Road to VR
APRIL 27, 2023
The Japanese optics and imaging giant announced that early access to its Kokomo social collaboration software for Quest 2 is now available in beta in the US and Canada. There are only a few virtual environments, which although plush, are simple backgrounds without much utility beyond looking nice.
Road to VR
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
This will transport up to three players into the app, sitting them on a virtual couch in front of a giant screen. Users can switch between several surrounding virtual environments. I was able to find and install it fine in the US, but colleagues in Canada and Italy both were barred from even finding the app on the Gear VR store.
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The Ghost Howls
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Who owns the Index will have the game for free (and for the occasion, the Index has been distributed to more countries, like Canada). Google announces The Relightables. Google has just invented a new system to shoot volumetric videos of avatars. Half-Life: Alyx will feature 15 hours of gameplay and it will be moddable.
Leapmotion
NOVEMBER 21, 2015
Much like our UI Widgets , it’s a set of interface elements – switch, lever and potentiometer – that can be embedded in any virtual environment. This is just a sample of what Dale’s been working on for his undergraduate degree in digital media at York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering in Toronto, Canada.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JULY 18, 2023
This capability allows for remote training, remote assistance, and collaborative problem-solving, as users can share a common virtual space and interact with the digital twin together. Users can practice tasks, procedures, or scenarios in a virtual environment that replicates the behaviour of the physical system.
The Ghost Howls
AUGUST 25, 2019
Google releases an opensource library for hand tracking. Google has released opensource a library for tracking your hands on a mobile device. That’s great, but there are still big countries like Canada and Australia that are excluded from this possibility. Someone made Google Lens work in VR. Decentraland is growing.
XR for Business Podcast
AUGUST 28, 2019
So, meetingRoom is a service that allows people to work with each other, using familiar meeting room facilities — like whiteboards — in a virtual environment, from anywhere. Or can you grab PowerPoint or Google slides? We’ve made this accessible from anywhere. What is the document that you can upload natively?
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