XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In the gaming and entertainment industry, metaverse AI is helping companies like Second Life generate dynamic virtual worlds and environments that feel more realistic than ever. In the retail world, companies are investing in AI-powered virtual storefronts, which allow customers to browse through and buy products more immersively.

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VRScout

MARCH 12, 2018

“Between 360 video, virtual reality, and augmented reality, I think augmented reality has much bigger opportunities,” Asher said. It’s a great hybrid between the real world and the virtual world.”. For instance, retail staff could wear the HoloLens to see how something has been selling.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Apple has recently added a new sensor to its iPhone 12 pro that adds depth scanning for better photos, but the future points to AR glasses, 3D imaging, and more. AR Portals Transport your audience into new virtual worlds using AR portals. LIDAR An acronym for “light detection and ranging” and LIDAR has been around for a while.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 21, 2022

These professionals use new devices to merge the physical and virtual worlds with creative, engaging immersive content. Sectors such as retail, medical, remote guidance, and even the military leveraged the technology to circumvent the challenges of COVID-19. According to Precedence Research, the global XR market reached $35.14

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 10, 2022

MADE.com, an online furniture retailer, was able to increase its purchases by 2.5 With the potential to unlock the creative side of customers, by allowing the combination of the real and virtual worlds, AR felt like a natural solution for MADE.com and its advertising strategy. Here’s how Meta and MADE.com worked together.

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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 Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

Robison is the former head of Beats Products for Apple and a Cornell University graduate. I was at Apple, and they were at an experiential Dentsu agency. For instance, we intended Robotproof to function as a lab to identify unmet marketing, events, and retail needs and develop innovative solutions.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In the last couple of years alone, we’ve seen everyone from major vendors like Apple and Meta to new innovators like XReal entering the AR market. These lightweight and versatile solutions don’t require users to step into a different virtual world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 30, 2023

For instance, the Apple Vision Pro allows users to interact with apps and technologies using innate actions like gestures and eye movement. Spatial computing concepts allow us to interact with computers and virtual worlds using our natural actions, from raising a hand to looking at a certain point on a screen.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2017

Iger is clearly wary of this, and believes augmented reality, rather than virtual reality, is the key technology to be found at future Disney attractions. SEE ALSO New VR Theme Parks from Landmark Entertainment Group to "Fuse Art, Culture, and Retail with Virtual Reality".

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2022

Its first retail store is opening in Burlingame, CA on May 9th. For sure he knows that pros will be Apple’s target and hopes to beat Apple with his device (AHAHAHAH). If this becomes true, Fortnite could become a hub of virtual worlds, so a small “metaverse”. Others will come in the future.

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Otherwise, let’s dive in and take a look at how banks and other financial services organizations are making their mark there: Virtual Lobbies. Their audiences are digital natives and are keen to do business with companies that share their understanding and enthusiasm for virtual worlds and gaming-style environments.

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ARVR

MARCH 9, 2022

A great example of augmented reality is Pokemon Go, where pokemon were hidden like Easter eggs for users to find in the real world. As for Virtual Reality (VR), it’s a complete immersion into a virtual world, shutting off the physical world entirely through special VR devices like HTC Vive, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Rift.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2022

Even in 2007, when Apple announced the first iPhone, Steve Jobs was keen to get rid of the stylus for touchscreen management, arguing separate controllers and devices make using technology more cumbersome. In a retail world, companies could use eye-tracking to determine which products capture a customer’s attention first.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Eight year ago, when I first launched Hypergrid Business , virtual worlds offered a unique set of compelling features. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Niantic has finally launched its VPS (Visual Positioning System), a solution that will allow developers to create AR applications that are persistent and shared in various locations in the world with centimeter accuracy. VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today, we are taking the spatial computing industry to yet another level as we announce the availability of the full 6DoF developer kit for the Vive Wave open ecosystem, and a host of new 6DoF content and technologies to more easily bring users into fully immersive virtual worlds. The internal design seems very beautiful.

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ARPost

APRIL 10, 2020

From virtual try-ons, to detailed product inspection, to camera activated logos, to what my mom calls “bright and shiny” camera filters – what we wear will come to life in the virtual world. According to Statista , online returns will become a $550 billion problem for retailers this year due to the rise in online shopping.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Clothing retailer Forever 21, for example, probably does not expect to make much money or much improve the customer experience of its average fan, with the presence it launched this year in Roblox. Previously, hardware capable of conducting these scans cost tens of thousands of dollars.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has made significant contributions in various verticals such as entertainment, education, retail etc. Augmented Reality Augmented reality (AR) is an immersive experience where the objects that resides in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated information (virtual objects).

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ARVR

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In Neal Stephenson’s book called Snow Crash, as the world crumbles around them, people flee into a virtual world called the ‘metaverse’. With tech giants such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon and others betting big money on it, every company needs to get a move on and decide how they are going to use the metaverse.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We are, as an example, working with one of our key clients and to develop digital versions, virtual versions of their future products, removing their reliance on physical sampling. And what he was saying is by having virtual worlds and being able to create a virtual world economy like Second Life, but in your real world.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We are, as an example, working with one of our key clients and to develop digital versions, virtual versions of their future products, removing their reliance on physical sampling. And what he was saying is by having virtual worlds and being able to create a virtual world economy like Second Life, but in your real world.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We are, as an example, working with one of our key clients and to develop digital versions, virtual versions of their future products, removing their reliance on physical sampling. And what he was saying is by having virtual worlds and being able to create a virtual world economy like Second Life, but in your real world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

With this new headset, users won’t just be able to explore more advanced virtual worlds. It costs almost double the predecessor’s price, though it’s still much cheaper than other MR headsets, like the Apple Vision Pro. You can purchase them directly through the Meta website or through a partner retailer, such as Amazon.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I like to say, if it's too dangerous, too difficult, or too expensive to do the training in the real world, why wouldn't you do it in a virtual world? If it's really too dangerous to do that training in the real world, why wouldn't you create it in a virtual world? We're not.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I like to say, if it's too dangerous, too difficult, or too expensive to do the training in the real world, why wouldn't you do it in a virtual world? If it's really too dangerous to do that training in the real world, why wouldn't you create it in a virtual world? We're not.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I like to say, if it's too dangerous, too difficult, or too expensive to do the training in the real world, why wouldn't you do it in a virtual world? If it's really too dangerous to do that training in the real world, why wouldn't you create it in a virtual world? We're not.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

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. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. Balenciaga just did this amazing 3D retail experience. Golf, I think. everything.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

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. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. Balenciaga just did this amazing 3D retail experience. Golf, I think. everything.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. Alan: Yeah it’ll be interesting to see what Apple comes up with.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. Alan: Yeah it’ll be interesting to see what Apple comes up with.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

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. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. Balenciaga just did this amazing 3D retail experience. Golf, I think. everything.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 2, 2021

These are some of the very things we’re focusing on with the Virtual World Society and areas I’ve been exploring for some time. In XR, communication, education, retail, health wellness, medical training, and sports are the key industries to observe. Do you have some examples of some good experiences in this sense?

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ARPost

JANUARY 27, 2022

People of all ages found meaningful experiences in the virtual world and managed to fight off the negative impacts of isolation caused by stay-at-home mandates. Companies like HTC, Oculus (Meta), and Apple will continue to innovate and launch devices equipped with the latest technological developments. from 2020 to 2027.

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Another is creating people and characters to populate the worlds – from customer service chatbots to realistic characters in entertainment-oriented experiences that will talk to you as if they are human.

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