Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

I had a chance to walk the showroom floor of VRLA 2017 with Root where he took me on a guided tour through the history of VRLA, his thoughts on AR, using VR for film production, the future of privacy in AR/VR, as well as why he is interested in seeing where eSports in VR is headed. VR/AR expert and futurist Charlie Fink.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

I was very pleased to have a chat with him about his work, because I think that it could be interesting to understand why AR and VR are used by a big enterprise company (KLM, in this case) and how these technologies are implemented in the production processes. There started to grow the use of interactions in 360 videos.

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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. What’s more, Meta’s AR-enhanced advertising options allow companies to promote their unique experiences across social media channels like never before.

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ARPost

JULY 22, 2021

The VR Healthcare of the Year award is awarded to “projects that are changing the landscape of healthcare industries for good.” Both business-to-business and business-to-consumer solutions are applicable. The finalists are: Broad AR for “ Smell Revived.” VR Film of the Year. Make Real Ltd. The Book of Distance.

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VRScout

JANUARY 5, 2018

Whether it be television, film or games, the popular animation studio injects a unique flair into everything they touch, resulting in some of the most creative and memorable pieces of animated content in recent years. Their creations were then imported into the Unity engine via the toolkit.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The team of curators consists of top-level decision-makers from Vulcan Productions, Kaleidoscope, and Unity. What Are the Selection Criteria for the “Best in XR” Projects? All the curated projects will be judged during the XR event by a review committee that includes experts from the XR and film production fields.

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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 VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. invested in AR and VR companies. Vicon can now track your body in AR.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. Two well-established companies with serious Hollywood money are joining forces. Someone is Always Ready to Help THIS version of the HTC Vive…. Newly Formed Getty Images Virtual Reality Group Wants to Put You Inside Stock Photos.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s Vision Pro triggered new discourse on the future of virutal, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR). Apple is throwing rocket fuel on the AR space, and we think this will spark meaningful competition. With Vision Pro, Apple is now in the AR race, everyone gets to compete. The race has started.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

PlayStation looks to an arcade rollout, Shazam goes augmented, AMD wants to go wireless, HTC Viveport’s new subscription service, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: IT’S NOW WAY EASIER TO COMBINE 360 VIDEO AND ANIMATION. TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL LOVES VR.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

There’s no doubt that the announcements made on this conference might be the clearest direction where VR/MR/AR are heading as an industry, as it will happen after Microsoft Windows 10 Mixed Reality launches, as well as seeing the first sales results of next generation Oculus Rift headset. .”

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Jeri has been in the R&D of Valve Software when Abrash was still there, so she knows a lot about AR and VR. Part of all of this is merit of Jeri (Image by HTC). After Valve, I started an AR company called CastAR where we were doing augmented reality very similar to the technology we’ll be talking about today.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Image by Ars Technica). The HTC Vive Cosmos may release soon for €799. We all know that the Vive Cosmos should release very soon since HTC revealed me that the release date would have been in Q3 2019 and Q3 ends at the end of the month. Kura teases second-gen AR glasses, but…. It’s time for some amazing VR news, isn’t it?

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

Best Art or Film Developer, entrepreneur, and consultant Antony Vitillo, perhaps better known as “ Skarred Ghost ”, presented the first Auggie Award of the night for Best Art or Film. “I The award was accepted in person by a representative who passed on praise to the “300,000 AR creators creating with us.” We’re just so happy.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

I then used a virtual camera in Tilt to film possible 360 camera paths of the environments, sent a cut to Taryn, and discussed where to go from there. But I didn’t want to switch to a 2D workflow once I imported into Unity, and so I used Virtual Desktop’s display overlay to work in Unity on a virtual big screen.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

I’ve personally met and had a chat with people from Unity and Epic Games, Roblox, The Sandbox, HTC Vive, Microsoft, Rec Room. SXSW is about technology, music, and films… like whatever. VR #AR #XR pic.twitter.com/WofhhG8HLZ — Charlie Fink (@CharlieFink) March 14, 2022. SkarredGhost ?

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

As the two premiere VR hardware manufacturers, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive both recognize this impediment to adoption and are lowering the price to play, albeit in different ways. For the recent Rogue One film, director Gareth Edwards used virtual reality to stage several several scenes. LOTS OF BIG UNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS AT GDC.

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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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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

While I often discuss the long-term potential of AR & VR, in this article I'm reviewing Apple Vision Pro as it stands as a real product today. Hands-On: Meta’s Reprojection-Free Passthrough Prototype At SIGGRAPH 2023 we tried Flamera, Meta’s research prototype of reprojection-free passthrough AR. A product starting at $3500.

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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 12, 2019

They’ve taken virtual and augmented reality for the automobile industry to the next level; from AR apps where you can see cars in your living room, to full VR simulators where you can drive the cars and see what they interact like. Their designers are putting the 3D models in AR, walking around them, and changing the lighting.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

They’ve taken virtual and augmented reality for the automobile industry to the next level; from AR apps where you can see cars in your living room, to full VR simulators where you can drive the cars and see what they interact like. Their designers are putting the 3D models in AR, walking around them, and changing the lighting.

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2021

To learn more about the collaboration as well as each festival’s unique approach, I caught up with Michael Swierczynski, Director of NewImages Festival; Guillaume Esmiol, Deputy Director of Cannes’ Marché du Film; and Loren Hammonds, Vice President of Immersive Programming of the Tribeca Festival. The XR community are really experts on that.”

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Qualcomm announced this year they're XR1 chip, which is a chip that will power all the new kind of AR glasses and VR headsets. We also saw a growth of AR glasses, not in America and not North America, not the rest of the world, but in China. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Qualcomm announced this year they're XR1 chip, which is a chip that will power all the new kind of AR glasses and VR headsets. We also saw a growth of AR glasses, not in America and not North America, not the rest of the world, but in China. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

I mean, a lot of people just– anything you can get into Unity, you can basically get into VR or mixed reality experience, unless they’re like custom one-off apps. And manufacturing AR space has been working in that kind of space for a long time. Alan: How many active products are using Hololens right now?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

I mean, a lot of people just– anything you can get into Unity, you can basically get into VR or mixed reality experience, unless they’re like custom one-off apps. And manufacturing AR space has been working in that kind of space for a long time. Alan: How many active products are using Hololens right now?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Qualcomm announced this year they're XR1 chip, which is a chip that will power all the new kind of AR glasses and VR headsets. We also saw a growth of AR glasses, not in America and not North America, not the rest of the world, but in China. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

I mean, a lot of people just-- anything you can get into Unity, you can basically get into VR or mixed reality experience, unless they're like custom one-off apps. And manufacturing AR space has been working in that kind of space for a long time. And then we can basically pull out that content and render that inside of Unity.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. image courtesy VR First. image courtesy VR First. image courtesy VR First.

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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. Unity is always my top one. 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. Unity is always my top one. Michael: Yes.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

I’d also throw out there, that there’s supposed AR frames. Kent: And I expect people going to be wearing like these sunglasses that are kind of shooting spatial audio into your ears, but being able to tie with your phone, getting GPS, and being able to — basically — detect which direction you’re looking at.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

The main mission was to democratize VR and AR around the world. And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers – Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel — and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. They reach to us after hearing about VR/AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

The main mission was to democratize VR and AR around the world. And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers – Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel — and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. They reach to us after hearing about VR/AR.

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