XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Affected companies include Meta Platforms, Amazon, and the global cryptocurrency community. It features full colour passthrough, a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ chipset, and productivity and security tools for workers. According to IDC data, VR headset shipments are expected to increase 42.88 percent YoY for 2023. Optimism in XR.

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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 - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Since mid-2023, firms like Microsoft and Meta moved towards the wordage following the decline of faith towards the initial Metaverse wave towards the start of the year. More recently, at Ignite, Microsoft introduced the first updates to its 2024 roadmap, including avatar, immersive space, and AR guidance solutions.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 19, 2023

People seeking visas, passport renewals, and updated country info can use cross-platform tools to receive key information and documents for their travels. 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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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. Walmart was very active, beginning with its acquisition of VR startup Spatialand in February.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

Spatial computing is here, and it’s changing the world Millions, even billions of people worldwide, interact with spatial systems and tools daily. Developers and designers can use spatial tools to create immersive user experiences in these settings. GPS uses spatial tools like sensors to provide navigation support and direction.

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Bernard Marr

JANUARY 4, 2023

The barriers to entry can seem intimidating, however, from investment in infrastructure to training and recruiting the skilled workforce needed to put everything together. This is why the emergence of a new generation of no-code/low-code AI tools and platforms is so exciting. Amazon SageMaker. Amazon SageMaker.

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AR Insider

MARCH 8, 2021

This week, we look at takeaways from Microsoft Ignite, Space X, Pokemon Go and VR training from Bank of America. The company is going all in on Mixed Reality, to paraphrase its chief executive Satya Nadella, who used Microsoft’s AltspaceVR platform for his keynote. W elcome back to Spatial Beats. Psychic VR Lab raises $8.5M

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

It also means companies can, to some extent, avoid the hassle of hiring or training a highly specialized workforce if they want to take advantage of these breakthrough technologies. Gathering data and training algorithms require huge amounts of computing power and storage space that is generally more cost-efficient to rent as-a-service.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The new industrial tools aim to tackle the rising demand for remote guidance, repair, maintenance, and training-based AR applications. Epson’s demoed its Moverio BT-45C and BT-45CS devices at the event.

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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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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JANUARY 23, 2023

Google’s layoffs come just days after Microsoft and Amazon announced cutbacks of roughly 10,000 employees. ChatGPT for Enterprise On a more positive note, virtual reality (VR) training pioneer Virtualspeech integrated trending ChatGPT technologies into its enterprise-grade immersive learning platform last week.

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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. Meta has a fantastic selection of apps and tools on its app store.

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AR Insider

MARCH 16, 2021

The latter powers Google’s Live View AR navigation tool. 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. 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

Sahni also highlighted how new workplace applications are coming to Quest 3, including Microsoft Mesh, Windows 365, and Adobe High Five. The responsibility also falls into the hands of the headset vendors who advertise their products as suitable workplace tools. However, Meta is planning to debut the service later this year.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

thanks to a better training). Traditionally, leading tech vendors have invested in distributed network infrastructure, but many of them (such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft) are adapting to a new paradigm to support localized, persistent, collaborative, shared, multiuser interactions.

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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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ARVR

MARCH 24, 2021

The latter powers Google’s Live View AR navigation tool. 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. our ongoing “training wheels” principle. Meanwhile, AR cloud goals and approaches will vary.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

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. The first comes from the major consultancy brand Accenture, which has just announced that it is going to deploy 60,000 Oculus Quest 2 headsets for the training of new employees.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So where this lower layer of software comes as a bunch of tools. Or if you want to train somebody on-- take the example of training. And then when the product gets built on the manufacturing line, you have a lot of training involved. You put new tools in place. A video is not like a walkthrough.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So where this lower layer of software comes as a bunch of tools. Or if you want to train somebody on-- take the example of training. And then when the product gets built on the manufacturing line, you have a lot of training involved. You put new tools in place. A video is not like a walkthrough.

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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. This means that in 2020, AR and VR will still be used mostly in the enterprise sector, and mostly for training and maintenance.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So where this lower layer of software comes as a bunch of tools. Or if you want to train somebody on-- take the example of training. And then when the product gets built on the manufacturing line, you have a lot of training involved. You put new tools in place. A video is not like a walkthrough.

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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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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. Mobile application.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

All social companies are now competing on who can offer the best tools to create them: the one having the lead is currently Snapchat (that has been the first startup believing in augmentations), which has already implemented full-body filters, and location-based filters, where you can augment certain landmarks of various cities. Sounded good.

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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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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

8th Wall recently partnered with Amazon Sumerian on a WebAR ad experience where, with just a click of a banner ad, an AR experience placed a 3D Spiderman into your space for you to interact with directly in your mobile browser. The hope is that the interactivity and training will lead to increased purchase conversion.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

But, you know, companies should select the right tool for the job. 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. Alan: So interesting. Alan: Sure. Alan: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

But, you know, companies should select the right tool for the job. 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. Alan: So interesting. Alan: Sure. Alan: Absolutely.

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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

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. Learn more.

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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. Earlier this year, it was revealed that Nvidia’s A100 GPU chips are training OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT. We’ve already seen examples of companies leveraging Nvidia’s tools for supercomputing use cases.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores. VR headsets will become MR ones.

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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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