Road to VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Shortly afterwards, the China-based company then released its latest standalone headset, Pico 4, in Europe and Asia to consumers. This follows a widening trend of layoffs which have affected nearly every big name in tech, including Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft.

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2021

AWE Asia 2021. We start our list of XR events in 2021 with AWE Asia because of the sheer size of the opportunities to explore and network. If you can’t travel to China for AWE Asia, you can attend the event at home, in sunny California. Our Top Recommendations: Must Attend XR Events in 2021. When: September 2 – September 3.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

We learned from Google Glass that cool hardware is not enough to impress consumers. Nreal owners can access the new channels through the update to Nreal’s Nebula 3D user interface available in the Google Play Store. AR headsets need to present a lot of content to keep up with the frankly unrealistic expectations of the mass market.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Tech in Asia recently caught wind of WeChat parent company Tencent’s plans to bring AR to the app’s gargantuan feature list, which includes payments, entertainment, shopping, and transportation. A few tech demos captured with a screen recording app show the possibilities of the platform’s casual, smartphone-based AR.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 24, 2017

Google first started its venture into virtual reality with Google Cardboard back in 2014. A look at the company’s job listings so far this year reveals Google’s expanding commitment and investment in VR and AR. Google is continuing to grow its AR and VR teams and shows no signs of stopping any time soon.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Australian financial service provider and consumer protection group Compare The Market used Google Trends and SEMRush to look at how internet users are searching terms like “virtual travel”, “virtual tourism”, “VR travel”, “virtual reality tours”, and “virtual reality travel.” About the Study. And not just in the US.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Using OpenStreetMap alongside Google Maps, the app revealed a secret digital battlefield that existed over the real-world, allowing a small, but dedicated community of players to duke it out in digital turf wars. Ingress Prime is available now on the Apple App Store and on Google Play. Image Credit: Niantic .

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

This past Friday, Discovery Communications and Google launched the first chapter of Discovery TRVLR, a collaboration that they herald as a “groundbreaking new immersive series,” which aims to provide a 360-degree cross-cultural experience. The post Discovery and Google collaborate on immersive VR experiences appeared first on VR World.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Raymond Pao, VP of HTC VR New Technology, is now GM of North Asia. Considering HTC recently sold off much of its smartphone team to Google in a $1.1 billion deal, which saw half of HTC’s smartphone R&D division transferred to Google, they’ll need VR more than ever. Chen(???),

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VRScout

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Google and Discovery expand the Discovery VR app with new VR travel series. Over the course of 38 episodes spread throughout seven chapters, you will travel throughout North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and Antarctica in the first virtual reality series to cover all seven continents.

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AR Insider

JUNE 7, 2021

You’ve got a factory in Asia? technology and could pit it against software from Apple and Google. The seed round was led by Ulu Ventures. A local 360 camera operator creates a 3D room which up to twenty remote participants join, creating a unique fusion of the virtual and physical.

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VeeR VR

MARCH 28, 2018

VeeR was featured by iOS App Store, HTC Vive, Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, Oculus, Huawei VR, Xiaomi VR. To further lower the threshold for VR content creation, VeeR VR has also developed VeeR Editor, an editing tool for VR content that has been featured by Google App store and Apple store. Forbes 30 under 30 Asia 2018: [link].

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2020

From exotic locations across the Caribbean and Europe to Asia, KaviAR Gate is an inviting and inspiring app that anyone can download and use to take a virtual vacation.” . Tech giants such as Google and Apple must lead the charge aside from independent firms such as KaviAR Tech, Ruiz also said. What Is KaviAR Gate?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 17, 2017

VR and AR headsets are heading to market from Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others that have a wide range of capabilities. Just last week we learned about Facebook’s plan for a $200 headset that occupies the low end of the market while Google continues work on a six degrees of freedom standalone headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

Extended reality education firm EON Reality Inc announced on Sunday its partnership with Axelrod Holdings to launch its EON Metaverse Builder platform in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Asia-Pacific.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Apple’s working on solving this problem, too, according to a report in Nikkei Asia. Google was the first major technology company to release a head-worn computer when it introduced Google Glass in 2013.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Released in Asia just after Christmas, this is PlayStation VR’s first true relaxation app, developed by Sony Music itself. There’s no limit to what you can do; I was able to tweet from inside my headset, read UploadVR , and even launch Google Daydream apps (which is cool, if silly and unusable). How annoying.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2023

Citing five anonymous sources familiar with the situation, the Nikkei Asia report revealed that the former Pegatron facility would host Luxshare’s AR manufacturing facility. Numerous firms, including Meta Platforms, Microsoft, and Google shuttered their AR ambitions to focus on developing current extended reality (XR) technologies.

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ARPost

MAY 5, 2021

The event was attended by representatives from over 70 universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and was attended by representatives from dozens of companies providing VR and AR education solutions. You’re not seeing the stores in the same way that Apple and Google have their app stores,” said Moynihan.

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XROM

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Tech Entrepreneurs Association of Mumbai (TEAM) is a non-profit, independent industry association formed with the mission of advancing the tech ecosystem of Mumbai.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

If you remember well, there’s a scary leaked letter of Mark Zuckerberg where he claims that he doesn’t want to just make programs that run on Android, because they’re subject to the rules of another company (Google). More info (News on The Verge) More info (Original News on Nikkei Asia) More info (A cool render of the Apple XR glasses).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Scanning the QR Code (QR Codes are ultra-popular in Asia, so people will have no problems in scanning them), the user will be taken to the web page of Anna, where they can see the 3D avatar of Anna and a menu with some things they can ask to her. Anna is a digital concierge operator that can help all the hosts of the hotels adopting it.

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2016

The US, Western Europe, and Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) are projected to account for three-quarters of revenue for VR and AR. Many consumers have yet to even experience more accessible VR headsets like Google Cardboard or Gear VR — leaving quite a bit of head room for growth. Most revenue through 2020 will come from the US.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2023

Following the latest updates from Meta, Disney, Accenture Amazon, Google, and others, Apple could potentially delay the device again due largely to adverse market conditions. Numerous tech innovators have shifted to generative AI platforms such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, leading to Google’s BardAI, Microsoft’s Bing AI, and others.

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EON Reality

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Sangita is a Learning Design professional with 16 years of rich experience in global EdTech, serving customers in India, Southeast Asia, ME & US. She is currently pursuing her professional UX Design certification with Google. October 27th, 2021. 8:00 PM Indian Standard Time ( GMT+5:30 hours). Register now. Hosted by: Sangita Das.

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EON Reality

AUGUST 13, 2021

Sangita is a Learning Design professional with 16 years of rich experience in global EdTech, serving customers in India, Southeast Asia, ME & US. She is currently pursuing her professional UX Design certification with Google. August 25th, 2021. 8:00 PM Singapore Time ( GMT+8). Register now. Hosted by: Sangita Das.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 20, 2022

First launched in March 2021 (but not entirely as a new streaming service, we'll get to that), Paramount+ will also debut in Asia by launching in South Korea in June, with Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland, and Austria set for late 2022, and India in 2023 in partnership with Viacom 18. The global expansion of the service outside the U.S.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2019

VR just passed the thorough of disillusionment and is here to stay thanks to investments in the AR/VR market by Facebook, Google and Apple. Such simulators are quite popular in Asia. Since 2015 there are 200 000 customers played these games. . VR is a place for the next generations to have fun together at.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

The company has attracted a range of high profile investors and advisors such as Google/Alphabet Chairman Eric Schmidt, who wrote: “I predicted that 90% of computing would eventually reside in the web based cloud…Otoy has created a remarkable technology which moves that last 10% – high-end graphics processing – entirely to the cloud.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

There’s an assumption that out-of-home VR experiences are going to be very popular in Asia where many people have less space and money to install their own equipment. An arcade version of its Viveport VR content store is designed to make it easier for groups to set up a location equipped with a variety of worlds to visit.

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InstaVR

JANUARY 23, 2019

All a user needs to access Virtual Reality is a headset like the Samsung Gear VR or Oculus Go — or really even just an iOS or Android smartphone and a Google Cardboard. Students throughout the world, as far away as Asia and Australia, will have access to the same interactive VR learning materials as the students in Scotland.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2016

HTC’s China Regional President of Vive, Alvin Wang Graylin, took to the stage at the Unity Vision Summit in Asia this week and made a series of bold predictions for where we’ll see VR in the next two years.

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RealVision VR

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The Think in 360 VR masterclass series is growing in popularity in Asia, and the MiddleEast. Earlier versions of the masterclass were also held at Google MENA at Google’s Dubai headquarters in Dubai. Film Festivals: Platforms for evangelizing VR filmmaking. On invite by the Govt.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Between that, I worked on consumer cloud software with Google for five years… managing engineering teams for Gmail, Japanese mobile, Google Labs, and social (Blogger etc.) At Google, the change was rapid but much easier to control , as everything from the software to even the servers were designed in-house. teams for Japan.

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

It's CMO for the Asia Pacific region, Suresh Balaji said, "At HSBC, we see great potential to create new experiences through emerging platforms, opening up a world of opportunity for our current and future customers and the communities we serve.”

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RealVision VR

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Above, is the second slide from a deck I’ve been using to introduce Cinematic VR filmmaking to Cinematographers, indie filmmakers and Creative Heads of some of the bigger AD agency networks, thanks to ongoing initiatives by Google MENA, and at film festivals in Asia via the Think in 360, masterclasses.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

As I had teased in one of my last articles , while Nreal is having some issues in shipping the device worldwide due to the high demand, it is performing very well in launching the consumer version in Asia thanks to a strong partnership with LG. Google releases the Objectron dataset.

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