VRScout

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Many people weren’t sure what to expect when it was announced that iconic hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas would be teaming up with Marvel for a post-apocalyptic comic book centered around an evil alien race turning gangsters, drug dealers and other violent members of society into flesh-hungry zombies. and legendary Hans Zimmer.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The augmented reality SDK currently works on 13 different devices right now (Google’s Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL; Samsung’s Galaxy S8, S8+, Note8, S7 and S7 edge; LGE’s V30 and V30+ (Android O only); ASUS’s Zenfone AR; and OnePlus’s OnePlus 5). Launching at Mobile World Congress next week, ARCore 1.0 More Devices.

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Robert Scoble

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

It got me interested in augmented reality and its uses to make people’s lives more fun and more interesting. Snapchat has, in the past few years, finally brought that tech to consumers with its augmented reality lenses. I created the first augmented reality app on Apple’s store on this blog.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

Upskill, an augmented reality software training company, has cited seeing on average a 32% improvement in the workforc e of their clients. Image Credit: Samsung. In both corporate training and K-12, companies and schools are reporting positive results about the impact of VR/AR on retention, engagement, and efficiency.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2024

The most affected by this “restructuring operation” is the “1P AR Hardware” team, the one working on augmented reality devices. The Big-G is in fact focusing on strategic partnerships like the one with Qualcomm and Samsung to try to impose itself as the provider of the runtime for XR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2021

Regarding the last point, the company highlights that the glasses use waveguide optics to provide better augmentations, even if this leads them to have just 40° FOV. AR Insider has analyzed the augmented reality market and it predicts a big growth of mobile AR for this new year. Samsung original controller design gets leaked.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Samsung terminates its XR services. Samsung is terminating all its XR services and in the next months they will all be closed, exactly as all the Samsung XR accounts. Its name is “The Infinite Retina” and you can find it in all the best online book shops. Discover (and buy) the book on Amazon.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. First of all I want to congratulate you on the launch of your new book Convergence, an AR-enabled book about AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. First of all I want to congratulate you on the launch of your new book Convergence, an AR-enabled book about AR.

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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. The Magic Leap version will apparently feature spatial sound and comics will appear much crisper and more readable on it.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Dean Takashi has interviewed Neal Stephenson about the metaverse , his book, and, of course, Meta. The famous journalist Charlie Fink has had an amazing experience trying Augmented Reality on a small combat plane. Samsung is still working on AR glasses and its new internal prototype seems to be called SM-I120. Learn more.

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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. This has just been my selection… don’t forget to read the roundup linked below to read what may appeal more to your tastes!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

More info (What The Bat) More info (Moss: Book II) More info (Among Us VR) More info (Gambit) More info (Nerf Ultimate Championship) More info (Final Fury) More info (All the news from the Upload Summer Showcase). The trailer is hilarious and the game is pretty original, so I loved it. Alex Kipman leaves after the misconduct allegations.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Alan: Hey, everyone, I'm Alan Smithson, and today we're speaking with John Martin, the CEO and co-founder of BUNDLR, an augmented reality platform company empowering training, learning, and development innovators with on-demand and mobile immersive experiences. It could have been a prospective student tour at Arizona State University.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Alan: Hey, everyone, I'm Alan Smithson, and today we're speaking with John Martin, the CEO and co-founder of BUNDLR, an augmented reality platform company empowering training, learning, and development innovators with on-demand and mobile immersive experiences. It could have been a prospective student tour at Arizona State University.

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Bernard Marr

MAY 23, 2022

Ok, so this is a bit of a cheat because it doesn't exist and is entirely fictional, and if you've seen the movie or read the book, you will know that isn't necessarily an entirely bad thing. but they all give us a glimpse of what the digital worlds of the future might look like. Ready Player One. Pokemon Go.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Alan: Hey, everyone, I'm Alan Smithson, and today we're speaking with John Martin, the CEO and co-founder of BUNDLR, an augmented reality platform company empowering training, learning, and development innovators with on-demand and mobile immersive experiences. It could have been a prospective student tour at Arizona State University.

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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). Imagine playing new kinds of augmented reality games while your car drives.

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EnterpriseWear

AUGUST 1, 2018

As consumers become increasingly receptive to sharing wearable-generated biometric data and are exposed to augmented reality via smartphones; ideas like replacing traditional travel documents with personal wearables and implementing AR wayfinding in airports seem less and less far-fetched.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Probably you all recall the iconic Apple commercial inspired by the book 1984 that helped a lot the company in becoming popular. The Superbowl is the most important sports event of the year in the United States, and airing an ad during the match is super-expensive, but also super-effective.

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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! Tom Ffiske’s new book. News from partners (and friends).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2019

We’re going to be talking about augmented reality spaceships, augmented reality portals, bringing video to life in a AR and El Pollo Loco. And you guys — well, “you guys,” I think it was before you even got there — but Coachella is no stranger to virtual and augmented reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2019

We’re going to be talking about augmented reality spaceships, augmented reality portals, bringing video to life in a AR and El Pollo Loco. And you guys — well, “you guys,” I think it was before you even got there — but Coachella is no stranger to virtual and augmented reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2019

We're going to be talking about augmented reality spaceships, augmented reality portals, bringing video to life in a AR and El Pollo Loco. And you guys -- well, "you guys," I think it was before you even got there -- but Coachella is no stranger to virtual and augmented reality. Sam, welcome to the show.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Despite the marked absence of Samsung, all the usual players were there. As the often-quoted Scott McCloud said about Comic Books – the story between the panels themselves is as important as the story in the panels (because your brain constructs the rest and makes it your own). These are opinions meant to encourage discussion.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

While basically none of the technology portrayed in Ready Player One reflects the current state of VR devices or software, leaving a clear gap in its ‘advertised’ benefits and the reality of the experience available to VR users today, it still has the potential to be a significant factor in VR adoption. To what extent?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

In the book The Final Hours of Half-Life: Alyx, available on Steam , it is possible to discover much interesting information about Alyx. While we have not even started using 5G, companies like Samsung (and Nokia) are already thinking about the next-generation 6G that could enable holograms and smart twins. News worth a mention.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The 21st-century technologies introduced in this book also contain the power to burn both ways, albeit at a previously unimaginable level of power and scale. Plenty of Augmented Reality or AR-centric names for a Digital Twin of the physical world have been put forth by various industry leaders. A trillion connected things.

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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. This to me sounds too much like a fluffverse.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The unique (and formerly Valve developed) retro-reflective-powered CastAR system gave us a glimpse at one of augmented reality’s possible futures; Avegant turned up with their bizarre yet technically impressive personal media player the Glyph ; PrioVR had their new entry-level motion tracking / VR input system to try.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. But the headline is that Spatial enables people to collaborate from anywhere with augmented reality. Jacob, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. But the headline is that Spatial enables people to collaborate from anywhere with augmented reality. Jacob, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

He creates and oversees interactive reports and segments, including virtual and augmented reality, eSports, mobile games, and he’s really amazing at pulling together all the data that businesses are using to make real business decisions, on where to invest their capital. We put out reports like that. It just works.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

He creates and oversees interactive reports and segments, including virtual and augmented reality, eSports, mobile games, and he’s really amazing at pulling together all the data that businesses are using to make real business decisions, on where to invest their capital. We put out reports like that. It just works.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. But the headline is that Spatial enables people to collaborate from anywhere with augmented reality. Jacob, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

He creates and oversees interactive reports and segments, including virtual and augmented reality, eSports, mobile games, and he's really amazing at pulling together all the data that businesses are using to make real business decisions, on where to invest their capital. We put out reports like that. It just works.

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