Robert Scoble

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I do too, and go even further than she does in studying this industry (I had the first ride in the first Tesla with Elon Musk and had the first video on YouTube of Google’s self-driving car, and have interviewed many in the industry, and also have a Twitter list of people and companies building autonomous cars ). More on that in a bit.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

After this update, Cix Liv and other VR people (like the usual Brad) said that the rumor in town is actually not that Bytedance is closing Pico, but that Pico will focus mostly on MR to chase Apple with its Vision Pro and will shut down its VR business. There are many other examples of that. You’ll find all the info in the links here below.

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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 takes real-world data collected by environmental scans, video, and geocaching features to construct AR maps. What’s New from Niantic? PHOTO: Niantic.

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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 - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

Spatial Hits Big at GDC 2023 In March, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023 in San Francisco, Spatial announced the platform’s new Unity Creator Toolkit is entering its beta stages. The update allows platform developers to design interactive and gaming assets for the Metaverse platform.

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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. Try to find them all!

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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). The video below demonstrates that a large number of users are interacting at the same time however, something both ARKit (Android) and ARCore (iOS) can’t accomplish natively.

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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. Coupled with HARMAN spatial audio technologies, the headset also features brightness and background adjustments for optimal video playback. Will you step through in 2023? ? pic.twitter.com/yreAEloG3B.

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Robert Scoble

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

So will video, which is already seeing dramatic changes on the high end. So will VR and AR, which will provide radical new experiences in your homes from multi-party video games to new kinds of virtualized TV screens. Dolby has been working for years on what Apple is about to bring to market. Soon photos will upgrade.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2022

The hype for the Apple visor is very high, and everyone is waiting for it as a kid waits for Christmas. I was thinking about this topic this morning, and I want to share with you my stream of thoughts about Apple making VR mainstream, especially highlighting my doubts about it. Is now everyone already using an XR headset?

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ARVR

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Altitude is also an important aspect of the process that improves Live View performance in hilly areas such as San Francisco. In ARKit 4, Apple introduced a powerful outdoor AR navigation tool called Geo Tracking, which uses a street view to provide the best possible positioning.

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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. For starters, they’re based in Oregon as opposed to Silicon Valley.

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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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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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for Apple may unveil RealityOS at WWDC. At the upcoming WWDC, Apple may unveil its operating system for XR glasses, dubbed RealityOS. More info (RealityOS trademark) More info (Robert Scoble’s take on Apple’s reveal strategy). or no reason?

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Co-founder Marco Salerno told me that the current prototype is capable of pushing back with two newtons (about the force of two apples resting on your hand), though they could feasibly push upward of 15 newtons with some different design tradeoffs. That’s thanks to three things: Latency.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

So with this LiDAR that Apple is pushing pretty hard -- I'm pretty sure Google is going to follow suit pretty quickly, probably one year behind, and then they're going to have LiDAR on their top end phones, probably coming to Samsung -- but try-on is going to be made really possible, try-on of suits. Alan: Oh, how cool is that. It's awesome.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

So with this LiDAR that Apple is pushing pretty hard -- I'm pretty sure Google is going to follow suit pretty quickly, probably one year behind, and then they're going to have LiDAR on their top end phones, probably coming to Samsung -- but try-on is going to be made really possible, try-on of suits. Alan: Oh, how cool is that. It's awesome.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

So with this LiDAR that Apple is pushing pretty hard -- I'm pretty sure Google is going to follow suit pretty quickly, probably one year behind, and then they're going to have LiDAR on their top end phones, probably coming to Samsung -- but try-on is going to be made really possible, try-on of suits. Alan: Oh, how cool is that. It's awesome.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

So instead of playing a video game and shooting everybody, you're enjoying a concert by Trevor Scott or whoever. If you're living in, let's say, Toronto and you're pitching somebody in San Francisco and you make VR, how do you put their head in there and make sure they're in there? And this, I think, is a problem right now.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

So instead of playing a video game and shooting everybody, you're enjoying a concert by Trevor Scott or whoever. If you're living in, let's say, Toronto and you're pitching somebody in San Francisco and you make VR, how do you put their head in there and make sure they're in there? And this, I think, is a problem right now.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 4, 2016

In his portion of today’s keynote address in San Francisco, Google’s VP of VR, Clay Bavor stated that when he and his team were conceiving View’s design they “wanted to think about what you actually wear…your clothes” and the soft cloth of the device backs up that sentiment perfectly. The Remote.

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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. More info (One of the announcement articles) More info (Video of the “performance”). I’ve seen better filters on Instagram.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. Alan: VR Park is this crazy– it’s like a video arcade that got carried away. I’ve known them for quite a while and they’re more of a distribution platform for VR videos and content. That’s one of the stream 360 video to users online.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. Alan: VR Park is this crazy– it’s like a video arcade that got carried away. I’ve known them for quite a while and they’re more of a distribution platform for VR videos and content. That’s one of the stream 360 video to users online.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

So instead of playing a video game and shooting everybody, you're enjoying a concert by Trevor Scott or whoever. If you're living in, let's say, Toronto and you're pitching somebody in San Francisco and you make VR, how do you put their head in there and make sure they're in there? And this, I think, is a problem right now.

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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. November 2015.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. Alan: VR Park is this crazy– it’s like a video arcade that got carried away. I’ve known them for quite a while and they’re more of a distribution platform for VR videos and content. That’s one of the stream 360 video to users online.

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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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AR Insider

MAY 10, 2021

This week, Epic’s trial with Apple kicks off, Snapchat acquires Pixel8.Earth Let’s dive in… Week One of the Epic Games (Fortnite) v Apple App Store trial provided a gusher of information about the giant, opaque business of games. Arcturus, a post-production and streaming volumetric video company, raised $5M.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Yim is a recognized speaker around the world and he has held the stage at major technology and industry conferences in Singapore, Shanghai, Berlin, Tokyo, Copenhagen, London, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and all over the place. Alan: I’ve been seeing a lot of that. Jason: Yeah. Crazy, the things that are possible.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Yim is a recognized speaker around the world and he has held the stage at major technology and industry conferences in Singapore, Shanghai, Berlin, Tokyo, Copenhagen, London, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and all over the place. Alan: I've been seeing a lot of that. Jason: Yeah. Crazy, the things that are possible.

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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. We worked with video, audio. Thanks for having me.

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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. We worked with video, audio. Thanks for having me.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Yim is a recognized speaker around the world and he has held the stage at major technology and industry conferences in Singapore, Shanghai, Berlin, Tokyo, Copenhagen, London, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and all over the place. Alan: I’ve been seeing a lot of that. Jason: Yeah. Crazy, the things that are possible.

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