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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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

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. Microsoft (enterprise) 4.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Amazon wants AR for product visualization, pursuant to boosting e-commerce sales and reducing returns. Microsoft wants to double down on a longstanding position in enterprise productivity, and Facebook wants AR (and VR primarily) to boost social engagement and ad revenue. For Apple, AR’s job is to sell more hardware.

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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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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. Like Google and Microsoft, who have not developed XR devices for consumer markets, there will be less hardware to integrate into a future metaverse.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 20, 2023

The news comes just days after Microsoft and Amazon announced cutbacks of roughly 10,000 employees. The news comes after numerous firms, including Microsoft, Apple, Meta Platforms, Snap, Alphabet, and many others, have faced similar layoffs due to the looming economic recession.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

New leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt have revealed that probably the headset will be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. The project is carried on by Microsoft which was given the monster contract of $22B to create this device by modifying its HoloLens glasses. A Roblox developer will be valued at $1 [billion] I think the n.1

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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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AR Insider

MARCH 8, 2021

This week, we look at takeaways from Microsoft Ignite, Space X, Pokemon Go and VR training from Bank of America. The company is going all in on Mixed Reality, to paraphrase its chief executive Satya Nadella, who used Microsoft’s AltspaceVR platform for his keynote. W elcome back to Spatial Beats.

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The AR Show

JULY 30, 2019

Mike is a frequent speaker at industry conferences [such as Augmented World Expo, VRLA, and ad:tech. And we discuss Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Snap, trying to guess where they might be going based on their motivations and past behavior. And he has been a tech industry analyst at top-tier research firms since 2005.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Produced by the VR/AR Association , the Immerse Global Summit is one of the world’s most exciting technology conference series. Hosting virtual and in-person conferences across the United States and Europe, the event encapsulates the VR/AR Association’s quest to facilitate innovation in the immersive technology space.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 19, 2023

Apple’s upcoming MR headset is expected to be a high-end device that will compete with headsets from Meta and Microsoft. In addition, Amazon Germany listings display an “Xreal Air Adapter,” which could be a successor to Nreal’s Apple Adapter—the Apple Adapter sold out in 24 hours when it was released last year.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

(Image by Microsoft). According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. It is not on sale on US HP Store and will be on Amazon US next month.

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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. Thanks Gianluigi Perrone for the tip!). Don’t miss them!

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Read on for a recap of the major developments that took place in 2018: Enterprises that made the news for using wearables: In 2018, major retailers got more serious about XR in hopes of competing with Amazon and improving the shopping experience. More details, including agenda and early confirmed speakers, to come on the conference website.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2024

The industry is booming thanks to a broader range of companies taking charge and experimenting in the space, such as Disney, Amazon, Google, Samsung, LG, and countless others, meanwhile bringing support for enterprise, consumer, and other use cases. Latta also explained that “ the whole conference and event space is radically changing.”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 5, 2017

based Epic Games, this week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”. Overall, Riccitiello said he likes market competition, including Amazon and Cocos2d. And so when you ask which one of them has a bigger or a better business, you get some very different answers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The Game Developers Conference , a big event where there have been in the past many announcements about VR, has been canceled after all the major brands withdrew from it , leaving the organizers with no choice. Image by Microsoft). More info (News on Road To VR) More info (News on Upload VR). News worth a mention. More info Buy it now!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Thanks to a flash sale, that put it at the ridiculous price of $150, the Go has sold more than all other devices, and has even been #3 most sold device on all Amazon videogames category. More info (Oculus Go being best-seller on Amazon) More info (Oculus Quest sold out) More info (Oculus Quest vs PSVR Google search stats).

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Robert Scoble

MAY 20, 2019

It makes its own hardware so its customers can “dive through” massive amounts of data much easier than trying to see the same data in older tools like Microsoft Excel, or charts. The kind of data businesses are generating now just requires new approaches. Think about dwell times in retail stores.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

We may still be in the early days of this New Reality Renaissance, but you’d never guess it walking around VRTO (Virtual and Augmented Reality Toronto World Conference & Expo). So to kick off the conference, the Torontonian delivered a keynote explaining his ideas and presenting this code. This was no accident. The FIVARS pavilion.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

From the very start, explanation for the Vive price was that the package enables “room scale VR,” with the included tracking solution (Lighthouse) and a pair of motion controllers, while the Oculus Rift only comes with a Microsoft Xbox controller. The word started breaking about two weeks ago in Europe.

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VRWorld

MAY 10, 2017

In addition to instructor-led workshops, developers have on-demand access to training on the latest deep learning technology using NVIDIA software and high-performance Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 P2 GPU instances in the cloud. More than 10,000 developers have already been trained by NVIDIA using AWS on the applied use of deep learning.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

And it’s just incredible because it feels like a small conference, even though it’s not small, it feels like a small conference because everybody there is super passionate. There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire. Alan: That’s full conference pass?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

And it’s just incredible because it feels like a small conference, even though it’s not small, it feels like a small conference because everybody there is super passionate. There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire. Alan: That’s full conference pass?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

And it’s just incredible because it feels like a small conference, even though it’s not small, it feels like a small conference because everybody there is super passionate. There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire. Alan: That’s full conference pass?

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg talks about the future of VR and AR at Facebook’s recent Oculus Connect conference. It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. The tech industry is gearing up for a new paradigm shift.

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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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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.

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ARVR

MAY 26, 2022

Its approach in teasing the device at the I/O conference last week was to lean into one focused use case that could be its killer app. Expect similar from Meta ( social layer ), Amazon ( commerce layer ), and Microsoft ( productivity layer ) to name a few. That brings us back to Google’s AR glasses play.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. For example, Lumberyard from Amazon is released for creating games and VR experiences, while both Unity and Epic reveal in-VR tools to speed up the development process.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2017

San Diego Comic-Con kicks off this week, and if last year is any indicator, we can again expect VR to make a major showing during the four-day conference. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies – CEO Dirk Ahlborn debuts their VR experience for the station and boarding and their AR collaboration tool Beem on the Microsoft HoloLens.

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Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2019

Facebook today announced at F8, their annual developer conference, that pre-orders for Oculus Rift S are now officially live. retail partners include Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and Microsoft, and will be available for purchase both online and in stores. The company’s U.S. The company’s U.S.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 18, 2024

GTC — which in 15 years has grown from the confines of a local hotel ballroom to the world’s most important AI conference — is returning to a physical event for the first time in five years. The industry has already embraced Blackwell. Robotics Everything that moves will be robotic, Huang said.

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