone the way of Denver the Last Dinosaur. Well, Amazon is finally placing its hat into the kooky world of VR and AR with its new development platform.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

According to CBINSIGHTS , tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) have all been acquiring AI startups aggressively in the last decade. According to a report by Zion Market Research , the global augmented and virtual reality market was valued at around US$26.7 Mobile Augmented Reality.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2022

Augmented reality (AR) technology can be an amazing tool for home design. Apps from both Amazon and IKEA let you place virtual furniture in any real-world space with the swipe of a finger. from oculus. You can sign up to be a beta tester today. Is anyone interested in helping me beta test?

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Image courtesy Meta, Amazon Studios. There, we’re sure to hear plenty about the upcoming Quest Pro ( née Project Cambria), which is set to push the ecosystem in a new direction thanks to the headset’s augmented reality capabilities. The Home environment will be free, but only made available for a limited time.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2019

Yesterday I detailed you what is the Oculus Rift S , while today I want to write you a recap about what is the Oculus Quest , the most awaited virtual reality headset of 2019. What Is the Oculus Quest? Oculus Quest is the first standalone 6 DOF virtual reality headset by Oculus. Who is the device for?

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AR Insider

APRIL 17, 2020

Sony Pictures and Trigger — The Mixed Reality Agency® teamed up once again to create a WebAR experience for the feature film. The world’s first WebAR experience to uses voice activation powered by Amazon Lex, just tell the map where you want to go and it will take you there. Race on the moon with ROVR RUN WebVR game. Source: Unbnd.

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Amazon is one of the biggest names in tech, and this doesn’t stop with its status as a storefront. Another way Amazon has made its impact known is through its Amazon Web Services, which serve as a backend for applications worldwide. So when Amazon makes an announcement in this space, everyone pays attention.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Augmented reality for maintenance and repair 4. Top 10 Movies that Got Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Righ © WaveXR, Inc. Billie Eilish performed in VR using the Oculus Venues app on Oculus Quest. What can Vuzix Smart glasses mean for the current Android Developers? So did Imagine Dragon.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Walmart looks to simplify the price checking process with augmented reality. based employee using an Oculus Go through STRIVR ’s VR training program. based employee using an Oculus Go through STRIVR ’s VR training program. Would customers use their AR Scanning option if it was fun and simple to use?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. Oculus plans to introduce in-app purchases to App Lab experiences. Plus, the Netflix app has been in VR since the times of Gear VR/Oculus Go.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

I am also excited because thanks to the organizers of the VRX event, yesterday I have been able to interview Facebook’s Sean Liu and ask him some questions about Oculus and its vision of Virtual Reality. Oculus Link is here. Oculus Go won’t support USB memory sticks. Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Why Facebook and Amazon have joined the race to bring computing to your face. — Facebook and Amazon each discussed computer glasses at launch events this week. — Amazon’s approach is to get a lightweight product out now, while Facebook is promising advanced technology in a few years. by Kif Leswing, CNBC, 9/29/19.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Image by Oculus, from Road To VR). John Carmack leaves Oculus. In a surprise move that no one was expecting, the god of programming John Carmack has decided to leave Oculus. More info (John Carmack leaves Oculus) More info (Carmack stating he’s not satisfied with VR pace) More info (Damo9000’s sarcasm on the news).

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Oculus Quest 2. The Oculus Quest 2 standalone virtual reality headset is the best in all categories given its room-scale VR capability, a large library of games, fast performance, and good resolution, especially for its price point. Buy on Amazon or directly from Oculus. In a Thanksgiving mode this week?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Oculus Go price cut down to $150. Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. More info (Oculus Go price cut) More info (Xiaomi laying off the team dedicated to Go). New troubles for Oculus Rift users.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

This has been the week of the OC6, but, believe it or not, I have been able to find some other interesting news that don’t regard Oculus. Image by Oculus). Oculus bets on Oculus Quest at OC6. Well, the top news of the week is, of course, the Oculus Connect 6. Do you want to read them? Top news of the week.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3. We believe that this is an important step on the road to developing the ultimate augmented reality glasses,” said Zuckerberg in the same video. Let’s call it Facebook’s AR training wheels. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

SEE ALSO Oculus Explains Rift S Design & Manufacturing Partnership with Lenovo. Like last year’s bundle, the system also comes with an external base station, which provides 6DOF tracking for both its Universal Controllers as well as the previously bundled lightsaber controller.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. So I imagine a Quest 2 where you can avoid having a Facebook account, but you can’t use the Oculus Store, or all the most important apps and games , and so you are de facto forced to use it.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2023

I t’s a bit like when you watched a 2D movie in a virtual cinema on your Oculus Go. This reminds me of the good old times when all people at Oculus were wondering why people used GearVR the most for watching movies and not for playing games. 3DOF tracking is not substituting the standard mirroring.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 21, 2020

We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. More importantly, this aligns with the timeframe that followed its 2014 Oculus acquisition. billion for a representative baseline of pre-Oculus spending.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The EarthXR section on Samsung XR debuted this week with 12 free 360 short films which can be viewed in web browsers, on iOS or Android , or immersively through the Samsung XR app on Oculus ( Rift , Quest , Gear VR ), Windows Mixed Reality , and Daydream. The Amazon is burning. Under the Canopy. Guardians of the Forest.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2020

patents done by Fairview Research reveals that Facebook has made a significant surge in its year-over-year ranking for patents granted in 2019, something partly owed to its increased number of patents surrounding augmented reality. Amazon Technologies Inc. An analysis of U.S. The news was first reported by Bloomberg.

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ARVR

APRIL 5, 2021

This traces back to Facebook’s Oculus acquisition in early 2014 that kicked off the current wave of excitement….including That excitement culminated in 2016 after the Oculus acquisition had time to set off a chain reaction of startup activity, tech-giant investment, and VC inflows for the “next computing platform.” ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This means that if you employ 4 for tracking, you can still use two for instance for eye-tracking and one for lips tracking; Be able to finally offer passthrough augmented reality with appropriate resolution and framerate. Oculus products have gone pretty well during the Black Weekend. Adobe acquires Oculus Medium.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 18, 2017

The VR project from Sanzaru Games and Disney’s Marvel is coming to the Oculus Rift exclusively next year and represents one of the biggest name projects ever to come to virtual reality. The Tick: Amazon lists a “virtual reality escape room” as part of its promotion of the live-actions version of The Tick.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This has been the week of the launch of the Oculus Quest 2, and this event has been so big that basically, it will take half of this roundup to describe. Facebook releases the Oculus Quest 2. Even if with the Quest 1 was possible to play Oculus Go games, this support has been abandoned on the Quest 2. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

At the moment, XR Now is compatible with HoloLens 2, Oculus Quest 2, and Android 10 tablets. A test on Oculus Quest 2, where most commercial applications run well at 90Hz would have been more significant; We were in the Bay Area, one of the most advanced technological regions of the world.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

It is not on sale on US HP Store and will be on Amazon US next month. More info (Interview video) More info (UploadVR’s selection of most interesting XR things) More info (John Carmack on augmented reality) More info (John Carmack on LBVR multiplayer SDK). HP has also been good in apologyzing for all this mess.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

There is another reason that will make medium-big studios happy: from now on, there won’t be any revenue share with Epic until $1M of revenues of your game, a limit that raises to $5M if your game is published on Oculus Store. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0. More info (Oculus Link works with Usb 2.0?—?Road port and cable.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But things on the consumers’ side may not be going as well: according to some data scrapped from Amazon, the Quest 2 outsold the Quest 3 by a factor of 3:1 in the last 30 days. This shows that the sales were good among us VR techies… I myself have stopped using the Quest 2 and almost always use the Quest 3 now. THREE TO ONE.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Considering the leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt, the device will probably be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. Mixed Reality use cases This is the app Campfire3D, running on a Meta Quest 3 devkit. Preorders most probably will start on the day of the Connect, so on September, 27th.

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