Road to VR

AUGUST 9, 2016

I had a chance to catch up with AMD’s Roy Taylor , VP of Alliances, Content, and VR, at VRLA to hear more about AMD’s recent announcements, their open source philosophy, their support for VR storytellers, and the upcoming VR on the Lot event on October 13 & 14th that will be helping to educate the film industry about VR.

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2018

During Apple’s WWDC event, Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering introduced ARKit , boldly declaring that “Apple will have the largest AR platform in the world.” This likely explains why you won’t see, apps like the Amazon app with its AR View, or Pokémon GO as part of the data.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Many energy, maritime, and safety-focused industry workers rely on field service tools to empower their remote employees. Maritime Work Secured with ARuVR Using Mintra’s TrainingPortal platform, ARuVR can integrate its immersive training software for the maritime enterprise.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2024

The partnerships are displaying an increasing interest in XR learning tools for large-scale deployment. Driving XR Training Scalability and Adoption for Transportation Sectors Immersive L&D tools can help to enhance employee skill gaps in areas such as vehicle maintenance, infrastructure management, platform inspection, and repair.

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 3, 2024

These include a recruitment tool developed by Amazon to help rate candidates for software engineering roles, which was found to discriminate against women. Tools like AI Fairness 360 and Google’s What-If can be used to examine and measure the behavior of machine learning algorithms.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The $40 million funding also enables the firm to scale its industry solutions across various verticals, including design, manufacturing, engineering, education, and healthcare. He will lead the firm’s software and cloud development roadmaps. ready firms. Additionally, the firm is building an industry 4.0 What is Reality Cloud?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 8, 2024

Immersive Spaces, built with software like Microsoft Mesh and extended reality hardware, allow companies to build highly adaptable digital environments for productivity. For instance, companies like Siemens and Amazon are already using augmented reality to help employees manage stock and create products.

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VRScout

AUGUST 8, 2020

Looking at the future of immersive education in a post COVID-19 world. To amplify the combined superpowers of the Lenovo VR Classroom 2 and Think Reality, participating schools will have access to a suite of distance learning software aimed at keeping students connected with teachers as well as each other.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 24, 2022

Stocks from tech giants such as Alphabet (Google) and Amazon also fell, with investors blaming Snap’s misfortune. Snaps is also updating its Spectacles software development kit for its upcoming AR smart glasses to improve production pipelines for third-party immersive developers. Snap’s Q1 Losses, Gains. billion in Q1.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2020

Actually, I have been pretty disappointed because there has been no hardware launch , but my lack of sleep has been rewarded by the announcement of a new software platform by HTC and also by HTC publicly showcasing some prototypes I made in the last weeks. The full suite of software products that is now being developed by HTC.

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EON Reality

JULY 30, 2021

EON Reality, the global leader in Augmented and Virtual Reality-based knowledge and skills tra nsfer for industry and education, announces the launch of the EON Knowledge Metaverse, an all-encompassing global project to build a new and improved interconnected world for users to learn, train and perform in. About EON Reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Moreover, Stettmeier noted that Lenovo is taking an enterprise-first approach to developing XR solutions, meaning you cannot purchase the device via conventional means such as Amazon, instead, going through professional channels – “because we want to make this an enterprise story,” Steinmeier said.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Moreover, Sahni quickly highlighted the importance of working with third-party software vendors to ensure the success of enterprise VR programs. The Meta representative noted that the firm works with more than 900 independent software companies to provide ongoing XR growth.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) tools have met such obstacles with equal force, providing a new generation of insight, analysis, and promise for HR professionals seeking to build and keep workforces operating at their optimal capabilities.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 25, 2020

And we’re going to talk about education. So it’s an interesting time to revisit and relook at what does education look like in an exponential world of digital transformation. So how can teachers right now leverage the tools that exist now? And it has made everybody sit back and go, “Whoa, how do we now deal with education?”

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 25, 2020

And we’re going to talk about education. So it’s an interesting time to revisit and relook at what does education look like in an exponential world of digital transformation. So how can teachers right now leverage the tools that exist now? And it has made everybody sit back and go, “Whoa, how do we now deal with education?”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

Moreover, digital twins are an incredibly valuable tool for training scenarios. Max Bickley Digital twins operate in tandem with XR hardware and software by leveraging immersive visualization, real-time data integration, remote collaboration, and simulation capabilities. In the future, text-to-animation will be possible.

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

Companies are beginning to incorporate the technology into solutions across various industries, including healthcare, sports, education, tourism, and the automotive industry. For example, in 2019, Amazon extended Alexa features to pair with headphones and earbuds. Finally, text-to-speech (TTS) software produces translated speech.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 25, 2020

And we’re going to talk about education. So it’s an interesting time to revisit and relook at what does education look like in an exponential world of digital transformation. So how can teachers right now leverage the tools that exist now? And it has made everybody sit back and go, “Whoa, how do we now deal with education?”

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2019

As I have detailed in this other article , Oculus has just launched a new Oculus For Business program that offers various interesting enterprise offerings: dedicated support, 2 years warranty, kiosk-mode, and some tools to configure and control multiple headsets at once from a simple web panel. Apollo 11, Immersive VR Education 4.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has made significant contributions in various verticals such as entertainment, education, retail etc. It has applications in training and educational use cases. It can be readily recognized by the software with very little processing overhead. It had started gaining interest in the metaverse trend ever since.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

We've put together a comprehensive turnkey, fully automated virtual reality arcade cabinet that we put together all the hardware and the software. Alan: Oh, "Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation [and] Education Conference." Or they can also oversee that separately, if they have internal software development skills and a team.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

We've put together a comprehensive turnkey, fully automated virtual reality arcade cabinet that we put together all the hardware and the software. Alan: Oh, "Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation [and] Education Conference." Or they can also oversee that separately, if they have internal software development skills and a team.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

We've put together a comprehensive turnkey, fully automated virtual reality arcade cabinet that we put together all the hardware and the software. Alan: Oh, "Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation [and] Education Conference." Or they can also oversee that separately, if they have internal software development skills and a team.

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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. This is exactly what Lowe’s is doing with its Holoroom. Virtual humans are getting more and more real.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

2020 has been a good year for the sales of VR devices : Half-Life Alyx and the launch of the Quest 2 have created a big spike in the sales of VR hardware and software. I expect all these trends to continue in 2021, for a year that will see the growth of the technology on all its sides (software and hardware).

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

In the book, you discuss military, telepresence, design and architecture, medical, retail, marketing, journalism, social media, entertainment, gaming, and education. But, you know, companies should select the right tool for the job. So that’s a better tool for that job in a certain respect. Alan: So interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

In the book, you discuss military, telepresence, design and architecture, medical, retail, marketing, journalism, social media, entertainment, gaming, and education. But, you know, companies should select the right tool for the job. So that’s a better tool for that job in a certain respect. Alan: So interesting.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

All social companies are now competing on who can offer the best tools to create them: the one having the lead is currently Snapchat (that has been the first startup believing in augmentations), which has already implemented full-body filters, and location-based filters, where you can augment certain landmarks of various cities.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ). Unreal is already compatible with the framework, so in 2021 we’ll soon have also the tools ready to create OpenXR cross-compatible platforms.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 5, 2019

One of AR’s most promising areas is B2B software to create consumer-facing lenses and animations. It includes Unity , Amazon Sumerian and Adobe Aero. In many cases, the intended users for these tools are creative professionals. Like in other areas of AR, this will be a long process of acclimation and education.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. What kind of devices and software will we need to participate in this AR Cloud? Its wizarding successor grossed $12M in its first month.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Some time ago, it had already released the public specifications for the headset , and so many 3rd party vendors had been able to design and sell their viewers, but now even all the software has been released on GitHub. That is, all the software layer of Cardboard is public domain now. Adobe releases AR authoring tool Aero.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Read on for my breakdown of the Vision Pro hardware and software and the experience they enable. Could this be an unintentional tradeoff of the darkened glass frontplate, or is it solvable with software tweaks?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

But its reputation as a video game engine can also be intimidating — especially to those who want to create AR software for enterprise. Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 – since before the interwebs! He chats with Alan about his claim to flame.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

But its reputation as a video game engine can also be intimidating — especially to those who want to create AR software for enterprise. Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 – since before the interwebs! He chats with Alan about his claim to flame.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2017

Mars Odyssey – An interactive single-player VR educational simulation that takes you to the distant red planet to repair NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers – including Viking, Pathfinder, Curiosity, and Opportunity – which have fallen under disrepair. Also available in VR – with both forms being demoed. Power Rangers VR – Case Study.

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