Road to VR

MAY 8, 2019

If you’ve felt that Google has been quiet about their Daydream VR initiative for a worrying amount of time, you aren’t alone. Their annual developer conference, Google I/O, this week is the latest opportunity for the company update the world on their VR ecosystem, but there’s little more than silence.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 28, 2018

This year’s Virtual World Best Practices in Education 2018 conference, which ended last week in Second Life, was shorter than last year — three days, instead of four — and attracted about 1,100 attendees, down from a high of around 4,500 in previous years. Gateway area of this years’s VWBPE.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Back then, those of us who called ourselves ‘VR enthusiasts’ were just happily typing away our dreams in different forums [shoutout to the MTBS3D VR subsection], dreaming of the day we’d have the Holodeck, the Matrix, or whatever version of VR we each thought of as the “high standard” of a true virtual reality.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It was for America, but it’s the Augmented World Expo – there are three live AWE conferences throughout the year. See Also: Get Ready for This Year’s AR/VR Policy Conference. Among others, Wong will be joined on the panel by Zilliqa Head of Metaverse and NFTs Sandra Helou representing the Metapolis virtual world.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 19, 2023

I used to think that the path to the metaverse started with screen-based virtual worlds then expanded to virtual reality. We had an in-world office. I am on the OpenSim Community Conference organizing team, and our early meetings are in OpenSim. That’s hard to do on a screen in a virtual world.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

One of the largest industry events in North America, the Vancouver-based conference will spotlight how tech giants and startups are creating new ways to visualize and interact with virtual worlds. Conferences like the VR/AR Summit proliferate on the cusp of disruption,” says the columnist and author.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

Virtual reality hasn’t caught on with American teens, according to a new survey from Piper Sandler released on Tuesday. According to IDC, both consumer and enterprise interest in virtual reality fell last year. In mid March , Google announced the end of Google Glass Enterprise.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

November saw the third instalment of the Montreal Virtual Reality Market – an industry gathering held in Montreal. Drone Volt’s Canadian branch filled their exhibitor booth and air space above it with all kinds of custom-made drones, one of which steals the show – it is the first drone dedicated to virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Image by Google). Meta and Google announce layoffs. This week we had the announcement of both Meta and Google laying off people. It has just announced that it will release a new tool to create virtual worlds for the platform based on Unity. There will be also a way to enjoy the conference in Horizon Worlds.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Extended reality, in the form of AR, VR, and MR, has shown significant potential for this landscape. We’ve already begun to see galleries and museums creating their own augmented reality and virtual reality experiences, designed to educate and enlighten people anywhere.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. He is the Founder of Immersion- India’s 1st & largest AR/VR Conference plus the Founder of #XROM an AR/VR News website plus a B2B2C Marketplace which has the largest inventory of XR Products to Buy,Sell or Rent. Mr. [link].

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ARPost

JULY 27, 2023

Attendees can look forward to hearing from over 60 speakers in over 60 sessions including keynotes, talks, and panels over the course of the two-day conference. Or will it be “Beyond Loudness: Spatial Chat and the Future of Virtual World Communication” with Dolby Laboratories Developer Advocate Angelik Laboy?

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

VR stands for Virtual Reality and relates to an artificial environment that completely replaces the real world. Users put on a headset and fully immerse into any kind of virtual world that is generated by the technology. Virtual connection Who hasn’t taken part in a conference call?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

For the past two years, it featured a virtual world made in VRChat by us of VRrOOm, and this year, the virtual world was still there in parallel with the physical one. And if you live at the intersection of creativity and technology (like us that organize virtual reality events and concerts), it is the place to be.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

this one about Holoride and this about Lynx-R1 ), but many will come in the following days! After I will be back in Italy, on the 20th, I will also be a speaker at Virtual Reality Day , the 24h-conference about VR held by Bob Fine. Google to put all its experimental projects inside “Labs” division.

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2021

For the second year in a row, the conference was held online but that didn’t stop it from delivering the kind of insights and announcements that we’ve come to expect from the annual event. As our customary warning, even devoting three days to the conference we weren’t able to catch everything. XR Adoption During COVID-19.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 24, 2020

” Augmented reality, mixed reality, and virtual reality all fall under the extended reality umbrella and the general idea is that they transform the world around us. With virtual reality and virtual worlds, there’s a similar problem at work.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The situation looks uncertain, and probably we will hear about Magic Leap’s plans at the next LEAP Conference. This is also used to substitute workshops and speeches usually employing Youtube Videos or Youtube Live Streams ; VR events , made in virtual reality in platforms like ENGAGE, Somnium Space, Mozilla Hubs, VIRBela, etc….

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Researchers at the National University of Singapore first showed us how face electrodes can simulate food in virtual reality– and now they are bringing wind and heat to your virtual world. Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst.

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Hypergrid Business

OCTOBER 28, 2021

He spoke at today’s Facebook Connect , the company’s virtual reality and augmented reality conference. People can use virtual reality headsets, or augmented reality glasses, but also computer screens and mobile devices to access metaverse content, he said. Image courtesy Facebook.).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today it’s a great day for virtual reality: at WCVRI conference, HTC has just announced a kit to provide 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and has showcased a hands-tracking technology for the Vive Pro ! The city is full of references to Virtual Reality, and so it is like a paradise for us VR enthusiasts.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

This mention of AR confirms that Facebook is working on AR glasses, and in my opinion is also a hint to the fact that most probably they will be teased at the next Oculus Connect (the conference that, according to Oculus, should show the “future of AR and VR”). Google releases an opensource library for hand tracking.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

This article is a brief collection of readings, set in an overall commentary about virtual reality, primarily intended as a backgrounder for semi-old friends and colleagues who may be interested. Virtual Reality is a medium, or a media technology. The goal of Virtual Reality, VR, is the other end of the spectrum?—?full

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Steki Amusement

JUNE 13, 2022

Following Meta, Microsoft and Google’s entry into the metaverse, Apple, currently the world’s No.1 Recently, Apple demonstrated its Mixed Reality (MR) headset in testing to its board members. At the same time, Apple has accelerated the development of rOS (reality OS).

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

For the past few years, virtual reality meetings, events, and classrooms haven’t taken off the way that proponents expected, due to inconvenience, usability issues, bandwidth requirements, the need for high-end computers, and expensive headsets, new software, and more. Image courtesy 8Agora.). Image courtesy AltspaceVR.).

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AUGUST 9, 2017

The event is organized by The Virtual Reality Foundation, which is composed of many of the same people behind the Virtual Reality Los Angeles conference and startup Mindshow. And amid all this, dozens of new virtual worlds arrive each week for people to explore in VR headsets.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 25, 2020

By necessity, the world is opening up to the idea of what working from home really means. We’re learning to collaborate over cloud-enabled platforms—like Slack , Zoom, and Google Docs —to do our work together without traveling or transporting ourselves to be “together.”. I’ve heard about group yoga classes taking place over Zoom.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 19, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: WILL JIMMY FALLON’S NEW VIRTUAL REALITY SEGMENT HELP RAISE AWARENESS OF VR? broadband households claim to know little or nothing about virtual reality …but perhaps a new virtual reality segment on The Tonight Show with Tilt Brush Pictionary will help increase awareness.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

from PC) to join its virtual worlds , too, so that to increment the user base. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. Conferences are returning to digital. Disney is working on glasses-free virtual installations. I’m just speculating, but it may have sense.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

But before talking about it, let me invite you once more to visit the Venice VR Expanded virtual worlds that we did in VRChat for the Venice Film Festival. The Facebook Connect is close and we all expect that during that conference Oculus is finally going to announce the new Oculus Quest. I promise you won’t be disappointed.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Zoom is good enough for most virtual meetings. The learning curve for virtual world browsers is too high for casual users. But it doesn’t make up for all the shortcomings of either desktop-based virtual worlds, or 3D virtual environments, for most non-gaming applications.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Sorry if you have to use Google Translate, but the article is of course all in Chinese The most relevant piece of news for us in the West are all about Nreal: The Nreal Light is finally arriving in Europe and the US in Q2 2021; The Chinese company has also showcased an enterprise version of the headset. Microsoft Ignite will be in VR.

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JULY 19, 2017

Over the last several years the long-running SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference served as an important marker of immersive computing’s march toward mainstream. ” In addition to the VR Village, the Computer Animation Festival that is part of the conference is adding VR content projects to that portion of the event.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2020

To summarize it in some bullet points: It seems a lot Rec Room for now; It is deeply built on the Facebook framework , but you can still use your Oculus username and friends; The graphics are cartoonish and pretty simple; Everyone in Horizon can build worlds easily by using some internal creation tools in VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

But, in the early days of this industry, it is the developer conferences, the places where creators come together to share knowledge and reveal breakthroughs, that are the really exciting events to cover. There’s no better time of the year to do that than at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). Alex Lee (Google).

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VRWorld

MAY 22, 2017

As a part of a broader push, YouTube is now working on making its virtual reality app a more social experience. During Google’s annual I/O developer conference, the video site announced that the VR users will be able to watch VR videos together while in its VR app.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 8, 2017

Virtual reality developers aren’t making as much money as they expected. GamesBeat: You’ve launched your initial games in virtual reality, like Time Machine VR. GamesBeat: We had our conference in May, and a lot of it was about science fiction, tech, games, and the inspiration that happens between them.

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