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What to Expect From Top AR/VR Companies at GDC 2018

Road to VR

GDC is here once again, all next week we’ll have boots on the ground bringing you the latest VR/AR news. Held annually in San Francisco, Game Developers Conference has undeniably been a focal point for VR the industry, and as augmented reality continues to heat up, we expect it to be increasingly important for AR as well.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.30): Niantic launches VPS, Pico launches Neo 3 Link, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Niantic has finally launched its VPS (Visual Positioning System), a solution that will allow developers to create AR applications that are persistent and shared in various locations in the world with centimeter accuracy. VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.02.17): Half-Life Alyx will launch on March, 23rd, MWC has been canceled and much more!

The Ghost Howls

On this special day, let’s all talk about AR and VR! In this big phone exhibition, usually, companies also exhibit AR and VR devices and considering that this year the trend is the one of AR and VR devices connected to the phone , I bet that this year’s edition would have been very interesting for us all (in fact I was planning to go there).

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The XR Week Peek (2022.03.28): GDC, GTC, Snap’s acquisition of NextMind, and more!

The Ghost Howls

On this sunny day, let me tell you the most interesting AR/VR news from the past week…. You know well that I’ve been at SXSW , but, shame on me, I haven’t stayed a few days more to attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. We had almost no news explicitly directed towards VR or AR. Top news of the week.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

HOW DO YOU HELP THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED WITH VR/AR? Virtual and augmented reality technology is being used to help people who are blessed with perfect vision – and lots of interesting solutions are out there. A startup out of Oxford, OxSight is building AR glasses that described as “hearing aids for the blind.”

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My predictions for virtual reality in 2022

The Ghost Howls

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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As UploadVR Turns 2 We Reflect On The First Full Year of Consumer VR

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

In April, we opened the doors to the first Upload Collective in San Francisco, a hub for VR and AR startups, development, co-working, education, meetups and even live broadcasting. With over 40 member companies in San Francisco, The Upload Collective has quickly grown both in size and in scope. March 2016.