TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A slew of big names have begun announcing metaverse projects, like Facebook which went so far as to rename its parent company Meta , Niantic (the makers of Pokémon Go) , Amazon, Roblox, Unity Software and Microsoft. In addition, content creators and car manufacturers may receive Ride as partner royalties, says Wollny.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

I’ve not been able to test it in person, but looking around its users manual, the aGlass DK II seems quite easy to install and also easy to be used as a developer , thanks to its handy Unity and Unreal plugins. Will it be available also on Western websites like Amazon? Isn’t it a cool device? Yes, it is!

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Pokemon Go is the best example for an augmented reality game. Computer Vision uses SLAM to receive visual data from our physical world and use this visual input to understand and interact with the environment. It uses GPS and compass sensor data to position the virtual object at a point of interest.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

It is anyway unknown how will be the future iterations of its headsets : Pico has been recently bought by Bytedance, which is another company that works heavily with data analysis like Facebook, so we don’t know how Pico privacy policies will evolve. For now, we can still consider these headsets as safe. Price and availability.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. I call them the “Incarnations”.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

For example, Fortnite is built by them. I think we start with, what's a "polygon" and why is that important to be able to push so much data? And what Unreal Engine 5 is about is you will be able to use the data that you actually have available, without preparing it. We call this process data prep.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

For example, Fortnite is built by them. I think we start with, what's a "polygon" and why is that important to be able to push so much data? And what Unreal Engine 5 is about is you will be able to use the data that you actually have available, without preparing it. We call this process data prep.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

For example, Fortnite is built by them. I think we start with, what's a "polygon" and why is that important to be able to push so much data? And what Unreal Engine 5 is about is you will be able to use the data that you actually have available, without preparing it. We call this process data prep.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The damn coronavirus continues to impact all our lives: the fact that many countries are applying restrictions on flights to and from Italy is, for example, creating various nuisances to my job. This is one of the weirdest rag-doll experiments in Unity. Coronavirus impacts headsets production and kills F8 and GDC. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The image above, clearly an homage to the legendary Unity Cube , demonstrates the position and orientation of optical sensors across different surfaces of the object… this would ensure that sensors are always available as the object is turned or moved. Image by Rob Cole). model Normals [ -0.0380270146, -0.700318217, -0.712817252 ].

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

For sure, Facebook will repeat a bazillion times that they care about privacy and I think that in the beginning, this will be mostly true: we have seen with Oculus how Facebook takes its time and boils its users slowly like the famous frog, adding over time features to get more data for targeted ads. WebAR will start to exploit its potential.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

This included adopters of the Omniverse such as Amazon, Deutsche Bahn, and others. He explained further, “Amazon is using Omniverse to visualise their warehouse, [a] giant robotic system, to help their workers [and] to simulate their fleet of AMRs. [We We are] creating a digital twin of the [Earth’s climate system].

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

Physics and realistic light simulation (ray tracing) You’d need a way to have a persistent world with data, continuity, rules, systems. An example of this is how it can be used to dream of virtual machines and text adventure games. Lensa’s growth, with examples of its output based on the author. Adopt Me!” 16,384 cores!

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. Alan: Amazing. So, those are our main goals.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. Alan: Amazing. So, those are our main goals.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. Alan: Amazing. So, those are our main goals.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

So let’s dive in: what are some of the best examples that you or your team has worked on in this type of role? So for example, if it cost $100,000 to be able to put [up] my hundred earrings, what is the uptick that you’re seeing in sales? There’s tons and tons of examples out there. Alan: Incredible.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

So let’s dive in: what are some of the best examples that you or your team has worked on in this type of role? So for example, if it cost $100,000 to be able to put [up] my hundred earrings, what is the uptick that you’re seeing in sales? There’s tons and tons of examples out there. Alan: Incredible.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Sure Quest 3 will dynamically adjust its exposure when you get near a bright light source, so that for example screens are temporarily visible, but Vision Pro doesn't have to. It's an example of how Apple Vision Pro was optimized for stationary seated use, not active movement. footage from Apple) The Shared Space is the default.

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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. In fact, developers using Unity and SteamVR start effectively standardizing this mixed reality capture method. It doesn’t stop the problem.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

One of the coolest examples that I think of, which may not apply to the everyday medium-sized company, is training in a way that is location-agnostic, and it could even be marketing; meaning, you could have a salesman or a lead engineer in Dallas, and you could have another engineer in Detroit. And where did we come from?"

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

One of the coolest examples that I think of, which may not apply to the everyday medium-sized company, is training in a way that is location-agnostic, and it could even be marketing; meaning, you could have a salesman or a lead engineer in Dallas, and you could have another engineer in Detroit. And where did we come from?"

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

It is one of those places where people look for 3D models , alongside other marketplaces like the Unity Asset Store, Google Poly or Turbosquid. Not to mention how 3D technologies are being adopted and developed by major companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

And you’re doing this through virtual/augmented reality, and the metrics that you’re able to collect, keep maps, and where people are looking and the amount of data that you’re able to collect from users in a digital world versus a physical world is actually really quite amazing. One other example would be on the brand side.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

And you’re doing this through virtual/augmented reality, and the metrics that you’re able to collect, keep maps, and where people are looking and the amount of data that you’re able to collect from users in a digital world versus a physical world is actually really quite amazing. One other example would be on the brand side.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

One of the coolest examples that I think of, which may not apply to the everyday medium-sized company, is training in a way that is location-agnostic, and it could even be marketing; meaning, you could have a salesman or a lead engineer in Dallas, and you could have another engineer in Detroit. And where did we come from?"

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

One of the coolest examples that I think of, which may not apply to the everyday medium-sized company, is training in a way that is location-agnostic, and it could even be marketing; meaning, you could have a salesman or a lead engineer in Dallas, and you could have another engineer in Detroit. And where did we come from?"

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

He has a background with telco, gaming, automotive, and data science, and interactions with CRMs being the major thread in his career. Next to data, I like storytelling. They had some really interesting examples there. I kind of like that. I like stories; that’s the red thread. They think, “what am I looking at?”

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

He has a background with telco, gaming, automotive, and data science, and interactions with CRMs being the major thread in his career. Next to data, I like storytelling. They had some really interesting examples there. I kind of like that. I like stories; that’s the red thread. They think, “what am I looking at?”

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

For example, in a warehouse, instead of a pick-and-pack worker looking at a nine-digit code on their screen and trying to find that box in space, you can actually just have a marker right on the box itself. For example, the most traditional use is you have a number of sensors on something, let’s say an engine in a car.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

For example, in a warehouse, instead of a pick-and-pack worker looking at a nine-digit code on their screen and trying to find that box in space, you can actually just have a marker right on the box itself. For example, the most traditional use is you have a number of sensors on something, let’s say an engine in a car.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

For example, in a warehouse, instead of a pick-and-pack worker looking at a nine-digit code on their screen and trying to find that box in space, you can actually just have a marker right on the box itself. For example, the most traditional use is you have a number of sensors on something, let's say an engine in a car.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

It’s exactly the same use case as the IKEA couch example, but it’s a different industry, and the ROI is much, much faster. The tools are pretty [new], and Unity and things, you need to invest a fair bit of time and effort to build something. You can mess around with Amazon Sumerian. It really does make a difference.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

It’s exactly the same use case as the IKEA couch example, but it’s a different industry, and the ROI is much, much faster. The tools are pretty [new], and Unity and things, you need to invest a fair bit of time and effort to build something. You can mess around with Amazon Sumerian. It really does make a difference.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

It’s exactly the same use case as the IKEA couch example, but it’s a different industry, and the ROI is much, much faster. The tools are pretty [new], and Unity and things, you need to invest a fair bit of time and effort to build something. You can mess around with Amazon Sumerian. It really does make a difference.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

It includes some of its data and takeaways. Ad campaign examples continue to build , and there’s momentum in the brand advertising world to adopt AR. Our survey data with Thrive Analytics supports this. This democratizes advanced AR capabilities like graphics creation and includes tools like Unity , Amazon Sumerian and 8th Wall.

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