VRScout

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

From holograms to virtual and augmented reality, it’s the way that we consume these mediums that enable it to proliferate on scale. In the consumer context, the HMDs (head-mounted displays) we have today are already outdated. For context, the [Sundance] film festival had over 120,000 attendees….It’s

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

But AR/VR solutions are not limited to Google Glass, mobile apps for trying on shoes or accessories, and AR-based games. Hearables with augmented reality features are becoming ubiquitous thanks to the overall spread of wearables, the contribution of tech giants, and the growing demand for emerging technologies.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 16, 2024

The head-mounted display/headset marketplace may be approaching a broad shift as Apple unveils its Vision Pro headset next month, with the device promising to advance screen-based productivity into a third dimension, leveraging traditional MR technologies to achieve a spatial computing future.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Yesterday Apple held a keynote presentation to update the world on their latest products. It’s too early for Apple to jump into the AR/VR game. That much was made clear on stage at the company’s latest keynote where they revealed the iPhone 7 and the Apple Watch Series 2. Acquisitions.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Meta Platforms has now entered new territory with Chinese tech giant MediaTek as it explores a partnership for its future augmented reality (AR) smart glasses. The MediaTek Summit 2023 saw Vincent Hu, Vice-President, MediaTek , meet with Je an Boufarhat, Vice-President, Meta Reality Labs , to discuss the exclusive partnership.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Their wand-style hand-tracking controllers “Playstation Move” and gun-adapting “aim controller” make game play more natural and more immersive, while the PlayStation Camera aims to reinvent the ways in which we experience movement in VR. See Also: VR Gaming for Adults. The Future Comes in Pieces.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Apple’s AR Glasses are Hiding in Plain Sight. With all the phone and watch and TV and game and chip and other chip news coming out of Apple’s big event, it was easy to forget the company’s longest-running background process: an augmented-reality wearable. by Peter Rubin, WIRED. Hard to StarBoard.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The history of augmented reality (AR) started in 1968 at Harvard with the invention of the first AR head-mounted display (HMD) system. German logistics provider DHL is already using augmented reality to increase employee productivity.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 4, 2019

The Apple Privacy Wall/Strategy Analysis of How Apple will Come at Oculus Next Year. Apple is clearly going after Facebook. That became obvious to everyone today as Apple announced a ton of new things, including new AR features for its messenger, and new privacy-focused features, at its World Wide Developer’s Conference.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 30, 2023

This comes also after Meta announced it would integrate augmented reality advertisements into Facebook and Instagram Reels. As before, Meta is playing the long game, and hopes to compete with major tech rivals like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Snap, and others entering the 3D advertising market.

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Augmented Reality, also called Mixed Reality (MR, MxR) is set to represent a very large part of our lives. Even today, if you own a car with a heads-up display (HUD), you are a user of Augmented Reality. “We recognized the problem of very high barrier of entry for Augmented Reality.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

From zero gravity chambers to organic gaming consoles, Hollywood has been dreaming up some of the biggest and best ways to implement virtual reality for decades. To qualify the list, these movies had to be using technology with the goal of inducing presence, whether that be in a game world, dreamscape, or recording of reality.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

The last few years, VR has been about putting on a head-mounted display and looking around,” Edwards said. “It I saw that myself when I tried out Qualcomm’s new wireless stand-alone VR headset prototype at the Game Developers Conference a couple of weeks ago. It’s not just visual and sound. It’s a bit unfortunate.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

So it’s got in there everything from kind of social and social augmentations and things like this, but really, for the listeners of this podcast, we want to drill down into the business applications of this. They’ve already got, you know, in your Apple phone, RF detection is already built in. That’s the beginning.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

So it’s got in there everything from kind of social and social augmentations and things like this, but really, for the listeners of this podcast, we want to drill down into the business applications of this. They’ve already got, you know, in your Apple phone, RF detection is already built in. That’s the beginning.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

I need to rush out this newsletter episode because otherwise tomorrow Apple launches its headset and no one will read my articles: everyone will be too busy reading “The top 5 features of the Apple headset” or “The 7 reasons why the Apple headset can revolutionize peeling potatoes”. How is Apple going to sell this headset?

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Four years later, Nintendo followed up the wild and enduring success of the Game Boy with Virtual Boy, a headset/console built around (very red) stereoscopic vision. The term “augmented reality” wasn’t officially coined until 1990, but the 80s also saw important breakthroughs in the space.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important. Alan: That's gonna be a game changer, because doing demos and having people go, "I can't see it." This is so cool. Like, it's just here."

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important. Alan: That's gonna be a game changer, because doing demos and having people go, "I can't see it." This is so cool. Like, it's just here."

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

And about a year before it came out, they hired me and they said, "Stefan, we think that the control of smart glasses and the control of head mounted displays is really important. Alan: That's gonna be a game changer, because doing demos and having people go, "I can't see it." This is so cool. Like, it's just here."

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 13, 2022

This week, I spent an hour or so playing around with the unreleased next-generation Magic Leap headset, all while discussing the augmented reality company’s wild ride with Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson and other members of their executive team. But, I’m excited to see what Apple thinks it is.” the big thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

They're working with clients to develop and implement their strategies, pilots, and technology solutions in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, 360, spatial, and immersive; all known as XR. Alan: Really wonderful if Apple stayed in there. You are keeping that original design true to what it was meant to be.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

They're working with clients to develop and implement their strategies, pilots, and technology solutions in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, 360, spatial, and immersive; all known as XR. Alan: Really wonderful if Apple stayed in there. You are keeping that original design true to what it was meant to be.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

They're working with clients to develop and implement their strategies, pilots, and technology solutions in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, 360, spatial, and immersive; all known as XR. Alan: Really wonderful if Apple stayed in there. You are keeping that original design true to what it was meant to be.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Lightfields are usually generated this way: the virtual elements get rendered in a special way to a display, and then an array of microlenses transforms the pixels in directional rays (Image by CREAL). CREAL has innovated the lightfield technology trying to make it more efficient for head-mounted displays.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000. I’ve been studying this industry inside and out and I subscribe to Google Alerts for virtual and augmented reality. And that’s really changing the game. Tovar, from Spring 1995, Virtual Reality Magazine Special Report.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000. I've been studying this industry inside and out and I subscribe to Google Alerts for virtual and augmented reality. And that's really changing the game. Tovar, from Spring 1995, Virtual Reality Magazine Special Report.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And it was so expensive, and a head-mounted display could cost $70,000. I’ve been studying this industry inside and out and I subscribe to Google Alerts for virtual and augmented reality. And that’s really changing the game. Tovar, from Spring 1995, Virtual Reality Magazine Special Report.

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