XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2024

This week, smart glasses manufacturer XREAL announced a successful funding round of $60 million in a strategic round to launch the firm as a competitor to the Apple Vision Pro. Developer, partner and retailer conversations are underway now to make XREAL Air 2 Ultra’s first year the biggest in AR history.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes.

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

Apple seems to be cornering the popular entertainment industry, with the acquisition of NextVR, as industry rivals such as Magic Leap focus on enterprise solutions. With the Starboard UI and Apple Glasses release anticipated for Q4 2020/Q1 2021, the world is eagerly awaiting the next generation of extended reality (XR) standards.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Google, Apple, and other map programmes offer this functionality to users. Smart glass manufacturers and solution providers like Vuzix, Google, Nreal, RealWear, Lenovo, Magic Leap, and others offer full-spectrum devices capable of agile use cases. Google also revealed the world’s first smart glasses, Google Glass, in 2013.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Meta is rolling the update out to a small group of US-based content creators, with the Menlo Park-based firm planning further expansion to other regions. The platform also takes Apple and Google Pay digital wallet payments. OpenSea Integration for Data Collection.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 10, 2022

There are countless other companies already vying for attention in the same landscapes, like the Google search engines and social media platforms. MADE.com, an online furniture retailer, was able to increase its purchases by 2.5 The company decided to try building an AR experience specifically for people using Apple iOS devices.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2017

The world’s most-visited theme park company, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Worldwide, dominates the charts, entertaining over 130 million people each year, more than double the attendance of the next largest company, Merlin Entertainments Group. DisneyQuest’s ‘Ride the Comix’ | Photo courtesy Dave Pape ( CC BY 2.0 ).

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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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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Tracey Wiedmeyer and Alan discuss a few ideas, from browsing the catch of the day in a VR tropical wonderland, to using VR and AR to test out retail layouts before you build them. So maybe you can just talk about InContext Solutions and what you’re doing for retailers. Alan: Today’s guest is Tracey Wiedmeyer.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Tracey Wiedmeyer and Alan discuss a few ideas, from browsing the catch of the day in a VR tropical wonderland, to using VR and AR to test out retail layouts before you build them. So maybe you can just talk about InContext Solutions and what you’re doing for retailers. Alan: Today’s guest is Tracey Wiedmeyer.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 2, 2021

How many stages have I spoken on, in front of groups of hundreds and even thousands of people with barely any black people in the audience. One of the biggest hurdles is that many groups have vastly different understandings of ethical standards. But we must start somewhere. However, we’ve never seen a pandemic disrupt technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Prior to Accenture, Rori was Global Head of Digital Strategy and executive vice president at Havas Media Group, where she led and managed strategic planning worldwide, with a focus on digitally-integrated marketing communications and innovation. Alan: So, I think Google’s leading. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Prior to Accenture, Rori was Global Head of Digital Strategy and executive vice president at Havas Media Group, where she led and managed strategic planning worldwide, with a focus on digitally-integrated marketing communications and innovation. Alan: So, I think Google’s leading. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 30, 2019

Imagine a super version of Google Earth, but machines instead of people use it. Apple’s ARKit algorithms wouldn’t work with Google’s ARCore data even if Google gave them access. Google, etc.) Similar social learning took place with Google Glass versus Snap Spectacles.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The event hosts people from very important companies like NVIDIA, VR Chat, The Khronos Group, Alibaba (there is Jack Ma!), But having seen Google taking a similar route, releasing a faceplate to add 6DOF controller tracking for Mirage Solo , I think that both companies realized that the hardware solution was a better solution at the moment.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

And earlier this month, Google released Blocks , which is a prim-based building tool for virtual reality. Google did release a prototype of a multi user Tilt Brush last fall, but there’s no word yet when it will actually be available. There were portals and search engines and blog rolls and discussion groups.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Today we're speaking with Martin Enthed, digital manager at IKEA Communications, who's also part of the IKEA Digital Lab, looking five to seven years out into the future of how we bring retail to the masses. Martin is also part of the Khronos Group, an organization working on the open standards for spatial web and 3D world. Alan: True.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Today we're speaking with Martin Enthed, digital manager at IKEA Communications, who's also part of the IKEA Digital Lab, looking five to seven years out into the future of how we bring retail to the masses. Martin is also part of the Khronos Group, an organization working on the open standards for spatial web and 3D world. Alan: True.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. Balenciaga just did this amazing 3D retail experience. So a group called SPACES -- out of LA -- and they had locations all over the world. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. Balenciaga just did this amazing 3D retail experience. So a group called SPACES -- out of LA -- and they had locations all over the world. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

Think of retail, for example, where everything’s moving around. If you’re trying to look at a planogram section of a retail space, you need to dynamically be able to compute what’s there, what’s not there, whether things are in the right place. Google, about a month ago, announced their AR navigation system.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

Think of retail, for example, where everything’s moving around. If you’re trying to look at a planogram section of a retail space, you need to dynamically be able to compute what’s there, what’s not there, whether things are in the right place. Google, about a month ago, announced their AR navigation system.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

So this is a lot more consumer facing, whether that's retail type events or -- like you mentioned in the intro -- the work that we did with the US Golf Association on the US Open over the last few years. They installed large communication devices on top of office buildings, retail stores, malls and the like. We're not.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

So this is a lot more consumer facing, whether that's retail type events or -- like you mentioned in the intro -- the work that we did with the US Golf Association on the US Open over the last few years. They installed large communication devices on top of office buildings, retail stores, malls and the like. We're not.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

So this is a lot more consumer facing, whether that's retail type events or -- like you mentioned in the intro -- the work that we did with the US Golf Association on the US Open over the last few years. They installed large communication devices on top of office buildings, retail stores, malls and the like. We're not.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We have a Google Doc-style, real-time collaborative editing, where you can have as many people as you want in a project, but you’re also giving them permission to edit the project. But also physical retail. People are really interested in bringing a layer of digital experience into the retail environment. Media companies.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We have a Google Doc-style, real-time collaborative editing, where you can have as many people as you want in a project, but you’re also giving them permission to edit the project. But also physical retail. People are really interested in bringing a layer of digital experience into the retail environment. Media companies.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Today we're speaking with Martin Enthed, digital manager at IKEA Communications, who's also part of the IKEA Digital Lab, looking five to seven years out into the future of how we bring retail to the masses. Martin is also part of the Khronos Group, an organization working on the open standards for spatial web and 3D world. Alan: True.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. Balenciaga just did this amazing 3D retail experience. So a group called SPACES -- out of LA -- and they had locations all over the world. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 3, 2022

AI has been described by Google CEO Sundar Pichai as “more significant than fire or electricity” in terms of the impact it will have on human civilization. This is an entity – which could be a company, charity, service provider, or community group – managed and administered via software and rules enshrined on a blockchain.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

I’m actually one of the founding members of the Open Air Cloud Group and Kronos Group is is really kind of trying to pull together these standards for 3D, as well for e-commerce. I know there’s a group right now trying to standardize 3D objects for e-commerce and retail because right now it’s a dog’s breakfast.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

I’m actually one of the founding members of the Open Air Cloud Group and Kronos Group is is really kind of trying to pull together these standards for 3D, as well for e-commerce. I know there’s a group right now trying to standardize 3D objects for e-commerce and retail because right now it’s a dog’s breakfast.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

I'm actually one of the founding members of the Open Air Cloud Group and Kronos Group is is really kind of trying to pull together these standards for 3D, as well for e-commerce. I know there's a group right now trying to standardize 3D objects for e-commerce and retail because right now it's a dog's breakfast.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

We have a Google Doc-style, real-time collaborative editing, where you can have as many people as you want in a project, but you're also giving them permission to edit the project. But also physical retail. People are really interested in bringing a layer of digital experience into the retail environment. Media companies.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

FIVARS is a presentation of VRTO – Toronto’s virtual reality meetup group and think tank. FIVARS is the first Canadian festival of its kind featuring many world premieres and in our preview screenings and events, audience responses are consistently full of contemplation, surprise, delight, controversy and wonder.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 10, 2019

And I would think that Facebook, Snapchat, maybe Apple, those the main ones. They can also, if the retailers have their own content, through Darabase they can be certain of their own promotions. Alan: So you’re really going kind of the route of AR, meaning kind of Apple and Google foundation. Dominic: Yes and no.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 10, 2019

And I would think that Facebook, Snapchat, maybe Apple, those the main ones. They can also, if the retailers have their own content, through Darabase they can be certain of their own promotions. Alan: So you’re really going kind of the route of AR, meaning kind of Apple and Google foundation. Dominic: Yes and no.

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