ARVR

AUGUST 10, 2022

A metaverse is a persistent online virtual environment that incorporates a broad range of Internet functions. In futurism, the term is often described as a hypothetical iteration of the Internet as a virtual world that is facilitated by the use of virtual and augmented reality headsets.“

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 13, 2017

Just like any other VR headset, Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) leaves plenty of room for improvement, and the company’s R&D division has a few ideas on where to take it on both a software and hardware level. Building on that, the company’s also interested in affecting the virtual world around you with gaze tracking.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

Let’s look at a couple of the ways that generative artificial intelligence taps into your creativity: ChatGPT as a Virtual Engine There are a number of ways to conceptualize a large language model like ChatGPT; but one is that it is actually a virtual world engine. It had persistent, virtual worlds called campaigns.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2022

The reason why I think that this news is super-important is two-sided: On one side, it means that a platform with 50M of daily users is coming into virtual reality. Engage is one of the most appreciated virtual reality professional social ecosystems, and it is used a lot for enterprise meetings and presentations and for university lessons.

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ARPost

JANUARY 29, 2020

The nature of AR technology gives us the ability to experience and create exciting new opportunities, dramatically impacting the way we interact and communicate with one another, giving birth to new applications and hardware. The electronics that do this will enable us to interact intuitively with virtual objects. Infotainment Trends.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The company got more than $10M of investment over the years, including important support from HTC Vive, which uses its spaces to organize the virtual events to launch its XR hardware. Engage Link wants to take the best of both worlds, and let you meet in VR professional people from your field while you stay at home.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But things on the consumers’ side may not be going as well: according to some data scrapped from Amazon, the Quest 2 outsold the Quest 3 by a factor of 3:1 in the last 30 days. This shows that the sales were good among us VR techies… I myself have stopped using the Quest 2 and almost always use the Quest 3 now. THREE TO ONE.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

I would bet on modified North Focals, because they fit very well with the provided description of the prototype hardware. These filings are public, so it is possible to read some data about these pieces of hardware in them. If you want to read all his insights, you can buy his book on Amazon, which has very positive reviews.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

It is also the time when all magazines create a list of “best of” the year and give awards to the best content and hardware … about which there is always someone that doesn’t agree. Somnium Space gives detail on its new hardware. a $100 Amazon Card). I like this approach. If you want to join it, click the link below.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 7, 2019

The CES is going to start tomorrow, but today HTC has already made its great announcements, showing to the world the upcoming new hardware Vive Pro Eye, Vive Cosmos and software solutions Viveport Infinity and Vive Reality system. The most important one has been the one with Mozilla and Amazon for a better use of the Web 3.0

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2023

More info (Ray-Ban Meta review) More info (Varjo XR-4 preview) Discover fashion in the digital worlds An interesting article in Vogue speaks about the new fashion trends in virtual worlds. This way every user can have decent full body tracking without having to buy external hardware and without having to wear anything.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

My favorite one is “interoperability” : you shoud be able to go through all virtual worlds carrying with you what you have got in one into the other ones. Networking libraries, VR hardware, AR glasses, common standards… nothing is ready to build the metaverse in the short term. Some headset surprise?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

Instead of having to physically bring an object to a person or bring a person to the object, digital twins allow decision-makers to review digitized items from anywhere in the world, speeding up processes and helping with environmental concerns. However, the technology is still finding its place in the enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

Meta is well-known for having performed some key acquisitions related to hardware, but also to software (e.g. It is becoming always more difficult for a new company entering the field: the key hardware suppliers of displays and other components are all being bought by Meta, Apple, Snap, Google, and other big players. Beat Games).

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

To give a bit of context, voice-based assistants have been around for over 60 years, but it wasn’t until recently that they picked up popular use with the introduction of smart home devices such as Google Home, and Amazon Echo. “It’s It’s a very different way for people to interact with technology and data.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

More info Police are investigating a sex assault in a virtual world It has been reported by various online outlets that a 16-year-old girl has been the victim of a sexual assault in a virtual VR world. This shows how in the Western world, VR is still much more popular in the US than in the rest of the countries.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2024

You put them on over your shoes, you put on a VR headset, and you walk, and you feel like you are actually going where you’re trying to go in the virtual world and experiencing it from a natural intuitive perspective. Just even, generally speaking, there aren’t a lot of hardware investors out there.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Some weeks ago, I teased you that Meta was going to change its plans about hardware, because the recent drop in revenues forced it to be a bit more cautious with its spending for “the metaverse”. More info (Report on new directions for hardware at Meta) More info (Meta smartwatch canceled) More info (Portal will be aimed at B2B).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Dubbed “The Metaverse Primer”, it describes all the various aspects of the metaverse, from hardware to software, not to mention networking and monetization. It is a very useful collection of articles for people that are new to this world and want to understand all the facets of the topic very fast. Amazon Lumberyard becomes opensource.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

The newest Steam Hardware Survey shows how Rift S has now more or less 8% of the market. More info (Steam Hardware Survey) More info (CCS Insights) More info (Strategy Analytics) More info (XRDC Report). Amazon thinks using AR for its delivery agents. Oculus is gaining importance among customers and developers. That is huge.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 28, 2022

We also want to recognize standout limited experiences as well as those that give you reasons to go beyond the most basic home VR hardware setups. You can watch Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Twitch, and YouTube with others using Bigscreen. Best Movie Theater.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to the report, there is internal confusion at Microsoft about how to work in the XR sector : some are favorable to building hardware, while others (including the CEO Nadella) are more interested in building platforms and services (like Azure, or Microsoft Mesh). Learn more. Les Mills BodyCombat.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

As I told you before, bHaptics suit and accessories, even if they actually shine in VR, are not VR-specific hardware. Grabbing things and putting them behind the back is overly satisfying with bHaptics hardware. bHaptics devices are already available through bHaptics website or through official resellers like Amazon.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Augmented Reality Augmented reality (AR) is an immersive experience where the objects that resides in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated information (virtual objects). An AR system comprises of three features: combination of real and virtual world, real-time interaction, and registration of virtual and real objects.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

AI is now being used to create virtual worlds, or “metaverses”, that are populated by digital avatars and objects that can be manipulated in real-time. One of the most significant impacts of AI on the metaverse will be increased realism for users interacting within these virtual worlds. Stay tuned!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

One common misconception of the metaverse is that it is a fully virtual world. When there are talks about the metaverse, given the influence of the above sci-fi novels, usually people imagine a fully virtual world. Honestly, I’m not sure that social VR worlds are the evolution of social networks.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It works connected to a phone, and while it doesn’t have any kind of tracking embedded, for tasks like watching Netflix it can be very useful (Thanks David for the tip); Amazon has announced the Echo Frames, its smart glasses that let you speak with Alexa. And… I’ve discovered JVC used some photoshopped stock images to showcase its product!

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NVidia VR

MARCH 18, 2024

The press release announcing Blackwell includes endorsements from Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Dell CEO Michael Dell, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison, and Tesla and xAI CEO Elon Musk.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

Both headsets can accommodate glasses, both have IPD adjustable via hardware and both of them are very fast to be worn and removed. When I returned to the initial point in the virtual world, my position in the real world was slightly different. 2 x 3.5mm audio jacks Connectivity: USB, Wi-fi, Bluetooth connection.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

It’s important to remember that every VR device fits one of three categories: mobile (meaning it uses the user’s smartphone to produce its virtual world), tethered (meaning the device must be hooked up to a PC or console) or more recently, “all-in-one” (meaning the computing hardware is built into the headset itself).

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Building the Metaverse

APRIL 12, 2022

Composability is at work in hardware when you link high-speed CPUs and GPUs together, such as how PCI or NVlink enable tens of billions of transistors to be recombined to optimize for certain use cases: [link] Where Composability Isn’t Composability isn’t always present. Play 2 Earn, Play & Earn… or Compose & Earn?

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

But we’d also expect to see the existing edge providers such as Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, the big cloud providers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and a host of open-source tools for automation, deployment, caching, federated learning, serverless computing and so on. Finally, what kinds of Transactions will happen in the AR Cloud?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

I guess it will be the final price and the available titles that will define what hardware will win the race. He has set a shooting game in his apartment, and in it he can also use his real table as a prop in the game , moving it in the real and virtual world together. Amazing demo, have a look at it! It seems fun.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. Charlie: Yeah it’s it’s a series on Amazon.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. Charlie: Yeah it’s it’s a series on Amazon.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

It's four times the size of Amazon. I think virtual augmented reality are really going to be a central role in doing that. It's just not giving them hardware and saying, "figure it out yourself.". The hardware is gonna just keep evolving, and that's fine. You can make these virtual worlds. Alan: I agree.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I feel like there’s so much of a mirroring of what’s happening in these virtual worlds that the training applications are just incredible, in terms of whether it’s a surgical simulation or Walmart’s using it to train for different employees. And we’re seeing these kind of rapid advances in technology.

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