XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Affected companies include Meta Platforms, Amazon, and the global cryptocurrency community. Multinational XR firms like Lenovo, ByteDance’s Pico Interactive, HTC VIVE, Varjo, and Microsoft are leading the charge for immersive transformations. According to IDC data, VR headset shipments are expected to increase 42.88

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 8, 2024

Aside from supporting collaboration between remote and hybrid workers, immersive solutions also have the potential to elevate field worker safety and productivity, improve training initiatives, and enhance interactions with customers. Companies can use remote guidance tools to train and onboard new team members.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 19, 2023

Virtual reality combines hardware and software to immerse users in digital environments for numerous use cases, including learning, entertainment, therapy, and others. This also applies to companies like IKEA and Amazon, where customers can superimpose virtual furniture, electronics, and clothing stocks in physical locations.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

For Apple , it’s all about hardware and making its devices more attractive. For Amazon , it’s selling us stuff. And for Microsoft , it’s enterprise productivity. Its image database from years of indexing images provides a sort of training set for object recognition, which is parlayed into visual search.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Read on for a recap of the major developments that took place in 2018: Enterprises that made the news for using wearables: In 2018, major retailers got more serious about XR in hopes of competing with Amazon and improving the shopping experience. Hardware announcements: Head-worn. The company’s direction is unclear.

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ARPost

MAY 3, 2021

The reason for this is that companies have found new applications for AR such as customer education, onboarding and training of employees, security, product design and repair, travel and navigation, and even farming and surgery. Microsoft has taken the lead in this space with its HoloLens smart glasses, but Facebook isn’t far behind.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

While companies like Walmart are preparing for the busiest shopping day of the year with Black Friday VR training simulators , i’m sure all you really care about is how to save some major dough this holiday weekend. Microsoft ‘Mixed Reality’ Headset Discounts. Shop on Amazon. Sold on Samsung and Amazon.

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ARVR

MARCH 22, 2022

Google could be the knowledge layer, Facebook could be the social layer, Microsoft the enterprise productivity layer, and Amazon the commerce layer. Apple will be a hardware powerhouse to represent the user touchpoint to all layers. This is the AR-as-a-feature approach that gives the technology a set of training wheels.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 19, 2024

In the last year, many companies have created enterprise-focused headsets for collaboration, product development, training, and more. The Meta Quest Pro has numerous optional accessories from Amazon, the Meta online store, and other vendors. That move makes sense as more vendors recognize the demand for VR in the commercial landscape.

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AR Insider

MARCH 16, 2021

If Google is the spatial web’s knowledge layer, Facebook could be its social layer , Microsoft the enterprise productivity layer , and Amazon the commerce layer. Apple will be a hardware powerhouse for the physical touchpoint. AR was eased into the use case rather than forced — our ongoing “training wheels” principle.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 31, 2023

AWE 2023: Meta Quest for Bussiness to Launch this Year This month is proving pivotal for Meta’s current wave of XR hardware. Sahni also highlighted how new workplace applications are coming to Quest 3, including Microsoft Mesh, Windows 365, and Adobe High Five. However, Meta is planning to debut the service later this year.

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EON Reality

JUNE 18, 2019

We have very good relationships with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google, but you’re free to choose the programming languages and alliance partner that best fits the requirements of your project. Our core competencies here are C# and.NET, but we’re very agnostic in terms of other technologies.

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EON Reality

JULY 30, 2021

The introduction of the knowledge metaverse could change learning, training and performing as we know it. For infrastructure, EON Reality is able to rely on the world’s largest hosting company, Amazon Web Services , to provide a cloud-based backbone.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The new Oculus device was by the way another piece of hardware that was by chance “leaked” in a timely way so that to excite everyone for Facebook Connect 2. We are in the middle of a cheap shortage, and now Valve hardware product lines are devoted to the SteamDeck, so it’s improbable that a new production line is starting immediately.

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ARVR

MARCH 24, 2021

If Google is the spatial web’s knowledge layer, Facebook could be its social layer , Microsoft the enterprise productivity layer , and Amazon the commerce layer. Apple will be a hardware powerhouse for the physical touchpoint. our ongoing “training wheels” principle. Meanwhile, AR cloud goals and approaches will vary.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Yet no one was deploying at scale and I had this unique position at Vuzix — because there are so few hardware providers — that we were able to see thousands of pilots and POCs, in all different regions and different use cases. There’s fault in the hardware manufacturers. Here’s the hardware.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Yet no one was deploying at scale and I had this unique position at Vuzix — because there are so few hardware providers — that we were able to see thousands of pilots and POCs, in all different regions and different use cases. There’s fault in the hardware manufacturers. Here’s the hardware.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Yet no one was deploying at scale and I had this unique position at Vuzix -- because there are so few hardware providers -- that we were able to see thousands of pilots and POCs, in all different regions and different use cases. There's fault in the hardware manufacturers. Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Facebook keeps running fast towards its vision of the m verse, both from a hardware and software standpoint. VR training goes big with Accenture and Bank of America. This week we had two big news that endorsed the importance of training in virtual reality. More info (Varjo’s event) More info (Pimax’s event).

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

Additionally, engineers train Deep Learning algorithms to accurately detect markers in live video data. At the same time, personal voice assistants developed by tech giants — Alexa from Amazon, Siri from Apple, and Google Assistant — are standing at the forefront of the audio augmented reality market.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

This means that in 2020, AR and VR will still be used mostly in the enterprise sector, and mostly for training and maintenance. More info (Best Black Friday deals) More info (Cyber Monday VR deals) More info (Sales on Oculus Quest games) More info (Other sales on Oculus Quest games) More info (Rift S discounted on Amazon?—?affiliate

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. We all know that this thought has not aged well, and that Microsoft has failed completely entering the phone market, with billions of loss because of that. They control all their ecosystem : software, hardware, chips.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A report from Insider states that Microsoft may have canceled its plans for HoloLens 3. There is instead a rumored partnership with Samsung , where Samsung would actually build a new XR device and Microsoft offer the platform on top of which the headset may run. Some updates on Meta products. Learn more. Les Mills BodyCombat.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has applications in training and educational use cases. Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market. Amazon Sumerian   — Amazon Sumerian enables users to create and run virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and 3D applications quickly without requiring any specialized programming expertise.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. Sounded good. Smartglasses.

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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 Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 2, 2024

These are the chips companies need to train cutting-edge AI programs like OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4 and Google’s PaLM 2. As demand for intelligent and spatial computing increases, businesses need hardware that supports high amounts of memory. AMD also said it plans on growing its momentum with other AI software and hardware partners.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

We have no clue of when it will be released, but if you remember, last week Youtuber Eric For President revealed that some sources of his talk about a September reveal for the “VR hardware we want” from Facebook. Some reviews of VR hardware. If you love technical hardware details about XR devices, I recommend you read this article!

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CraneMorley

AUGUST 1, 2023

Training: The industrial metaverse can be used to create immersive training experiences for workers. This can help to improve safety and productivity, as well as reduce the need for on-the-job training. Microsoft believes that the industrial metaverse has the potential to revolutionize the way that industries operate.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie: VR has a lot of fantastic applications in training and simulation. You can have that in your warehouse, and whenever you’re training a new worker, you have them spend a few hours on the simulator. But the success seems to be, right now, limited to both medical applications and training applications. Alan: Sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie: VR has a lot of fantastic applications in training and simulation. You can have that in your warehouse, and whenever you’re training a new worker, you have them spend a few hours on the simulator. But the success seems to be, right now, limited to both medical applications and training applications. Alan: Sure.

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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. Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic). Its wizarding successor grossed $12M in its first month.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Johnson has worked at Microsoft and Qualcomm before, and she is a very respected executive. Yes, it will be hard against Microsoft, which is well poised in the field, but the market is so new and growing that there is the place for more than one single company. Amazon is opening its AR Beauty Salon. I’m here waiting for them.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 18, 2024

We’re going to train it with multimodality data, not just text on the internet, we’re going to train it on texts and images, graphs and charts, and just as we learned watching TV, there’s going to be a whole bunch of watching video.” its predecessor’s performance in FP8 for training, per chip, and 5x with FP4 for inference.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While the first version was an all-in-one with diffractive waveguides like Microsoft HoloLens, the new one is an all-in-two light device that connects to your smartphone and uses birdbath optics. KLM is a company at the forefront of B2B usage of VR, having developed many VR solutions for the training of its crew. Other relevant news.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

We provide estimates on hardware numbers for consumer and enterprise; hardware shipments, hardware revenue for VR devices, AR/MR devices. I think we’ve seen the Go has seen some early success, with companies like Walmart announcing that they were buying a lot of them to train employees for things like customer service.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

We provide estimates on hardware numbers for consumer and enterprise; hardware shipments, hardware revenue for VR devices, AR/MR devices. I think we’ve seen the Go has seen some early success, with companies like Walmart announcing that they were buying a lot of them to train employees for things like customer service.

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