XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 2022, the Immerse Global Summit featured speakers from some of the world’s best-known brands, including Amazon, Meta, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and Unity, and demonstrations of some of the most exciting metaverse technologies. Unity shared how digital twins were helping its customers unlock new levels of innovation.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools ?—?Pre-release More info (Apple threatens Epic) More info (Microsoft files an official support for Epic).

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A slew of big names have begun announcing metaverse projects, like Facebook which went so far as to rename its parent company Meta , Niantic (the makers of Pokémon Go) , Amazon, Roblox, Unity Software and Microsoft.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Moreover, Sahni quickly highlighted the importance of working with third-party software vendors to ensure the success of enterprise VR programs. The Meta representative noted that the firm works with more than 900 independent software companies to provide ongoing XR growth.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

On the software side, HTC has just launched in China Vive Sync , a solution for remote meetings in VR that may help a lot the Chinese people that are forced to work from home. Image by Microsoft). This reinforces my belief that Microsoft in 2021–2022 will add VR support to it , to fight the PSVR when the market will be riper.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This is a huge problem for Meta, which subsidizes hardware with software sales. In the month of October, companies will be able to use Mesh inside Microsoft Teams, so members of a company can meet in a 3D space (in VR or flatscreen) and interact together.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon? affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Johnson has worked at Microsoft and Qualcomm before, and she is a very respected executive. Amazon is opening its AR Beauty Salon.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR…. Apart from the hardware, Somnium is moving well also on the software side: the graphics of the virtual world is improving over time, and soon will be released the first game built on top of Somnium.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We’re already seeing aspects of spatial computing emerge in everything from collaborative platforms like Microsoft Teams to smartphones. Advancements in Hardware and Wearables Spatial computing solutions rely on a combination of intuitive hardware and powerful software. With a projected value of $544.6

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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. As John Riccitiello (CEO of Unity) said some years ago , the VR market won’t be interesting enough until it will reach the 10 million users mark. They control all their ecosystem : software, hardware, chips.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We’re already seeing aspects of spatial computing emerge in everything from collaborative platforms like Microsoft Teams to smartphones. Advancements in Hardware and Wearables Spatial computing solutions rely on a combination of intuitive hardware and powerful software. With a projected value of $544.6

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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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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. You can see this in today’s AR products (and despite what Microsoft or Magic Leap call their devices, they really are augmented reality devices that you wear on your face).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 has disappeared from all Amazon EU websites. Kudos to Shachar Weis for discovering this: he told me about this news, and I have verified that it has disappeared completely from Amazon Italy and Amazon France, while some Redditors confirmed that the same holds for Amazon UK. This could be The Unity Cube 2.0.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market. It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova. It can be readily recognized by the software with very little processing overhead. Types of AR Following are the types of AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

A game engine is a piece of software, it does a lot of things in real time. That's the software on which you can build a game like Fortnite, or you can build a car configurator. So where this lower layer of software comes as a bunch of tools. But that multi-user capability, which is not very common in desktop software.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

A game engine is a piece of software, it does a lot of things in real time. That's the software on which you can build a game like Fortnite, or you can build a car configurator. So where this lower layer of software comes as a bunch of tools. But that multi-user capability, which is not very common in desktop software.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. In fact, developers using Unity and SteamVR start effectively standardizing this mixed reality capture method. March 2016. November 2016.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

A game engine is a piece of software, it does a lot of things in real time. That's the software on which you can build a game like Fortnite, or you can build a car configurator. So where this lower layer of software comes as a bunch of tools. But that multi-user capability, which is not very common in desktop software.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. But its reputation as a video game engine can also be intimidating — especially to those who want to create AR software for enterprise. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. But its reputation as a video game engine can also be intimidating — especially to those who want to create AR software for enterprise. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Some time ago, it had already released the public specifications for the headset , and so many 3rd party vendors had been able to design and sell their viewers, but now even all the software has been released on GitHub. That is, all the software layer of Cardboard is public domain now. Image from Amazon). The hype is rising….

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. But its reputation as a video game engine can also be intimidating -- especially to those who want to create AR software for enterprise. You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. Virtual humans are getting more and more real.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. And so my co-founder at his lab in Oxford really just invented a way to do that in real time on a regular phone, all in-software. firm investing in AR solutions.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. And so my co-founder at his lab in Oxford really just invented a way to do that in real time on a regular phone, all in-software. firm investing in AR solutions.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. And so my co-founder at his lab in Oxford really just invented a way to do that in real time on a regular phone, all in-software. firm investing in AR solutions.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The software suffers because the budget is taken from that. We're not talking, "we designed it better with a new software." They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Cameron: So, I'll start with the software side of it. This is a monumental shift. This is like, a whole new way of designing.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The software suffers because the budget is taken from that. We're not talking, "we designed it better with a new software." They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Cameron: So, I'll start with the software side of it. This is a monumental shift. This is like, a whole new way of designing.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The software suffers because the budget is taken from that. We're not talking, "we designed it better with a new software." They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Cameron: So, I'll start with the software side of it. This is a monumental shift. This is like, a whole new way of designing.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The software suffers because the budget is taken from that. We're not talking, "we designed it better with a new software." They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. Cameron: So, I'll start with the software side of it. This is a monumental shift. This is like, a whole new way of designing.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

You can build in Unity, it’s the same thing. 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. But with all the investment of the Apples, the Microsofts, the Googles, the Facebooks, the Amazon.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

You can build in Unity, it’s the same thing. 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. But with all the investment of the Apples, the Microsofts, the Googles, the Facebooks, the Amazon.

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