ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

Inworld AI is a company building a tool to create brains that experience creators can put into virtual bodies to populate the metaverse – whether that’s games, simulations for enterprise and education, embodied chatbots in immersive retail environments, or whatever else you can think of. What is Inworld AI ? A Colorful Background.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

T he use of the Exynos chips makes me think even more that this is an old device : Samsung has recently announced that it is going to build its headset with Google and Qualcomm, so it is impossible that the to-be-released device doesn’t have a Qualcomm chip. The road toward widespread AR glasses is still very long and complicated.

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ARVR

MAY 10, 2021

a Starter Pack (Dipping your toes into the world of AR development, with a little VR overlap by default) by Alexis Zerafa Are you interested in augmented reality development? Much like an oil painter needs their paints and turpentine, AR creators need a myriad of tools as well! What is Social AR? —?if XR Programs?—?a

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

There are quite a handful of platforms that allow you to develop virtual reality and augmented reality apps and content, but it is not easy to find an offline virtual reality school or academy with which to train for those interested in developing AR and VR apps. Both are free to download and try.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As real-time 3D (RT3D) production becomes commonplace alongside the rise of extended reality (XR) services, solutions to accelerate and democratise the production of RT3D assets are starting to increase. RT3D engines such as Unity and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

Their phones can be used for some low-end VR, via the Cardboard platform from Google, but they haven’t had anything of their own to match the higher-end Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream View headsets. Scope AR also has its own AR application, Remote AR , which also supports ARKit.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Apple finally talks about VR while taking a (very solid) swing at AR, Walmart will use virtual reality to train employees, you can grow better weed with AR + AI, and Q1 VR headset sales…. Apple, humble as always, announced that their ARKit made iOS the largest AR platform in the world…overnight. APPLE ACTUALLY TALKS ABOUT VR.

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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. More info (Camera Path and Google Drive backup) More info (Sketchfab exporting). invested in AR and VR companies. Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

As real-time 3D (RT3D) production becomes commonplace alongside the rise of extended reality (XR) services, solutions to accelerate and democratise the production of RT3D assets are starting to increase. RT3D engines such as Adobe Substance, Unity, and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2024

Big vendor news this week, Admist start-ups and fresh ideas; this week, big names like Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Apple took the headlines due to each firm’s optimisation of its XR product portfolio. Meta has not yet confirmed 8K streaming on its Quest portfolio.

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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. The headset is also very small and lightweight thanks to the use of pancake lenses.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

NVIDIA has been one of the first companies that understood the potential of enterprise engineering and design collaboration in XR with its Holodeck software, whose trailer videos are still among the best to show the capabilities of XR collaborative environments. Video courtesy NVIDIA). So in the end… what is it?

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

AIXR – “The Academy of International Extended Reality” – is an independent non-profit dedicated to promoting MR, AR, and VR tech. Their site also posts educational and informative articles relating to the world of MR, AR, and VR technology. Anybody can make nominations, which are then judged by a massive panel.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. We don’t know what all of this means, but the most probable scenario is that the two companies are working together for the next generation of HoloLens AR glasses, probably the one that should target consumers. Epic Games releases Matrix Resurrections tie-in experience.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

I think that, after a year, its specifications don’t sound exceptional anymore and maybe it is better that LG jumps directly to a second generation or that enters the standalone market (as it seems, since there are some rumors about a new revolutionary headset screen developed by Google and LG). Oculus Go showcased.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

You may wonder why this system is relevant for us XR people: well, Meta itself talks about AR applications for this system in the launch post. AR glasses may separate the various objects that compose an image they see with their cameras and so be able to detect what the user has around him/her.

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2022

Last year Gurman , The Information , and supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo released reports claiming Apple is working on a premium headset for VR and AR with high resolution color passthrough. RealityKit also handles networking for multiplayer AR apps, meaning developers won’t need to be network engineers to develop shared AR experiences.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy Labs VR game studio, Improbable grabs $502M, Vivid Vision raises $2.2M, Oculus’s first employee just left 1) Google has acquired the VR game studio behind such popular gaming titles as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Read more here.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Cloud XR is NVIDIA’s solution to provide AR and VR cloud rendering. Basically, it is like Google Docs for artists. These stand-alone extensions are plugins that are authored in Python or C++. Physics simulation with Omniverse. You install that plugin and it integrates Omniverse into your application.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This one is the last AR/VR news roundup for this summer! We don’t know when these glasses will release and for what price , but the fact that such a big consumer-oriented giant has got interested in glasses is a positive sign that we are on the right (long) road towards the release and adoption of consumer-oriented AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

He says that Apple AR glasses will come in 2021 and that he has seen them. Is it for a future AR/VR headset? There are two things you must be aware of: Apple is surely making various prototypes , so we don’t know what Jon has actually seen. Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The result is that many big brands are canceling their presence at CES: Google, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, Lenovo, and many others, have decided not to go , and maybe provide their news virtually. This is a huge pity: CES 2022 won’t be cool as we expected… but we still hope to see interesting XR announcements from there.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus” name was a problem because AR/VR is so huge that its related product should have fallen under the main brand of the company, to make it clear whose are those products. And so it happened. So there was never an attachment, as there was never an attachment towards the old Oculus management (Palmer, Brendan, Nate, etc…).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

This week, Xiaomi actual unveiled the real hardware that should make that vision become real: dubbed Mijia AR Glasses , these glasses have a nice set of features. So more or less they are delivering what they promised. There is only one big problem: the form factor is terrible , they look super-dork, even worse than Google Glasses.

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Haptical

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

In the last article , we explored the connection between AR and AI, and their areas of application. In this article, we will have a closer look at the role of AR and AI in medical imaging. AR in medical imaging: What about augmented reality? Let’s have a look at three companies that have achieved impressive results in AR: 1.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). But Huawei is not only in the VR market: it is also releasing a new version of its AR smartglasses called Huawei EyeWear 2, made in collaboration with the fashion brand Gentle Monster. These will be complicated weeks, and I hope that we’ll be able to go through them together. Top news of the week.

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XROM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee who laid the foundation of internet had visioned it as a decentralised & open platform, but unfortunately today it’s a walled garden with gatekeepers such as #Facebook #Google & others sprouting more & more paywalls. If you are a startup then do join the Consortium by clicking the link below.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR. HOLLYWOOD LOVES HENRY.

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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! Unreal is already compatible with the framework, so in 2021 we’ll soon have also the tools ready to create OpenXR cross-compatible platforms. Qualcomm announces AR Smart Viewer reference design. More info (Qualcomm AR Viewer?—?Road

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. But obviously these people couldn’t afford a $50-million simulator. Most people know VR and AR as if kind of something in the last five years. I don’t know if you realize, 82 percent of universities have tried VR and AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. But obviously these people couldn’t afford a $50-million simulator. Most people know VR and AR as if kind of something in the last five years. I don’t know if you realize, 82 percent of universities have tried VR and AR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Collectively, these people have shipped Island 359 , Job Simulator , and Fantastic Contraption , some of the most well-known titles out today. Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). These people are more than qualified to tackle this session’s hard topic: fragmentation. Alex Lee (Google).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators -- big aircraft simulators, etc. -- and I got really excited about seeing the effect it has on pilots and soldiers, and I always thought that it would be useful to do the same, but for normal people, nurses, etc. But obviously these people couldn't afford a $50-million simulator.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Then in 2012, the IKEA catalog app had AR in it. I think we were one of the first big companies in the world using marker based AR. That's how we've done AR so far, when it comes to older things. But every phone in the world now has the ability to show 3D, and now AR. We are looking at sound. Martin: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Then in 2012, the IKEA catalog app had AR in it. I think we were one of the first big companies in the world using marker based AR. That's how we've done AR so far, when it comes to older things. But every phone in the world now has the ability to show 3D, and now AR. We are looking at sound. Martin: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

And then what we've done more recently is the rise of AR. And so those are the three main offerings that our platform has. We can then also export or create AR experiences using those same assets, the same models, the same materials. I know you partnered with Google recently, so maybe you can speak to that.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

And then what we've done more recently is the rise of AR. And so those are the three main offerings that our platform has. We can then also export or create AR experiences using those same assets, the same models, the same materials. I know you partnered with Google recently, so maybe you can speak to that.

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