Road to VR

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Meta is getting ready to roll out Quest’s v46 update ahead of its Connect 2022 developer conference next week, bringing to the platform a modest set of new features alongside a new Home environment inspired by The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Image courtesy Meta, Amazon Studios.

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MARCH 16, 2019

Referencing emails sent to Oculus developers by Facebook, it’s been suggested that the Rift S will make an official appearance at this year’s Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, alongside the Oculus Go and upcoming Oculus Quest headsets. Oculus Quest / Image Credit: Oculus. Oculus Rift / Image Credit: Oculus.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It was for America, but it’s the Augmented World Expo – there are three live AWE conferences throughout the year. See Also: Get Ready for This Year’s AR/VR Policy Conference. If you need a primer for this discussion, consider following the AR/VR Policy Conference next week where both O’Hara and Mohammadali are speakers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

AWS is present at the Mobile World Congress (WDC) 2024 conference in Barcelona, Spain, this week, showing a new product just as the leading enterprise solutions provider moves towards providing a robust spatial computing ecosystem.

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2021

Today during the company’s GTC 2021 developer conference, Nvidia announced that its CloudXR tech is now available on Amazon Web Services, and it’s coming soon to both Microsoft’s Azure cloud and Google Cloud.

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VRScout

APRIL 30, 2019

During Facebook’s annual F8 developer conference earlier this morning, Zuckerburg himself took to the stage to outline the companies commitment to user privacy and company ethics, teasing a variety of features and programs designed to create a more secure ecosystem of applications and products. Image Credit: Facebook.

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VRWorld

APRIL 4, 2017

With the conference being over a month away, NVIDIA sent out a press release announcing the conference. The conference starts on Monday, May 8th, and lasts until Thursday, May 11th. This year, NVIDIA reshuffled the conference format in a bid to ensure continuous coverage of the conference.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

With that backdrop, the Games Developer Conference (GDC) is returning to San Francisco in March, including lots of AR & VR focus. You can see more about the conference here , and more details from the conference organizers below. There will be lots of networking and knowledge to gain.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

VRX 2017, one of world’s premier conferences on the subject of business and technology needed for Virtual Reality, announced the first speakers for a two day event. The conference takes place on December 7th and 8th in San Francisco Marriott Marquis. Dan Ferguson, Co-Founder / EVP Digital Interactive Strategy, Groove Jones.

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AR Insider

MAY 31, 2021

The lower-cost locomotion option, Cybershoes , is now on Amazon for $349. The Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference begins June 7th. This is its second year virtual following a surprisingly strong online conference last spring, which had 14,000 attendees. The player is held in place by a rigid harness.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Last Saturday, during the 2022 World Conference on the VR Industry in Nanchang, Jiangxi, leading telecommunications product manufacturer Huawei Technologies announced Smart Vision Glass, a virtual reality (VR)-lite device designed for streaming media. The iPhone dongle sold out within 24 hours when it debuted on Amazon in an exclusive deal.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

What’s more, as the technical landscape continues to evolve, developers and designers are discovering new ways to introduce users to the benefits AR has to offer. For companies looking to learn more about the opportunities offered by AR, events and conferences can be an excellent way to stay up to date.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

One of the largest industry events in North America, the Vancouver-based conference will spotlight how tech giants and startups are creating new ways to visualize and interact with virtual worlds. Speakers from goliaths like Amazon, Ford, and IKEA will rub shoulders with Vancouver up-and-comers including Motive.io

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VRScout

JUNE 12, 2017

When it comes to major video game events there’s few conferences more impactful or influential than the iconic ‘Electronic Entertainment Expo,’ aka E3. The conference has been a cornerstone for the gaming community serving as one of the most effective platforms for marketing an upcoming product or experience. Are you drooling yet?

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

That October 10 shipping date was previously spotted in a pulled Amazon Canada listing in August. As it did with Quest 2 and Quest Pro in previous years, Meta is expected to open preorders for Quest 3 at its annual Connect conference on Wednesday , as well as revealing more specifications and details of the new features.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2017

Revealed today during Sony’s E3 conference, the company showed the full physicality of the game in a trailer with the watermark “PlayStation VR Game” to prove it. Skyrim will be available for pre-order soon from Amazon, Best Buy, and Target. It’s official. No pricing information is available at this time.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2018

Facebook’s annual developer conference F8 starts today. Multiple sources have purportedly confirmed that launch would come at F8, and while along with Amazon and Best Buy stocking up , the image tickles the underlying suspicion that we may indeed see Oculus Go coming soon. image courtesy Marco Antonio Liu.

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ARVR

JUNE 22, 2022

Chatbots, AI & VOICE Conference 2022 (chatbotconference.com) Finding its Place Back to AR’s broader lifecycle , one key lesson of the past few years is that the technology isn’t a silver bullet. That gets back to Amazon and how it has slow-walked AR efforts. So expect to see more AR from players like Amazon.

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AR Insider

JUNE 29, 2020

Though this AR advantage is oft-cited, data points to validate it are spread out among case studies, pitch decks and conference presentations. And for companies like Amazon that operate on extremely thin margins, returns can cause quite a bottom-line blow. Why is this important? Returns are a $550 billion problem in the aggregate.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

In the XR landscape, conferences and expos offer a hands-on opportunity for business buyers to test out the latest technology, and gather some useful insights from innovators in MR, AR, and VR. Conference sessions are planned to cover everything from user experience, to programming, design, and team management.

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VRScout

MAY 23, 2018

Now, with a new a dawn in parcel transportation just beyond the horizon (see Amazon Prime Air ), engineers and developers have begun doubling-down on their efforts to develop more efficient autonomous quadcopters. It’s something we programmed it to do in the virtual environment, by making mistakes, falling apart, and learning.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Facebook’s annual two-day developer conference dedicated to all things Oculus brought its A-game this year delighting users with a series of surprise bombshells, as well as updates on several highly-anticipated updates and experiences. Media apps such as Amazon Prime VR and Fandango’s new VR streaming service, FandangoNow.

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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. A first step for Amazon.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Amazon wants AR for product visualization, pursuant to boosting e-commerce sales and reducing returns. Amazon will be the commerce layer, Microsoft the productivity layer and Facebook, the social/identity layer. Abrash has said at past OC conferences that AR and VR share technological underpinnings. The Social Layer.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 26, 2016

GameStop held its 2016 second quarter fiscal year conference call this week, and Sony’s forthcoming PlayStation VR, due for launch on October 13, featured quite prominently it seems. This aligns with our own observations of stock availability at the web’s biggest retailer, Amazon, during the same pre-order period.

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VRScout

JULY 3, 2019

During the 2018 conference, Amazon Studios set up a VR obstacle course in support of their new Jack Ryan original series, offering attendees the chance to zip line and repel from a helicopter while in VR. Don the cowl and glide through Gotham City in pursuit of a dastardly villain.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 4, 2017

Innovation across industries is being inspired by emerging AR and VR software and hardware, a fact that was made clear today during the ASUS press conference at CES 2017. Other brands like Alibaba and Amazon are already making moves towards VR shopping experiences. Tagged with: ar , asus , Gap , google , shopping.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

First revealed by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in June , Meta revealed more Quest 3 details during today's opening keynote at its annual Connect conference and announced that pre-orders for the headset are now live. It will also be available via Amazon and through select retailers in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Japan and France.

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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Meanwhile, some of Arm's other big customers are notably absent from the cornerstone investor group, including Qualcomm and Amazon. Overall, the cornerstone investors represent a mix of fabless chip designers and tool vendors, as well as all three of the world's leading fabs themselves.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

During a Photokina press conference on Monday, Nikon finally shared more details, announcing that the KeyMission will come with two 20-megapixel (1/2.3-inch) You can pre-order on Amazon right now (10/26/16 release date). inch) sensors, electronic image stabilization, in-camera footage stitching and a swappable battery.

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VRScout

MAY 4, 2018

During Facebook’s recent F8 developers conference, Mark Zuckerberg announced that everyone in attendance would be walking home with a brand new Oculus Go – the company’s brand new standalone VR headset. Facebook’s Oculus Go is a great device made even better by easy access to your personal files.

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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). Caregility Joins Informa’s Arab Health Conference 2023 The news comes as the Eatontown, New Jersey-based company expands its operations across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

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Charlie Fink

JUNE 7, 2019

The conference and expo saw nearly 7,000 attendees, a 30% increase over 2018. Ori Inbar, co-founder of AWE and managing partner of Super Ventures, an AR-focused venture capital firm, took the stage to set the tone for his 10th conference. The 10th annual Augmented World Expo ( AWE ) wrapped on Friday, May 31st.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 10, 2022

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, better known as WWDC , is in full swing. But the major announcements were already revealed during the keynote presentation earlier this week. Read more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2023

Apple’s mixed reality (MR) headset is set to delay again amid its upcoming Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) from 5 to 9 June, a series of tweets has found this week. Citing a person familiar with the matter, Business Insider reported a company video conference stating Apple planned to reshuffle its retail stores to cut costs.

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ARVR

MAY 11, 2022

This is what we call geo-local AR, and it’s all about AR experiences that are anchored to physical places in ways that confer meaning and relevance. Long Tail And the list goes on…Amazon is making a few subtle but notable geo-local AR moves, while Microsoft Mesh is an enterprise version of much of the above.

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Road to VR

JUNE 13, 2016

At Sony’s E3 2016 press conference the company gave the final U.S. Online retailers like Amazon and Best Buy have been taking spurious pre-orders based on stock, but at the time of writing both outlets are listed as sold out of the of headset. Sony has announced the U.S.

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