XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. Now they’re pivoting the technology to suit more training-based use cases, and CEO Brandon Naids is on the show to explain how. He's the CEO and co-founder of Talon Simulations. Today's guest is Brandon Naids.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Weekend Downloads is part of our weekly update to bring you the latest additions to the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Rift. Oculus is also offering a $100 Oculus Store credit when you purchase a Rift from Best Buy, Amazon, and Microsoft in the US and Canada. This Week’s New Gear VR and Oculus Rift Content (11/26/16).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I’ve been working in technology and multimedia for the past 25 years , doing everything from graphic design, sound production and editing, music production, video, illustration, printing, coding, and everything in between. I mean, besides the Oculus Quest 2, there’s hardly anything to get locally. I live to create and create to live.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The studio, along with IMAX, have made it possible for audiences to explore environments like the Grand Canyon, the Amazon, and the Antarctic. Juanita: We really appreciate getting a better understanding of this growing technology, especially in how it’s carving out a new medium for film! Shaun MacGillivray.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

There is another reason that will make medium-big studios happy: from now on, there won’t be any revenue share with Epic until $1M of revenues of your game, a limit that raises to $5M if your game is published on Oculus Store. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0. More info (Oculus Link works with Usb 2.0?—?Road port and cable.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Varjo XR-4 is on sale for enterprises, but the company has also opened up a waiting list for interested consumers (especially simulator fans, I guess). 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.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 18, 2017

The VR project from Sanzaru Games and Disney’s Marvel is coming to the Oculus Rift exclusively next year and represents one of the biggest name projects ever to come to virtual reality. The Tick: Amazon lists a “virtual reality escape room” as part of its promotion of the live-actions version of The Tick. Warner Bros.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2018

I expected a lot of AR/VR news from there, like the announcement of the price of the Vive Pro or the release of the Oculus Go by Xiaomi and Facebook… but actually I’ve been disappointed by everyone. There was a setup that let them simulate a fly inside a ballon and it worked completely wireless. tracking technology.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Basically every VR experience will allow the user to feel as though they are in this simulated world and look around it, while more advanced systems allow for movement and interaction. Cardboard will give curious individuals a chance to dabble in VR without spending a lot of money on a technology they don’t expect to use regularly.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Facebook says that Beat Games will remain independent and the game will remain the same, but these are the same words that I’ve heard when in 2014 it acquired Oculus, and we all know how the story ended (and in fact, the popular Damo9000 ironized about it). Upload has published a shopping guide for your Oculus Link. Image by Valve).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

A market where Oculus has almost no earning s from the hardware sales, though, so it’s a weird situation. They are obtained thanks to a new lens technology, that is “pinhole effect” optics, that features little mirrors scattered on the surface of the lenses that reflects on the eye the images created by the projectors.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. You could do some sick simulations and distortions of the real world. Just get Amazon’s latest iPhone app. Using the new Siri you will be able to ask “how much are 20 of these on Amazon?”

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Even if most of this roundup will be about Oculus, I have decided to put another brand on top of it and it is Magic Leap. Together with Air Link, Oculus has also rolled out the new version of Oculus Avatars.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Augmented reality is a technology that allows us to superimpose digital information into the real-world environment. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. It has applications in training and educational use cases.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. The sales of Oculus Quest 2 have been great during the holidays , and the Quest has been a Christmas gift very much appreciated by kids (but wasn’t there an age limit?). Many Rift users reported problems in using the Oculus Store on PC this week , in particular in downloading games.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. 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. MWC Shanghai 2021 showcased some XR technologies.

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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. Oculus Link gets updated to 90Hz. Other relevant news. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

People started screaming at the “Oculus Quest competitor”, but I wonder why Apple should release a VR headset with just limited AR features after it has repeated for years that it doesn’t care about VR. Amazon acquires Umbra. Amazon has just acquired the Finnish company Umbra. Virtuactions proposes LBEVR with Oculus Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

monthly connected headsets only on Steam (so this doesn’t consider Oculus Store users and PSVR users), and t he year-over-year growth is +75%. He said that only on Christmas day, people spent $5M on the Oculus Store , and we can expect that most of this money was spent on Quest. Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

More info (Official Sony blogpost) More info (Summary by Upload VR) Pimax works for the release of Portal Pimax Portal, the Nintendo Switch-like console by Pimax , has just been released on Amazon. 1 billion of this money is planned in Germany, with €500 million for a new Technology Campus in Erlangen.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

Let me quote Upload VR: The executives say the average number of Oculus friends per account was 0.5 If you want to read all his insights, you can buy his book on Amazon, which has very positive reviews. The discussion also talked about the reasonings for requesting a Facebook account, and what he said puzzled me. Other news.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2020

Oculus Quest. Image courtesy Oculus. Oculus Quest is surely the most important headset to launch in 2019. The headset’s ease-of-use, solid game library, and reasonable price has pushed it to become Oculus’ best rated headset on Amazon thus far. Oculus Rift S. Image courtesy Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Rori is a strategic and innovations leader with over 20 years experience working in digital marketing, integrated media, creative brand advertising, and emerging technologies. So Accenture is a very large technology and strategy company with over 400,000 employees worldwide. We figure out these technologies, how can they be used?

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Rori is a strategic and innovations leader with over 20 years experience working in digital marketing, integrated media, creative brand advertising, and emerging technologies. So Accenture is a very large technology and strategy company with over 400,000 employees worldwide. We figure out these technologies, how can they be used?

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR. Being in a simulation has its benefits.

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CraneMorley

AUGUST 1, 2023

Simulation: The industrial metaverse can be used to simulate industrial processes. Here are some of the challenges of the industrial metaverse: Technology readiness: The industrial metaverse is still in its early stages of development, and the technology is not yet fully mature.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

score on the Oculus App Lab now. In the meanwhile, if you can, go giving 5 stars to the cube on App Lab … who knows if Facebook may consider promoting it on the main Oculus Store…. As for the controllers, they look like a mix of the Oculus Touch and the controllers of the Vive Focus Plus, with some important ergonomic adjustments.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2017

Digital Domain’s Monkey King VR – An action-packed cinematic VR adventure born out of 16th Century Chinese mythology and explored through 21st Century technology. The Tick: Amazon is bringing a virtual reality escape room to Comic-Con for their upcoming original series. Also available in VR – with both forms being demoed.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. January 2016.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

When thought of from this perspective, one can look at each evolution in human communication and the technologies that facilitate these advances as major factors propelling our species forward. The result for me and other Oculus owners was a dramatic increase in the fun factor and time spent in VR. William: “Are you real?”

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

base station tracking technology. HTC’s Marios Bikos: “The HTC VIVE Tracker allows you to not only track objects in VR (getting tracker pose in real-time) but also use the POGO pins to simulate input buttons (Grip/Trigger/Trackpad/Menu) as if you were using a Vive controller.”. Vive Tracker tracking. The HTC Vive Tracker 3.0

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

His primary role is developing the strategy and implementation of emerging technology, to best enhance digital projects. or, to do it just because the technology's cool. What is that low-hanging fruit for businesses to get involved, and just start with this technology? And how can we use emerging technology to do that?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

His primary role is developing the strategy and implementation of emerging technology, to best enhance digital projects. or, to do it just because the technology's cool. What is that low-hanging fruit for businesses to get involved, and just start with this technology? And how can we use emerging technology to do that?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

” Wise words from today’s guest, Somewhere Else CEO Christophe Mallet, who comes by the show to discuss how soft skills training — basically, training for human behavior — is now a wide-open industry, thanks to XR technology. Alan: You’ve been working in immersive technologies. Christophe: Thanks, Alan.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

His primary role is developing the strategy and implementation of emerging technology, to best enhance digital projects. or, to do it just because the technology's cool. What is that low-hanging fruit for businesses to get involved, and just start with this technology? And how can we use emerging technology to do that?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

His primary role is developing the strategy and implementation of emerging technology, to best enhance digital projects. or, to do it just because the technology's cool. What is that low-hanging fruit for businesses to get involved, and just start with this technology? And how can we use emerging technology to do that?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Wise words from today's guest, Somewhere Else CEO Christophe Mallet, who comes by the show to discuss how soft skills training -- basically, training for human behavior -- is now a wide-open industry, thanks to XR technology. Somewhere Else Solutions is a London based innovation agency specialized in immersive technologies.

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