XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This week, Google is rolling out a long-awaited update for its Maps service, integrating augmented reality (AR) navigation visualizations, search functions, and immersive retail tools, 9 to 5 Mac reported. On the other hand, Apple also debuted its own AR-ready maps service in June 2021.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 23, 2024

VR|MR 2024 – a conference taking place in San Francisco, California, between 29 and 31 January 2024. At the end of the day, industry events are simply another tool in the belt of business leaders, and XR events are only as valuable as one makes them. To close off what is already a bumper month for XR is SPIE.AR|VR|MR

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VRScout

APRIL 16, 2018

San Francisco based startup, Wavy , is looking to help musicians enhance their music videos with AR. Available now on the Apple app store as a free download, Wavy morphs the world around you into an AR concert lightshow that transforms the way you’ll listen to music on your phone.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 25, 2022

Day one saw the San Francisco-based firm introduce a lineup of technologies to significantly improve the Lightship SDK for developers, brands, and consumers. Niantic plans to launch its second day of the summit, which is viewable online on May 25, 9:00 PDT. What’s New from Niantic?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 4, 2023

With offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, IW Group is a marketing agency dedicated to implementing Web3 and metaverse technologies for massive brands worldwide. The company has worked with Disney, Warner Bros, Apple TV, Netflix, Wells Fargo, Sony Pictures, Walmart, and many others.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 21, 2018

The company also announced the rollout of its first public beta experience at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Benchmark General Partner Mitch Lasky will be taking a seat on the Ubiquity6 board.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 6, 2023

It also connects to streaming platforms such as Apple TV and Netflix for massive cinematic experiences. According to a recent tweet, the San Francisco, California-based firm stated its optimism for the coming year. It also released accessories such as lens shades, charging cases, and other tools.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The tech industry is looking to replace the smartphone — and everybody is waiting to see what Apple comes up with. I n 2007, Apple unveiled the iPhone. Apple didn’t invent the smartphone — companies like Palm and Blackberry had been selling them for years. Triangulating Clues in Apple’s AR Roadmap.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2023

The San Francisco, California-based firm demoed its Mobile Dock solution at the event; the immersive wearable allows users to stream media and gaming content to their device on a 120-inch virtual screen. For enterprises, VR is typically developed as an educational or training tool. VITURE also debuted a new device at CES 2022.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 2, 2021

There are a wide variety of tools that can be used to enhance this experience at various scales, such as Bluetooth beacons, ceiling antennas, and QR codes. However, in cases where a reliable Wi-Fi network already exists, Apple’s iPhone AR is good enough to handle indoor positioning using Wi-Fi RF patterns.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 14, 2023

As Apple works towards the Vision Pro and Meta preparing this Connect event in September, XR’s presence looks to grow in enterprise and beyond. With our smart glasses, they can get an expert from New York City, San Francisco, or [Baltimore-based] Johns Hopkins to join the theatre experience.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Apple now lets add you add “buy” button to AR Quick Look. A piece of simple news, but a very important one, has hit the AR industry this week: Apple now lets companies add custom buttons (usually the “Buy” one) to AR Quick Look. This expertise is also paid very well , with high salaries in cities like London or San Francisco.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

And while Portland is by no means a backwater, it’s still not a major tech or immersive content hub like LA or San Francisco either. By pivoting towards the enterprise market early on, Microsoft managed to create strong and sustained demand for Mixed Reality tools among companies looking to solve real business needs.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2023

After having seen the teaser of the Quest 3 and especially the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro (about which you can read my opinion here ), I’m always more convinced that we have entered into a new phase of XR history. And this is opening new opportunities for all of us. The big dogs are all coming.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 14, 2020

It was the VRARA gathering in San Francisco, and then we went from there to Verizon's head office and we went for a meetup where we learned from Apple and a bunch of other people about what's coming up in virtual reality. So typically, you don't have these tools available to you offline. Alan: I'm so excited.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 14, 2020

It was the VRARA gathering in San Francisco, and then we went from there to Verizon's head office and we went for a meetup where we learned from Apple and a bunch of other people about what's coming up in virtual reality. So typically, you don't have these tools available to you offline. Alan: I'm so excited.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Notably, Jake Rowland explored new trends in combining XR and unified communications (UC) tools to create shared virtual spaces without needing a headset, therefore bringing value to major companies – “absolutely [a] big crossover” across technologies and that “companies [were] getting a lot of value from it,” remarked Rowland.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 14, 2020

It was the VRARA gathering in San Francisco, and then we went from there to Verizon's head office and we went for a meetup where we learned from Apple and a bunch of other people about what's coming up in virtual reality. So typically, you don't have these tools available to you offline. Alan: I'm so excited.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 17, 2022

Nowadays, the probability of a person to have a certain future are directly bound to the place where he/she has born: if you live in a poor village in Africa, it is much more difficult that you become a renowned surgeon than if you are born in San Francisco, because most probably you don’t even have a good medical school in your surroundings.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Note that, even in Apple’s Vision Pro announcement, they talked a lot about sports. ” Additionally, he explained that incorporating generative AI tools would become instrumental to developing metaverse worlds rapidly and at scale. .” So I think sports is going to be a key area for us.”

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

We have a platform called xrcollaboration.com, and there's been over 70 startups that have created XR collaboration tools that allow you to go in VR, go into AR glasses, and communicate with people around the world. Apple had a very kind of-- it's the first time Apple didn't announce a phone in September, which is interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

We have a platform called xrcollaboration.com, and there's been over 70 startups that have created XR collaboration tools that allow you to go in VR, go into AR glasses, and communicate with people around the world. Apple had a very kind of-- it's the first time Apple didn't announce a phone in September, which is interesting.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 21, 2023

That wasn’t particularly new, but Apple’s flagship headset is a huge leap away from virtual reality, embracing the blended world more fully. ” Apple (you know, that giant company based in Cupertino. This week, Stability AI took that meme to a whole new level with its Stable Doodle, a sketch-to-image tool.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

We have a platform called xrcollaboration.com, and there's been over 70 startups that have created XR collaboration tools that allow you to go in VR, go into AR glasses, and communicate with people around the world. Apple had a very kind of-- it's the first time Apple didn't announce a phone in September, which is interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

We'll be talking about making an AR video with Will.i.am, creating art with Intel, and delivering on the promise of VR and AR with the San Francisco 49ers, San Jose Sharks, YouTube, and more. He's kind of like the Spike Lee of San Francisco, is what a lot of people say, but he works mainly in documentary.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In April, we opened the doors to the first Upload Collective in San Francisco, a hub for VR and AR startups, development, co-working, education, meetups and even live broadcasting. With over 40 member companies in San Francisco, The Upload Collective has quickly grown both in size and in scope.

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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. Facebook is hiring Michael Hillman, a 15-year veteran of Apple, to lead the VR product roadmap for Oculus as head of VR hardware.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. And Torch is an AR authoring tool that lets you create augmented reality experiences. It started off as more of a prototyping tool, but it looks like it’s really starting to become more than that. Teppei, welcome to the show, my friend. Teppei: Oh yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. And Torch is an AR authoring tool that lets you create augmented reality experiences. It started off as more of a prototyping tool, but it looks like it’s really starting to become more than that. Teppei, welcome to the show, my friend. Teppei: Oh yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

We know mostly nothing about it, and we just have the image of its front view (semi-obscured) and the info that it will be revealed in San Francisco at Photonics West event. It may be a good tool for XR developers. Secret Oops is a nice AR game for Apple Arcade (and it is made by Mixed Bag, a studio from my city!)

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Mashable VR

APRIL 27, 2022

He wants to make Twitter a "free speech" platform, which could mean undoing content moderation policies and tools. Others, including prominent Association of Flight Attendants union organizer Sara Nelson, and San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan, put out the call to Twitter workers to get a "seat at the table.".

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. And Torch is an AR authoring tool that lets you create augmented reality experiences. It started off as more of a prototyping tool, but it looks like it’s really starting to become more than that. Teppei, welcome to the show, my friend. Teppei: Oh yeah.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

Hardware infrastructure and software developer tools from big players like Apple (ARKit) and Facebook (Camera Effects platform) directly contributed to a huge surge in interest in augmented reality. San Francisco-based Leap Motion has raised a $50M Series C for their hand- and finger-tracking technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Yim’s recent high-profile work incorporates mixed reality in marketing for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, product development for Hot Wheels, and location-based experiences such as the fish designer for Lego House, and of course, enterprise tools for AR evaluation tool for Honda. It’s just another tool in the toolbox.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Through that journey around three years ago, spent about a year in San Francisco, starting with our innovation outpost that we have out there, looking at emerging technologies. But for sure, what gets the lightning rod started is to say we can reduce costs right away and provide a more enriched tool. It would be more long term.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Yim's recent high-profile work incorporates mixed reality in marketing for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, product development for Hot Wheels, and location-based experiences such as the fish designer for Lego House, and of course, enterprise tools for AR evaluation tool for Honda. It's just another tool in the toolbox. Jason: Thanks.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

I was flying from Toronto to San Francisco, and I just happened to sit beside a guy who we started talking about AR and I pulled out the North Glasses. And if you have a Bose AR-enabled device, you can download that for either the Google Play store or the Apple App Store. Thanks for having me. I’m super excited.

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