VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The Black Friday and Cyber Monday deal will be available online and in all retail locations where Vive is sold. Microsoft ‘Mixed Reality’ Headset Discounts. Microsoft’s Windows “Mixed Reality” headsets are now on sale for up to $100, bringing the cheapest among them to just $300. Shop on Amazon. Oculus Rift Discount.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Companies like Ikea, Target, and Amazon have already used ARKit, mostly for placing virtual furniture in a room to see if it fits. Microsoft’s tagline: “Work smarter with mixed reality.”). These don’t even have a display.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

BUNDLE AND SAVE: The Xbox Series S Fortnite and Rocket League Bundle was in stock at Amazon , Best Buy , and the Microsoft Store as of Feb. All three retailers have it listed for $299.99, which is the same price as the console itself. Credit: Microsoft. Credit: Microsoft. Credit: Microsoft. at Best Buy.

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Road to VR

JULY 2, 2018

Windows also hosts WMR-only games on the Microsoft Store. SEE ALSO Watch Windows VR Controllers Stand up to 'Beat Saber's' Hardest Song. At the time of this writing, a new HP VR headset and a pair of motion controllers can be had for as little as $200 on Amazon , or $250 lower than its MSRP. Image courtesy Valve.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Sans any sales, the HTC Vive MSRP is $600, which includes the base system (headset with standard strap, two base stations, two controllers, cables), and usually a smaller game, like Tilt Brush. Before we dig into Vive deals, it’s important to set a reference point so that we can understand what constitutes a good deal.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

For $600, you’ll get the Vive system (headset, basestations, controllers, etc.), The company is also putting up to 75% off Vive Studios titles, including games like Virtual Sports, Arcade Saga, Remembering Pearl Harbor, Front Defense, Jams Studio, Amazon Odyssey and True Scale. Check out our review here. photo courtesy HTC.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 14, 2022

You can grab a pair on sale for $199 at Walmart and Amazon as of June 14 — that's 29% in savings. If your heart is set on the Bose QC Earbuds, you'll be happy to know you can save $80 on these top-tier buds at Walmart and Amazon , bringing the price down to just $199. SAVE $80 : Looking for effective noise-canceling earbuds?

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ARPost

MAY 3, 2021

If you want to emulate the likes of Google, Amazon, and Facebook, or more correctly, avoid being kicked out of business by them, it is imperative you at least consider the use cases of AR that fit into and can improve your business model. Manufacturing and quality control. See Also: The Data-Driven Future of AR in Independent Business.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The article talked about a headset shipping without controllers and aiming at the sweet price point of $200. Mark Gurman reiterated a similar rumor: he didn’t say that Meta will ship it without controllers, but just that it is evaluating also that option. The second is about interactions.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The long anticipated Oculus Touch controllers launch on December 6th. Other retailers may still have unordered stock. The $200 pair of controllers has been hotly anticipated by the Rift community since its announcement one and a half years ago. Oculus opened pre-orders for Touch all the way back on October 10th.

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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. Oculus Touch controllers to cost £190 in the UK.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The new controller, the Touch Plus, seems also to track very well, and has the interesting feature that they have better tracking performances than Quest 2 ones around the torso of the player. The news is that the device may be called Vive Ultimate Tracker and retail at $200 per unit.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2022

As first reported by GMW3 , Magic Leap appears to be flushing excess stock of the 2018-era AR headset via the Amazon-owned online retailer Woot. . The listing ( find it here ) is for a brand new Magic Leap 1, including the headset’s hip-worn compute unit and single controller.

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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. They control all their ecosystem : software, hardware, chips.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Johnson has worked at Microsoft and Qualcomm before, and she is a very respected executive. More info (Decamove preorders) More info (Decagear controllers triggers). Amazon is opening its AR Beauty Salon.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. The ring that controls your interface.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. The ring that controls your interface.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash of 1992, the internet has been superseded by the Metaverse, a multi-person shared virtual reality with both human-controlled avatars and system “daemons”. 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

MARCH 31, 2020

So originally when North was founded, it was actually called Thalmic Labs, and the product was a gesture control armband. You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. The ring that controls your interface.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Tracey Wiedmeyer and Alan discuss a few ideas, from browsing the catch of the day in a VR tropical wonderland, to using VR and AR to test out retail layouts before you build them. So maybe you can just talk about InContext Solutions and what you’re doing for retailers. Alan: Today’s guest is Tracey Wiedmeyer.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Tracey Wiedmeyer and Alan discuss a few ideas, from browsing the catch of the day in a VR tropical wonderland, to using VR and AR to test out retail layouts before you build them. So maybe you can just talk about InContext Solutions and what you’re doing for retailers. Alan: Today’s guest is Tracey Wiedmeyer.

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Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2019

retail partners include Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and Microsoft, and will be available for purchase both online and in stores. Rift S will be available for demo at Microsoft stores for a limited time, starting on May 21st. The company’s U.S. You can also pre-order Rift S through Oculus’ online store.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

8th Wall recently partnered with Amazon Sumerian on a WebAR ad experience where, with just a click of a banner ad, an AR experience placed a 3D Spiderman into your space for you to interact with directly in your mobile browser. 8 called Spatial& Spatial& creates immersive retail experiences by tapping into the emotional power of VR.

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Robert Scoble

JULY 23, 2020

Now that joke isn’t so funny anymore and it has deep implications on how we view privacy, new products soon to come, and, even how we should regulate big tech companies that soon will have deep access to, and control over literally everything about human life. That life is about to become very integrated with technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

Centertec CEO Bill Tustin joins Alan to talk location-based VR "retail-tainment." I recently spoke at the retail show in New York, and they're very interested on the ROI in the retail environment. But I think it's more moving towards this "retail-tainment," where people go there for social experiences. Chicken Waffle!

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

Centertec CEO Bill Tustin joins Alan to talk location-based VR “retail-tainment.” I recently spoke at the retail show in New York, and they’re very interested on the ROI in the retail environment. It’s four times the size of Amazon. Chicken Waffle! Alan: Absolutely. Alan: It really is.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

Centertec CEO Bill Tustin joins Alan to talk location-based VR “retail-tainment.” I recently spoke at the retail show in New York, and they’re very interested on the ROI in the retail environment. It’s four times the size of Amazon. Chicken Waffle! Alan: Absolutely. Alan: It really is.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

My last company… I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the big see-through touchscreen DJ controller emulator, but we made basically a touchscreen midi controller before there were touch screens in 2010. He took our midi controller and made a keyboard out of it, but it looked nothing like a keyboard at all.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

My last company… I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the big see-through touchscreen DJ controller emulator, but we made basically a touchscreen midi controller before there were touch screens in 2010. He took our midi controller and made a keyboard out of it, but it looked nothing like a keyboard at all.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 31, 2016

When you think about things like intelligent assistants, we have embedded services like Siri from Apple, Google Home, Amazon Echo with Alexa. It’s the ability to use voice commands and stream your music or control the temperature in your house. Back in the day Windows and Microsoft had a very open platform that did extremely well.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

My last company… I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the big see-through touchscreen DJ controller emulator, but we made basically a touchscreen midi controller before there were touch screens in 2010. He took our midi controller and made a keyboard out of it, but it looked nothing like a keyboard at all.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

surgeons (it could be a group of anyone), but now everyone in the audience is able to put on a pair of glasses, and watch a 3D experience that the lecturer or the trainer can go through and control at their own pace. Alan: I think the zSpace thing could be used for retail on location. Check this thing out!" It's just the most fun.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

surgeons (it could be a group of anyone), but now everyone in the audience is able to put on a pair of glasses, and watch a 3D experience that the lecturer or the trainer can go through and control at their own pace. Alan: I think the zSpace thing could be used for retail on location. Check this thing out!" It's just the most fun.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

But also physical retail. People are really interested in bringing a layer of digital experience into the retail environment. Everything is super optimized, and they can actually do these things because they’re in control of the hardware. Microsoft’s got a great product around it. Media companies. Paul: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

But also physical retail. People are really interested in bringing a layer of digital experience into the retail environment. Everything is super optimized, and they can actually do these things because they’re in control of the hardware. Microsoft’s got a great product around it. Media companies. Paul: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

surgeons (it could be a group of anyone), but now everyone in the audience is able to put on a pair of glasses, and watch a 3D experience that the lecturer or the trainer can go through and control at their own pace. Alan: I think the zSpace thing could be used for retail on location. Check this thing out!" It's just the most fun.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

surgeons (it could be a group of anyone), but now everyone in the audience is able to put on a pair of glasses, and watch a 3D experience that the lecturer or the trainer can go through and control at their own pace. Alan: I think the zSpace thing could be used for retail on location. Check this thing out!" It's just the most fun.

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