Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

The company is marketing its Vuzix Blade Smart Glasses to both the enterprise and consumer markets, providing differentiated software solutions to each one. On the consumer side, the Vuzix Blade Companion App, which is available for download from the App Store or Google Play, connects the device to both Android or iOS devices.

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GizModo VR

MAY 4, 2022

It’ll exist as an alternative to Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, which are already… Read more. Shouting out “Hey Sonos” to change the music might become a reality in your household in the next few weeks. Sonos is preparing to launch its anticipated voice control functionality in June, an exclusive leak from The Verge claims.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 29, 2023

The capable 3D interface also provides an open software ecosystem for developing and sharing bespoke apps. Additionally, Rokid has upgraded several features of its user experience research (UXR) software developer kit (SDK), which includes hand gestures, voice, projections, and other key input features.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has made significant contributions in various verticals such as entertainment, education, retail etc. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It can be readily recognized by the software with very little processing overhead.

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Bernard Marr

JANUARY 22, 2024

Amazon, for instance, wowed the audience with new generative AI-powered Alexa experiences, enhancing our interactions with voice assistants. BMW's introduction of new augmented reality features and software enhancements for its vehicles demonstrated the growing emphasis on immersive and interactive in-car experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. But it can also be very interesting to create virtual idols and other kinds of conversational characters for entertainment purposes.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Google is doing it again. It is not clear what is the destiny of the VR 180 format, especially because Google declined to comment on the topic. I hope that at least they will keep the software infrastructure alive even if the officially dedicated hardware has been abandoned. Amazon announces Echo Frames smartglasses.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 7, 2020

However, AR is so much more than the gaming and entertainment industry. Big names such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google are rapidly developing the technology, making it accessible to many industries. Apple and Google played big roles in this. In 2019, Google brought Glass Enterprise Edition 2 on the market.

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

These have evolved rapidly thanks to the emergence of online giants like Amazon and Google, digitally-native niche players like AirB’n’B, Expedia and Netflix, and heavy investment by established industry leaders such as Walmart and Tesco. It has also fundamentally affected many traditional business models.

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Bernard Marr

MARCH 10, 2023

Most people will have first come across the term in science fiction, where, for over 100 years, we’ve been entertained by stories involving intelligent robots – sometimes friendly, sometimes not so. In reality, when we use the term AI today, we are usually referring to a technology known as "machine learning."

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

But apart from the hardware, what Apple is doing on the software side may also be intriguing: a new job listing from the company has been published to look for an “AR/VR Frameworks Engineer” that should have the role of “developing an entirely new application paradigm”. More info (Realwear Navigator 500) More info (WebEx on Google Glass 2).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2024

The recently released report noted how “Meta employees see the Quest and its software ecosystem emerging as a primary alternative to Apple in the space, filling the role played by Google’s Android in smartphones.”

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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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Mashable VR

MARCH 12, 2022

The show's organizer, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has also had its share of troubles. Electronic Arts has been doing its own event near E3 but not at the show itself since 2016. Other major names like Nintendo and Microsoft have also scaled back their presence in other ways.

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Bernard Marr

JULY 25, 2023

Some are digital natives, like Amazon, and some switched to e-commerce models or adopted them to augment “traditional” retail models, such as Walmart and Tesco. Today, a wide spectrum of businesses, from social networks like Facebook to software services providers like Google, generate revenue by displaying advertising to their users.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 2022, the Immerse Global Summit featured speakers from some of the world’s best-known brands, including Amazon, Meta, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and Unity, and demonstrations of some of the most exciting metaverse technologies. Unity shared how digital twins were helping its customers unlock new levels of innovation.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 27, 2023

At the same time, more and more of the data we consume will come in the form of streamed data – movies and music from Netflix and Spotify, video data from Zoom or Teams calls, and new forms of streamed entertainment such as cloud gaming. Amazon has pledged to achieve zero emissions by 2040, and Microsoft aims to beat this by ten years.

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Robert Scoble

JULY 23, 2020

Qualcomm’s head of AR/VR says not just that it’s a great book (so do dozens of other reviewers on Amazon) but that it’s a “must read” to understand the 2030s and what is about to come next. Early versions are named Apple Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Facebook Portal. Reading assistance.

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RealVision VR

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Today, when we think of the Cloud – it’s become ubiquitous with Enterprise scale data wrangling and as SAAS (software as a service) offerings. However, AWS (Amazon’s Cloud), Google Cloud and Microsoft realize the potential there is in using the Cloud for media services. There needs to be R.O.I!

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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. Just imagine a world where Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant have bodies.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

We are sure that it is a device and not a piece of software because the company has started publishing teaser images with an empty cylindrical container, making us understand that Vive Flow is something that goes inside that holder. Apple Maps are going AR. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

So, keep a VR (and/or) AR headset at home so that you can keep working on XR software even during the lockdown. If you don’t have enough of this stuff, Amazon is your friend. Exploration experiences : since I miss traveling, having a tour inside Google Earth VR makes me go virtually to other cool places in this world.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The goal of the Rogue Initiative was looking at the convergence of linear, Hollywood, traditional entertainment and interactive entertainment. And how could we — from the ground up — create new original properties that brought those forms of entertainment together? You guys are an entertainment company.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The goal of the Rogue Initiative was looking at the convergence of linear, Hollywood, traditional entertainment and interactive entertainment. And how could we — from the ground up — create new original properties that brought those forms of entertainment together? You guys are an entertainment company.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2019

Ballista, High Voltage Software 6. Robo Recall, Drifter Entertainment 38. Tilt Brush, Google 47. The Oculus Quest is available for preorders on Oculus website and on the website of selected partners (like Amazon and Best Buy). Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs, Resolution Games 2. Apex Construct, Fast Travel Games 3.

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Building the Metaverse

APRIL 12, 2022

with media, with software, with art, with experiences, and with how we project our identity into digital space. Chris Dixon wrote that composability is to software as compounding interest is to finance. a trend that’s rapidly accelerated thanks to the digitization of music and the ready availability of DJ and composition software.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The goal of the Rogue Initiative was looking at the convergence of linear, Hollywood, traditional entertainment and interactive entertainment. And how could we -- from the ground up -- create new original properties that brought those forms of entertainment together? You guys are an entertainment company. Hrish: Sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Alan: You’ve got kind of a divide; entertainment and gaming on one side, and then you’ve got enterprise applications across medical, healthcare, real estate, retail — across the whole enterprise. What split is it between media and entertainment vs. enterprise applications right now, as far as total market spend?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Alan: You’ve got kind of a divide; entertainment and gaming on one side, and then you’ve got enterprise applications across medical, healthcare, real estate, retail — across the whole enterprise. What split is it between media and entertainment vs. enterprise applications right now, as far as total market spend?

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VRWorld

MAY 6, 2016

” Other music services, such as Amazon Prime Music and Google Play do not delete the files off the hard drive. In case of Google, you can upload as much as 20,000 songs.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Alan: You've got kind of a divide; entertainment and gaming on one side, and then you've got enterprise applications across medical, healthcare, real estate, retail -- across the whole enterprise. What split is it between media and entertainment vs. enterprise applications right now, as far as total market spend?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

On the software side, HTC has just launched in China Vive Sync , a solution for remote meetings in VR that may help a lot the Chinese people that are forced to work from home. 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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

More info (Sebastian’s Tweet) More info (Sebastian’s Tweet with answer by GermanRifter) More info (Google Cache for Bestware shop page for Cosmos). It is more interesting to notice, in my opinion, that currently on Amazon US the Oculus Quest is selling better than the Nintendo Switch. Other relevant news. Image by Kura).

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

And so they have 3D files and they need a way to embed them on a web page or share them with someone who doesn’t have 3D software to open them, or use them in VR and AR and so on. When we started, most of it was pure CG; made with advanced CAD programs or 3D software like 3ds Max and so on. The basic product is quite easy to use.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

And so they have 3D files and they need a way to embed them on a web page or share them with someone who doesn't have 3D software to open them, or use them in VR and AR and so on. When we started, most of it was pure CG; made with advanced CAD programs or 3D software like 3ds Max and so on. The basic product is quite easy to use.

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