TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

When Chi Xu left Magic Leap and returned to China, he had big ambitions. Although China has been calling for more indigenous innovation, most of the advanced technologies found in AR and VR are still in the hands of foreign tech behemoths. More importantly, their firms often have intricate ties to the U.S.,

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2024

There is even Microsoft Word! More info Discover XR at CES This year, I didn’t manage to write my usual roundup of XR news at CES, but luckily I’ve found that Tom Emrich wrote a summary of the most interesting things he saw, and Charlie Fink made also an interesting roundup of the XR technologies that help in accessibility.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 12, 2016

Hollywood is adapting both of these Random House books into big screen adventures. There are some analysts that believe augmented reality, or mixed reality as Microsoft and Magic Leap call it, will ultimately become the de facto technology in the coming years. You’ve been gung-ho about VR with your books.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

This is the first roundup of news of this new year, and to signal a change with the past, I’ve changed the name from “VR Week Peek” to “XR Week Peek”, because, hey, I like talking about all immersive technologies and not only Virtual Reality. Microsoft SharePoint Spaces to launch in the first half of 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO. This was a very good thing and attracted many people to Magic Leap. I hope that Magic Leap will benefit from it and will recover pretty soon.

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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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Robert Scoble

MARCH 4, 2019

Thought I’d give you a little detail behind what brought 20 people together, and offer the community to come together to define, for Wikipedia, what Spatial Computing is (Magic Leap has been popularizing the term, but we think it is bigger than just their form of augmented reality glasses). Anyway, back to Irena’s call.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. 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. VR is not only for enterprise.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. Qualcomm told me that by the end of 2020 we will see a ton of them announced (Qualcomm makes the core technology that Facebook’s Oculus Quest uses.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. We’ve also seen smartphones with depth cameras, for instance from Lenovo and Asus with Google’s pre-ARCore Tango technology. by Marko Balabanovic.

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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. The year the book was published, Sega announced a VR peripheral for the Genesis. For decades, the technology has felt ahead of its time, beginning with Sensorama in 1962.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 29, 2019

AR dragons, psychedelic displays at Coachella, and other digital gizmos made possible with XR technologies are fun and all, but Mark Sage, founder of AREA, is on the more pragmatic side of the table; he loves it when XR technologies can solve real-world problems for businesses. When you put it on, you had a beautiful heads-up display.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 29, 2019

AR dragons, psychedelic displays at Coachella, and other digital gizmos made possible with XR technologies are fun and all, but Mark Sage, founder of AREA, is on the more pragmatic side of the table; he loves it when XR technologies can solve real-world problems for businesses. When you put it on, you had a beautiful heads-up display.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

When I worked at Microsoft I got in trouble with the lawyers over patents so they made me sleep with a lawyer (true story, that was my punishment). I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. Why am I so confident? Disclaimer. “Huh?

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EnterpriseWear

AUGUST 1, 2018

The pressure is on for airports to invest in new technologies that improve the efficiency of airport processes and reduce service disruptions; thereby allowing passengers to spend less time in queues and more time enjoying airport facilities. Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky Airport (CVG), which sees 6.7

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you’ve been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat’s lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. He’s authored two books: Opening the XBox, and The XBox 360 Uncloaked. It’s an expensive technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you’ve been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat’s lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. He’s authored two books: Opening the XBox, and The XBox 360 Uncloaked. It’s an expensive technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you've been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat's lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. He's authored two books: Opening the XBox, and The XBox 360 Uncloaked. There's been a number of kind of false starts with this technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When you’ve been a journalist on the XR technology beat for 20 years, like VentureBeat’s lead writer Dean Takahashi has, you develop a hunch or two about the direction the industry might go. He’s authored two books: Opening the XBox, and The XBox 360 Uncloaked. It’s an expensive technology.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Our technologies, from the first use of fire to the future of facial recognition, appear to be neutral by their very nature. 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. Arguably, the key reason we have seen Web 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

Making any sort of head-mounted AR display has been a challenge, both on the technology front, and from an adaptation standpoint. And there was just no display technology that did it. You've got Microsoft -- who's invested billions of dollars in Hololens 2 -- and they're even struggling with some color banding issues.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

Making any sort of head-mounted AR display has been a challenge, both on the technology front, and from an adaptation standpoint. And there was just no display technology that did it. You've got Microsoft -- who's invested billions of dollars in Hololens 2 -- and they're even struggling with some color banding issues.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

But for real-time spatial computing technologies — like XR, for example — that just won’t cut it, especially when it could mean life or death. Alan: Today’s guest is Terry Schussler, “entreprenerd,” technology architect, passionate software designer, writer, speaker, trainer and all-around awesome guy.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

But for real-time spatial computing technologies — like XR, for example — that just won’t cut it, especially when it could mean life or death. Alan: Today’s guest is Terry Schussler, “entreprenerd,” technology architect, passionate software designer, writer, speaker, trainer and all-around awesome guy.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

The fact that is going to come later, that it is stereo (so it can calculate the depth of objects) and that it is in high-resolution made some VR journalists wonder if this is the new device that is going to track reliably the PSVR 2 headset, maybe in conjunction with another special tracking technology (like ultrasound) for the controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

Not to mention the fact that usually investors require at least a prototype of your technology , and to build it you need time and money. In the beginning, we also spent a lot of time demoing VR for hours to whoever asked us to try the technology , because we really wanted everyone to know how VR was cool and maybe collaborate with us.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

But if the people developing the technology don’t understand how kids’ brains learn, it’s not going to take, no matter how innovative. I mean, part of the reason that my work with virtual reality really took off is because I moved into this new role, and had this freedom to innovate and to explore new technologies.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

Making any sort of head-mounted AR display has been a challenge, both on the technology front, and from an adaptation standpoint. And there was just no display technology that did it. You've got Microsoft -- who's invested billions of dollars in Hololens 2 -- and they're even struggling with some color banding issues.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

But if the people developing the technology don’t understand how kids’ brains learn, it’s not going to take, no matter how innovative. I mean, part of the reason that my work with virtual reality really took off is because I moved into this new role, and had this freedom to innovate and to explore new technologies.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 – since before the interwebs! In 2013, after 10 years of creating video games, he joined Magic Leap where he was promoted to senior director, overseeing content and SDK teams. You were Magic Leap before. Paul, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 – since before the interwebs! In 2013, after 10 years of creating video games, he joined Magic Leap where he was promoted to senior director, overseeing content and SDK teams. You were Magic Leap before. Paul, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

His primary role is developing the strategy and implementation of emerging technology, to best enhance digital projects. or, to do it just because the technology's cool. What is that low-hanging fruit for businesses to get involved, and just start with this technology? And how can we use emerging technology to do that?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

His primary role is developing the strategy and implementation of emerging technology, to best enhance digital projects. or, to do it just because the technology's cool. What is that low-hanging fruit for businesses to get involved, and just start with this technology? And how can we use emerging technology to do that?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Paul has been a software developer and technology consultant since 1997 - since before the interwebs! In 2013, after 10 years of creating video games, he joined Magic Leap where he was promoted to senior director, overseeing content and SDK teams. You were Magic Leap before. Paul, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I mean, all of the hard work that you and your team have done to evangelize a technology that — let’s be honest — 15 years ago, the technology really wasn’t ready for the market. If you don’t find a solution for all three areas — technology, people and business — it’s not working.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I mean, all of the hard work that you and your team have done to evangelize a technology that — let’s be honest — 15 years ago, the technology really wasn’t ready for the market. If you don’t find a solution for all three areas — technology, people and business — it’s not working.

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