XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Augmented reality (AR) is becoming increasingly common in everyday life. Endless smartphone apps now feature AR functionality. As companies search for more immersive ways of connecting with their clients in a digital world, AR represents one of the most accessible forms of extended reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 15, 2019

This week, XR is taking us everywhere, from the surface of Mars, to ritzy Audi showrooms, to the svelte form of Bobby, a teddy bear 3D-scanned in real-time by Samsung’s new feature on the Note 10. NASA has used Microsoft’s HoloLens AR system to design its 2020 Mars rover. RealWear, a startup based in Vancouver, Wash.,

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 15, 2019

This week, XR is taking us everywhere, from the surface of Mars, to ritzy Audi showrooms, to the svelte form of Bobby, a teddy bear 3D-scanned in real-time by Samsung’s new feature on the Note 10. NASA has used Microsoft’s HoloLens AR system to design its 2020 Mars rover. RealWear, a startup based in Vancouver, Wash.,

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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. Image courtesy Scope AR.).

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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! Oculus is going to announce something not only about VR but also about AR. nReal is one of the most interesting AR startups of 2019 and is offering very light and very cheap augmented reality trendy glasses that you can attach to your phone.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 15, 2019

This week, XR is taking us everywhere, from the surface of Mars, to ritzy Audi showrooms, to the svelte form of Bobby, a teddy bear 3D-scanned in real-time by Samsung's new feature on the Note 10. NASA has used Microsoft’s HoloLens AR system to design its 2020 Mars rover. Boeing uses AR to guide workers who build and service planes.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

In my opinion , the true error is with the Vive 1 , that will get a price that is higher than the one of all the competitors… and that will cost as much as a Samsung Odyssey, notwithstanding its far lower features. This means that the peripheral regions of the rendered images are rendered with a downgraded resolution.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

It is exciting to see the progress and innovation that emerging technology solutions are bringing. Apple plans to increase its investment in its Chinese regional partners, who are already working with the company to create device components and control supply chains. By the end of 2028, VR headsets are set to reach 24.7

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. VRSCOUT: Who are you and what do you do? . I oversee all things VR and AR for Epic Games.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Facebook keeps working to become a leader in immersive technologies. This week we had a bunch of news, that seem quite unrelated, that show us how Facebook is working on its plan to become the dominant force in future technologies. This would be a great innovation, fundamental to build lightweight AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Some people are migrating to Unreal Engine or Godot. Others are working on legal actions. It can come also in handy if the Apple Watch has to become an input system for Apple XR headsets… PS A final piece of news is that Epic is evaluating native support for Vision Pro for its Unreal Engine!

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

A two year renovation has transformed The Crossroads lobby into an interactive digital experience powered by Unreal Engine. In an interview with VRScout, Emily Webster, Head of Media Architecture for ESI Design, talked about The Crossroads project and answered the question of ‘is The Crossroads project AR?’,

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This year, I’m just watching the conference from home The conference has been interesting, and it has been the usual mix of technology and politics. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

The pandemic has hit also one of the most important technological expo of the year, the CES, that this year was held digitally. And if this CES has been a bit of a disappointment in general, this holds even more for AR and VR, for which we have no crucial announcement. We had no big reveal, no breakthrough innovation showcased.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Meanwhile, the immersive industry is coming closer to a potential paradigm shift in 2024, as big technology brands plan to make a mark on the emerging sector. XR Today recently marked this period with an XR Trends series, which brought together some of the best minds in the industry to share AR/VR/MR insights.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Unity Technologies has reportedly backtracked on the controversial fees it introduced last week, triggering a public outcry from the developer community. Currently, Unity is the most widely-used gaming engine, used to create virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) experiences for individual developers and enterprises.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This is-- Steelcase is a good example of an early adopter of this technology. 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.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This is-- Steelcase is a good example of an early adopter of this technology. 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.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This is-- Steelcase is a good example of an early adopter of this technology. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Microsoft is keeping pursuing AR, and in fact, part of the resources that were devoted to HoloLens 3 are now dedicated to what is known as project Bondi, which is the AR glasses that Microsoft is building with Samsung. VR is a dangerous technology lol. Virtual Virtual Reality 2 has been released.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2023

Currently, they are suitable only for taking photos and videos and answering phone calls, but Meta is already working on the next models, which should also integrate AR features. The third one, which should add AR functionalities, is the one to keep an eye on. Butterscotch Varifocal can support from 0 to 4 diopter (i.e.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

For VR and AR, well, summer is seldom the right moment to have many great news, so this week hasn’t been that exciting. But here you are anyway the things that you should know from the last 7 days! Jio launches its AR glasses. They should come with more than 25 compatible AR applications. A very interesting read.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

CEO Matt Miesnieks has been in the AR game since the beginning, and he says the best in the industry have always known the best, native use cases for the technology; the problem was for the technology to catch up to the use cases. firm investing in AR solutions. And that was the entire professional AR industry.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

CEO Matt Miesnieks has been in the AR game since the beginning, and he says the best in the industry have always known the best, native use cases for the technology; the problem was for the technology to catch up to the use cases. firm investing in AR solutions. And that was the entire professional AR industry.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

CEO Matt Miesnieks has been in the AR game since the beginning, and he says the best in the industry have always known the best, native use cases for the technology; the problem was for the technology to catch up to the use cases. firm investing in AR solutions. And that was the entire professional AR industry.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

The SIGGRAPH has shown some interesting AR/VR solutions. This has been the week of SIGGRAPH , one of the most important technology exhibition of the year. Some of the most important AR/VR showcases have been: NVIDIA showing a solution for AR foveated rendering.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). It’s not often you get both Oculus and Valve together days, let alone Google and Samsung, with bonus helpings of Epic Games, Owlchemy Labs, and Sensics. These people are more than qualified to tackle this session’s hard topic: fragmentation. Alex Lee (Google).

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Virtual reality has figured prominently at the event in recent years of course, quickly rising to become one of the shows hottest technologies. The demonstration included the now familar Unreal Engine 3 powered citadel area, one which would become the setting for one of the most famous early VR applications of all time, Rift Coaster.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2018

Of course, the Pro has the advantage of the tracking technology : we all know that SteamVR tracking is far better than the awful constellation tracking (sorry Zuck) and with 2.0, The moment when I tried the Vive Pro has not been one of this wow moments. things will be even more awesome. Extended use vs some minutes usage.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Qualcomm has officially said that this is the chipset that the upcoming Samsung headset is going to employ. But there is not only Samsung: XR2 Gen 2 is going to be integrated also by Immersed’s Visor, a new HTC Vive headset, a YVR headset in China, and a headset that is still undisclosed.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google killed its AR glasses Project Iris Do you remember the name Project Iris? It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple. It seems that more than 300 people worked on the project, which was headed by Clay Bavor, the head of AR/VR efforts at Google.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Image by Samsung). Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. But at the presentation of the latest Samsung Note 10, for the first time after the Note 4, Samsung has dropped support for Gear VR in its latest flagship device. And Samsung is not abandoning XR for sure.

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. According to Korean media, Samsung Electronics is working with Microsoft on a new augmented/mixed reality project “involving HoloLens”. Samsung is one of the most famous suppliers of components for electronic devices (e.g. Samsung Odyssey+).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

If I had to pick one, I’d say that the Quest wins because it is lighter , so all its problems are less noticeable. According to some reviewers, the display may also be the same one made by Samsung. Colors are very bright. On Unreal Engine, the Wave SDK for the Vive Focus has lots of issues.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

According to Ars Technica , the frames don’t get sent as a whole, but in little horizonal slices there are continuously streamed, so that to reduce a lot the perceived latency. The external area of the frame is getting huge compression (Image by Ars Technica). All of this is fantastic.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. Kshitij Marwah is a Forbes 30 Under 30 and MIT Technology Review Most Innovator Under The Age of 35. He has a special interest and focus on emerging technologies including #VR #AR #MR #AI. 3- Ayden Ye.

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