Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

We saw mixed results in the global VR industry in 2016—initial sales volume by some high-end manufacturers didn’t quite live up to the hype, while PlayStation VR, Samsung Gear VR, and low-cost headsets continued to gain traction,” said Clifton Dawson, CEO of Greenlight Insights. 5-year global VR hardware and software forecasts.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

I think that the upcoming release of Quest 3, and the increasing rumors about Samsung are going to improve our situation even more. More info Samsung may be working on a smart ring There are new rumors in town about Samsung working on a smart ring that should be called Galaxy Ring. Let’s all hope so. Great job, Magnopus!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

We all love to make speculations on the technology and I am no exception. Not because I am a genius, but because the technology is still evolving very slowly and so it is very predictable. On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. Augmented Reality in 2018.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

It has also launched similar projects for enterprise, consumer, and industrial devices with Microsoft. Qualcomm-Oppo MR Glass Collaboration Additionally, the company aims to “drive the growing ecosystem of VR and MR developers in China.” OPPO also launched two OPPO Air Glass products in recent years.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Today is my last day in China. I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. Learn more Hand tracking is now available also in three.js

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

At WCVRI, China shows its strategic interest for VR. This year, I’m just watching the conference from home The conference has been interesting, and it has been the usual mix of technology and politics. And while China always moves chaotically, I think that the push of the government is helping its VR companies.

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GizModo VR

JULY 26, 2022

wants to take a big piece of the semiconductor pie away from countries like China. The world has gotten a little mad for chips (the kind that go in your computers, not your stomach), and the U.S. But first, it has to pass a bill, so expect a lot of last-minute wrangling, sweating, mind changing, weird additions, and… Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2022

Image by Samsung). Samsung is close to launching an XR device, or maybe two. Last month, we got to know that (according to a rumor) Samsung is working together with Microsoft on new AR glasses, most probably powered by a Qualcomm chipset. Samsung has apparently completed a prototype, and “is deciding the release date”.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

HP has fixed many of the visual problems of the headse t, and Microsoft has just released a patch on Windows 10 that aims at solving many visual issues of all WMR headsets (like Chromatic aberration). But honestly, I expected a bit more … it’s a bit weird that Microsoft hasn’t solved its biggest pain point yet. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

If the Paradise was in China, its name would be Qingdao. Magic Leap believes that Xu has stolen some technologies that Magic Leap was working on, with the only purpose of building his own company. After his ML experience, Chi Xu has flown to China, where he has founded his AR company.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Besides that, it is also hiring key figures to make this AR dream a reality : the operating system project will be supervised by Mark Lucovsky, a former Microsoft engineer who co-developed Windows NT. Huawei VR glasses are now available in China. Huawei has finally released its 3DOF glasses in China for 2999 Yuan (around $430).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 20, 2021

Italy, Canada, and China together to create an amazing video about these VR glasses! The devkit is already available to selected developers in China , and there are already some companies that are creating content for it. The 3DOF VR glasses are on sale in China and cost around 3000RMB (around 470$). The importance of Huawei.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! This won’t be the year of AR : exactly as I said for virtual reality, let’s not hype the technology and think that this is the year when mainstream adoption of wearable AR glasses is going to happen. Sounded good.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Finally after China and United States, also India has entered the AR race with the launch of the Jio AR glasses. The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (FIT) together with various partners from industry including Apple, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Son y has confirmed the release and official adoption of H.266/Versatile

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

By this point, you are probably already sick of the metaverse , and it hasn’t even arrived. Though the term has existed in science fiction for decades, it quickly became tech’s hottest buzzword and greatest source of marketing material since Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook (now Meta) would become a metaverse company… Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

In my opinion , the true error is with the Vive 1 , that will get a price that is higher than the one of all the competitors… and that will cost as much as a Samsung Odyssey, notwithstanding its far lower features. Vive Focus comes to the west. Me while trying the Vive Focus with Alvin Wang Graylin. Epic Siren demo.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

In the fall of 2016, Microsoft announced a partnership with a handful of hardware manufacturers to make developer headsets implementing the inside-out tracking technology seen on the HoloLens. THE UPCOMING SAMSUNG GEAR VR CONTROLLER IS COOL. CHINA BUILDS VIRTUAL REALITY TOWN. HANDS ON WITH LG’S NEW STANDALONE HEADSET.

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Steki Amusement

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Since 2015, China’s greatest contribution to the global virtual reality (VR) industry has been the discovery of offline VR experience stores. At the same time, the work of combining VR technology with traditional theme parks is also underway. Zhushan, Shiqi, Panyu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong,China / PC:511450.

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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. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest. Jacob, welcome to the show.

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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. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest. Jacob, welcome to the show.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Most recently we launched a frontier technology fund investing actively in VR and AI. and in China as well. and the east coast in China. From an investor’s perspective, we’re looking for more than just a great business model or great technology. We’re investors in Eonite, computer vision technology. That’s great.

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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. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest. Jacob, welcome to the show.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

This has been the week of SIGGRAPH , one of the most important technology exhibition of the year. Microsoft has just released its OpenXR implementation, while other companies like Oculus and Epic Games are still working on theirs, and they will be released soon. Samsung gets a patent for an AR contact lens. Top news of the week.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

As SuperData’s lead XR analyst, Carter is responsible for the company’s reports on immersive technology. The technology’s maybe not quite ready for the mainstream adoption, but it has very real, very useful business use cases that can’t be ignored? BlackBerry started off kind of as an enterprise tool, as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

As SuperData’s lead XR analyst, Carter is responsible for the company’s reports on immersive technology. The technology’s maybe not quite ready for the mainstream adoption, but it has very real, very useful business use cases that can’t be ignored? BlackBerry started off kind of as an enterprise tool, as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

As SuperData's lead XR analyst, Carter is responsible for the company's reports on immersive technology. The technology's maybe not quite ready for the mainstream adoption, but it has very real, very useful business use cases that can't be ignored? Outside of that, we've worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

If you were wondering, my journey to China has gone pretty well and many people liked HitMotion at WCVRI. Image by Microsoft). Microsoft wants to play safe, though, so it is now launching it only in two small countries , so that to identify possible problems only in a small subset of the worldwide population before the big launch.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 13, 2016

When the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift was launched in the spring, it was disappointingly bundled with a Microsoft Xbox controller – and we’ve eagerly been awaiting the native Touch Controllers. Visbit – $3.2M : the Sunnyvale, CA-based team has been working on patented 4K streaming technology for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

A worker wearing HoloLens 2 (Image by Microsoft). If virtual reality is still in the early stages, augmented reality is even before that , and the technology is growing very slowly. This shows how the technology is just slowly improving. Abrash reminds us that building a new technology always requires more time than we expect.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The problem in analyzing the “AR market” is that augmented reality currently means three different technologies : Smartphone AR Passthrough AR on VR headsets AR glasses. AR glasses are instead the moonshot and the technology upon which all the other ones will converge.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Over the years i have seen a few lists of Top 50 XR Influencers, but the curators of those list always overlooked China/India/Asia's XR Industry. Just for Context the worlds current population is 7 Billion, India & China's Collective population is 2.7 However, in June 2020, a U.S. 3- Ayden Ye. 4- Kshitij Marwah. 7- Alvin Graylin.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

We all know the Gartner hype cycle of emergent technologies: they are initially overhyped, then undervalued, and finally, they fulfill their potential and become popular and useful. No one still knows how to build the necessary technologies to make it happen. This is still the situation in this first part of 2022.

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