The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

People have started understanding the value of virtual events, and of having a virtual environment where we all can meet and live amazing experiences together. So it may be that Oculus contributed to the success of HTC Vive’s room-scale technology. Unity Reflect its a great XR tool for enterprise customers.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

8agora provides creative teams, individuals, and groups with customizable virtual reality avatars that they can use to attend meetings and events, three-dimension high definition graphics, instant chat, simultaneous translation from any language, and many other business-oriented tools. (Image courtesy 8Agora.).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Moreover, Apple recently made a huge splash in the XR market with the Vision Pro, an XR device which leverages eye and hand tracking for its spatial computing input system. The device does not use controllers at all, instead, Apple believes that with the XR revolution comes increased usability and accessibility via hand/eye-based inputs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Ivan Rajković: If we look back at 2022 and move towards 2023, the advancements in eye and hand-tracking technologies have continued to accelerate, enabling more natural and intuitive interactions with virtual environments. The approach that Apple takes for interactions will also be a point of interest.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. At that time, virtual worlds were the only visible path to an interconnected metaverse of virtual environments. This is obviously the big one for virtual worlds. Creativity. Collaboration.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2022

OVR nodes are little electronic devices that are worn on specific parts of your body like the Apple Watch on your wrist, but to be worn on your chest, waist, ankles, and knees. This means that players can see and show their real movements in virtual environments. It can be rookie friendly or it can be a pro tool.

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 23, 2022

In support of the latter route, Ready Player Me says that its tech was eight years in the making: the company was hatched out of Wolf3D , which worked with companies like Tencent, Verizon, HTC and Wargaming to build them custom avatar systems.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

BlackBerry started off kind of as an enterprise tool, as well. 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. They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

BlackBerry started off kind of as an enterprise tool, as well. 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. They’re much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

BlackBerry started off kind of as an enterprise tool, as well. 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. They're much more distributable than the standard Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, which has to be hooked up to a PC.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 26, 2023

However, there will most likely be a changing wave of opinion after Apple announces its presumably killer consumer XR device. Apple appears to be very close to announcing an immersive product, with the leading computing firm prompting AR/VR/MR outlets to cover the event.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Do you remember when everyone was mocking HTC for its super-high prices and people were praising Meta for its cheap costs? Unless Apple kills it, of course… Productivity ecosystem. In particular, the company has identified “productivity” as the third vertical where to push virtual reality, after gaming and fitness.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

This kind of seamless interface is great and it is exactly the same one that HTC already offers with the Vive Focus Plus and Viveport Streaming and that I’ve tried and appreciated. I guess Oculus will aim at something similar, because it is very handy (Image by HTC Vive). Rift line gets discontinued.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

HTC Vive Retires. The HTC Vive was phased out in October, replaced by the Vive Cosmos , which was priced at $699. There were also some significant acquisitions in the space, such as Jaunt XR being bought by Verizon , and Apple acquiring UK start-up Ikinema. Shut Downs and Acquisitions. MacGyver Escape room.

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