AR Insider

AUGUST 14, 2020

“Wearables Wars” is AR Insider’s mini-series that examines how today’s wearables will pave the way and prime consumer markets for AR glasses. C ommon wisdom states that mobile AR is the forbear to smart glasses. There, it can seed user demand for AR and get developers to start thinking spatially. Fully Actualized.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. In the end, technologist Jon Prosser has revealed the main details he knows about the Apple Glasses. Well, on another website, I’ve been able to find someone that reading some Apple’s documents has found pictures of strange colored circular tags that may act as QR Codes for Apple devices.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

September is here, and new devices are around the corner. Not only is Meta’s Connect event coming up quickly, but Apple and Microsoft are also working towards establishing XR productivity tools. RPR is leveraging Google’s Geospatial Creator and Adobe Aero to secure the location-based AR customer experience.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Facebook reveals its work on the UX of AR of the future. Facebook has unveiled new details on the research it is performing on the UX of the AR glasses of the future. It comes as no surprise so the rumor of some weeks ago about Facebook developing its smartwatch … it can be a very previous device to pair to its future AR glasses.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 22, 2023

If you’re looking for a sleek, sophisticated, and affordable set of smart glasses, the RayNeo Air 2 AR glasses could be the perfect choice. Are they as revolutionary as RayNeo says, or will they quickly fade into the background as companies like Meta, Microsoft , and Apple continue to invest in the XR landscape?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Valve is known for its “Valve Time”, plus usually, when a device gets close to launch, the rumors about it are intensifying, but I’m not seeing this happening now for the Deckard. I hope to be wrong, of course: maybe Valve has just accelerated to launch its device before Apple may finally release its one.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

PSVR 2, Apple XR visor) and games, will be fundamental to understand its evolution and its potential. Probably you all recall the iconic Apple commercial inspired by the book 1984 that helped a lot the company in becoming popular. References to Apple RealityOS have been leaked. Leaks about Apple are intensifying over the weeks.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

What is the device is not clear, considering that the trademark has been associated vaguely with “AR and VR products”. Others say that it is something similar to Nreal Air: a pair of lightweight AR glasses. Ars Technica has confirmed with some sources of its that Valve is actually working internally on a prototype with that name.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 21, 2023

Despite ongoing turmoil in the virtual, augmented, mixed, and extended reality (VR/AR/MR/XR) markets, device makers are remaining strategic to realise the future dream of the Metaverse. Numerous headsets from Apple, Meta Platforms, Magic Leap, and others have faced setbacks over the last few years but remain persistent.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 18, 2023

One considered too complex and expensive for most companies investing in digital transformation, AR has quickly evolved into a versatile, highly accessible toolkit for a variety of different use cases. The Size of the Augmented Reality Market Various reports show the size of the AR market is growing, and at a pretty incredible rate too.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

On this special day, let’s all talk about AR and VR! In this big phone exhibition, usually, companies also exhibit AR and VR devices and considering that this year the trend is the one of AR and VR devices connected to the phone , I bet that this year’s edition would have been very interesting for us all (in fact I was planning to go there).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

If you are a developer, you can fill out a form and try to request a devkit to HTC , specifying what is the project that you’re going to develop for this new peripheral. people walking around), so I don't have an apples-to-apples comparison against Santa Cruz. Vive Trackers 2.0 now on sale.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

While with other VR headsets like the Vive Focus Plus it is already possible to do some kind of augmented reality , this is the first standalone headset that can provide both good quality AR and VR on the same device. These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

This roundup of the most important AR/VR news of the past week comes out with a little delay since I’ve been very busy with my development job, and I’ve also a damn cold that doesn’t make me feel very well (but it’s no coronavirus, don’t worry :D). iPhone 12 may feature a special connection for AR glasses. Sorry for that!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

By the way, today I travel to Lisbon to attend AWE Europe, where I will be the moderator of a panel about sustainability in XR and Web3. If you are going, too, let me know and maybe we will be able to meet! Meta announces at Connect Quest Pro and a partnership with Microsoft. Ahah I love the nonsense of the rumors about Apple!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The reserve pass-through cameras also enable Meta to take another direct shot at soon-to-be market competitor Apple; the firm is equally providing a reserve pass-through feature in its upcoming Vision Pro device. Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, faced criticism following his promises of a widespread metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

2021 is going to be an interesting year for AR. This won’t be the year of AR : exactly as I said for virtual reality, let’s not hype the technology and think that this is the year when mainstream adoption of wearable AR glasses is going to happen. Can this count as AR having become mainstream?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

All the world’s a stage, but in AR, that’s a stage we’re still building. He did not stay in research for long, because he founded a startup and then raised $200,000 and it fails — we’ll get into that — but he worked at a company called Innogy, the largest energy utility company in Europe.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

All the world’s a stage, but in AR, that’s a stage we’re still building. He did not stay in research for long, because he founded a startup and then raised $200,000 and it fails — we’ll get into that — but he worked at a company called Innogy, the largest energy utility company in Europe.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

With Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro on the horizon, developers that have invested the better part of a decade honing their expertise were left to promote themselves at Europe's largest gaming event last month. This year, there was relatively little public-facing VR or AR-focused experiences and booths.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

All the world's a stage, but in AR, that's a stage we're still building. He did not stay in research for long, because he founded a startup and then raised $200,000 and it fails -- we'll get into that -- but he worked at a company called Innogy, the largest energy utility company in Europe. And so that's how in 2017, Visualix was born.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Facebook is reportedly working on its AR glasses (made with Luxottica) that should be released in 2023. Facebook is investing billions for hardware creation, and it is going to move 4,000 employes working on AR hardware in a new venue just built in California. Enjoy your time with the people you love, with or without VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Niantic has finally launched its VPS (Visual Positioning System), a solution that will allow developers to create AR applications that are persistent and shared in various locations in the world with centimeter accuracy. VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

So for today’s article, let me focus mainly on the non-CES-related news about AR and VR. CES brought some interesting news about AR and VR. New rumors on Apple and Meta devices. I know it may sound weird to you, but we have new rumors on Apple headsets and also about the future Meta Project Cambria and Quest 3.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

In my opinion, this is one of the greatest innovations that it has introduced in the AR ecosystem. Even here, anyway, we are at a level higher than HoloLens’s one, thanks to the NVIDIA Tegra X2 contained in the Lightpack, that is more performant than the chip contained in the old HoloLens. Appearance and design. Deal with it.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

and so I’m here writing you this roundup of the best AR and VR news to keep you informed about what is happening in our ecosystem. Meta is trying to find a compromise with the EU, but if it doesn’t happen, it is threatening to leave its business in Europe, shutting down Facebook and Instagram in the whole European Union.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Now the Metaverse is gaining newfound traction from enterprise clients, companies like Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are reinforcing XR as a serious technology for various use cases. During its WWDC event, Apple showed how clients could use first-party productivity applications on the Vision Pro product.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

That’s the direction we’re going in right now and companies are laying their cards on the table in a bid to be the dominant force driving us forward through their own varying strategies. The most immersive enterprise AR device is now available. We’re on the cusp of another life-changing piece of technology and the race is on.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 23, 2024

There’s going to be a ton of apps available on Vision Pro day one, with more than one million iOS and iPad apps working in compatibility mode on Apple’s first mixed reality headset. That doesn’t mean they’re all AR apps though, but rather they’ve been optimized specifically to work on Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The company has teased it is going to announce soon a new XR device , even if it has not revealed what yet (I would bet on AR glasses or an MR headset, but let’s see). Most probably, if we mix this with other rumors of the past, Google is going to offer the operating system as a modified version of Android that works in AR/MR.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Jeri has been in the R&D of Valve Software when Abrash was still there, so she knows a lot about AR and VR. After Valve, I started an AR company called CastAR where we were doing augmented reality very similar to the technology we’ll be talking about today. So what is this is TiltFive AR headset? (

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

This week has not been very important for AR and VR: no major event has happened. BUT today is the day of the WWDC, and who knows if Apple will tease something about AR glasses. I think that in the end, Facebook, between AR and VR, will lose a similar amount of money. May he rest in peace. was a lot of money?).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

March has just started… I hope it will be an amazing day for you and for all the AR/VR ecosystem! 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. Qualcomm announces AR Smart Viewer reference design.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

Another week has passed by, and while the situation in Europe is always more complicated because of the war, in the XR landscape nothing particularly special has happened. Last month, we got to know that (according to a rumor) Samsung is working together with Microsoft on new AR glasses, most probably powered by a Qualcomm chipset.

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 30, 2019

Why the YouTube of AR won’t be YouTube. The product design challenges of AR on smartphones. AR means anyone can rip, mix and burn reality itself. How can we get a sense of what AR will mean in our everyday lives, that is (ironically) based in reality? Matt Miesnieks. Contributor. More posts by this contributor.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. We've been working with Ford in Europe for a handful of years now. Daniel: [laughs] One of my crazy ideas. I'm a cyclist.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. We've been working with Ford in Europe for a handful of years now. Daniel: [laughs] One of my crazy ideas. I'm a cyclist.

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