ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

XR hardware is on the move. So, more and more XR providers are providing cloud services in addition to their hardware and platform offerings. For Varjo clients, a lot of the management and IT solutions that make up cloud services for other developers are handled through software subscriptions bundled with almost all Varjo hardware.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Read on for my breakdown of the Vision Pro hardware and software and the experience they enable. Apple Vision Pro Specs, Features & Details Apple officially revealed the full Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today.

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2017

Augmented Reality has played a huge role at the developer conferences for Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Google, which is a great sign that the industry is moving towards spatially-aware computing. I also compare and contrast the recent AR announcements from Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook in my wrap-up.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 27, 2021

It let you essentially fly around a city, sort of like Google Earth but in three dimensions. In fairness, Google Earth offers 3D features. In fairness, Google Earth offers 3D features. And Google Earth VR , lets users fly around cities in strikingly immersive ways. Geospatially Sound.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2022

This would be a total pivot for Meta, which would so migrate away from the social importance of having eye and face tracking to compete directly with Apple in offering a consumer device totally dedicated to mixed reality. But NFTs should be bought with fiat currency and Apple will take a 30% cut out of them. It’s like its 357th one.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The team has demonstrably thinned out over the last few months, with HoloLens veterans such as principal optical architect Bernard Kress leaving the company recently for Google Labs. There’s some ostensible background radiation related to employee attrition here too.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Facebook and Apple will jumpstart the smartglasses ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

This time we don’t have more info about the hardware, but about the software. But I would wait to rejoice from it: VR requires a very short motion-to-photon latency, and as of today no cloud rendering service can offer such low latency in every possible location of the user. Apple may unveil RealityOS at WWDC.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

The promise of Augmented Reality hardware has been immense, but so have been the number of misses. Can Jio’s next hardware play be any different? Reliance Jio’s foray into mixed reality started in 2019 when they acquired majority stake in deep-tech startup Tesseract which has a few hardware products in XR space.

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CraneMorley

AUGUST 1, 2023

This means that there are still some challenges to overcome, such as latency and bandwidth issues. Microsoft is also working to develop new technologies that will enable the industrial metaverse, such as: 5G: 5G will provide the high-speed, low-latency connectivity that is needed to support the industrial metaverse.

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ARVR

JULY 9, 2020

Google launched Google Glass , and Microsoft launched HoloLens , a head-mounted display (Krevelen, 2010)(Jaimini, 2016). 2010s : Companies are investing in the potential of this area like Google with ARCore and Apple with ARKit (Papagiannis, 2017). Evolution of Augmented Reality (Craig, 2013) by fernanda rodríguez.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Some hardware accessories have been announced for this headset, like a fitness 3DOF tracker for the feet, and a dedicated router for wireless streaming. Image by Google). Meta and Google announce layoffs. This week we had the announcement of both Meta and Google laying off people. News worth a mention.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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. Both Azure Spatial Anchors and Google Cloud Anchors are leveraging existing strengths in mapping towards the AR Cloud. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 28, 2021

This takes form in a streaming platform that targets a wide addressable market including telcos, systems integrators, AR platforms, and hardware & software players up and down the AR stack. Beyond Niantic, tech giants like Apple , Snap , Meta , Qualcomm and AMD are investing heavily to own a piece of this opportunity.

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ARPost

APRIL 29, 2021

AR remote collaboration with IoT devices as well as low-latency calling in less-than-ideal locations and conditions are only likely to improve as the company is one of the most active groups in exploring 5G. The experiences announced earlier this year pair Varjo’s unbeatable mixed reality hardware with Laerdal’s medical expertise.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

Regarding big brands, I expect Apple and Facebook still to wait a bit before releasing something, while Magic Leap will have to make its move to come out from the quicksands. This means that I’m not expecting many new hardware announcements, but I’m expecting new AR enterprise platforms, applications and solutions.

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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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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Well, they just joined the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, which is a prerequisite in order to use Bluetooth in any hardware device – and they joined as an adopter, which mean that they would be building the Bluetooth-enabled products. Speculation has been swirling around Snapchat: are they developing augmented reality wearables?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

These have appeared across Google’s ARCore, Niantic’s Lightship AR developer kit (ARDK), Snap Lens, Meta’s Reality system, and Apple’s ARKit platforms, namely for smartphones. This allows them to transform their acquired hardware into computing powerhouses to reach specific goals.

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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 - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As the rise of XR hardware continues, the tech space gives consumer and enterprise end-users an avenue to explore spatial computing. While widespread consumer adoption is still far away, many AR hardware and software firms are leading the pack in spreading the technology worldwide.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

It also hosts a Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1 processor for offloading processing power, streamlining app functionality for low-latency connectivity between the two devices. Additionally, Apple followed suit by redirecting efforts to their long-awaited, premium-tier MR headset and subsequent mid-range consumer MR device.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The new Oculus device was by the way another piece of hardware that was by chance “leaked” in a timely way so that to excite everyone for Facebook Connect 2. We are in the middle of a cheap shortage, and now Valve hardware product lines are devoted to the SteamDeck, so it’s improbable that a new production line is starting immediately.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Zhou said this technology is the first to stream and play near-zero latency 360-degree VR videos in 4K to 8K resolution over regular Wi-Fi and LTE for mobile – and eventually tethered VR headsets. “As There was no practical, consumer-level solution to these problems even a few years ago due to hardware limitations.”.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2019

An optimized passthrough for the Quest, with better resolution, latency and depth perception. Apple acquires IKinema. Another acquisition got my attention this week: Apple buying IKinema. The new Steam hardware survey is out and from it it is clear that Oculus is performing always better.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

This was an amazing idea because apart from being technically supercool, it let all Focus users have their controllers upgraded from 3DOF to 6DOF without having to change hardware. Really fantastic. But after the announcement at Vive Ecosystem Conference, we had no more info on it and this felt a bit strange. Hands tracking for Vive Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And the price of the wireless add-on is even more suspicious: speaking with a hardware manufacturer, they told me that ONLY THE ANTENNAS of a Wi-Gig connection for VR streaming (like the one of the Vive Pro) costs around $100… so how can the whole wireless streaming device cost just $50?? Learn more.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. Golf, I think.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. Golf, I think.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

There's nary a hint of the whimsy Google infused into the hardware and software design of its rival, the Pixel 6 Pro. If you're reliant on Google's suite of apps, then you'll find those Samsung has installed to be mostly redundant, like Samsung's Galaxy app store, its mobile wallet app, Gallery, Messages, and more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Artists previously used very expensive hardware and software to create digital assets, namely with delayed throughput. ” He added: “We believe that if you have five, ten, or even 1,000 apps, the industry will begin to take off and everybody will benefit downstream at the hardware level.”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. And so Apple bought them shortly thereafter. So SPACES was acquired quietly by Apple this year. Golf, I think.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

We have OEMs who want to integrate our software into their hardware. And really, what they’re doing is creating a persistent cloud map of the inside of your space, because if you think about it, Google has a map of the entire outside world of this planet, barring a few other local places. He used to work on Google Earth.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

We have OEMs who want to integrate our software into their hardware. And really, what they’re doing is creating a persistent cloud map of the inside of your space, because if you think about it, Google has a map of the entire outside world of this planet, barring a few other local places. He used to work on Google Earth.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

We have OEMs who want to integrate our software into their hardware. And really, what they're doing is creating a persistent cloud map of the inside of your space, because if you think about it, Google has a map of the entire outside world of this planet, barring a few other local places. He used to work on Google Earth.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

And the importance of the general technical work I do in terms of creating low-latency experiences, and how they can be used to combine together to create better human safety conditions. I think they’re using the VUZIX blade or something… they’re using different hardware devices. Terry: Sure.

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