XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 18, 2023

Chat GPT is the latest trending tech topic, kicking off 2023 with an AI-powered chatbot which answers general-purpose questions and requests. As innovative firms explore enterprise use cases for Chat GPT, Virtualspeech integrates Chat GPT systems into virtual reality (VR) business solutions. Codex, and DALL.E Codex, and DALL.E

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 21, 2018

While E-commerce and digital marketing have proven to be effective platforms, Virtual Reality (VR) is the next innovative technology that will improve and impact the retail and marketing sectors, with market-foresight advisory firm ABI Research forecasting that VR in retail and marketing sectors is expected to generate US$1.8

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JANUARY 27, 2023

Following last week’s theme of layoffs across the tech sector, this week continues the unemployment trend as influential groups reassess the space and US Courts aim at Google. Recently, Microsoft entered an extended partnership with OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, to expand the tech solution to business clients.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2024

Road To VR published some statistics comparing the sales of Quest and PSVR 2 on Amazon US over the holiday season, and the proportion of sold Quests to sold PSVR 2 is 30 to 1! He clearly said that: “I don’t know how to more unequivocally state that we’re continuing to focus on Reality Labs and the metaverse”.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 2, 2018

The Brazilian-born inventor gets recognition for his groundbreaking work with the Microsoft Hololens. The HoloLens incorporates several patent-protected Microsoft inventions, including Kipman’s motion sensors initially brought to market for the Xbox Kinect video game controller. billion in 2016. billion in 2016.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

During XR Today’s Trends series, Frank Furnari, Chief Executive and Founder of ARuVR , discussed some of his firm’s success stories leveraging immersive training for clients. Moreover, during the XR Trends, Lenovo joined XR Today in a discussion highlighting the potential benefits of immersive training and learning.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Microsoft, Google, the XRA – and That’s Just One Talk. A talk on day two will discuss “Reframing Identity for Mixed Reality,” and feature Carrie Valladares of Microsoft , Karim Mohammadali of Google , and XR Association Vice President of Public Policy Joan O’Hara. So Much More to See at AWE EU 2022.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

IEEE VR + 3D User Interfaces March 25-29th, Shanghai 2023 marks the 30 th anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User interfaces. The conference this year will feature speeches and insights from some market-leading brands, including Microsoft, Ubisoft, and Accenture.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! What will see a decreasing trend is everything that is about people going outside.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JANUARY 23, 2023

The penultimate week of January has, yet again, shaken up the extended reality (XR) industry. Despite a promising couple of weeks following CES 2023, the year appears to continue last year’s trend of poor stock performance and numerous layoffs across the technology industry.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In fact, the device sold out at retailers such as Amazon, Walmart and Newegg. Dairy farmers in Russia started testing Virtual Reality on their dairy cows. Virtual Worship. Churches across the US are embracing technology, including conducting whole services in Virtual Reality. “We Cows Like VR Too.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

That trend has been keenly anticipated by the VR/AR Global Summit. One of the largest industry events in North America, the Vancouver-based conference will spotlight how tech giants and startups are creating new ways to visualize and interact with virtual worlds. Now, the hardware cycle is drawing to a close.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

With partners like Unity, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Intel, the GDC event showcases some of the latest technologies in the XR world from the biggest businesses. IEEE’s virtual reality conference acts as a venue for the presentation of market-leading research results in the areas of virtual reality and 3D user interfaces.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta.

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ARVR

JUNE 30, 2020

According to Gartner market research, by 2020 there will be 100M consumers shopping with AR online and in stores, and 46% of retailers plan to integrate Augmented Reality or Virtual Reality into shopping experiences. IKEA’s Augmented Reality in use (above). Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

New leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt have revealed that probably the headset will be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. IVAS is meant to increase the capabilities of the soldiers deployed on the field thanks to the support of augmented reality glasses. Hope you enjoy!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

I think that from the results of this battle, which will happen most probably in 2022, we will understand the trends that will drive the VR gaming market in all the upcoming years. 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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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It had started gaining interest in the metaverse trend ever since. In this article, we will discuss on augmented reality. Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. Mixed Reality (MR)  — It is a combination of both AR and VR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2023

Apple TV : both immersive sports content and traditional video content – the latter presented in virtual environments, such as a desert or the sky (sport broadcasting tech could come from the acquisition of NextVR) Apple Books : will allow users to read in virtual reality.

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ARVR

APRIL 5, 2021

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3. Amazon is motivated for similar reasons?—?a Going down the list, Microsoft is motivated to drive and future proof its core product: enterprise productivity. Key questions include, what did we learn in the past year?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2024

Auidences are watching, developers are already working on realityOS applications, and XR device vendors are making a move towards the spatial computing trend of 2024. On the other hand, firms like Magic Leap and XREAL are receiving millions in funding to potentially leapfrog the forecasted success of Apple’s Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

After having written my predictions for virtual reality in 2020 , let’s see what will be the trends for this year in augmented reality. A worker wearing HoloLens 2 (Image by Microsoft). Let me be very honest: I’m not expecting that much from this year in augmented reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

Without spatial technology, a virtual reality environment would be something you could see and walk around, but never touch or interact with. You could see a virtual book on a table, but reaching out wouldn’t let you flip through the pages. Amazon: Amazon is also highly invested in spatial systems.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

3 big titles are showing the current trends of VR gaming. This confirms that Facebook has de facto abandoned PCVR; It marks the beginning of a new trend for VR games: the game occupies around 40–45 GB on the device, so it is not suitable at all for the original 64 GB version of Quest 2. More info. News worth a mention. Image by ambr).

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 22, 2022

Stephenson is the person credited with first connecting the term "metaverse" to the idea of an immersive virtual reality in his 1992 novel Snow Crash. Satya Nadella , Microsoft MSFT -1.4%. Microsoft’s CEO understands that the metaverse concept will impact every part of the way we do business. Neal Stephenson, Author.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I’m trying to keep expectations in place not because I want to be negative about VR (I’m a strong believer in the tech), but because in the past I’ve already seen that trend of setting unrealistic expectations and then writing “VR is dead” the day after when the market of course haven’t reached those results. Wait, what???

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The news of the week is that Meta is poaching talents from all the other companies : in particular, it has been able to “steal” 100 employees from the HoloLens team in Microsoft. I think it’s impossible to create a healthy competitive space in the XR field for both hardware and software if the trend is this one.

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ARVR

MARCH 24, 2021

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. 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. It works by activating the smartphone camera to “localize” a device by recognizing where it is. The Possibility of AR on the Urban Space 2.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Mr. Mike Powell, he is the head of the Microsoft Garage and the author of “Age of Smart Information,” a new book about how artificial intelligence and spatial computing will transform the way we communicate forever. ” And I guess he sent it to me on Amazon. Today’s guest is somebody absolutely spectacular.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Mr. Mike Powell, he is the head of the Microsoft Garage and the author of “Age of Smart Information,” a new book about how artificial intelligence and spatial computing will transform the way we communicate forever. ” And I guess he sent it to me on Amazon. Today’s guest is somebody absolutely spectacular.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft has released more specifications for its upcoming XBOX Series X, and from these data is clearly possible to see that it will be compatible with VR headsets. 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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

And it has not been only Facebook this time: also companies like Microsoft and Epic started promoting the metaverse (Epic got $1B to develop it), and this has created a big tsunami in the tech world. the ones listed above), we started having the cowboys coming to dig some gold in XR following the latest trend. The fluffverse.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This week we had tons of news about new upcoming augmented reality glasses and smartglasses: Oppo has revealed the second iteration of its augmented reality glasses. A talent show with virtual idols starts in China. If you’re thinking “it is another Nreal Light clone”, well, yes it is. What a weird decision…). Image by iQiYi).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Because all these numbers smell of monopoly: if this is the trend, we risk that by the end of the year, Facebook controls 99% of the consumer standalone market and 75% of the PC VR market, giving it too much power. Last week we talked about Microsoft HoloLens Industrial Edition , and this week we have some new info about it.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Curran also thinks augmented reality and virtual reality will be hot, and that companies that wrap everything up in effective services will win consumers’ hearts. I also spoke with Curran about the big trends at CES 2016. VB: What’s the first major trend you expect? I’ll be excited to see that.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

From these data, it is clearly readable that 2020 won’t be the “year of VR” , but will be a year in which VR will improve and grow, following the trends of 2019 (enterprise first). affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon? affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link) More info (Pimax 5K+ on Amazon?—?affiliate

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