TechCrunch VR

JULY 27, 2019

Knight Foundation is looking for pitches on how to enhance and augment traditional creative arts through immersive technologies. We’ve seen how immersive technologies can reach new audiences and engage existing audiences in new ways,” said Chris Barr, director for arts and technology innovation at Knight Foundation, in a statement.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here are some of the VR vendors making waves in the industry as of 2024: RealWear Meta Apple Goertek Pimax Pico HP HTC Vive Samsung Varjo Lenovo Valve Index Vrgineers RealWear Exploring various aspects of the immersive technology landscape, RealWear produces sensors, apps, and hardware for the XR space.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

They will enter a workforce where job functions, roles and even categories will be significantly altered, and will face social and global challenges beyond what we can imagine today,” says Steve Liffick, General Manager of Education Strategy and Platforms at Microsoft. It’s not just a matter of giving students the latest hardware either.

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

The Augmented World Expo (AWE) is returning live and in-person to Santa Clara, California, June 1-3. Vitillo (perhaps better known as SkarredGhost ) will be speaking on behalf of immersive event studio VRrOOm but is also himself recognized as an accomplished developer, entrepreneur, consultant, and blogger.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The holiday period approaches and many may receive an XR headset or device as a gift ready for an immersive 2024. Next year, Apple will debut the Vision Pro following years of hype, and Microsoft will also start rolling out its industrial Metaverse services. Snap Earns $20m Grant The state of California has granted Snap Inc. $20

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 18, 2023

I’m back to telling you about some hands-on sessions I had at AWE in Santa Clara, California. It was not Microsoft’s one, but a professional simulator for pilots. I had my whole peripheral view in the headset, and this enhanced my immersion and especially spatial awareness while I was flying on my virtual plane.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

This will be a newsletter written on the road: I’ve prepared the material in Italy, I’m currently writing these words from the Frankfurt airport (Germany), I will keep writing on the plane across the ocean and I will finalize everything in Sunnyvale (California, USA). In the meanwhile, Microsoft is working on a 1.1

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Also, institutions like Cornell University, Imperial College London, Boston University and Harvard University’s MOC Alliance, University of California Berkeley, University of Notre Dame, University of Illinois, University of Tokyo, Yale University and many more have joined the alliance.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Some weeks ago, I teased you that Meta was going to change its plans about hardware, because the recent drop in revenues forced it to be a bit more cautious with its spending for “the metaverse”. More info (Report on new directions for hardware at Meta) More info (Meta smartwatch canceled) More info (Portal will be aimed at B2B).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 4, 2022

Augmented reality (AR) hardware startup Mojo Vision presented a significant advancement in its smart contact lens. Mojo Vision started developing its AR device in 2015, and the unique wearable contains a wealth of immersive features designed to streamline spatial inputs.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Mobile World Congress (MWC) is gearing up next week in Barcelona to play host to the latest and greatest in mobile technology, including the presumed Microsoft HoloLens 2. is eyeballing the out-of-home immersive entertainment sector using the technology could be a sign of greater implementations. “At Warner Bros.,

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

Mira is a Los Angeles, California-based augmented reality (AR) company that creates headsets. Apple and Meta are set to compete for the immersive hardware space as the latter dominates roughly 80 per cent of the market. Its target markets are the enterprise and the United States military, namely the US Air Force and US Navy.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2023

Google chickened out , Microsoft got distracted , and it's totally understandable if you lost interest in VR when they did. Yes, Google might still be resurgent with Android, powered by Owlchemy's insights and Samsung's hardware , and other companies might surprise with a novel strategy too. The just-announced visionOS 1.0

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VRScout

OCTOBER 10, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this Episode 30 of the VRScout Report, we talk all things Oculus Connect 3 (OC3), getting insights and takeaways from: Max Cohen, VP of Mobile at Oculus; Raj Rao of uSens; Ela Darling of Cam4; Tahdg Kelly of VReal; and Ashley Pinnick of California Rex.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 8, 2022

But beyond it being a term for the digital, persistent, and highly immersive virtual worlds we will become used to, what it actually is – or will be – is up for debate! Huge companies like Facebook and Microsoft are throwing vast sums of money at their attempts to build, and therefore define, the metaverse. BSc, and even Ph.D.

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EON Reality

JULY 30, 2021

EON Reality knows this is the only way to bring millions — if not billions — of high-quality XR spaces and experiences to the global citizens of the knowledge metaverse, which is why the California-based company has already laid the technological groundwork to make it a possibility.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Today’s MR hardware seems a bit like a 1970’s IBM. Meta is working on an AR headset, which puts them in the same league as Microsoft and Magic Leap. Despite growing interest from big tech companies, commercial applications of BCIs have been hamstrung by prohibitively high costs and impractical hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It is also working on creating its own hardware : a previous report highlighted that it could build its own chips in the future, and this article shows how the company is working also in acquiring hardware parts markers. Of course its goal is to give importance to Steam, not to the hardware. Great job, Mozilla!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Hello everyone from San Jose, California! This time we don’t have more info about the hardware, but about the software. Somnium is already an investor in XTAL, and it is so strengthening its position as a leader both in the software and the hardware necessary to access virtual worlds. PSVR 2 is going to have 20+ launch titles.

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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. Jinha had worked at Microsoft Research and he had offers to go back to Microsoft Research and Google and all these other companies and do serious hefty work for them on AR. Why would I want that?

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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. Jinha had worked at Microsoft Research and he had offers to go back to Microsoft Research and Google and all these other companies and do serious hefty work for them on AR. Why would I want that?

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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. Jinha had worked at Microsoft Research and he had offers to go back to Microsoft Research and Google and all these other companies and do serious hefty work for them on AR. Why would I want that?

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

Brett Leonard , director of Lawnmower Man (the first film to feature virtual reality) and a host of other exciting upcoming media, shared his “5 Laws of VR,” what he learned from an accidental meeting with Joseph Campbell on the Northern California coast, and how VR is a female medium. And even that comparison doesn’t quite do it justice.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It’s immersive tech, and can teach kids in new, innovative ways. I ended up doing trials with the Vive Focus and other hardware. And it was fitting that I could use it to encompass the work that I was going to be doing with immersive technologies, but also broad enough to encompass some of the other areas that I work with.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It’s immersive tech, and can teach kids in new, innovative ways. I ended up doing trials with the Vive Focus and other hardware. And it was fitting that I could use it to encompass the work that I was going to be doing with immersive technologies, but also broad enough to encompass some of the other areas that I work with.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It’s immersive tech, and can teach kids in new, innovative ways. I ended up doing trials with the Vive Focus and other hardware. And it was fitting that I could use it to encompass the work that I was going to be doing with immersive technologies, but also broad enough to encompass some of the other areas that I work with.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. The hardware is just accelerating at an insane pace, because you got to remember, exponential growth is exponential.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. The hardware is just accelerating at an insane pace, because you got to remember, exponential growth is exponential.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the two different components about that, one being the resource guide, just starting to learn about how to meet as an avatar, which hardware to use, the accessibility challenges that are out there and really writing. The hardware is just accelerating at an insane pace, because you got to remember, exponential growth is exponential.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. California State University Monterey Bay, USA. image courtesy VR First.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Today’s guest is a great friend of mine, Emily Olman, CEO and co-founder of SpatialFirst, a prop tech startup and creators of PlaceTime, a mobile immersive property visualization application bringing spatial computing to real estate. Emily is a regular speaker on immersive real estate technology, both in the US and abroad.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Today’s guest is a great friend of mine, Emily Olman, CEO and co-founder of SpatialFirst, a prop tech startup and creators of PlaceTime, a mobile immersive property visualization application bringing spatial computing to real estate. Emily is a regular speaker on immersive real estate technology, both in the US and abroad.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Today's guest is a great friend of mine, Emily Olman, CEO and co-founder of SpatialFirst, a prop tech startup and creators of PlaceTime, a mobile immersive property visualization application bringing spatial computing to real estate. Emily is a regular speaker on immersive real estate technology, both in the US and abroad.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. China-India & the other Asian Nations have some really interesting #augmentedreality #virtualreality #mixedreality #startups Innovating across Hardware, Software & Content.

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