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Many Worlds VR Debuts Immersive Content Tools

XR Today - Virtual Reality

In April this year, augmented reality (AR) giants and creators of the popular Pokemon Go application, Niantic Labs, acquired New Zealand-based immersive experience developers NZXR. The New Zealand-based firm created the AR content creation platform StoryXR through Qualcomm’s SpaceDragon Spaces platform.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

To make matters murkier, there’s also the recently-announced partnership between Google and HTC Vive to create new standalone mobile headsets for all Google Daydream-ready Android phones. AIRLINES TESTING AUGMENTED REALITY TO READ YOUR EMOTIONS. Apparently the $1.4B

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The XR Week Peek (2020.11.09): PS5 doesn’t improve PSVR, VRChat reaches 24,000 concurrent users, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!). The option to “rent it” by paying $100/month is coming next year.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

The Ghost Howls

But the partnership seems pretty weird : the two companies have very different visions of the world, and it is not clear how they could partner in that, also because they both have their own store (Apple Store and Steam) that for sure they want to take to augmented reality. Great times ahead for augmented reality!

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Celebrating the 2023 Auggie Awards and XR Prize Challenge

ARPost

The interactive game for a New Zealand Supermarket included social lenses, games, and recipes. “We Best Societal Impact Unity VP of Education and Social Impact Jessica Lindl said that “the world is a better place with more creatives in it,” as she prepared to award another of the evening’s most anticipated Auggies.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

Ambarish Mitra is the CEO and co-Founder of #Blippar one of the first billion dollar “Augmented Reality” Startup from India, being a pioneer, early mover brings its own pro’s & lots of Con’s. Founder CEO of #JaduAR he is working on Building the future of musical experiences with Augmented Reality. 1- Ambarish Mitra.