Amazon, Google, Healthcare and Oculus

Tech Giants Prime AR’s Headworn Era

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.

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality Amazon Apple Virtual Reality

New to VR? A beginner’s guide

VRWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

While the ability of VR to provide valuable, realistic experiences without introducing real-world risks has found many fans across various industries (from healthcare to real estate), the most popular types of virtual reality content remain video games, movies and television. Google Cardboard. from Google. Google Daydream View.

Samsung

Samsung Google Sony Oculus

Interview with Robert Scoble about Oculus Quest 2, Apple Glasses and more!

The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

Apple

Apple Oculus China Magic Leap

VRX 2017 Conference Brings an All Star Cast

VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

There’s no doubt that the announcements made on this conference might be the clearest direction where VR/MR/AR are heading as an industry, as it will happen after Microsoft Windows 10 Mixed Reality launches, as well as seeing the first sales results of next generation Oculus Rift headset. Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, 20th Century Fox.

Conference

Conference San Francisco Virtual Reality Tourism

NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference Officially Announced

VRWorld

APRIL 4, 2017

Topics include deep learning and AI, data center and cloud computing, analytics, healthcare, self-driving and AI cars, life sciences, defense, virtual and augmented reality, computer and machine vision, smart cities, robotics and IoT. GTC is a great opportunity for developers and data scientists to sharpen their skills.

Conference

Conference Technology San Jose Machine Learning

Getting started with Augmented Reality (AR)

ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. ARCore — ARCore is an AR SDK released by Google in 2018 for building augmented reality experiences. Salesforce uses Oculus Rift to create an immersive 3D environment for analyzing data.

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality AR Machine Learning Data

Who Will Own the Metaverse?

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. The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes.

Magic Leap

Magic Leap AR Microsoft Apple

The Industrial Metaverse – Which Company Will Dominate?

CraneMorley

AUGUST 1, 2023

Google’s Plan How will Google compete with this? Google is also interested in the industrial metaverse, and it has a number of strengths that it can leverage to compete with Microsoft. Cloud infrastructure: Google Cloud is one of the leading cloud computing platforms in the world.

Industry

Industry Machine Learning Apple Google

The Down-Low on What You Need to Know (To Be Competitive in XR), with SuperData’s Carter Rogers

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. 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.

Training

Training AR Data Augmented Reality

The Down-Low on What You Need to Know (To Be Competitive in XR), with SuperData’s Carter Rogers

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. 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.

Training

Training AR Data Augmented Reality

The Down-Low on What You Need to Know (to be competitive in the XR field), with SuperData's Carter Rogers.

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

Started covering those areas when they were very tied to games, especially when the original Oculus Rift was launched. 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.

Training

Training AR Data Augmented Reality

Getting the ROI out of XR, with Sector 5 Digital's Cameron Ayres

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training

Getting the ROI out of XR, with Sector 5 Digital's Cameron Ayres

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training

Getting the ROI out of XR, with Sector 5 Digital's Cameron Ayres

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training

Getting the ROI out of XR, with Sector 5 Digital's Cameron Ayres

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training

Off to Digital Market We Go, with InContext Solutions’ Tracey Wiedmeyer

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

So cereal, frozen foods, healthcare, baby foods, all that sort of stuff are constantly going through some sort of revision period, whether it’s… the old way’s every six months, because that’s how long it takes them, and I’ll get into that in a little bit. billion products for sale on Amazon. Alan: Yeah.

Retail

Retail Technology AR Augmented Reality

Off to Digital Market We Go, with InContext Solutions’ Tracey Wiedmeyer

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

So cereal, frozen foods, healthcare, baby foods, all that sort of stuff are constantly going through some sort of revision period, whether it’s… the old way’s every six months, because that’s how long it takes them, and I’ll get into that in a little bit. billion products for sale on Amazon. Alan: Yeah.

Retail

Retail Technology AR Augmented Reality

The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift was launched in the spring, it was disappointingly bundled with a Microsoft Xbox controller – and we’ve eagerly been awaiting the native Touch Controllers. GOOGLE DAYDREAM SCORES NETFLIX AND HBO APPS. valuation) from huge names like Google, Alibaba, and Andreeson Horowitz.

Magic Leap

Magic Leap Augmented Reality Haptic Syria

Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And I’m particularly excited about all the progress has been made in applying VR and AR technology to difficult problems in healthcare. But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon. I’ve been studying this industry inside and out and I subscribe to Google Alerts for virtual and augmented reality.

Machine Learning

Machine Learning Technology Virtual Reality Healthcare

Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford's Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And I'm particularly excited about all the progress has been made in applying VR and AR technology to difficult problems in healthcare. But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon. I've been studying this industry inside and out and I subscribe to Google Alerts for virtual and augmented reality. It's just amazing.

Machine Learning

Machine Learning Technology Virtual Reality Healthcare

Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And I’m particularly excited about all the progress has been made in applying VR and AR technology to difficult problems in healthcare. But now we have better systems that I can order on Amazon. I’ve been studying this industry inside and out and I subscribe to Google Alerts for virtual and augmented reality.

Machine Learning

Machine Learning Technology Virtual Reality Healthcare

The XR Week Peek (2020.03.23): Half-Life: Alyx launches, Oculus Del Mar leaked, PS5 revealed and more!

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

More info (How to pre-load Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Leaked review of Half-Life: Alyx) More info (Suggestions on how to stream the game) More info (Valve Index on top of Steam charts) More info (Oculus Rift S soldout) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite gives Alyx for free) More info (Vive Cosmos Elite review) More info (Gabe Newell talks BCI).

Oculus

Oculus Magic Leap AR Augmented Reality

Virtual Reality Pulse

Tech Giants Prime AR’s Headworn Era

New to VR? A beginner’s guide

Trending Sources

Interview with Robert Scoble about Oculus Quest 2, Apple Glasses and more!

VRX 2017 Conference Brings an All Star Cast

NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference Officially Announced

Getting started with Augmented Reality (AR)

Who Will Own the Metaverse?

The Industrial Metaverse – Which Company Will Dominate?

The Down-Low on What You Need to Know (To Be Competitive in XR), with SuperData’s Carter Rogers

The Down-Low on What You Need to Know (To Be Competitive in XR), with SuperData’s Carter Rogers

The Down-Low on What You Need to Know (to be competitive in the XR field), with SuperData's Carter Rogers.

Getting the ROI out of XR, with Sector 5 Digital's Cameron Ayres

Getting the ROI out of XR, with Sector 5 Digital's Cameron Ayres

Getting the ROI out of XR, with Sector 5 Digital's Cameron Ayres

Getting the ROI out of XR, with Sector 5 Digital's Cameron Ayres

Off to Digital Market We Go, with InContext Solutions’ Tracey Wiedmeyer

Off to Digital Market We Go, with InContext Solutions’ Tracey Wiedmeyer

The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford's Dr. Walter Greenleaf

Three Decades of Medical VR, with Stanford’s Dr. Walter Greenleaf

The XR Week Peek (2020.03.23): Half-Life: Alyx launches, Oculus Del Mar leaked, PS5 revealed and more!

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