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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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Yesterday Apple held a keynote presentation to update the world on their latest products. Given the size of the AR/VR market today, and its practical applications for a broad groups of users, it’s too early for the company to execute that plan. It’s too early for Apple to jump into the AR/VR game.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

Vividly presented images showed their striking new design with huge tracking rings and fabric hand straps, finished with a special blue coating advertised as being resistant to environmental contaminants. Google searches are very revealing. Pimax headset listed on Amazon (Image by Amazon, provided by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2019

June 28 th was a key date this year for a group of Virtual Reality enthusiasts who received on launch day, the first delivery of the new “ Valve Index ” PCVR system. As a member of this small group, who against the odds had managed to secure a pre-order on May 1st , mine arrived at 12.31 sore face and headache).

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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). Last Monday, there has been some hype in some of the XR groups I’m in for the Kura glasses. So, it is not something for the present, but more for the future. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

It is not on sale on US HP Store and will be on Amazon US next month. My review of Google Hand tracking library. Last week, Google has released an opensource library for hand tracking on mobile devices based on its MediaPipe framework. Join this group of fantastic people by hitting the link below! >> More info.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores. Image by Khronos Group).

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VRWorld

APRIL 17, 2017

As the average person in their twenties and thirties represents part of one of the most powerful spending groups in the USA, the feared and loathed millennials, live streaming has become a uniquely modern way of getting a new audience onboard. Be that computer games such as League of Legends or Dota2, Counter-Strike etc., Live Casino.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The battery tether feels ever-present, and because it's so short it's much more annoying than the long tether of PC VR headsets or PlayStation VR2. Yes, the weight is ever present, but at least what’s pressing against your face doesn’t feel rough like Quest 2. This occlusion is present across the system, in every app.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The hypergrid continues to function more like one large grid, with an increasing number of multi-grid events, communities, and groups. Help OpenSim by shopping on Amazon. You can now support OpenSim testing and development when you shop at Amazon — at no extra cost to you. Naras Nook : 372 active users.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

We plan to go online with it on Amazon or Netflix and present it like that, and then have it be an additional thing that maybe Netflix or Amazon has on their platform in the Oculus or HTC. Alan: I actually recently did an interview with a group at a Toronto and they were using stereoscopic 180. No one knows who Meta was.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

” And I guess he sent it to me on Amazon. And that means that everything, all these objects that we create and consume will be very flexible in the way that they can present themselves, depending on– if you’re walking down the street with an Airbud in, you’ll be getting your information in audio.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

” And I guess he sent it to me on Amazon. And that means that everything, all these objects that we create and consume will be very flexible in the way that they can present themselves, depending on– if you’re walking down the street with an Airbud in, you’ll be getting your information in audio.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 30, 2020

It felt-- there were some great presentations and keynotes. And our clients are everyone from independent apps, platforms to Google, Facebook, Intel, Deloitte, Disney, large range of enterprise clients, who just find it quicker and more cost effective to license quality content from a platform, than go out and shoot it. Damian: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 30, 2020

It felt-- there were some great presentations and keynotes. And our clients are everyone from independent apps, platforms to Google, Facebook, Intel, Deloitte, Disney, large range of enterprise clients, who just find it quicker and more cost effective to license quality content from a platform, than go out and shoot it. Damian: Yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

In the presentation video, there is clearly the mention of the fact that the future will be untethered. Imagine the people wearing Aria like the guys wearing Google Maps backpacks inside museums of campuses: they go around and collect data to build some maps. A curious detail on Aria is that it is full of sensors but it has no display.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

I’m actually one of the founding members of the Open Air Cloud Group and Kronos Group is is really kind of trying to pull together these standards for 3D, as well for e-commerce. I know there’s a group right now trying to standardize 3D objects for e-commerce and retail because right now it’s a dog’s breakfast.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

I’m actually one of the founding members of the Open Air Cloud Group and Kronos Group is is really kind of trying to pull together these standards for 3D, as well for e-commerce. I know there’s a group right now trying to standardize 3D objects for e-commerce and retail because right now it’s a dog’s breakfast.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

I'm actually one of the founding members of the Open Air Cloud Group and Kronos Group is is really kind of trying to pull together these standards for 3D, as well for e-commerce. I know there's a group right now trying to standardize 3D objects for e-commerce and retail because right now it's a dog's breakfast. And they do that.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 30, 2020

It felt-- there were some great presentations and keynotes. And our clients are everyone from independent apps, platforms to Google, Facebook, Intel, Deloitte, Disney, large range of enterprise clients, who just find it quicker and more cost effective to license quality content from a platform, than go out and shoot it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

And then they present what they’re thinking. I think that was one of the biggest challenges over the last few years, was… well, put it this way: Amazon has 1.5 billion products for sale on Amazon. They’re a group that consolidates the industry, things like MP4s and stuff like that. Alan: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

And then they present what they’re thinking. I think that was one of the biggest challenges over the last few years, was… well, put it this way: Amazon has 1.5 billion products for sale on Amazon. They’re a group that consolidates the industry, things like MP4s and stuff like that. Alan: Absolutely.

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Retail Technology AR Augmented Reality 78

XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. It was a talk I did at the Miami VR Expo.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. It was a talk I did at the Miami VR Expo.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I mean, we have access to the world’s information — I can Google pretty much any details — but it just gives me the information. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. Now, I don’t even have to pull my phone out; I can just ask Google and every answer is there.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I mean, we have access to the world’s information — I can Google pretty much any details — but it just gives me the information. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. Now, I don’t even have to pull my phone out; I can just ask Google and every answer is there.

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AR Augmented Reality Magic Leap Machine Learning 78

XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

You could make motions with your hand and it would detect your muscle movements and you could control computers, music, do presentation control. But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. It was a talk I did at the Miami VR Expo.

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AR Controllers Gesture Control Head Mounted Display 60

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 25, 2020

Alan: Everybody was frustrated, because the kids are like, “Well, we’re on Google Docs over here for everything else, and you’re using this thing.” We’re not– we don’t get presented the challenges. But if we started systematically presenting the world’s challenges. Alan: –into Siri, Google, whatever, Amazon.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 25, 2020

Alan: Everybody was frustrated, because the kids are like, “Well, we’re on Google Docs over here for everything else, and you’re using this thing.” We’re not– we don’t get presented the challenges. But if we started systematically presenting the world’s challenges. Alan: –into Siri, Google, whatever, Amazon.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

And that procedure is then presented back, either on a RealWear device or on a Hololens or on a phone or a tablet or frankly, I mean, you can even dump it out to Word, if you want it on paper. So in that case, we got to leverage 3D engineering data and use that to present to you how to get the job done. They might not have 3D.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

And that procedure is then presented back, either on a RealWear device or on a Hololens or on a phone or a tablet or frankly, I mean, you can even dump it out to Word, if you want it on paper. So in that case, we got to leverage 3D engineering data and use that to present to you how to get the job done. They might not have 3D.

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Augmented Reality Industry AR Technology 78

XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

And that procedure is then presented back, either on a RealWear device or on a Hololens or on a phone or a tablet or frankly, I mean, you can even dump it out to Word, if you want it on paper. So in that case, we got to leverage 3D engineering data and use that to present to you how to get the job done. They might not have 3D.

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Augmented Reality AR Industry Technology 60

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 25, 2020

Alan: Everybody was frustrated, because the kids are like, “Well, we’re on Google Docs over here for everything else, and you’re using this thing.” We’re not– we don’t get presented the challenges. But if we started systematically presenting the world’s challenges. Alan: –into Siri, Google, whatever, Amazon.

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Education Immersion Technology Course 60

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We have a Google Doc-style, real-time collaborative editing, where you can have as many people as you want in a project, but you’re also giving them permission to edit the project. Google kind of shocked me a couple of years ago, when they announced their spatial anchors were cross-platform. So, it’s coming. Paul: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We have a Google Doc-style, real-time collaborative editing, where you can have as many people as you want in a project, but you’re also giving them permission to edit the project. Google kind of shocked me a couple of years ago, when they announced their spatial anchors were cross-platform. So, it’s coming. Paul: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Alan: It’s so interesting you say that because for the last three years, I feel like we had to start every presentation with, “OK, hat is the difference between AR and VR? Alan: With the Kronos Group announcing the OpenXR standards now, I think it’s going to become easier and easier for people to build on this.

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AR Augmented Reality Industry Machine Learning 78

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We have a Google Doc-style, real-time collaborative editing, where you can have as many people as you want in a project, but you're also giving them permission to edit the project. Google kind of shocked me a couple of years ago, when they announced their spatial anchors were cross-platform. Alan: That's the last thing you want.

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