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Google Acquires MicroLED Startup Raxium to Bolster AR Ambitions

Road to VR

MAY 5, 2022

Google is adding to its portfolio of XR microdisplay designs and talent, as the company announced it’s acquired microLED (µLED) designer Raxium. The Information’s report held Raxium was sold to Google for $1 billion, however official details of the acquisition are still murky. Image courtesy Raxium, Google.

Google

Google AR Magic Leap Canada

Our First Look At Microsoft HoloLens 2

VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Microsoft debuts their latest mixed reality device at Mobile World Conference 2019. Over these past three and a half years, Microsoft has been listening to their customers, claims HoloLens inventor and Microsoft Technical Fellow Alex Kipman as he took his turn on stage. Microsoft HoloLens 2 / Image Credit: Microsoft.

Microsoft

Microsoft North America United Kingdom China

Google’s Gemini Versus OpenAI’s ChatGPT: A Comparison of Two Generative AI Tools

Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Also, this is the first of what I suspect will be many blogposts about the Apple Vision Pro spatial computing headset, which I am eager to get my hands on as soon as I can! Accordingly, I have created a new blogpost category, called Apple Vision Pro. I have a second blog post on that project, which I hope to publish very soon.

Tools

Tools Apple Machine Learning Software

The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality Google Machine Learning AR

Bringing the XR World Together at the VR/AR Global Summit, with Executive Director Anne-Marie Enns

XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Today’s guest is a great friend of mine, Anne-Marie Enns, the executive producer of the VR/AR Global Summit, coming to Vancouver, Canada, October 31st to November 2nd. There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire. There are a lot of different headsets going on.

AR

AR Conference Canada Training

Bringing the XR World Together at the VR/AR Global Summit, with Executive Director Anne-Marie Enns

XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Today’s guest is a great friend of mine, Anne-Marie Enns, the executive producer of the VR/AR Global Summit, coming to Vancouver, Canada, October 31st to November 2nd. There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire. There are a lot of different headsets going on.

AR

AR Conference Canada Training

Bringing the XR World Together at the VR/AR Global Summit, with Executive Director Anne-Marie Enns

XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Today’s guest is a great friend of mine, Anne-Marie Enns, the executive producer of the VR/AR Global Summit, coming to Vancouver, Canada, October 31st to November 2nd. There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire. There are a lot of different headsets going on.

AR

AR Conference Canada Training

Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. You've got Microsoft -- who's invested billions of dollars in Hololens 2 -- and they're even struggling with some color banding issues. Stefan: Color is just-- it's so hard.

AR

AR Controllers Gesture Control Head Mounted Display

Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. You've got Microsoft -- who's invested billions of dollars in Hololens 2 -- and they're even struggling with some color banding issues. Stefan: Color is just-- it's so hard.

AR

AR Controllers Gesture Control Head Mounted Display

Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. You've got Microsoft -- who's invested billions of dollars in Hololens 2 -- and they're even struggling with some color banding issues. Stefan: Color is just-- it's so hard.

AR

AR Controllers Gesture Control Head Mounted Display

Save Me a Seat in meetingRoom, with Jonny Cosgrove

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 28, 2019

” Because that’s the one way you’re going in to make sure this thing — like any system, like, look at how Slack and Microsoft Teams have been pushing that the last three or four years — it takes time for these things to get through. Or can you grab PowerPoint or Google slides? Or can I grab PDFs?

Ireland

Ireland Technology Training Groups

Save Me a Seat in meetingRoom, with Jonny Cosgrove

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 28, 2019

” Because that’s the one way you’re going in to make sure this thing — like any system, like, look at how Slack and Microsoft Teams have been pushing that the last three or four years — it takes time for these things to get through. Or can you grab PowerPoint or Google slides? Or can I grab PDFs?

Ireland

Ireland Technology Training Groups

Save Me a Seat in meetingRoom, with Jonny Cosgrove

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 28, 2019

Because that's the one way you're going in to make sure this thing -- like any system, like, look at how Slack and Microsoft Teams have been pushing that the last three or four years -- it takes time for these things to get through. Or can you grab PowerPoint or Google slides? I bought him an iPhone for the last 10 years for Christmas.

Ireland

Ireland Technology Training Groups

The XR Week Peek (2021.12.13): Horizon Worlds is now in open beta, Among Us VR is coming, and more!

The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Or at least, sort of : the experience is still in beta (so this is officially an open beta stage) and it will be accessible without an invite only in the US and in Canada. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. Apple is entering the XR field, and Facebook is currently dominating the VR market.

Survey

Survey Apple AR Samsung

XR Technologies in Service of the Human Experience, with Voices of VR Podcast’s Kent Bye – Part 2

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. Or in Canada, USDZed. As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. You have Apple, with ARKit. I ran into him at the Decentralized Web Summit and I was really curious, because he works at Google.

Technology

Technology Education AR Architecture

XR Technologies in Service of the Human Experience, with Voices of VR Podcast’s Kent Bye – Part 2

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. Or in Canada, USDZed. As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. You have Apple, with ARKit. I ran into him at the Decentralized Web Summit and I was really curious, because he works at Google.

Technology

Technology Education AR Architecture

XR Technologies in Service of the Human Experience, with Voices of VR Podcast's Kent Bye - Part 2

XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. Or in Canada, USDZed. As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. You have Apple, with ARKit. I ran into him at the Decentralized Web Summit and I was really curious, because he works at Google.

Technology

Technology Education Architecture AR

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Google Acquires MicroLED Startup Raxium to Bolster AR Ambitions

Our First Look At Microsoft HoloLens 2

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Google’s Gemini Versus OpenAI’s ChatGPT: A Comparison of Two Generative AI Tools

The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

Bringing the XR World Together at the VR/AR Global Summit, with Executive Director Anne-Marie Enns

Bringing the XR World Together at the VR/AR Global Summit, with Executive Director Anne-Marie Enns

Bringing the XR World Together at the VR/AR Global Summit, with Executive Director Anne-Marie Enns

Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

Making AR Focals Functional and Fashionable, with North’s Stefan Alexander

Save Me a Seat in meetingRoom, with Jonny Cosgrove

Save Me a Seat in meetingRoom, with Jonny Cosgrove

Save Me a Seat in meetingRoom, with Jonny Cosgrove

The XR Week Peek (2021.12.13): Horizon Worlds is now in open beta, Among Us VR is coming, and more!

XR Technologies in Service of the Human Experience, with Voices of VR Podcast’s Kent Bye – Part 2

XR Technologies in Service of the Human Experience, with Voices of VR Podcast’s Kent Bye – Part 2

XR Technologies in Service of the Human Experience, with Voices of VR Podcast's Kent Bye - Part 2

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