XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Apple, Sony, Microsoft, and countless other vendors in the technology space are now investing heavily on the concept of “spatial audio”. These innovators are discovering how important a multi-sensory experience can be when building immersive interactions for users. The right technology can also improve wellbeing.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Probably you all recall the iconic Apple commercial inspired by the book 1984 that helped a lot the company in becoming popular. New info on Microsoft abandoning the Hololens 3. Last week we all heard the news about Microsoft abandoning the HoloLens 3, and the denial of it by Alex Kipman and Microsoft itself.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

Then, like a soap opera, the very next day Instagram announced face filters that will augment your face with crowns, sparkles, and koala and bunny ears… taking yet another play directly from Snapchat’s book. MICROSOFT’S UPCOMING MOTION CONTROLLERS. MICROSOFT SHOWS OFF A NEW AR GLASSES DESIGN. OR JUST GROSS: HAPTIC SKIN.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 23, 2024

There’s also set to be a number compatible apps (non-native) that come pre-installed, including Books, Calendar, Home, Maps, News, Podcasts, Reminders, Shortcuts, Stocks, and Voice Memos. That doesn’t mean they’re all AR apps though, but rather they’ve been optimized specifically to work on Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

It’s Monday again, so it’s time for a new roundup of the coolest AR and VR news of the week! It is called Oxymore, and the tickets to enjoy it are free, but limited. Tom Emrich, one of the best AR experts in our ecosystem, has written a long and detailed post with the trends of augmented reality in the year that has just finished.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

But before leaving you to the best pieces of AR/VR news of the week, let me tease you that in the upcoming days I will publish an article I’m sure you will all love… it’s a hands-on preview on… you’ll discover it! It has created tools to improve geolocation, multiplayer, and also to deliver more realistic AR experiences (e.g.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

The Microsoft HoloLens is a great example of this —now a two year old device, it’s still one of the most impressive pieces of technology existing today. Image courtesy Microsoft. The post How VR, AR, & AI Can Change Education Forever – Part 2, Tomorrow’s Solutions appeared first on Road to VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He’s authored two books: Opening the XBox, and The XBox 360 Uncloaked. And then, our particular vertical focuses are artificial intelligence on the tech side, and then the whole game sector. And then, I guess as far as getting into VR and AR, I’ve really followed the news. Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He’s authored two books: Opening the XBox, and The XBox 360 Uncloaked. And then, our particular vertical focuses are artificial intelligence on the tech side, and then the whole game sector. And then, I guess as far as getting into VR and AR, I’ve really followed the news. Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 1, 2019

I wrote this as a way to think through some of the issues coming in the Spatial Computing world in preparation for a book coming in 2020 that Irena Cronin and I are writing, but we decided not to run this in the book, so am running it here instead. You will be fired if you don’t wear fourth paradigm Spatial Computing devices.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He's authored two books: Opening the XBox, and The XBox 360 Uncloaked. And then, our particular vertical focuses are artificial intelligence on the tech side, and then the whole game sector. And then, I guess as far as getting into VR and AR, I've really followed the news. Dean: I've tried some haptics gloves.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

With CES, the year’s first major event, now in the books, let’s hear from some those that work with VR itself about what happens next. We asked all of these developers the same four questions: 1) What do you think will happen to the VR/AR market in 2017? 2) What NEEDS to happen to the VR AR market in 2017?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He’s authored two books: Opening the XBox, and The XBox 360 Uncloaked. And then, our particular vertical focuses are artificial intelligence on the tech side, and then the whole game sector. And then, I guess as far as getting into VR and AR, I’ve really followed the news. Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We're gonna be talking about digital literacy, the virtual/augmented reality platforms, and the question on everybody's mind: What are the key barriers to adopting VR and AR in schools and how to overcome them? How are you? I'm a Microsoft master trainer, so I do a lot of work with Microsoft technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. There are two relatively new pieces of AR toolkits, called ARKit and ARCore for iOS and Android.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. There are two relatively new pieces of AR toolkits, called ARKit and ARCore for iOS and Android.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

Especially the younger they are, the more they get excited about it. Alan: So, what's one of the best XR, or VR/AR, experiences that you've ever had? These are all experiences that they can't experience in real life. It just seemed like a lot of educational stuff that exists right now in VR/XR/AR is just real basic.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

Especially the younger they are, the more they get excited about it. Alan: So, what’s one of the best XR, or VR/AR, experiences that you’ve ever had? These are all experiences that they can’t experience in real life. There would be no other way for them to do it, except in VR or AR. Anything underwater.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

Especially the younger they are, the more they get excited about it. Alan: So, what’s one of the best XR, or VR/AR, experiences that you’ve ever had? These are all experiences that they can’t experience in real life. There would be no other way for them to do it, except in VR or AR. Anything underwater.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We're gonna be talking about digital literacy, the virtual/augmented reality platforms, and the question on everybody's mind: What are the key barriers to adopting VR and AR in schools and how to overcome them? How are you? I'm a Microsoft master trainer, so I do a lot of work with Microsoft technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. There are two relatively new pieces of AR toolkits, called ARKit and ARCore for iOS and Android.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. There are two relatively new pieces of AR toolkits, called ARKit and ARCore for iOS and Android.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

But at first, let’s get serious and read the relevant news of the week in AR and VR. Talking about the most-awaited games, we had also the release of Moss: Book 2, which has just been released for PSVR for $40. High-quality AR hardware set, i ncluding glasses and smartphones, for each participating team. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Finally the book Ready Player Two , the sequel of the Famous Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, has been published. The story starts from when the first book ends and analyzes how Wade and his gang manage the Oasis after they took control of it. Shockwave promises a full haptic suit for $200. Ready Player Two gets published.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

So we’re moving towards where we feel the technology as well as the communication platforms are moving into which we consider smart displays. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. Several other companies are probably renounced, they’re– Alan: Nreal, Vuzix, there’s a whole army of them.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

So we're moving towards where we feel the technology as well as the communication platforms are moving into which we consider smart displays. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. Several other companies are probably renounced, they're--. So Metastage uses Microsoft's volumetric Hcap, holographic capture.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

So we’re moving towards where we feel the technology as well as the communication platforms are moving into which we consider smart displays. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. Several other companies are probably renounced, they’re– Alan: Nreal, Vuzix, there’s a whole army of them.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

That said, inviting you to support this blog on Patreon , so that I can keep hosting these amazing articles, I leave you to Rob’s post, that is like a tiny book, on the journey of developing Project Caliper. It wasn’t even possible to buy another Tundra HDK, and months later they are still showing out of stock.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? There’s a lot of talent here, and I have heard from other people that even places like Kansas City actually have quite a bit of VR happening — and I say VR, I mean XR, AR; all of it. The tools are here. Michael: Yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? There’s a lot of talent here, and I have heard from other people that even places like Kansas City actually have quite a bit of VR happening — and I say VR, I mean XR, AR; all of it. The tools are here. Michael: Yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? And as much as I'm very happy that the coasts are innovating as much as they are, I think there's a huge opportunity here in the Midwest. They were talking about how the airlines are using VR to show people planes that don't exist yet.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. However, in June 2020, a U.S. 8- Eddie Lou. www.xrom.in.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

This is not a tweet, it is a #metaverse message… #VirtualReality #VR #AR pic.twitter.com/f9aDJ2mbc3 — TonyVT SkarredGhost (@SkarredGhost) July 25, 2021. Networking libraries, VR hardware, AR glasses, common standards… nothing is ready to build the metaverse in the short term. So… let’s start!

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 23, 2022

I am on holidays this week, and today I decided to set aside a couple of days to read through—and write a review of—a recently published book by the venture capitalist Matthew Ball, author of the Metaverse Primer and lead creator of the Ball Metaverse Index (whom I have written about before on this blog ).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The fixed values may give problems to people with a value that is exactly in the middle between two of the allowed ones: for instance, the reviewer of Ars Technica found the Quest 2 barely usable until he moved the lenses in a position between two measures that was actually not allowed by the system but that was perfect for his eyes.

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