AR Insider

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Realworld is based on the Microsoft version of Google Earth. The 7th annual FIVARS – Festival of International Virtual & Augmented Reality Stories – begins today, Feb. Baby Hands is in Oculus Labs for the Quest. See his books here. This is blowing our mind. It’s plastic and changeable.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2024

It’s basically a book. The PCVR Meta ecosystem got an update too: Meta has changed the name of the Oculus PC app into Meta Quest Link app (I will miss Oculus from here, too) and has improved a lot the performance and battery consumption of the Quest Link. You can get it from the most important e-book stores.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

This latest acquisition is another piece in a secretive strategy: over the past few years Snapchat has quietly acquired a couple of other potentially augmented reality-related companies as well as talent. Augmented Reality Gets Its First Smartphone-Powered Headset and a BIG Partnership Between Hollywood-Backed Giants.

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VRScout

APRIL 19, 2020

Since 2015, Smart Study’s Pinkfong has continued to expand its brand through toys, games, books, and various other innovative collaborations. Collectively the Pinkfong YouTube channels have garnered over 27 billion views and more than 53 million followers , becoming one of the hottest child-friendly entertainment platforms in the world.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

Google starts testing its AR glasses in the wild. Google has announced that it is going to start to test the prototypes of its AR glasses in the wild. What is relevant about this piece of news is that Google has just confirmed its strong commitment to augmented reality. More info (Google testing AR glasses?—?Official

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

It’s a healthy week of new releases across both Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear, with a combination of free and premium experiences you shouldn’t pass up. It goes beyond gaming with new comic books, travel experiences and, of course, more horror. This might be the most ambitious stab at the VR comic book yet.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

There is another reason that will make medium-big studios happy: from now on, there won’t be any revenue share with Epic until $1M of revenues of your game, a limit that raises to $5M if your game is published on Oculus Store. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0. More info (Oculus Link works with Usb 2.0?—?Road port and cable.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Called Cities: VR, it will bring the city-building and management simulation to Oculus Quest 2 in Spring 2022; Polyarc has confirmed that is working on Book 2 for Moss and expects to release it for PSVR in Spring 2022. Oculus Quest and Vive Focus 3 get interesting updates. Google details Project Starline. Image by HTC).

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AllThingsVR

MAY 12, 2016

Hollywood is adapting both of these Random House books into big screen adventures. Ready Player One has become required reading at Oculus VR, literally. Cline has seen his fictional universes blend with reality after the consumer launches of Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive (with Sony’s PlayStation VR slotted for an October debut).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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Bernard Marr

JULY 6, 2023

For example, Patagonia has created an Oculus Rift experience that allows users to visit the remote mountain Monte Fitzroy, including viewing a breathtaking glacial lake that lies at the foot of the mountain. Companies are potentially looking to use blockchain-based booking to eliminate intermediary sites like Orbitz and Expedia.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Guitarist Brian May is celebrating this years Halloween with launching the Diableries and The Diabl-O-Scope augmented reality apps , enabling users to explore the underworld whilst listening to Queen. Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell is a book published in 2013 with historians Paula Fleming and Denis Pellerin.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Secretive augmented-reality start-up Magic Leap is partnering with online comic book publisher Madefire to deliver mixed reality comics to Magic Leap’s devices when they launch. So far, Magic Leap have secured over $6 billion (USD) in funding, much of it coming from big names such as Google, Alibaba and Qualcomm.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg talks about the future of VR and AR at Facebook’s recent Oculus Connect conference. Mark Zuckerberg has been talking a lot about augmented reality and investing a lot, too. “Mixed reality,” “extended reality,” or something else that some marketer will come along with.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

We’ve been working in XR Technologies — first virtual reality, and then augmented reality — since 2016. Steve: Well, it was a MetaVRse product that I downloaded to my phone some time, in Google Cardboard. But then they might do dissection, which won’t work on an Oculus Go. I appreciate it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

We’ve been working in XR Technologies — first virtual reality, and then augmented reality — since 2016. Steve: Well, it was a MetaVRse product that I downloaded to my phone some time, in Google Cardboard. But then they might do dissection, which won’t work on an Oculus Go. I appreciate it.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has also recently written together with Irena Cronin “The Infinite Retina” , a great book about the technologies of the future, like XR, AI, and autonomous vehicles. But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The Pro 3 C connects and displays images in 2D and 3D on most Android phones and tablets, iPads, MacBook’s, and Microsoft’s Surface Book 2. Or maybe there will be a new line coming… during Virtual Reality Day, we got to know that a new HTC device is coming soon in 2021…. More info (Use Google Translate). News worth a mention.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

We've been working in XR Technologies -- first virtual reality, and then augmented reality -- since 2016. Steve: Well, it was a MetaVRse product that I downloaded to my phone some time, in Google Cardboard. But then they might do dissection, which won't work on an Oculus Go. Steve, welcome to the show.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

(Image by Oculus). Oculus could be starting the production of a new Quest at the end of July. Multiple reports seem to confirm that Oculus is actually starting the production of a new Oculus Quest headset, with an expected release date in 2021. Google’s investment for a 7.7% of units more produced annually.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Everyone says that augmented reality (AR) will be bigger than virtual reality (VR): analysts , investors , technologists , and futurists alike. But because you’re much likelier to hear about VR today, especially this month with the launches of Playstation VR, Google Daydream, and Oculus Touch, AR can feel distant and overhyped.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

As they spin the lasers inside “cut up” the world into little virtual voxels (volumetric pixels, think of them as virtual cubes that you can see with Augmented Reality glasses — sort of like how Minecraft or, really, any video game works). ” He said “I learned Google is learning faster than we are.”

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

I didn’t know that the name of that thing was “augmented reality”, but it impressed me a lot. In that period, the Oculus DK2 ordered by Gianni arrived, and he told me that I should go to his office to try that device, and my reaction at that time was like “Oculus what??”

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2018

You open the box and find the device and the accessories but you don’t say “wow” as when you open the Oculus Go box, for instance. When I published this photo of the Oculus Go and Vive Focus together, a lot of people got surprised by its dimensions. Oculus Go). The headset. The Vive Focus headset is a bit big.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

It is becoming always more difficult for a new company entering the field: the key hardware suppliers of displays and other components are all being bought by Meta, Apple, Snap, Google, and other big players. Looking back at augmented reality in 2021. It is just a bit more expensive than the $300 needed to buy an Oculus Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

Well, if the rumor becomes reality, this would mean that all next Apple devices will have both front and back depth cameras, for high-precision Augmented Reality and 3D reconstruction. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google. Why is this a big deal? Well played Apple. Other relevant news.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

And extended reality is the term that we are using at Accenture, and I think across the industry others are also using this term “XR” to include virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D experiences; all different types of experiences that blend the digital and physical worlds, and work on extending your reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

And extended reality is the term that we are using at Accenture, and I think across the industry others are also using this term “XR” to include virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D experiences; all different types of experiences that blend the digital and physical worlds, and work on extending your reality.

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XROM

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Sameer Raje, General Manager and India Head, Zoom Video Communications, in a conversation with TNIE, said, new offerings are on the cards as the company is working on virtual reality and augmented reality to enable smooth collaboration in work-from-home as well as hybrid setting.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Before leaving you to the news of the week, let me just tell you two things that may interest you: If you missed them, don’t forget to read my predictions about augmented reality and virtual reality in 2022; This Thursday at 5 pm CET AWE Nite Florence comes back! The first one is that Reality Labs had $10B of losses in 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. Someone is working on a Linux driver for the Oculus Rift. Indie developer Thaytan is working on a Linux driver for the Oculus Rift. Other relevant news.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 1, 2019

I wrote this as a way to think through some of the issues coming in the Spatial Computing world in preparation for a book coming in 2020 that Irena Cronin and I are writing, but we decided not to run this in the book, so am running it here instead. You will be fired if you don’t wear fourth paradigm Spatial Computing devices.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

In the early 90s, it no doubt felt “a bit like looking up the Wright Brothers and taking their original prototype out for a spin,” as the book describes. At the dawn of the decade that gave us both “The Real World” and “The End of History,” virtual reality seemed to hold the keys to the next great paradigm shift.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

When they saw the Kickstarter campaign of Oculus, they immediately grabbed it and started thinking about how they could do data visualization in VR. “Mediated Reality” is not a concept of mine, but of researchers in the mid-1990s. But to do mediated reality, you must be able not to only to add, but also remove.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

He is an amazing global world-trotter, travelling around the world promoting virtual and augmented reality for education. And they will be able to read a storyline from a book. And in addition, they enjoy an augmented reality teaching experience. So again, you’ll see this element of reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

He is an amazing global world-trotter, travelling around the world promoting virtual and augmented reality for education. And they will be able to read a storyline from a book. And in addition, they enjoy an augmented reality teaching experience. So again, you’ll see this element of reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

He is an amazing global world-trotter, travelling around the world promoting virtual and augmented reality for education. And I can't help but notice that the difference from auto-stereoscopic 3D, VR was a technology and an ecosystem that is joined by a lot of leading global brands such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Huawei, etc.

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