VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Originally started in 2015 as a traveling VR film festival spanning 10 cities in North America, Kaleidoscope has really come into its own this year. Sara comes from a design and 3D Art background and taught herself the game engine Unity and some scripting skills to bring her interactive VR experiences to life. Tyler Hurd. Zohar Kfir.

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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 for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: I guarantee that most of Unity's investors are not going into the engine to build their own demos. Alex: Huge news.

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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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AR Chicago Augmented Reality Training 60

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

If Microsoft commits to building this platform and doesn’t abandon it (a la Google), it can become an incredible tool for us developers. Google stops selling Cardboard viewers. Google had already abandoned the Daydream and Cardboard platforms, leaving the source code for Cardboard to the community to maintain.

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ARPost

JUNE 17, 2021

The company PhotonLens was announced in November of 2020 to bring consumer AR to the world, specifically the Americas and Europe. Pan also pointed to the largely failed Google Glass as an example of why mass-adopted AR hardware may not come from one of the places we expect. “At More on Software and Content.

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

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! 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.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Aaron Kleiner, Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy for Unity Technologies. Karim Mohammadali, Senior Analyst, Government Affairs and Public Policy for Google. Kayleigh Nauman, IP Attaché for the United Kingdom Intellectual Property Office. Juan Londoño, Policy Analyst for the ITIF. XRA and the CHIPS Act.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 17, 2022

The news comes amid recent legislative victories in the US Congress, namely after President Joe Biden signed off on the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Act on Tuesday last week, approving $52.7 billion USD for chipmakers and immersive tech firms.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. The Vive Focus was most probably the best VR standalone on the market when Oculus last week announced what will be the first consumer 6DOF VR standalone headset. The never-ending story. Thanks to Miss S. Half a point for Oculus.

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VRScout

MARCH 23, 2017

In preparation, VRScout ‘s Malia Probst spoke with SVVR Co-Founder Karl Krantz for next week’s episode of the VRScout Report , where they discussed the SVVR expo, what’s exciting about this year’s edition, and its roots as the first VR meetup in America. The Once & Future Web – Google.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Michael specializes in helping overseas brands build their presence in North America. When you open the box, camera’s inside, but there’s also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone. You see Google. And that was a photo taken using the 180 mode.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Michael specializes in helping overseas brands build their presence in North America. When you open the box, camera’s inside, but there’s also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone. You see Google. And that was a photo taken using the 180 mode.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Michael specializes in helping overseas brands build their presence in North America. When you open the box, camera's inside, but there's also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone. You see Google. And that was a photo taken using the 180 mode.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

We watch what America does, and we wait for them to make their mistakes, and then once it’s proven, we jump on. Oh, I need 10 people with Unity skills. I think many enterprises are waiting, they’re ready to go, but they’re waiting to see others. And then they will quickly turn into the– Alan: Fast follow.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

We watch what America does, and we wait for them to make their mistakes, and then once it’s proven, we jump on. Oh, I need 10 people with Unity skills. I think many enterprises are waiting, they’re ready to go, but they’re waiting to see others. And then they will quickly turn into the– Alan: Fast follow.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We also saw a growth of AR glasses, not in America and not North America, not the rest of the world, but in China. Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We also saw a growth of AR glasses, not in America and not North America, not the rest of the world, but in China. Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

We watch what America does, and we wait for them to make their mistakes, and then once it's proven, we jump on. Oh, I need 10 people with Unity skills. I think many enterprises are waiting, they're ready to go, but they're waiting to see others. And then they will quickly turn into the--. Alan: Fast follow. Dirk: Yeah, exactly.

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We also saw a growth of AR glasses, not in America and not North America, not the rest of the world, but in China. Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In terms of who’s on the flip side of that marketplace, actually– we’re about to launch our first SDK and that’s– we think of it much more at a Unity level, than necessarily as an Apple or a Google level. And yes, that will work across all of the major platforms. Dominic: Oh, yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In terms of who’s on the flip side of that marketplace, actually– we’re about to launch our first SDK and that’s– we think of it much more at a Unity level, than necessarily as an Apple or a Google level. And yes, that will work across all of the major platforms. Dominic: Oh, yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In terms of who's on the flip side of that marketplace, actually-- we're about to launch our first SDK and that's-- we think of it much more at a Unity level, than necessarily as an Apple or a Google level. Alan: So you're really going kind of the route of AR, meaning kind of Apple and Google foundation. Dominic: Oh, yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

There’s a hundred Macy’s across America that have VR now. You can build in Unity, it’s the same thing. But with all the investment of the Apples, the Microsofts, the Googles, the Facebooks, the Amazon. In those six stores, they saw a 65 percent increase in order size and less than 2 percent return rates.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

There’s a hundred Macy’s across America that have VR now. You can build in Unity, it’s the same thing. But with all the investment of the Apples, the Microsofts, the Googles, the Facebooks, the Amazon. In those six stores, they saw a 65 percent increase in order size and less than 2 percent return rates.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Top news of the week. Ah, and you must be 18+ years old.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Lindl, Unity Technologies. Jessica Lindl, GM and VP of Social Impact and Education at Unity , added the XR industry was committed to making Unity’s technologies more “equitable and accessible to all.” Chair Jessica?Lindl, Denise Zheng, Accenture. Esther Jeong, Meta Platforms. Naria Santalucia, Microsoft.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Circuit Stream’s story began in 2015 with Lou traveling around North America, connecting with developers, designers, and creators, pushing the boundaries of immersive experiences. Like, “Unity 101: here’s how to make a model.” So you mentioned travelling across North America. Alan: So how did you begin?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Circuit Stream’s story began in 2015 with Lou traveling around North America, connecting with developers, designers, and creators, pushing the boundaries of immersive experiences. Like, “Unity 101: here’s how to make a model.” So you mentioned travelling across North America. Alan: So how did you begin?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Circuit Stream's story began in 2015 with Lou traveling around North America, connecting with developers, designers, and creators, pushing the boundaries of immersive experiences. They're a Unity authorized training partner and their team of 20 people is giving professionals the skills they need to build value-driven XR experiences.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Circuit Stream's story began in 2015 with Lou traveling around North America, connecting with developers, designers, and creators, pushing the boundaries of immersive experiences. They're a Unity authorized training partner and their team of 20 people is giving professionals the skills they need to build value-driven XR experiences.

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