XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Immersive training solutions have become increasingly popular in recent years. With immersive learning, companies can embed employees in realistic, authentic training scenarios. Studies show that immersive learning experiences can deliver results faster and more cost-effectively than traditional training initiatives.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Image by Apple). Apple has not announced any glasses at WWDC. Every year, we have the same ritual: we wait for an event by Apple, hoping to hear some news about an upcoming XR device, then nothing happens in this sense, we are disappointed and so we hope for a new reveal next year. Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Microsoft 365 is coming to Quest Pro! It has also partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to facilitate the integration of XR solutions inside companies. It is interesting how Meta is trying to promote immersive reality by focusing on specific sectors in which it believes the technology can be successful and going vertically on them.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

I can’t wait to discover the Pico 4, the Quest Pro, and the Apple Reality headsets… and you? Apple headset may be called “Reality”. We have new rumors about the upcoming Apple headset. It seems that one of Apple’s shell companies has just registered the trademarks “Reality One”, “Reality Pro”, and “Reality Processor”.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

After approximately seven years of development, the Apple Vision Pro headset is finally here. For some time now, consumers have been on the edge of their seats waiting for an official Apple AR/VR announcement. Of course, some investors are still concerned. So, what is the Apple Vision Pro headset, exactly, and what can it do?

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JUNE 9, 2023

A conversation could be coming to your home in the next five years and it is probably as unavoidable as those previous ones: Are you on a Meta Quest or do you have Apple Vision? Google chickened out , Microsoft got distracted , and it's totally understandable if you lost interest in VR when they did. This is happening.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

We were all waiting for an Apple announcement, hoping that it could bring back some enthusiasm into the field, and it seems that the Vision Pro is having some beneficial effects , indeed. Apple showed investors that XR is not a fad, and even if it is still in its early stages, it is going to stay. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Brad Lynch) Bloomberg got a preview of the Quest 3 Last week I predicted that Meta could have given us a glimpse of the Quest 3 during the Gaming Showcase on June, 1st, so that to create attention around its device before the announcement of the Apple headset.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 21, 2023

Of course, I wish the best of luck to the VRChat team and community for a very successful launch (and growth) on mobile! More info Other relevant news (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft discontinues Kinect for Azure Microsoft has decided to discontinue its latest iteration of the Kinect sensor, dubbed Kinect For Azure DK.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

A new cycle of XR The Apple Vision Pro launch has been a disruptive moment for our industry (Image by Apple) As I said in a popular post a few months ago , I think we have entered a new cycle for immersive realities. Huawei and Pico are rumored to be working on an Apple Vision Pro competitor).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The rumors on the Apple Glasses are intensifying. It is not a secret that Apple is working on an XR device: the mystery is when it is going to release it and what it will actually be. The hype is rising, and Apple is playing with it. (My usual terrible image to wish you Happy Easter, if you celebrate it). Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2023

Many magazines wrote that Meta is abandoning the “metaverse”, but actually, the famed M-word appeared two times in the statement that Mark provided his employees about the new course of the company. A pretty useless one, like all the rumors about Apple and its glasses. And luckily for you, I have one. Such great news!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2023

many investors would have run away scared from immersive realities, causing the ruin of many companies in our field. When Microsoft performed the acquisition, Satya Nadella underlined how the acquisition of Activision could also lead to the acquisition of competencies related to metaverse from the gaming company.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Microsoft, which apparently produces one of the best-performing augmented reality headsets on the market (HoloLens), is buying a video game production company Blizzard for a frightening amount of money: 68 billion dollars. Of course, it is also because the metaverse and the technologies underlying it have truly enormous potential.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 9, 2024

However, the success of innovative new headsets, like the Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest 3 , and the Microsoft HoloLens 2, is driving increased adoption of MR. Suddenly, everyone wants to compare mixed reality headsets and embed them into their workflows. The mixed reality solutions market is growing at a CAGR of 44.39%.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

After the latest Unite event, Unity has released in Open Beta the tools to develop applications for the Apple Vision Pro. For now, I’ve read the available documentation and I think it’s already worth telling you what are some very interesting tidbits that I’ve learnt about Apple Vision Pro development in Unity.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

The online platform promotes interactive social and immersive gaming worlds with rich branding and content creation opportunities. The platform promotes immersive user-generated content, enabling an ecosystem of platform creators using Spatial to build and share online experiences and worlds. Spatial also assists in the We3 revolution.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Of course, the previous statement applies more to consumer markets, as style isn’t as big an issue in the enterprise. That will happen as the underlying technology improves and slims down; and as the industry’s ultimate wild card is played: Apple Glass. million units in 2025, mostly led by Apple after it enters the market.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

It can also be an effective way to boost productivity during collaborative sessions, enhance the quality of training courses, and increase creativity. Of course, leveraging the power of virtual reality starts with choosing the right headset capable of transporting each user into a new digital landscape.

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AR Insider

MAY 4, 2020

In that spirit, Immersive Edge Advisors released projections with a longer time horizon than the typical five-year window published by analysts (including our research arm, ARtillery Intelligence *). Breaking that down, Immersive Edge projects annual smartphone sales of 25 million units by 2030. Vantage Points. It projects 2.89

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

With a long post on Magic Leap’s blog, in the end Rony Abovitz has admitted that the company is not going that well, and has announced a new course, that should eventually lead to Magic Leap 2. That said, I hope that this new course of Magic Leap will take a completely different road from the one that led to Magic Leap One.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

While there are undoubtedly plenty of high-cost solutions out there, such as the impending Apple Vision Pro , there are also some more affordable headsets ideal for beginners. Immersion Options Virtual reality headsets have come a long way in recent years. Quality visuals lead to deeper immersion and better user experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft Teams to integrate Mesh in 2022. With a surprise move, Microsoft has announced that in 2022 it will integrate Microsoft Mesh, its framework to create shared XR experiences, inside Microsoft Teams. And if they have these features from Microsoft, they won’t need to get them from Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

I hope to be wrong, of course: maybe Valve has just accelerated to launch its device before Apple may finally release its one. The project is carried on by Microsoft which was given the monster contract of $22B to create this device by modifying its HoloLens glasses. And its latest update, dubbed the “Mixed Reality 2.0

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Road to VR

JULY 6, 2016

Apple has just been granted another AR/VR related technology patent, to add to their growing list. Apple’s absence from the flourishing virtual and augmented reality stage is felt more strongly with every passing day.

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AR Insider

JULY 19, 2021

Glimpse companies include Adept Learning, D6, Foretell Reality, Immerse Health Group, Post Reality, and Early Adopter. Free roam VR is only true, fully immersive VR experience you can have, replete with natural locomotion and spatial props. The streaming giant is going head to head with Microsoft, Sony, Google and Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

This is an enormous number: this means that now 15–20% of the total Facebook workforce is on immersive technologies, even if XR is currently a very little revenue stream for the social media giant. This has of course nothing to do with gathering data from the biggest number possible of people. 10,000 people mean at least 1.2B

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The tech industry is looking to replace the smartphone — and everybody is waiting to see what Apple comes up with. I n 2007, Apple unveiled the iPhone. Apple didn’t invent the smartphone — companies like Palm and Blackberry had been selling them for years. But Apple’s not the only company working on these products.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

For Apple , it’s all about hardware and making its devices more attractive. And for Microsoft , it’s enterprise productivity. Starting with Apple, it has several AR balls in the air and is cultivating near and long-term strategies. That long term play of course means AR glasses. Too Big to Fail?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

After having announced some of the features and the price just before the launch of the Apple Vision Pro, now the company formerly known as Facebook is already working towards the launch of the device. The Prime 3 combines the high-fidelity finger tracking typical of Manus gloves with per-finger vibrational feedback for added immersion in VR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Of course, it’s also more expensive. While the Meta Quest 3 might not look as futuristic and professional as concepts like the Apple Vision Pro , it’s surprisingly comfortable. The mask foam is excellent at blocking out external light for true immersion.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. “Decent” to be a devkit, of course. Apple glasses.

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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. But it is for sure a feature that will enable not only more immersive social VR interactions (which I guess are the main goal for Meta), but also new kinds of VR experiences. References to Apple RealityOS have been leaked.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

.” Lets be honest, the last few years have seen some pretty wild speculation from industry analysts whilst the excitement and hype surrounding the most recent renaissance in immersive technology has ridden high. billion in 2021. Meanwhile, VR headsets grow from $2.1 billion in 2016 to $18.6

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AR Insider

APRIL 6, 2020

It also includes VR’s immersion and escapism (entertainment); and AR’s applications in workplace collaboration and home services (utility). Of course “headsets” is a bit conflated, as subcategories (AR, VR, etc.) Microsoft committed 100,000 units to the U.S. vary widely in demand curves. Drilling Down.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Microsoft announces Mesh, an XR collaboration platform. Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. But since Microsoft owns one of those studios (and using it costs around $100K/day if I remember well!), Here you are my flower for you! Image by OceanX).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. I’ll try to summarize all of that, especially for what concerns the announcements related to our XR space.

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