XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 26, 2023

This month, Microsoft will deploy an upgraded version of its dormant HoloLens 2 headset for US Army soldiers. Microsoft’s US Army contract sees the firm deploy 20 custom “Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS)” HoloLens 2 MR headsets for field testing. Microsoft IVAS: What’s New? The IVAS version 1.2

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Apple is still working on a cheaper Vision Pro Meta is not the only company working on a cheaper device. Apple is doing the same with its Vision Pro, hoping to release in the next years a headset with a price that makes it affordable for more people. More info — Use Google Translate!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Apple is gearing up for the Vision Pro debut. The firm’s first XR headset is due soon, and with it comes a spatial computing ambition that draws similarities and differences to Lenovo, Microsoft, Meta, HTC VIVE, and other XR headset vendors. Just days after the Sapetop announcement, Apple revealed its Vision Pro product.

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2023

MUSE Museum AR Experience on a mobile application Finding the best platform for your WebAR project Introduction I have been building Augmented reality apps since 2006, and I have worked with various systems: PC, Mobile, Adobe Flash FlarToolkit, Depth sensors, RGB Sensors, Magicleap, Microsoft Hololens, Google Tango andARCore, and Apple AR Kit.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This year was a busy one for the XR industry; following a lull in faith towards the start of the year, groups such as the OEP, Microsoft, and Meta worked to bring new life to the sector via substantial workplace XR solutions. The Unity integration also enables the OEP to integrate other related solutions into the product.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 5, 2017

Unity Technologies and Epic Games are in a grudge match for the hearts and minds of game developers. I interviewed both John Riccitiello, CEO of San Francisco-based Unity, and Tim Sweeney, CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based The Unity-based games reached a billion new devices since GDC 2016. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

For example, some of the cloud services that we’ll look at are cloud storage solutions. As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. While almost all non-Apple mobile devices run Android, it is also the backbone of many XR headsets.). “Now CloudXR From NVIDIA.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Although gaming is certainly a great use case and example of what immersive VR experiences can deliver, the possibilities are endless,” said Vindevogel. He gave examples of some applications of VR that have nothing to do with gaming, such as house tours, and meetings.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

An older, but interesting example of marker-based AR is the PlayStation 3 Wonderbook, a gaming ‘peripheral’ that allows players to view a spell book on their screen. For example, an app that can digitally change the color of your couch could be considered superimposition AR. This technique is useful for cause-and-effect demonstrations.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For example, a Metaverse platform could provide users with a series of remote MR collaboration applications. Following this period of Metaverse criticism, firms such as Apple avoided the terminology for their own MR device, and Meta barely referred to its Horizon service during Connect 2023. But how did Microsoft get to this point?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

Apple already made hardware, so it already had the infrastructure to build it and just added XR people on top of this infrastracture, while Facebook could not). Apple AR headset may have been delayed to 2025. Yes, we have rumors about Apple XR devices even this week. Yes, Apple is working on XR glasses. It’s believable.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 5, 2017

One of the amazing things about Apple’s new ARKit developer platform is that there’s no extra hardware required. You can see those examples in action below. The SDK is already functional with the Unity engine, and support for Samsung’s Galaxy phones is also planned for the near future.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

Apple’s Vision Pro device is coming in under a year if predictions are correct. An infinite digital canvas is how Apple sees its immersive product. Apple invites users to leverage Vision Pro as a tool to enhance their personal or professional workflows. visionOS is the framework empowering Apple’s infinite canvas.

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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. Of course, it will exploit the already awesome Microsoft platform.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s Vision Pro triggered new discourse on the future of virutal, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR). Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. Apple is adept at proposing something you didn’t think you needed.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 19, 2017

I am standing in a virtual living room rendered via Unity. The talent comes from the likes of Microsoft and Nokia. My experience in that Unity-based living room and other demos, using what Varjo is calling the “20/20” prototype, shows that they are working in the right direction. It’s a glimpse of VR’s future.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

It offers a full-fledge Unity SDK to develop games and support virtual reality. For example, the real estate agency eXp Realty was one of the first to open an international office in virtual reality. Meta (ex-Facebook) and Microsoft have already announced their plans to create a metaverse. For example, you can sell your land.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Meta announces at Connect Quest Pro and a partnership with Microsoft. There have been a few key announcements at Connect: Meta has launched Quest Pro , its new premium headset, for $1500 Meta announced its focus on a new vertical, productivity Meta has partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to tackle the XR enterprise world.

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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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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Although Unity 3D is undoubtedly the most common and trained standards for developing and deploying augmented and virtual reality application for both beginner or expert developer, it is cannot be employed for developing content for some headsets. You also give 5% of net revenues per quarter although its free to use.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 8, 2023

Along with NVIDIA, Unity and Epic Games, the world’s largest gaming engines, have also joined efforts to build the industrial metaverse. Conversely, Apple has entered the XR scene with a potential enterprise-focused Vision Pro headsets. For example, Precedence Research figures found that the global XR market would top $345.9

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Small startups can’t compete with big companies, so usually, startups produce expensive headsets at a smaller scale to survive : see VRgineers or Varjo as an example. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Besides that, it is also hiring key figures to make this AR dream a reality : the operating system project will be supervised by Mark Lucovsky, a former Microsoft engineer who co-developed Windows NT. More info (Example n.1 1 of post about this on Reddit) More info (Example n.2 Unity releases the XR Interaction Toolkit.

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Robert Scoble

JANUARY 11, 2022

Apple and Unity aren’t going to continue making this mistake, because they have done the kinds of human factor research I have. Apple even built a fake home to study these different contexts in the home. Apple has new eyes on these uses of technology in the home. Here we are.

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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. Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The damn coronavirus continues to impact all our lives: the fact that many countries are applying restrictions on flights to and from Italy is, for example, creating various nuisances to my job. Is this really what Apple wants? (Thanks Robert Scoble for this news!). Image by Microsoft). News worth a mention. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2024

For instance, we use a slightly modified version of Microsoft guidelines for C# for the coding phase, and every code is reviewed during the pull request stage Try to ask for high standards from everyone. Unity XR was a much safer choice. Talking about coding, for instance, what people should do before coding?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

And as you may know, the military, a lot of the technologies we use today have evolved from there, so for example, the Internet, GPS, even Siri for your iPhone originally came from SRI, which is right down the road from us in Princeton, developed there and Apple bought it off them. We have a Unity SDK. We can do plane detection.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

And as you may know, the military, a lot of the technologies we use today have evolved from there, so for example, the Internet, GPS, even Siri for your iPhone originally came from SRI, which is right down the road from us in Princeton, developed there and Apple bought it off them. We have a Unity SDK. We can do plane detection.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

And as you may know, the military, a lot of the technologies we use today have evolved from there, so for example, the Internet, GPS, even Siri for your iPhone originally came from SRI, which is right down the road from us in Princeton, developed there and Apple bought it off them. We have a Unity SDK. We can do plane detection.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

XR devices are all over the headlines this month; the release of the Apple Vision Pro has brought spatial computing/mixed reality wearables to the forefront of emerging workplace and consumer-based digital solutions. This aids collaboration and productivity between staff on – and off-site.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Microsoft Hololens. Apple is going to release something around that — Windows just released a phone with native 3D capture. We support everything you would expect when you are using an advanced tool like 3DS Max or Unity. We are integrated with the Unity asset store for example. by Virtual Studio. on Sketchfab.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

So this allows a worker to just hold up the phone and see basically the right AR content on every machine, on every pathway, seeing the warning signs that are particularly tailored to the specific status of this worker, for example. So Microsoft, as you know, we support ARKit- and ARCore-enabled devices. Alan: That’s incredible.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

So this allows a worker to just hold up the phone and see basically the right AR content on every machine, on every pathway, seeing the warning signs that are particularly tailored to the specific status of this worker, for example. So Microsoft, as you know, we support ARKit- and ARCore-enabled devices. Alan: That’s incredible.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Apple VR headset may feature a 3000PPI microOLED display. This week we had a new rumor about the XR headset Apple is working on. According to Korean publication The Elec, Apple has requested a sample of a display component for OLED displays that can arrive up to 3000PPI. Apple Event was not about AR, like, at all.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

So this allows a worker to just hold up the phone and see basically the right AR content on every machine, on every pathway, seeing the warning signs that are particularly tailored to the specific status of this worker, for example. So Microsoft, as you know, we support ARKit- and ARCore-enabled devices. Alan: That's incredible.

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