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CES 2017 VR And AR News Roundup: Everything You Might Have Missed

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV is traditionally one of the largest tech events of the entire year and CES 2017 is no different. We Visited The First Oculus-Powered Bar In Las Vegas [ Link ]. Gap And Google Just Showed Us How AR Shopping Will Work [ Link ].

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.09): Qualcomm XR2 defines the future of XR, Magic Leap having tragic sales, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

If you had 10,000$ to spend and you asked me how to spend them, I would probably give you two options: one is going to Las Vegas with me and have a crazy night of fun, and the other one is buying a Varjo XR-1, with the latter being the preferred choice. HTC won’t announce anything big at CES. Varjo launches its XR-1 headset.

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As UploadVR Turns 2 We Reflect On The First Full Year of Consumer VR

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

We’ll have more soon about Upload’s next steps, including our expansion into LA and beyond, but we thought this would be a good opportunity to recap the year that saw VR transition to the consumer market. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google. November 2015.

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Accenture’s Top 5 Predictions For What Will Be Hot At CES 2017

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Roughly 177,000 people are expected to converge on Las Vegas next week for the Consumer Electronics Show. When you think about things like intelligent assistants, we have embedded services like Siri from Apple, Google Home, Amazon Echo with Alexa. Valve and HTC have the Vive. John Curran. Facebook has Oculus.

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

XR for Business Podcast

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.

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

XR for Business Podcast

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.

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

XR for Business Podcast

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.