XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2024

Supporting that trend is a broad scope of heavyweight companies debuting XR devices this year, most notably the Apple Vision Pro, which is driving the productivity and workplace solutions market forward. HTC VIVE is currently providing their devices for North Dakota Classrooms, and Meta recently gave thousands of Quests to Kentucky Schools.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this weekly VRScout Report, we cover NFL’s new VR series, Intel buying Voke, indigenous languages living on with VR, Unity’s big developer updates, Microsoft’s line of VR headsets, Apple using VR to develop self-driving car, money & funding, and more. MONEY & FUNDING.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

This week saw Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, Meta, and Sony move to optimize their product offerings and business operations. Shahram Izadi, Vice President of AR at Google , notes how Android ecosystem support will enable developers to collaborate with Samsung and Qualcomm to drive the future of immersive and spatial XR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Regarding the glasses, I have not big hopes for true AR glasses, but I think that thanks to Facebook and Apple, finally we’ll have some important smartglasses entering the market , making the mainstream think about wearing something on their face to enjoy notifications from the phone. Phone AR will be always more popular.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Image by Samsung). Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. But at the presentation of the latest Samsung Note 10, for the first time after the Note 4, Samsung has dropped support for Gear VR in its latest flagship device. And Samsung is not abandoning XR for sure.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Apple glasses. Concept of a future AR glass by Apple (Image by iDropNews). In 2019 we’ll see more strategic acquisitions by Apple and more rumors about an incoming AR glass by Apple. And Apple doesn’t want to launch a technology that seems a gadget for nerds and has an apple on it.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

As the two premiere VR hardware manufacturers, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive both recognize this impediment to adoption and are lowering the price to play, albeit in different ways. HTC Vive has launched their own financing program which relieves the upfront pricing burden of their system– although still maintaining the total cost at $800.

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 6, 2017

A Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei may not have extensive mainstream penetration in the West like Apple and Samsung do, but in 2016 they hit #9 in revenue for tech companies around the world. A lot of their success is based in China, and they often trade places with Apple as the 2nd largest smartphone manufacturer in the world.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

I forecast a big growth in the enterprise usage of VR headsets, both 3DOF (mostly for marketing and education) and 6DOF ones (for prototyping, training, etc…). If you think about it, in the last period, the great years that we remember for headsets are 2016 (Rift CV1, HTC Vive) and 2019 (Oculus Quest, Valve Index).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In April, we opened the doors to the first Upload Collective in San Francisco, a hub for VR and AR startups, development, co-working, education, meetups and even live broadcasting. Samsung starts off the month debuting its VR Internet browser for Gear VR, becoming the first to offer a VR browser. December 2015. January 2016.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

He heads the institute’s efforts to evangelize its education by incorporating emerging technologies & platforms, through development labs setup in partnership with global technology giants. Kai holds several International Business director positions in VR educational companies and VR, AR hardware companies. 7- Alvin Graylin.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. so I got a little arts education, too. and one of my friends who I just made by being nerdy, worked for a company called HTC. And if you have a Bose AR-enabled device, you can download that for either the Google Play store or the Apple App Store.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. so I got a little arts education, too. and one of my friends who I just made by being nerdy, worked for a company called HTC. And if you have a Bose AR-enabled device, you can download that for either the Google Play store or the Apple App Store.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You've done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. so I got a little arts education, too. and one of my friends who I just made by being nerdy, worked for a company called HTC. And if you have a Bose AR-enabled device, you can download that for either the Google Play store or the Apple App Store.

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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. I think the three-degrees-of-freedom [3Dof] sets — like the Go and the Samsung Gear VR before it — are very well-suited for video viewing, that sort of thing. Alan: Interesting.

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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. I think the three-degrees-of-freedom [3Dof] sets — like the Go and the Samsung Gear VR before it — are very well-suited for video viewing, that sort of thing. Alan: Interesting.

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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. I think the three-degrees-of-freedom [3Dof] sets -- like the Go and the Samsung Gear VR before it -- are very well-suited for video viewing, that sort of thing. Alan: Interesting. It just works.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

And VR Days was one of the best conferences that bridged the gap between technology and arts, and also brought together everyone from military to education to healthcare, and also the creatives to drive that innovation. But otherwise we’re using the Samsung Gear VR. One day Apple will come out and say a new feature.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

And VR Days was one of the best conferences that bridged the gap between technology and arts, and also brought together everyone from military to education to healthcare, and also the creatives to drive that innovation. But otherwise we’re using the Samsung Gear VR. One day Apple will come out and say a new feature.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

And VR Days was one of the best conferences that bridged the gap between technology and arts, and also brought together everyone from military to education to healthcare, and also the creatives to drive that innovation. But otherwise we're using the Samsung Gear VR. One day Apple will come out and say a new feature.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

And also, yeah, the Samsungs get a bit melted. Alan: We actually melted one of the Samsung Gear VRs back in the day. Alex: On the last burn, we actually had to put two Samsungs in and one Fusion. And we pulled the Samsungs out at different times just to make sure we had a cause of the fire, up until it gets too dark.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

And also, yeah, the Samsungs get a bit melted. Alan: We actually melted one of the Samsung Gear VRs back in the day. Alex: On the last burn, we actually had to put two Samsungs in and one Fusion. And we pulled the Samsungs out at different times just to make sure we had a cause of the fire, up until it gets too dark.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

We plan to go online with it on Amazon or Netflix and present it like that, and then have it be an additional thing that maybe Netflix or Amazon has on their platform in the Oculus or HTC. And we put this kind of like Apple-esque music over it, and made this cute little commercial and it never saw the light of day. And Will.i.am

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

And also, yeah, the Samsungs get a bit melted. Alan: We actually melted one of the Samsung Gear VRs back in the day. Alan: We actually melted one of the Samsung Gear VRs back in the day. Alex: On the last burn, we actually had to put two Samsungs in and one Fusion. Alan: [Laughs]Yes! Alex: Yeah. Alan: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.

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