XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

One of Microsoft’s XR clients is Nexco-East Engineering, which operates roughly 4,000km of all expressways in Japan. At its Technical Training Center (TTC) located in Takasaki, Gunma, Nexco-East trainees can access the Microsoft-powered training service.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Once a wasteland of dropped keys, dentures, and garbage, platform-adjacent train and subway tracks are now littered with wireless earbuds that accidentally fall out as passengers board and leave trains. The problem is so bad that the East Japan Railway Co.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2021

In Japan, the number is around 80K. What I think we can extrapolate are relative data and in particular, the fact that the Quest 2 is more popular in the USA than in Canada and Japan: 4M of sold gaskets in USA vs 170K in Canada and 80K in Japan mark a huge difference. Sony has sold 10M PS5 worldwide. Kudos to them! Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

for training), and also for full-body tracking by all people performing in VRChat. 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. But it is impressive anyway.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Apple AR/VR headset may rely on a nearby iPhone to work. The latest news on Apple’s upcoming AR/VR visor comes from The Information, which in a report reveals how Apple is working on making its upcoming headset not a fully standalone, but something that works thanks to the processing power of a nearby iPhone. Image by Lynx).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

New rumors about the upcoming Apple headset. According to industry professional Cesar Berardini, the upcoming Apple headset may have a monster display: 4000PPI and 120 frame per seconds of framerate. As for all Apple rumors, take this with some kilos of grains of salt. The overall weight should be just 250g. Learn more.

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ARPost

MARCH 12, 2021

Many leading technology companies such as Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Google are investing billions into developing these technologies. In a particularly interesting case, there is a business in Japan that offers first-class flights and vacationing to any location using VR. I am not the only one who has identified this trend.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Japan’s largest telecommunications company allowed attendees to test 6G robotics, haptics, and metaverse technologies to demonstrate the emerging technology’s potential. GIGXR Debuts Immersive HoloScenarios: BLS Training GigXR, an immersive healthcare training platform, launched updates for its HoloScenarios platform.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 18, 2023

Platforms such as Meta’s Spark AR, as well as the AR APIs, SDKs and toolkits available from leaders like Google and Apple are opening the door to more innovation in the space. What’s Driving the Growth of AR? So, why is AR such a big deal in the current landscape, and what’s causing it to grow so rapidly?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Gameboys to follow were truly portable, and offered all of the games you wanted to play on the bus, train, plane, wherever. Yokoi’s career at Nintendo spanned 31 years, covering its transformation from the then nearly century-old Japanese playing card company to worldwide video gaming powerhouse.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 27, 2023

According to Pimax, it’s one of the most impressive VR headsets on the market, suitable for gaming, enterprise use, and even pilot training. There’s also free shipping to the US, UK, EU, AU, and Japan. Compared to other headsets like the Apple Vision Pro , it’s a little heavier, weighing around 960 grams.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Those enterprise customers have enthusiastically been adopting Microsoft’s mixed reality technology in a variety of productivity, collaboration, training, and visualization use-cases; while Microsoft, in turn, have been satisfying the wish-list of those dedicated customers. Spatial Anchors. Trimble XR10 w HoloLens 2 / Image Credit: Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

This also means that there is more contamination from the West and also from Japan, considering that this island was part of Japan various years ago. It was a multiplayer training experience about work safety where I (the trainer) could do the experience in VR and all other people could watch me while I did it.

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EnterpriseWear

AUGUST 1, 2018

More recently, the use of wearable augmented and virtual reality devices by airport and airline technicians to train, perform maintenance, and receive remote support has gained traction. Japan Airlines and JetFly have also tested the headset, which can store up to 40 high-def films including five VR titles.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Meta plans to fight Apple thanks to the help of LG, a company that has deep expertise in manufacturing hardware and displays. Talking about content, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is one of the first series shot with Apple’s ‘Immersive Video’ format and is set to debut on Apple TV+ in late 2023.

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ARVR

JANUARY 21, 2022

APPLE ARKIT 5 The latest version of Apple’s open source mobile augmented reality development toolset, ARKit 5 , offers significant improvements from ARKit 4. ARKit appears to have the best compatibility between software and hardware, as Apple is responsible for all aspects of their devices. billion by 2024.

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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. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Is Apple partnering with Valve on AR? A report by DigiTimes claims that Apple is partnering with Valve for the production of its AR glasses. The news would be incredible: Apple is a company that knows how to create something usable and cool to see, while Valve has a long expertise in experimenting with AR and VR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

The great displays of the Reverb already made it useful for those who performed prototyping and graphics, and with these sensors that can track the user , it can become very relevant also for psychology, training, marketing studies, and many other sectors. Learn more. Some XR fun. How is being a VR game developer Funny link.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

And we are backed by ALEC Japanese… more like a strategic investor from Japan and Asia, including GREE, which is a publicly-traded company, a mobile gaming company out of Tokyo, and they also help us investing in companies and altogether. Right now they have about five or six locations, three in US and one in Japan line to buy.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

And we are backed by ALEC Japanese… more like a strategic investor from Japan and Asia, including GREE, which is a publicly-traded company, a mobile gaming company out of Tokyo, and they also help us investing in companies and altogether. Right now they have about five or six locations, three in US and one in Japan line to buy.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

And we are backed by ALEC Japanese… more like a strategic investor from Japan and Asia, including GREE, which is a publicly-traded company, a mobile gaming company out of Tokyo, and they also help us investing in companies and altogether. Right now they have about five or six locations, three in US and one in Japan line to buy.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

HTC doesn’t want to lose the VR train, so it has just found a creative way of competing with Meta Quest Pro. I think that if HIKKI wants to expand beyond Japan, it should do something different. The less pleasant news is that according to the memo, the new device will be devoted to developers, so it will still be a devkit. Some XR fun.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 18, 2022

Credit: Apple TV+. Apple TV+’s new mysterious workplace thriller, Severance , debuted one of the most compelling first seasons in TV history. — Nicole Gallucci, Senior Editor How to watch: Severance is now streaming on Apple TV+. The Train" bid farewell to the Pearson matriarch, Rebecca, played by Mandy Moore.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

While at Zynga, he co-created the game FarmVille and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. Previously she was one of the first employees at NextVR ( acquired by Apple ), a virtual reality company focused on live entertainment across music and sports. 14- Kai Liang. 17- Helen Situ. Helen Situ is currently working on a new company.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

For sure the announcement at FC and the release date in 2021 have been studied to put some pressure on Apple , which seems to be the only rival to Facebook for what concerns the AR future. And what about the ongoing training? Doesn’t this mean that bathroom can be tracked to get AR as well? Who decides what is legit and what not?

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