VRScout

DECEMBER 27, 2021

At the time of this writing, Meta’s standalone VR headset is one of the most sought-after gifts on Amazon. The Oculus companion app is also topping the charts on the App Store and Google Play, which means more people than ever are diving into VR for the first time. Beat Saber is available for $29.99 (free demo available).

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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. Google’s approach was significantly lighter and simpler than what’s come since.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 18, 2024

Samsung (with Google) and Sony have chosen Qualcomm's XR2+ Gen 2 as the engine of their upcoming headsets, after Samsung reportedly went back to the drawing board after seeing Vision Pro announced. 0:00 / 0:19 1× Apple representatives told me I needed to stay on path during my second demo.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

AR will complement digital wayfinding through things like smart packaging where you scan a QR code with your phone to learn more about a product–from its ingredients and application, to detailed product information and demos from brand ambassadors. How do you see this playing out?

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This will include “try-before-you-buy” AR visualization like we examined yesterday, as well as visual search a la Google Lens. It could even be simpler than Google’s advanced object recognition technology. It could even be simpler than Google’s advanced object recognition technology. But it won’t be a silver bullet.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In these two weeks, we got to discover that Apple is planning to organize demo sessions of Vision Pro inside the Apple Store venues and that in the beginning, the only way to buy a Vision Pro will be going to an Apple Store. The book is coming in March, 2024, but can already be preordered on Amazon. It seems the journalist liked them.

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VRScout

JULY 26, 2016

In addition to the offsite Suicide Squad Gear VR experience and daily Oculus Medium demos on stage at their booth, the company also gave previews of their new Batman VR experience. The VR experience was unveiled along with a new Mattel View-Master Batman VR Pack that you can pre-order right now on Amazon. Image Credit: View-Master.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 2, 2017

Homido isn’t a household name around the world like Facebook, Google, Sony, or Samsung, but it has carved out a niche in the mobile HMD market over the past two years. million headsets in 2016 compared to 450,000 Google Daydream Views. Regardless, this does paint an interesting picture. Have you tried a Homido headset?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The XR Experience will transport people to exhibitors with interactive demos, clothing try-ons, and additional retail services. Numerous world-renowned brands are set to engage with audiences, including representatives from Google, ByteDance, THG Ingenuity, Amazon, Ocado, and many others.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

These include the Hubs Demo Server (hubs.mozilla.com) and the Managed Subscription , the two services actively maintained by Mozilla that most of our users rely on. Last October, Mozilla announced that it had decided to discontinue the Hubs Cloud hosting service, which ran on AWS (Amazon Web Services).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

At the same time, Facebook could have an approach similar to the one that Google has with Android: theoretically you can use an Android phone without a Google account, but good luck in doing it : since my phone is Chinese, I don’t have Google services and I can assure you that it is a true pain in the a**. Image by Google).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Epson’s demoed its Moverio BT-45C and BT-45CS devices at the event. Companies such as Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Siemens, Google, Amazon, Shopify, and many others will join the two-day gathering to showcase their latest products, concepts, and visions for the future of immersive reality.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Playstation 4 GranTurismo Sport VR Bundle comes with a physical copy of the game, a PSVR headset, a PlayStation Camera, and an updated version of the PSVR demo disk with 13 different demos to play. PSVR GranTurismo Sport VR Bundle- $300 $400. image courtesy Walmart. Find the deal here. More VR Deals.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. Meta has also released a small demo of a fitness game to prove how it works well. Ah no, not even that because also Twitter is dead. Now it’s called X and aims at becoming the Western WeChat.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Amazon acquires Umbra. Amazon has just acquired the Finnish company Umbra. The management of this digital map of the world is very complicated, and the acquisition of Umbra can be useful exactly for this, representing an important piece of the AR Cloud puzzle for Amazon. More info (Use Google Translate). Some XR fun.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Attendees can engage with industry visionaries, participate in product demos, and collaborate with like-minded professionals with fantastic networking opportunities. Metacenter Global Week will feature an interactive exhibit hall featuring live demos and prototypes.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 27, 2020

Millions of us now own some sort of room-based voice device such as Google Home or Amazon Echo and the global voice and speech recognition market size is estimated to reach USD 31.82 Millions of us now own some sort of room-based voice device such as Google Home or Amazon Echo Click To Tweet. billion by 2025.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 11, 2017

And it’s hard to argue with that while watching a demo of a guy dancing gangnam style along with disturbingly agile avatars of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Google, Apple and Amazon all are investing big time in the technology so I think we’re going to see lots of improvement in this field in the upcoming months.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has demoed the technology by showing a mini version of him that could answer the questions of the journalists. Another interesting demo showed a virtual avatar that was able to talk with two customers of a restaurant and suggest to them what to eat with a natural conversation, all in an automated way.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Or is it just a talk about glasses?

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 8, 2018

McQuire points to the fact that this follows similar moves made by Amazon Web Services over the past 12 months, and sees it as a clear statement of intent at gaining developer mindshare against Google ahead of its own developer event, Google I/O which also happens this week. The whole world is becoming a computer Click To Tweet.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

GOOGLE DAYDREAM SCORES NETFLIX AND HBO APPS. Google Daydream has exclusive access to YouTube’s considerable 360 video library (although admittedly curation could be better) as well as its massive 2D video archive. valuation) from huge names like Google, Alibaba, and Andreeson Horowitz. MAGIC LEAP’S CONTROVERSY.

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VRScout

APRIL 23, 2018

This might sound counterintuitive at first — most AR demos available today on smartphone are gimmicky, with very little use cases or real world applications, and the few AR headsets on the market are bulky and impractical. A perfect example today are voice assistants like Amazon Echo or Google Home, which 17% of americans already own.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2017

Following a recent Christmas break where he says he studied a robot vacuum cleaner, tested all available voice-input devices for the home (such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home smart speakers), and watched every Black Mirror episode, it was voice control that excited Sony’s head of Magic Lab the most.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The result is that many big brands are canceling their presence at CES: Google, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, Lenovo, and many others, have decided not to go , and maybe provide their news virtually. a $100 Amazon Card). Top news of the week. Image from Reddit). Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. Some news on content. Some XR fun.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 12, 2022

Stadia has had its share of struggles as a business, but Google's cloud gaming service, along with competitors like Amazon's Luna , capably deliver on the promise of high-end gaming streamed straight to your device (bandwidth permitting). There's no reason that cloud-based game previews can't be opened up for a wider audience.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

So, unless nReal finds the killer app in the next months, these glasses will just appeal to techie people like me and will be used for research, experiments, tech demos, etc… I think nReal glasses will be great to democratize AR amongst developers. Google Maps has now AR features. have made AR available also on the web.

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Road to VR

MARCH 26, 2020

You’ll find a load of them on Amazon, eBay, and from specialized vendors such as VR Cover. Manufacturers almost universally sell VR headsets with spongy foam facial interfaces that soak up sweat and grime, so this is a great way of keeping your headset clean in the long run. SEE ALSO How to Tell if Your PC is VR Ready.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

I’ve used Google search to find all the pages with references to Del Mar in the Oculus website, and all the docs are identical to the previous versions. Google will delay the release of Chrome 81 , the one that should have included WebAR. Yes, Android, Google. New iPad Pro will feature a LIDAR sensor. Keep that in mind.

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Charlie Fink

JUNE 7, 2019

It featured over 350 speakers, and over 250 exhibitors in 100,000-square-feet expo, including a 20,000-square-feet “Playground,” which featured AR and VR experiences from developers like Chicken Waffle and novel demos from manufacturers like RealMax.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Get it for $25 on Amazon. This headset is just $6 on Amazon. The Mattel View-Master may be a toy, but it is a fully-functional Google Cardboard headset. Buy it for $14 at Amazon for the older one, or $30 on Amazon for the new one. I bring mine with me when I do VR headset demos and people love it.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

He gives the example of the International Space Station (ISS) VR demo he built that allows you to fly around the ISS and interact with the environment via speech-based queries. “It’s not just in terms of conversations with characters, but being able to query your world and query the game as well.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

A new week, a new sheer of demos exploiting Oculus Quest hands tracking! A demo made by the creator of Holoception, that mixes portals and hands tracking. Blogger Tom Ffiske, that writes on Virtual Perceptions, has decided to write a very good book about AR and VR technologies and it is becoming pretty popular on Amazon.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

Actually, this makes no sense to me: what does he mean by “preserving” the content of a demo? Image by Amazon). Amazon may be working on an XR device. A job listing from Amazon may point to the interest of the company in developing an XR headset. And you can make a video of all its parts by just using the Quest menu.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 5, 2017

Many of the biggest companies on the planet, from Samsung and HTC, to Facebook, Amazon, and Google, and even all the way to Ford, Mercedez, and countless startups, all gather in the desert at the start of the year to unveil the latest and greatest advancements in consumer electronics.

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VRScout

AUGUST 26, 2017

Much has been made of the use of robots to increase efficiency in warehouses —with web retailers such as Amazon announcing significant investment in that area. She met her co-f ounder Sarthak Srinivas outside the office of Thad Starner (Google Glass’s inventor) at Georgia Tech.

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ARVR

JUNE 30, 2020

WebAR Demo by Geenee Data is Everywhere Augmented Reality is enabling us to add a new digital layer to the world, opening the camera lens to more sophisticated interactions and personalized content. Companies fined to date include Google (€50M euros) in relation to transparency and a lack of valid consent.

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