Road to VR

MAY 8, 2019

If you’ve felt that Google has been quiet about their Daydream VR initiative for a worrying amount of time, you aren’t alone. Their annual developer conference, Google I/O, this week is the latest opportunity for the company update the world on their VR ecosystem, but there’s little more than silence.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

If you are from the EMEA region, and you use my special link to register for the conference and then you watch one of the event sessions, you will participate in a raffle to win an amazing RTX3080 Ti graphics card! :O. It was even featured on Google News. Image by Google). Google acquires micro-LED startup Raxium.

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Road to VR

APRIL 4, 2023

In an interview ahead of Apple’s upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference event, CEO Tim Cook talks about the potential of XR and why elements of it may be “even better than the real world.” Just as Apple was skeptical of Google Glass, Cook knows Apple will always be in a similar boat when launching new products.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 19, 2023

I used to think that the path to the metaverse started with screen-based virtual worlds then expanded to virtual reality. We had an in-world office. I am on the OpenSim Community Conference organizing team, and our early meetings are in OpenSim. That’s hard to do on a screen in a virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

this one about Holoride and this about Lynx-R1 ), but many will come in the following days! After I will be back in Italy, on the 20th, I will also be a speaker at Virtual Reality Day , the 24h-conference about VR held by Bob Fine. It is basically an SDK to build outdoor shared experiences that exploit the AR Cloud.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Immersive technologies like VR and AR have shown promising potential, but stayed relatively niche throughout the last years. As a result, the spotlight points to technology, in which VR and AR play big roles. In this article I will explain the increased interest in VR and AR during the Covid-19 pandemic. What do VR and AR mean?

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ARPost

JULY 27, 2023

Attendees can look forward to hearing from over 60 speakers in over 60 sessions including keynotes, talks, and panels over the course of the two-day conference. Niantic Senior VP of Engineering, Brian McClendon, explains how “Niantic is Powering AR, Everywhere, All at Once.” Let’s take a look at some of the most exciting sessions.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

There are some typical questions that arise in the mind of the AR enthusiasts of the world: how is it? For this purpose, it has created a reference design for an AR headset dubbed North Star , giving full instructions on how everyone can build one at home. There is not even an assembly kit like with Google Cardboards.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The device also features an RGB camera, so that to provide color passthrough AR. The great news from this week is that the company has brought Niantic Lightship VPS into its engine, so now it is possible to use VPS from a web AR application. Image by Google). Meta and Google announce layoffs. All of this, in WebAR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 10, 2017

Misha Sra , a PhD candidate at MIT’s Media Lab and one of the developers of the project, says she wants to “democratize” VR, so that anyone can pick up a phone and create a virtual environment. All she would need to do is pick up a Google Tango-powered phone tablet, turn on the app and walk around her house,” she explains.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

It’s the beginning of 2019, and this means that this is that time of the year when we all make predictions for this year in AR and VR! Jokes apart, what has happened in AR in 2018… and what can you expect to happen in 2019? More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. Trendy AR glasses.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

Over the last 12 months or so we’ve been keeping an eye on Google’s aggressive hiring for its AR/VR team which, among other things, suggested that the company was working on new “mass production” hardware that would go beyond the simple smartphone snap-in Daydream headsets. No pictures were allowed.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

“This survey only further exemplifies that the current state of VR is very business-focused,” said Rolf Illenberger, managing director of VRdirect , a company that provides enterprise software solutions for the metaverse and virtual reality. According to IDC, both consumer and enterprise interest in virtual reality fell last year.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The AR startup is in big troubles : after having overhyped its device for years and having collected billions of investments, it just delivered a HoloLens clone. The situation looks uncertain, and probably we will hear about Magic Leap’s plans at the next LEAP Conference. invested in AR and VR companies.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Extended reality, in the form of AR, VR, and MR, has shown significant potential for this landscape. We’ve already begun to see galleries and museums creating their own augmented reality and virtual reality experiences, designed to educate and enlighten people anywhere.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

The post is full of fluff, but it is interesting for two reasons: It explains very well how the Insight technology works , with a very explicative video; In the end, it teases a possible future use of Insight for “trendy AR glasses”. More info (Facebook’s post on Insight) More info (Insight on AR glasses). Decentraland is growing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The world received a gift three years ago, in the form of AR technology from the likes of Google and Apple - ARKit and ARCore. John Martin shares how BundlAR makes AR easy for everyone, and what is needed for wider adoption. So it started with Matt and Gareth [Davies], who's on the product side, but really knows AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The world received a gift three years ago, in the form of AR technology from the likes of Google and Apple - ARKit and ARCore. John Martin shares how BundlAR makes AR easy for everyone, and what is needed for wider adoption. So it started with Matt and Gareth [Davies], who's on the product side, but really knows AR.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

This fall promises to be very interesting for AR and VR, and in this first week of September we had many interesting XR news that are going to heat up the competition in the space! The Facebook Connect is close and we all expect that during that conference Oculus is finally going to announce the new Oculus Quest.

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Steki Amusement

JUNE 13, 2022

Following Meta, Microsoft and Google’s entry into the metaverse, Apple, currently the world’s No.1 the headset is capable of combining VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality) capabilities to provide users with digital content overlaid on top of the real world.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

Over the last several years the long-running SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference served as an important marker of immersive computing’s march toward mainstream. “It has matured to the point where everybody knows what AR and VR is,” said VR Village Chair Denise Quesnel. VR/AR & OPTICS.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

For the past two years, it featured a virtual world made in VRChat by us of VRrOOm, and this year, the virtual world was still there in parallel with the physical one. The event itself has conferences, keynotes, panels. There are big showcases of creative productions (e.g. There’s a lot to do at SXSW.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

So I want to thank all the wonderful women that are part of our AR and VR community for what they do every day and I also wish them the best for their future. More info (GTC canceled) More info (SXSW canceled) More info (Google I/O canceled) More info (Facebook & working from home). You’re amazing. That’s a disaster.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 24, 2020

.” Augmented reality, mixed reality, and virtual reality all fall under the extended reality umbrella and the general idea is that they transform the world around us. Or it can go most of the way so that, say, the entire world around you changes but you can still your hands, or your keyboard, or the faces of people around you.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

So for today’s article, let me focus mainly on the non-CES-related news about AR and VR. CES brought some interesting news about AR and VR. from PC) to join its virtual worlds , too, so that to increment the user base. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 25, 2020

By necessity, the world is opening up to the idea of what working from home really means. We’re learning to collaborate over cloud-enabled platforms—like Slack , Zoom, and Google Docs —to do our work together without traveling or transporting ourselves to be “together.”. I’ve heard about group yoga classes taking place over Zoom.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The world received a gift three years ago, in the form of AR technology from the likes of Google and Apple - ARKit and ARCore. John Martin shares how BundlAR makes AR easy for everyone, and what is needed for wider adoption. So it started with Matt and Gareth [Davies], who's on the product side, but really knows AR.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Researchers at the National University of Singapore first showed us how face electrodes can simulate food in virtual reality– and now they are bringing wind and heat to your virtual world. HOW DO YOU HELP THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED WITH VR/AR? VIRTUAL TRAINING PUT TO THE REAL WORLD TEST – ON A CRANE.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

I mean, it is quite impossible that in a documentation updated to support a new headset with new controllers, the only things that get shown are the headset name and the controllers’ name and nothing else (not even if the controllers support fingers tracking, for instance). Yes, Android, Google. And I’m sure that it will be a success.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

With over 50 virtual- and augmented reality companies located in the city, Montreal is well positioned to burst in the VR industry: four engineering schools, massive video gaming industry (Ubisoft, EA, A2M, Gameloft to name a few), world-renowned filmmaking and developed IT market surely makes for a lot of qualified skills floating around here.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

March has just started… I hope it will be an amazing day for you and for all the AR/VR ecosystem! Qualcomm announces AR Smart Viewer reference design. People at Qualcomm never rest, and they continuously create new reference designs to pave the way for future AR/VR products. More info (Qualcomm AR Viewer?—?Road

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

This roundup of the most important AR/VR news of the past week comes out with a little delay since I’ve been very busy with my development job, and I’ve also a damn cold that doesn’t make me feel very well (but it’s no coronavirus, don’t worry :D). iPhone 12 may feature a special connection for AR glasses. Sorry for that!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. PS Contact me if you need someone to develop for you some AR enterprise applications!).

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Hypergrid Business

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He spoke at today’s Facebook Connect , the company’s virtual reality and augmented reality conference. “When you’re in a meeting in the metaverse you’ll feel that you are in a room together, instead of looking at a row of faces on the screen.” You can watch a video about Horizon Worlds here.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 8, 2017

GamesBeat: We had our conference in May, and a lot of it was about science fiction, tech, games, and the inspiration that happens between them. The headsets and the technology for continuous virtual worlds and the blockchain for ecommerce, all the pieces are here. Caballero: For AR or MR? Maybe in another year.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! The city is full of references to Virtual Reality, and so it is like a paradise for us VR enthusiasts. Really fantastic.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

I’ve not been there, but as always, I have read tons of materials, so that to provide you a satisfying summary of the most important news from that conference (but this time I promise you I won’t write as much as for the Oculus Connect 5 !). PixelStrikeInc brace yourself…the memes are coming. But with another name.

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