XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Varjo’s “Reality Cloud” network is likely to be a valuable tool for many retail innovators going forward, as it will allow for more efficient lossless streaming in a traditional store space. Magic Leap has quickly emerged as one of the major market leaders in the Augmented Reality hardware environment. Magic Leap.

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ARVR

MARCH 9, 2022

Virtual Reality and The Future of Remote Assistance for Businesses Unless you live under a rock, you’ve probably been a part of at least one conversation regarding augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) in recent years. However, augmented reality is not a new term, especially for businesses.

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2017

The company has demonstrated its eye-tracking solution in the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Gear VR, and other head-mounted displays. SMI’s eye-tracking tech built into a Rift DK2 | Photo by Road to VR. MacRumors reports that the company was quietly acquired by Apple sometime between May 2nd and July 26th, 2017.

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ARVR

MAY 13, 2021

How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3. For instance, at the most fundamental level, businesses can automate how they receive and sort documents through document management, to automating entire workflows including delivery pipelines and testing updates in a controlled cloud environment.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus brands disappears. And most importantly, the Oculus brand will disappear and will just become Meta : Oculus Quest will be the Meta Quest (yes, it sounds terribly, I know). He says that “We all have a strong attachment to the Oculus brand, and this was a very difficult decision to make”, but I don’t believe him at all.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 5, 2024

It is not the first time Meta partnered with an external company for a new device and in most cases this choice paid off: both the Gear VR (Samsung) and the Oculus Go (Xiaomi) were pretty good products. But will it be enough now to beat Apple? Only around 1,000 units are expected to be manufactured.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This price is ridiculously low: it is less than what a nreal glass costs, a lot less of a HoloLens 2 and perfectly in line also with the prices of VR headsets like Oculus Quest 2 and Pico Neo 3. Lone Echo 2 will be available for Rift S (yeah, the forgotten headset) and Quest + Link from October, 12th for $40 as an exclusive Oculus release.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 30, 2021

Someone compared this news to the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook , and I agree: Pico is a very smart startup, like Oculus was, and Bytedance is a very rich company that controls one of the most popular social networks, like Facebook. As it has happened with Oculus, this news is good and bad for Pico and VR in general.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The Oculus Quest was a hit. At this year’s year’s E3 conference, Facebook’s Vice President of Special Gaming Strategies Jason Rubin told audiences that the Oculus Quest was seeing “console-like” engagement from users, selling $5 million worth of content in first 2 weeks since the device started shipping back in May.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Geekbench has just published the scores for a new Vive Focus headset , indicating that a new standalone headset by HTC is coming. In the Geekbench comparison, it completely destroys the Oculus Quest : the multi-core score of the Quest is 774 while the one of the Focus XR2 is 3417, almost 5 times much. Other relevant news.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

October was such an important month for the virtual reality and augmented reality industry. It was announcements and product launches galore with news coming from key players like Oculus, Sony, Microsoft and Google dominating the headlines almost every week. HTC Vive at GameStop. So what’s next? Well, everything.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

AltspaceVR allows people to host and attend live shows, meetups, and classes from anywhere around the world in virtual reality although not the most suitable tool for business and virtual reality collaboration. It also allows the import of PDF documents and PowerPoint presentations. Pricing: AltspaceVR is free to use.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

For journalists, immersive technologies present an opportunity to reach jaded audiences with important stories, getting through the “news fatigue” factor by leveraging the well-documented “empathy machine” factor of the medium. 2019 has seen significant improvements and leaps across the XR spectrum Click To Tweet. One More Thing….

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Sumerian, software tools debuted by the retail giant, is an extension to the Amazon Web Services platform, and it focuses on the creation of virtual reality, augmented reality and 3-D applications.

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Tech Trends VR

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The airplane featured in the experience– one of the iconic Lancaster Bombers – was called F for Freddie, and the original report documents its mission as it weaved through searchlights and bullets, crossing over mainland Europe until completing the mission and landing back safely on British soil at RAF Langar, in Nottinghamshire.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. These are the five pillars or Reality Engine (copy-pasted from its website): Reality Application Runtime ?—?8th Top news of the week.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

The term “augmented reality” wasn’t officially coined until 1990, but the 80s also saw important breakthroughs in the space. Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus VR Inc., Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The first Oculus Rift prototype reignited the conversation when it arrived in 2012.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

But as far as I know, nothing disruptive for the industry : Oculus has already shots all its bullets, and HTC for the first time isn’t announcing anything. Image by Oculus). In a recent interview with the Information, Oculus R&D Chief Scientist Michael Abrash cast some interesting predictions. Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

It’s been ten years since Meta – then Facebook – bought emerging VR start-up Oculus and, in turn, formed its Reality Labs division. Since the Oculus purchase in 2014, the firm has released numerous headsets, most notably the Quest range, which now includes mixed and virtual reality products.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2018

HTC Vive Focus is one of the most famous standalone VR headsets. I have always been intrigued by this device, since the first time I’ve read about its reveal at an HTC event : I don’t know why, maybe because of the azure color that is my favorite, maybe because it looks so informal. The headset. It was funny.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Yesterday, I have dressed as a fortune teller and I have given you my predictions for augmented reality in 2019. Now, it is the turn of virtual reality. Let me do some speculations… Virtual Reality in 2018. Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). Oculus Quest and controllers inside a stand.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

No grey zones like HTC did in the past. More info (Movement SDK documentation) More info (Dilmer announcing Movement SDK). It is interesting that Pico decided to sell the device only to companies. It wants to have a clear separation: Pico 4 is only for consumers and Pico 4 Enterprise is just for companies. Beware of negative training.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 7, 2019

HTC Vive Cosmos will work with Vive Wireless Adapter. This week, HTC has not made another big reveal about the Vive Cosmos, so we’ll still have to wait to discover more about its price and its features. It’s more a logistic thing internal to HTC, so I think most of us can not care about this :D. Oculus Summer Sale has arrived!

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Maybe Oculus planned to showcase Del Mar at GDC. A vague rumor spread on Reddit this week: Oculus Del Mar could be a 4K headset, and it could have been launched at GDC. Furthermore, the documentation talked about “Early access to dev” for Del Mar, and this means that the project is still at the alpha stage.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

For journalists, immersive technologies present an opportunity to reach jaded audiences with important stories, getting through the “news fatigue” factor by leveraging the well-documented “empathy machine” factor of the medium. 2019 has seen significant improvements and leaps across the XR spectrum Click To Tweet. One More Thing….

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Some days ago, the Chinese government has released a document that states how China really wants to commit to VR , how wants the ecosystem to grow well and fast and how also wants to lead the world for what concerns virtual reality. The document talks about the standardization of VR hardware, software, and testing.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2022

After poring over documents and articles of cutting-edge technological innovations in gaming and applications in other industries, the three co-founders identified a gap in the market and set up Refract. This addresses common issues like occlusion and space requirements of systems such as HTC Vive,” Chng told TechCrunch.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

This year was going to be the year of augmented reality, but by the end of 2018 market analysts were pointing to 2020 or 2021 as the “golden year” of AR. Just three months ago, the company revealed it’s putting 17,000 Oculus Go headsets in Walmart stores for employee training.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

Thanks Oculus for having given us the Link functionality. the USB cable for Oculus Link) and the (rechargeable) batteries for the controllers. If you have less work to do, you can invest your time to look for partnerships to participate in such grants and prepare all the documents to participate in these contests.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

Alan: So how is 5G -- or just the ability to have this kind of massive data pipe -- affecting your ability to do virtual reality, or augmented reality, or mixed reality? And I think it's a really interesting point, because many VR users tend to buy VR to play games, including Steam or Oculus or HTC Vive.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

Alan: So how is 5G -- or just the ability to have this kind of massive data pipe -- affecting your ability to do virtual reality, or augmented reality, or mixed reality? And I think it's a really interesting point, because many VR users tend to buy VR to play games, including Steam or Oculus or HTC Vive.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

Alan: So how is 5G -- or just the ability to have this kind of massive data pipe -- affecting your ability to do virtual reality, or augmented reality, or mixed reality? And I think it's a really interesting point, because many VR users tend to buy VR to play games, including Steam or Oculus or HTC Vive.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We're gonna be talking about digital literacy, the virtual/augmented reality platforms, and the question on everybody's mind: What are the key barriers to adopting VR and AR in schools and how to overcome them? You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. Steve: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We're gonna be talking about digital literacy, the virtual/augmented reality platforms, and the question on everybody's mind: What are the key barriers to adopting VR and AR in schools and how to overcome them? You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. Steve: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We're gonna be talking about digital literacy, the virtual/augmented reality platforms, and the question on everybody's mind: What are the key barriers to adopting VR and AR in schools and how to overcome them? You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. Steve: Yeah.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 4, 2016

The idea is that, as soon as we identified VR was coming — this was before the Oculus acquisition by Facebook — it was clear that one part of VR would be computer-generated experiences, games being the major example. We started seeing the first Oculus and HTC headsets this year. VB: What about augmented reality?

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