Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

WeChat, known in China as the app that offers everything from messaging to a ubiquitous payment service, is getting its own augmented reality framework; at over 963 million active users, the popular Chinese app could put AR in the hands (and minds) in more than just the mobile tech savvy.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

More info (Kura wins CES Innovation Award) More info (VR Nima talks about innovation awards) Apple Vision Pro may launch this February A new week, a new set of rumors about the Apple Vision Pro: According to Mark Gurman, the headset is now slated to launch this February. Last week, people said January.

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Cats and VR

APRIL 27, 2018

Set to become available across the US, China, France, Korea and the rest of the international markets, Speed Kills VR provides over an hour of replayable cinematic VR content. Google Play - [link] Apple App Store - [link] Oculus - [link]

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

More info (HTC teasing Vive Flow) More info (More teaser images of Vive Flow) More info (Launch event invitation / Western World) More info (Launch event invitation / China). Apple Maps are going AR. iOS 15 finally brings AR navigation instructions to Apple Maps , in a way similar to the one that Google is already offering.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Apple way be working on a VR headset. According to Bloomberg, next year Apple is going to release a VR headset with limited passthrough AR functionalities. The HMD should be targeted to prosumers and Apple expects sales in the order of magnitude of one Apple headset per day, per store. More info (Use Google Translate).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

and “What are the differences with the Mainland China”. What are the differences with Mainland China? From my point of view, Taiwan and Mainland China are very similar and for sure stem from the same cultural background. In Taiwan, all western websites work and so you don’t need to set up a VPN just to use Google.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 14, 2020

In countries like China, the camera on a smartphone isn't just for fun selfies -- it's an everyday practical device, for everything from banking to shopping. and Waze and Yelp and Google Maps. Stores in China are very experiential and sort of future-facing. Alan: Hey there, it's Alan Smithson with the XR for Business Podcast.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 14, 2020

In countries like China, the camera on a smartphone isn't just for fun selfies -- it's an everyday practical device, for everything from banking to shopping. and Waze and Yelp and Google Maps. Stores in China are very experiential and sort of future-facing. Alan: Hey there, it's Alan Smithson with the XR for Business Podcast.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. On the software side, HTC has just launched in China Vive Sync , a solution for remote meetings in VR that may help a lot the Chinese people that are forced to work from home. Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 14, 2020

In countries like China, the camera on a smartphone isn't just for fun selfless -- it's an everyday practical device, for everything from banking to shopping. and Waze and Yelp and Google Maps. Stores in China are very experiential and sort of future-facing. Alan: Hey there, it's Alan Smithson with the XR for Business Podcast.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 8, 2017

But then you see Facebook and Google and all the platforms right now — they’re all working an AR platform. Maybe the Apple Watch will be good for something. Caballero: For the moment we’re getting some government grants, and we’re matching them up with some financing from Google and from Oculus, the platform companies.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Will a little startup be able to beat the big behemoths like Apple and Facebook? Here you are the integral interview that I had with Kelly Peng, asking her everything from Kura to the differences between the US and China (Kelly comes from Xi’an), not to mention her life as a startupper. Video interview With Kura’s Kelly Peng.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores. China will try to change gear.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 19, 2016

LeEco became known as the “Netflix of China” when it found early success as the country’s largest video streaming site, but it isn’t limited to just one industry. This was shown using Live, application for entertainment which enables seamless streaming between devices.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2022

We had 500k downloads on Google Play , 100k downloads on Gear VR, and 50k on Steam. Entertainment, gaming, and workplaces will be the first to widely adopt XR solutions, as the benefits of immersive experiences are more visible for these sectors. You are from China. What is the current status of the Chinese XR ecosystem?

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Jio Glass launched as mixed-reality glasses that serve primarily for education & entertainment. They are known as the XR line of processors and the XR2 currently powers a few smart glasses in other markets such as China. We’re looking at you, Google Glass. What about Apple Glass? The Basics: What is Jio Glass?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

Years later, in 2014, my previous classmate Gianni Rosa Gallina called me because he wanted to create a startup about all the fancy things we were discussing in that period, in particular Google Glasses and my obsession about seeing virtual objects on top of the real world. From it, ARKit has born, I guess. A random tutorial found on Youtube.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. Alex: RIP, LBE.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. Alex: RIP, LBE.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

If you look at someone like Apple, they aren’t about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. What split is it between media and entertainment vs. enterprise applications right now, as far as total market spend? So, office buildings, your house, or wherever.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

If you look at someone like Apple, they aren’t about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. What split is it between media and entertainment vs. enterprise applications right now, as far as total market spend? So, office buildings, your house, or wherever.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared. So you avoid the original location based entertainment. If you were location based entertainment, not so much. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. Alex: RIP, LBE.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

If you look at someone like Apple, they aren't about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. Alan: You've got kind of a divide; entertainment and gaming on one side, and then you've got enterprise applications across medical, healthcare, real estate, retail -- across the whole enterprise.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

So the GFR Fund is a seed stage fund that’s investing technology companies, disrupting the digital media and entertainment space, including VR and AR. Alan: Let’s move to Spaces, which — again — in VR, but now this is more location-based entertainment and I know there’s, what, three locations now?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

So the GFR Fund is a seed stage fund that’s investing technology companies, disrupting the digital media and entertainment space, including VR and AR. Alan: Let’s move to Spaces, which — again — in VR, but now this is more location-based entertainment and I know there’s, what, three locations now?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

So the GFR Fund is a seed stage fund that’s investing technology companies, disrupting the digital media and entertainment space, including VR and AR. Alan: Let’s move to Spaces, which — again — in VR, but now this is more location-based entertainment and I know there’s, what, three locations now?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

In the end, what you see is that people go into a racing game to be entertained; people go into a showroom to buy a car. ” We went to China, we had ChinaJoy, and I said, “let’s do one side of the thing with the DK1.” Seeing that Apple, of course, at one point bought… what was the company again?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

In the end, what you see is that people go into a racing game to be entertained; people go into a showroom to buy a car. ” We went to China, we had ChinaJoy, and I said, “let’s do one side of the thing with the DK1.” Seeing that Apple, of course, at one point bought… what was the company again?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I mean, we have access to the world’s information — I can Google pretty much any details — but it just gives me the information. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. And in China, the number one job was astronaut. It’s not in context to my world.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I mean, we have access to the world’s information — I can Google pretty much any details — but it just gives me the information. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. And in China, the number one job was astronaut. It’s not in context to my world.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Xiaomi and Oculus are strong partners for the Oculus Go, that is being manufactured by Xiaomi and sold in the west by Oculus and in China by Xiaomi itself, with the name Mi VR. The fact that Xiaomi doesn’t believe in the project anymore, and that in China the device has not sold well are for sure not good news for Oculus.

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Robert Scoble

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Here is our first analysis (located at: [url]) on why we should all be paying attention to what is happening in humanoid robots and consumer electronics, which include autonomous vehicles that are now arriving to people’s garages and, soon, Augmented Reality devices from Apple and others. The robot brings other robots.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This year for sure we’ll have two headsets of this kind launching: Lynx R-1 and Meta Project Cambria, with the elephant in town being the possible release of the first Apple headset. And of course, if Apple releases something, it will create a tsunami in the whole ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Unless Apple kills it, of course… Productivity ecosystem. video editors) use Apple computers, and for sure Apple will launch its device with a lot of functionalities for prosumers and professionals … so it has established partnerships to announce a similar type of content before Apple itself, to beat it in time.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Over the years i have seen a few lists of Top 50 XR Influencers, but the curators of those list always overlooked China/India/Asia's XR Industry. Just for Context the worlds current population is 7 Billion, India & China's Collective population is 2.7 Written By: Eddie Avil. However, in June 2020, a U.S. 3- Ayden Ye. 8- Eddie Lou.

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