ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

These investments are seen as foundations for future content and hardware, and with consumers purchasing more immersive tech hardware, it’s likely that we’ll be seeing more VR and AR content. The Park Playground’s Vindevogel adds that virtual reality will increasingly grow to become a part of our daily lives. “

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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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Hypergrid Business

MAY 15, 2023

Another option for people who want free OpenSim land is to use DreamGrid from OutWorldz, a version of OpenSim used by many people to create virtual worlds on personal computers, private company grids, or school grids. on an Apple Mac Mini with an M1 processor and very fast SSD, which helps.”

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

HOUSEKEEPING NOTICE: Yes, I know this blogpost is somewhat off-topic for a blog about “news and views on social VR, virtual worlds, and the metaverse,” but hey, my blog, my rules. Accordingly, I have created a new blogpost category, called Apple Vision Pro. Finder: This is the Mac equivalent of Windows Explorer.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

The updated ceremony is planned to be a showcase looking at both virtual and augmented reality. Apple’s eye-catching ARKit is on the verge of release alongside a series of Microsoft-backed VR headsets. And amid all this, dozens of new virtual worlds arrive each week for people to explore in VR headsets.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 13, 2019

High Fidelity, a virtual world platform from Second Life founder Philip Rosedale. It hit all the buzzwords — an open source code base, a Blockchain-based virtual currency, and even had avatars that could duplicate your actual hand gestures and facial expressions. What about its virtual workplace? Not just yet.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

A lot of startups have started working on the so-called “ARCloud”, that is a persistent and shared virtual world that is coherent with the real one. This means that it is possible to create AR experiences that are persistent in whatever place of the world and that are shared among all people of the world.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

We have lots of non-news about Apple’s XR efforts. The hype around Apple glasses is huge , and everything that gets shared about Apple and XR gets many views. We already knew that Tim likes AR and “what we have to offer” may also be a potato with an Apple brand costing $400. Other relevant news. Image by The Information).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Apple is having delays in the manufacturing of its XR headset. According to new ultra-reliable rumors (#sarcasm), the AR/VR headset that Apple is working on has a too complex design (whatever it means), so it will have production delays. It is an original approach, but I have to discover more details before saying my opinion about it.

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 17, 2022

As somebody who writes about social VR and flatscreen virtual worlds on this blog, with a popular Discord server packed with metaverse fanatics and a front-row seat on pretty much everything that has been happening in this space, let me tell you, the past twelve months have been a wild ride.

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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!), 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. pic.twitter.com/X1dWr780Se.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

Let’s look at a couple of the ways that generative artificial intelligence taps into your creativity: ChatGPT as a Virtual Engine There are a number of ways to conceptualize a large language model like ChatGPT; but one is that it is actually a virtual world engine. It had persistent, virtual worlds called campaigns.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Moreover, as the technology evolves, XR hardware and software are becoming sophisticated enough to provide immersive learning solutions which prove positive outcomes for trainees and mentors. What makes sense in one scenario, age group, industry, or environment may not be the best XR approach in another. And let me know.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 3, 2022

They are already being used by brands, including Prada and Balenciaga , to allow users to “prove” that they own genuine digital versions of luxury products that can be shown off in the virtual world. Previously, hardware capable of conducting these scans cost tens of thousands of dollars.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

And its ads business is under a crossfire attack: on one front, Apple with its new data policy is limiting how much data the Facebook app can collect about its users, and on the other one, the EU is trying to enforce its regulation about European people’s data not allowed to be sent to Facebook’s US servers. Image by Apple).

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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. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

This has not been the most interesting week in AR, VR, but I think that in the next times we’ll see some shots fired: in some days there will be the F8, the official shipment of the Vive Pro 2, then the Apple WWDC conference! Youtuber Eric For President has twitted some days ago that “September is the VR hardware you want”.

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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. We speak more on hardware capabilities, financial possibilities , and who’s launched the so-called latest and greatest technology more so than on the actual intangible immersive experiences themselves.

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AllThingsVR

MARCH 29, 2017

Weekly Funding Roundup: Lightform gets $26 million, Vive X is investing in 30 startups, Facebook hiring former Apple engineer, & Sliver VR raised $16 million in VC funding. HTC Vive’s investment group also said it planned to open another accelerator in Israel soon. He is listed as an inventor on several Apple patents.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

We wanted to bridge the gap between the real and virtual world while helping with customer service and product knowledge” Additionally, the enterprise aims to “be a place where brands and different companies can get involved.” Didimo’s technologies eliminated this by producing avatars “at scale.”

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. And we produced a 65 page resource guide on how this could take place in your world. We saw teachers try to teach online.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. And we produced a 65 page resource guide on how this could take place in your world. We saw teachers try to teach online.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

All across the planet, our technologies are breaking out from behind the screen and into the physical world around us. Simultaneously, the people, places, and things in our world are being digitized and brought into the virtual world, becoming part of the digital domain. Better hardware, faster networks, more users.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. And we produced a 65 page resource guide on how this could take place in your world. We saw teachers try to teach online.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

This openness reflects also on the hardware side, where Pico has just announced a partnership with Ultraleap to bring its hand-tracking device to Pico via an adapter. He complained about having to obey platforms and their taxes (clearly hinting at Apple), saying that he had a different vision. 124 apps made more than $1M on Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

They come to the show to actually buy software and hardware because they really understand the need and understand what it can do, at least to a certain degree. Alan: With the Kronos Group announcing the OpenXR standards now, I think it’s going to become easier and easier for people to build on this.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 19, 2023

I used to think that the path to the metaverse started with screen-based virtual worlds then expanded to virtual reality. We had an in-world office. I started a group for hypergrid entrepreneurs that met in OpenSim. That’s hard to do on a screen in a virtual world. Eventually. And Windows.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

They come to the show to actually buy software and hardware because they really understand the need and understand what it can do, at least to a certain degree. Alan: With the Kronos Group announcing the OpenXR standards now, I think it’s going to become easier and easier for people to build on this.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. Doing marketing in virtual worlds can be valuable. Other relevant news. Image by Mojo Vision).

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As another year hurtles inexorably towards Christmas, it’s an opportune time to take stock of how far XR has come so far, and what 2020 might hold in stock for building a virtual world we might actually want to live in. . to develop the world-mapping capabilities that will take us a step closer to the Matrix.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2022

We can so expect a price of $1000+ for the device, which at this point is clearly aimed at professionals, the same target of people of the upcoming Apple headset. So this is just another speculative virtual world; The minting was so successful that it disrupted the whole Ethereum blockchain. Outstanding move!

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As another year hurtles inexorably towards Christmas, it’s an opportune time to take stock of how far XR has come so far, and what 2020 might hold in stock for building a virtual world we might actually want to live in. . to develop the world-mapping capabilities that will take us a step closer to the Matrix.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Meta has not explained why it was removed: some people suspect it was because it could have been used “to see through some clothes”, but I don’t know if the truth is actually some software/hardware incompatibility. Unless Apple kills it, of course… Productivity ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

My favorite one is “interoperability” : you shoud be able to go through all virtual worlds carrying with you what you have got in one into the other ones. Networking libraries, VR hardware, AR glasses, common standards… nothing is ready to build the metaverse in the short term. Apple could announce its headset.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

China-India & the other Asian Nations have some really interesting #augmentedreality #virtualreality #mixedreality #startups Innovating across Hardware, Software & Content. Kai holds several International Business director positions in VR educational companies and VR, AR hardware companies. 14- Kai Liang. 17- Helen Situ.

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