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

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The world received a gift three years ago, in the form of AR technology from the likes of Google and Apple - ARKit and ARCore. Google gave a grant to the DuSable Museum in Chicago, so they wanted to reboot the Mayor Harold Washington exhibit. It could have been a prospective student tour at Arizona State University. Oh, do I miss that!

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The world received a gift three years ago, in the form of AR technology from the likes of Google and Apple - ARKit and ARCore. Google gave a grant to the DuSable Museum in Chicago, so they wanted to reboot the Mayor Harold Washington exhibit. It could have been a prospective student tour at Arizona State University. Oh, do I miss that!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. Learning and training have probably become the biggest use case across industries. Enterprise users will be more likely to spend time in the headset, and this should even further accelerate training, learning, and development use cases for enterprises.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The world received a gift three years ago, in the form of AR technology from the likes of Google and Apple - ARKit and ARCore. Google gave a grant to the DuSable Museum in Chicago, so they wanted to reboot the Mayor Harold Washington exhibit. It could have been a prospective student tour at Arizona State University. Oh, do I miss that!

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!” ” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. I think what you’re doing is very smart, because we’re also seeing the same thing where we’re focused kind of on the training side of things.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!” ” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. I think what you’re doing is very smart, because we’re also seeing the same thing where we’re focused kind of on the training side of things.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We've got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, "We want that!". Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. I think what you're doing is very smart, because we're also seeing the same thing where we're focused kind of on the training side of things. And training is a good example.

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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. In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! XR is going to conquer the consumer market.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. He's designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer. Austin: Thank you for having me, excited to be here.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. And that’s just in North America. Training in VR is one of the big applications and opportunities, and that’s where a lot of investment is happening. A lot of companies focusing on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. And that’s just in North America. Training in VR is one of the big applications and opportunities, and that’s where a lot of investment is happening. A lot of companies focusing on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. And that's just in North America. Training in VR is one of the big applications and opportunities, and that's where a lot of investment is happening. A lot of companies focusing on it. A lot of companies picking up on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But we’ve got some amazing people this year, both in the enterprise side — so talking about training — we’ve got a whole defense and government sector that’s happening at the event this year, a couple hours of that. Anne-Marie: So they have taken their training globally into VR and AR with their staff.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But we’ve got some amazing people this year, both in the enterprise side — so talking about training — we’ve got a whole defense and government sector that’s happening at the event this year, a couple hours of that. Anne-Marie: So they have taken their training globally into VR and AR with their staff.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But we’ve got some amazing people this year, both in the enterprise side — so talking about training — we’ve got a whole defense and government sector that’s happening at the event this year, a couple hours of that. Anne-Marie: So they have taken their training globally into VR and AR with their staff.

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ARPost

AUGUST 10, 2022

In a recent tweet by the POTUS, Biden said that “the future of the microchip industry is going to be ‘Made in America.’” She stated that XR and immersive tech have great potential in healthcare , education , and workforce training. Google, HTC Vive, Microsoft, Meta, and Sony Interactive Entertainment jointly created XRA.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. He’s designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. He’s designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 29, 2022

The US House of Representatives successfully voted on the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Act [HR 4346] on Thursday, allowing “immersive technology” to enter a key focus of development for technology across the nation, the XR Association announced Thursday.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 17, 2022

Last year’s half-day event gathered professionals and executives across the industry to explore training and education use cases for immersive technology. SaveTheDate : We are hosting the Limitless Future Conference for the second year in a row! billion USD for chipmakers and immersive tech firms.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger says that AR training can allow those workers to qualify themselves for all sorts of tasks, and have fun doing it, to boot. And then work training, because training is also a lot of communication. Also, for training processes, AR is really good thing, a tool to make things visible.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger says that AR training can allow those workers to qualify themselves for all sorts of tasks, and have fun doing it, to boot. And then work training, because training is also a lot of communication. Also, for training processes, AR is really good thing, a tool to make things visible.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

A lot of it involved training with staff. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. I'm a Microsoft master trainer, so I do a lot of work with Microsoft technology. He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And XR Collaboration introduces that way of thinking, that way of training each other, and mentoring each other, and using that technology to express our creativity. We also saw a growth of AR glasses, not in America and not North America, not the rest of the world, but in China. Nobody can. There's a huge problem.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And XR Collaboration introduces that way of thinking, that way of training each other, and mentoring each other, and using that technology to express our creativity. We also saw a growth of AR glasses, not in America and not North America, not the rest of the world, but in China. Nobody can. Alex: [chuckles].

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

A lot of it involved training with staff. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. I'm a Microsoft master trainer, so I do a lot of work with Microsoft technology. He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

A lot of it involved training with staff. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. I'm a Microsoft master trainer, so I do a lot of work with Microsoft technology. He'd also chaired the Independent Digital Strategy Group for eight years there.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

We have about 40 million under management and we invest in primarily in North America, but also in Asia and Europe, too. And I actually had the opportunity to DJ at the Microsoft Build conference in — I want to say 2015 or 2016 — in the Wave, which was incredible. So it’s more like AR on a Google map.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

We have about 40 million under management and we invest in primarily in North America, but also in Asia and Europe, too. And I actually had the opportunity to DJ at the Microsoft Build conference in — I want to say 2015 or 2016 — in the Wave, which was incredible. So it’s more like AR on a Google map.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And XR Collaboration introduces that way of thinking, that way of training each other, and mentoring each other, and using that technology to express our creativity. We also saw a growth of AR glasses, not in America and not North America, not the rest of the world, but in China. Nobody can. Alex: [chuckles].

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

For example, if you’re in downtown San Francisco, and you’re calling an Uber, you’re going to have to manually place on the Google map where you are almost every time, because it’s going to be off by half a block or more as to where your real location is. Google, about a month ago, announced their AR navigation system.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

For example, if you’re in downtown San Francisco, and you’re calling an Uber, you’re going to have to manually place on the Google map where you are almost every time, because it’s going to be off by half a block or more as to where your real location is. Google, about a month ago, announced their AR navigation system.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

We have about 40 million under management and we invest in primarily in North America, but also in Asia and Europe, too. And I actually had the opportunity to DJ at the Microsoft Build conference in — I want to say 2015 or 2016 — in the Wave, which was incredible. So it’s more like AR on a Google map.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

There’s a hundred Macy’s across America that have VR now. But with all the investment of the Apples, the Microsofts, the Googles, the Facebooks, the Amazon. Wal-Mart just rolled out 17,000 VR headsets to train their staff. This increased our training retentions by 25 percent.” Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

There’s a hundred Macy’s across America that have VR now. But with all the investment of the Apples, the Microsofts, the Googles, the Facebooks, the Amazon. Wal-Mart just rolled out 17,000 VR headsets to train their staff. This increased our training retentions by 25 percent.” Alan: Yeah.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Naria Santalucia, Microsoft. The news comes months after the XRA, joining lobbying efforts with the Congressional Reality Caucus, saw the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Act, leading to the US Government funding billions for emerging technologies across the country. Chair Jessica?Lindl,

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