XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Extended reality (XR) is making a substantial impact on how companies train and upskill their employees. Combining virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), firms can empower teams with bespoke, targeted immersive experiences. Changing the Way Companies Train Staff.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 is coming in Q1 2022. Even if most of this roundup will be about Oculus, I have decided to put another brand on top of it and it is Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

Meta has a huge AI expertise, and it uses it for many tasks, including the tracking of XR headsets, objects recognition, video analysis, and AR tracking. It’s so obvious that this supercomputer will let Meta develop all the algorithms needed for living in our mixed reality future in a faster and better way. Image by Magic Leap).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Mothers and grandmothers are the best, and they care about us during the good and the hard times… their love is infinite. A big and warm hug to all of them And while we celebrate our mommies, let’s read some cool AR/VR news! Also, new more ergonomic controllers, that solve the flaws of the current design, will be part of the package.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Doing that will disable the controllers, and you will be able to navigate in the menus just using your hands. Since the hands tracking SDK is being distributed today, no 3rd parties apps are currently compatible with the hands tracking interface , and you will be able to test it only in the various Oculus menus.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 25, 2019

Magic Leap “The dead must die” GOT experience. Magic Leap’s GOT experience presented here in Qingdao is maybe the best “room scanning experience” I have ever tried in my life. After you have chosen a wall that is big enough, you see a dagger appearing in front of you and you have to pick it with your controller.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 8, 2018

Magic Leap finally materializes into a product some of us can actually buy, yet the real test will be whether developers take the bait. There are plenty of players like Microsoft HoloLens and DAQRI which consistently deliver not only cool demos, but real use-cases for holographic Mixed Reality Click To Tweet.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

Another feature that has been praised by many is the RGB color AR passthrough, which has some warping and not the same depth as the Quest Pro’s one, but it features a very detailed resolution. At CES, Shiftall brought also the concept of innovative controllers called FlipVR. Many people were impressed by this.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Magic Leap 2 Magic Leap jumped the starting gun and played their cards early. The Magic Leap 2 was released in September last year with an entry price point of $3,299. The most immersive enterprise AR device is now available. Let’s take a look at the technology coming our way. Built for enterprise.

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VRScout

JULY 2, 2019

Magic Leap, Disney, and Epic Games are bringing their A-game to the annual tech conference. Among these 48 offerings are four never-before-seen projects from some of the prominent names in entertainment and immersive technology. Neural AR: Immersive Augmented Reality With Real-Time Neural Style Transfer.

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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2023

Google has reportedly shelved a multi-year project that sought to commercialize an AR headset, known as Project Iris. According to Business Insider , Google shut down Project Iris earlier this year following mass restructuring, which included layoffs, reshuffles, and the departure of Clay Bavor, Google’s head of AR and VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

BTW, if you need a consultancy in implementing an AR/VR solution, feel free to contact me and I will be happy to help you This week in VR has reserved us some interesting news, so why don’t you discover them with me? People that have preordered it are now seeing the headset arriving at their doors in no time! Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

is the second iteration of the Realmax augmented reality glasses (the first one was the Realmax 100). These augmented reality devices are manufactured by Chinese company Realmax and are characterized by a very wide field of view. It’s easy, you can find it here below! Otherwise, go on for the usual textual review.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Last week at Oculus Connect 6 there were major AR and VR announcements made. The VR company revealed that some of their headsets are getting some pretty sweet upgrades in upcoming months. There’s also important AR-related news coming out of OC6 as well. See Also: How to Become a Virtual Reality Developer.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2018

The * just made my head hurt, and I found the controllers too small (I have large hands), but the * fitted great and the controllers were way more comfortable. These are all real responses on a virtual reality forum after posters have asked: “Which headset is best?”…only

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

They are camera glasses without visual AR features but some audio AR foundations. Video emerged this week showing Facebook’s Reality Labs lead Andrew Bosworth’s first-person perspective during family vacation. Or the device’s AR features could be present but minimal, involving light notifications. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

I’m not as important as other people you interviewed … I am just like a kid in the candy shop trying to eat some of the candies, enjoying AR and VR while I also have a daily job. In early 2016, I run into a paper from a professor at Caltech that was talking about data visualization in virtual reality and that blew my mind.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

On this sunny day, let me tell you the most interesting AR/VR news from the past week…. Probably the idea is to create a new system to let users interact in an easy way with future AR glasses by not only using the hands but also the intentions or the feelings of the user read by EEG. Magic Leap 2 bridges AR and VR.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2018

Developer Lee Vermeulen didn’t wait for VR headsets like the Vive Pro to get an AR function , but rather strapped a stereoscopic Zed Mini to his original HTC Vive in effort to push Modbox forward into augmented reality. ” Modbox AR Experiments. ” Modbox AR Experiments.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Unreal Engine eXtended Reality (XR) Technology Platforms | Source: [link] How to Select Extended Reality (XR) Toolkit? ? Supported AR/VR devices ? Detection of available virtual reality devices. ? Trending AR VR Articles: 1. How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2019

In the American sin city of Las Vegas, there has been an enormous showcase of every kind of innovative technologies and of course, AR and VR have been part of the show. HTC Vive Cosmos and its controllers, just announced at CES (Image by HTC). Take a breath and start reading! HTC has been the VR star of this CES 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A device with that price is likely a headset without cutting-edge features that ships without controllers , I would speculate. The only doubt I have is about what content it is going to offer: if the headset is without controllers, it means is dedicated mostly to social VR, media consumption, and/or virtual screen for the PC.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. Authors’ opinions are their own. . Like the waves of web, mobile and social before it (SoLoMo anyone), spatial computing: AR and VR will provide new opportunities for brands and marketers to reach, engage and understand consumers.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 7, 2023

Ah S**t Here We Go Again GIF from Ah S**t GIFs The Autumn of VR We are in an “Autumn” of Virtual Reality. After the big hopes given by the success of the Quest and the huge illusion of the hype of the metaverse, we are stuck in a quite stagnating market. It is not a continuous line, but there are many jumps.

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ARPost

AUGUST 2, 2023

3 Trends That Will Shape the Future of XR Let’s dive in and explore the main three trends that stood out and are bound to shape the narrative for the future of XR. Main Focus on AR There was a lot of discussion this year about artificial intelligence and how it will enable XR rather than replace it. digital clothing.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Magic Leap has just organized its first developers’ event, dubbed “L.E.A.P.” It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Meta delays its plans for AR glasses. Meta has not officially answered this report, but Andrew Bosworth, the CTO of the company, has indirectly commented on it: “ We’re going to ship wrist wearables and AR glasses that bring completely new tech?—?like Other relevant news. Image by Meta). like EMG?—?to This is anyway good news.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Thanks to my job as an XR consultant and blogger, I have had the pleasure of trying many AR and VR headsets. There are some that I miss experiencing, and one of my biggest regrets of the past was that I had never been able to try the now-defunct Meta 2 augmented reality glasses. I guess we’ll never know. North Star.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2023

The hiring spree of the major tech companies toward the manufacturers of lenses and AR displays has not finished yet. It is obvious that this product was ideal to build AR glasses. Meta’s competitor Apple has instead acquired Limbak (even if the acquisition has not been officially confirmed).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The US Army is experimenting with AR goggles on dogs. The prize for the weirdest news of the week goes to a piece of news from Business Insider that details an experiment by an entrepreneur that loves dogs about creating sort of AR glasses for dogs. It seems that after 3–4 weeks of training, the dog gets used to using AR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

This is the first roundup of news of this new year, and to signal a change with the past, I’ve changed the name from “VR Week Peek” to “XR Week Peek”, because, hey, I like talking about all immersive technologies and not only Virtual Reality. They are incredibly light (10 grams!) Top news of the week. Image by nReal).

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

According to NVIDIA , “CloudXR lets you leverage NVIDIA RTX-powered servers with GPU virtualization software to stream stunning augmented and virtual reality experiences from any OpenVR application. The solution allows IT specialists to “easily control and manage their entire RealWear device fleet from one easy-to-use interface.”

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

But for now, let me do a recap of the best news of the past week in AR and VR! This configuration is interesting because: 6 cameras in those positions allow for a very big tracking cone for the controllers ; The two front cameras are in the same position of the eyes and this will allow mixed reality applications using the SRWorks framework.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap pivots to enterprise, lays off 1,000 employes. With a long post on Magic Leap’s blog, in the end Rony Abovitz has admitted that the company is not going that well, and has announced a new course, that should eventually lead to Magic Leap 2. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! 2021 is going to be an interesting year for AR. Can this count as AR having become mainstream?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 6, 2020

Until recently, Brian Kane has been highlighting more experiential demos - like one that puts a porthole to the ocean in your living room - to highlight the power of the Magic Leap, and of spatial computing in general. We'll also talk about how VR and AR are being used in enterprise, and some exciting announcements.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

Zapbox is basically a plastic cardboard for augmented reality Zappar is working on since many years. A wand with a dedicated pattern on it is used as the 6DOF controller. Zapbox features a 100° FOV and is going to launch with a Unity SDK to create content for it. The price is going to be very cheap: only £79.99.

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