XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 8, 2022

During the Cisco LIVE 2022 conference for digital enterprise solutions next week, Vection Technologies will preview 3D Frame, a plug-in for Webex Meetings that adds immersive Metaverse features. The Australian firm offers its rich IntegretedXR systems, including various hardware and software solutions, to support Industry 4.0.

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ARPost

MARCH 9, 2021

Microsoft Ignite was a three-day conference that took place virtually on YouTube, Microsoft.com, and in Altspace from March 2-4. The conference included hundreds of sessions, but we’re mainly here for those that particularly touched on mixed reality – which is enough. But, it wasn’t the only bridge explored at Ignite.

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VRScout

MAY 8, 2023

Lopes and his team created a mechanical backpack called JumpMod that can help enhance the sensation of falling and jumping in the virtual world by moving your weight up and down through simulating forces on your body.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 12, 2021

So I also followed the V2EC, the Vive Ecosystem Conference that happened on ENGAGE, and that represented the Chinese counterpart of Vivecon. Yes, it was at 3 am in my city, but I couldn’t resist attending the VEC conference in which I have always participated in the last 3 years. This is very interesting.

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ARPost

MARCH 9, 2021

Microsoft Ignite was a three-day conference that took place virtually on YouTube, Microsoft.com, and in Altspace from March 2-4. The conference included hundreds of sessions, but we’re mainly here for those that particularly touched on mixed reality – which is enough. But, it wasn’t the only bridge explored at Ignite.

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VRScout

MAY 23, 2018

Thankfully, a handful of brilliant minds over at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have begun developing a new process of VR-based testing that could save manufacturers hundreds of thousands in shattered hardware. It’s something we programmed it to do in the virtual environment, by making mistakes, falling apart, and learning.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 31, 2022

HTC’s VIVE TALK is a hub of online resources that includes sessions covering its VIVEVERSE platform, enterprise use cases, hardware, software, and the portal hosts “Good Vibes”, an extended reality (XR) podcast produced by HTC VIVE. Immersive training solutions provide many avenues for enterprise-grade use cases.

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VRScout

JANUARY 7, 2019

Fresh hardware, a bold new social platform, and Vive Pro eye-tracking are on the way. In actuality HTC was teasing the latest addition their VR hardware lineup, the HTC Vive Cosmos, a PC-based 6DoF VR headset featuring inside-out tracking and a flip-up visor.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist at Oculus, as-ever delivered an inspiring presentation at today’s F8 conference, this time on the topic of Augmented Reality. ” You can watch his presentation in full in the video below, starting at 57:45.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 13, 2017

Just like any other VR headset, Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) leaves plenty of room for improvement, and the company’s R&D division has a few ideas on where to take it on both a software and hardware level. Building on that, the company’s also interested in affecting the virtual world around you with gaze tracking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Explaining further, he said, “I think Agora is weaving the infrastructure of the future virtual world. So a truly passionate person can build those things and create a virtual world where fans and communities can gather together. You provide this [to] lower the barrier of building such a system.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Today at Vive Developer Conference in Beijing, HTC announced its long-awaited standalone headset, called Vive Focus. Vive Focus takes us from room-scale to “world-scale” tracking. Vive Focus takes us from room-scale to “world-scale” tracking. It’s time to cut the cord. Now it’s here.

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ARPost

MAY 25, 2023

The one-day event hosted on the Hopin remote conference platform , brought together a number of industry experts to discuss the business applications of a number of XR techniques and topics including digital twins, virtual humans, and generative AI. The VR/AR Association held a VR Enterprise and Training Forum yesterday, May 24.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

As usual, Microsoft is firing first with its press conference this E3, but it’s doing so even earlier than anticipated. It’s surprisingly early announcement of a press conference date indicates that this is going to be a significant showing for the company. The picture of project Scorpio is a pretty good indicator, too.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2022

It’s been the first time I worked on such an ambitious conference , so let me tell you something more about it and about the lessons I’ve learned in the process … especially for what concerns the differences between organizing physical and digital/VR events ! It is also more difficult to innovate while doing a real conference.

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XROM

JUNE 4, 2023

The battle for supremacy in the world of augmented and virtual reality devices is heating up, with #Apple and #Meta taking center stage. On June 5th, Apple is rumored to launch its XR Glasses at the Worldwide Developers Conference (#WWDC) for an expected price of $3000.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2022

I have already described to you two good experiences I had with XR Hardware (Lenovo AR glasses, and Actronika haptic suit), and today I want to close the topic Laval by telling you about two great software experiences I had there: CleverPoint and Patch XR. CleverPoint. I was given just one controller to use with my right hand.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

You can now register to attend Oculus’ 3rd ‘Connect’ conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC. Explore the endless possibilities for VR across 360 video, film, art, and education.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

These investments are seen as foundations for future content and hardware, and with consumers purchasing more immersive tech hardware, it’s likely that we’ll be seeing more VR and AR content. He goes on to share that the success of the Quest 2 will fuel interest in the new Quest 3, which should will be released in 2023.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

See Also: XR Technology Conference AWE Goes Live. Best Input & Output Hardware. Dave Lorenzini presented the award for Best Input & Output Hardware to Looking Glass 8K Immersive Display – marking the second consecutive year that the company took home an Auggie. Nextant Awards.

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Steki Amusement

JUNE 13, 2022

Notably, VR creates virtual spaces, AR simply overlays virtual information onto the real world, and MR technology blurs the line between the virtual and real worlds. When the device is in AR mode, the user can view the real world directly through the transparent part of the optical system.

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

Over the last 12 months or so we’ve been keeping an eye on Google’s aggressive hiring for its AR/VR team which, among other things, suggested that the company was working on new “mass production” hardware that would go beyond the simple smartphone snap-in Daydream headsets. And yet I was still very impressed with what I saw.

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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. Really fantastic.

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 10, 2023

The next big thing in VR might not be higher resolution or more immersive sound, but an experience augmented by physical sensations or moving parts that fool your senses into mistaking virtual for reality. For many, the answer lies not in the virtual world with better sound or graphics, but in the physical one.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 24, 2020

I do conference calls every day as part of my job, and in the past I wouldn’t ever bother with the video, just dialing in via telephone. With virtual reality and virtual worlds, there’s a similar problem at work. I’d say that 95 percent of all my calls prior to the pandemic were on audio only.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

At Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference today, the company made a major shift in their embrace of virtual reality with several new VR announcements during the event’s opening keynote. Metal for VR. Photo courtesy TIME. Apple’s newly updated Metal 2 graphics API is getting specially tuned for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. At Google I/O, no executive of the company has talked about the M-word, but they have anyway showed interesting AR updates, which will be relevant for our future M-world. The problem of moderation inside virtual worlds. Other relevant news. Image by Google).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 4, 2022

Roland Busch, President and Chief Executive of Siemens AG , said in a statement, “Photorealistic, physics-based digital twins embedded in the industrial metaverse offer enormous potential to transform our economies and industries by providing a virtual world where people can interact and collaborate to solve real-world problems.

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Ryan Schultz

MARCH 2, 2024

Also, with this blogpost, I have created a new blog post category called Review , which I will now be using to mark any hardware and software reviews I write from now on, here on the RyanSchultz.com blog. It is one of a huge backlog (over thirty) of half-finished blog posts, which I hope to complete and publish soon. So please stay tuned!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Scentrealm debuted Telescent at the Hangzhou Yunxi Conference, which took place between November 3 – 5, 2022, held in Yunqi Town, Hangzhou. Additionally, some of the firm’s devices come packed with integrated 5G hardware enabling Scentrealm to deploy its immersive solution in many different real-world locations.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 27, 2017

Current VR headsets can certainly make you believe you’re in a virtual world, but consumer devices can’t yet reproduce the exact way your eyes see the real world. New research being presented at SIGGRAPH by NVIDIA aims to fix that. That’s what’s on the way from NVIDIA this year.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2018

While there’s certainly a range of exciting games and other VR software coming soon to first-generation hardware, it feels like the market is steadily turning its attention toward next-generation technologies, and fostering a renewed sense of excitement and momentum. Continued on Page 2 ».

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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

If you are from the EMEA region, and you use my special link to register for the conference and then you watch one of the event sessions, you will participate in a raffle to win an amazing RTX3080 Ti graphics card! :O. The hardware is not making big progress, and it is expected to keep receiving negative feedback from the soldiers.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 5, 2016

We first got our hands on the Rift Touch hand-controllers during Oculus’ developer conference (OC2) in September 2015. When you’re using a gamepad to navigate a virtual world, it just feels like a game with a much larger screen. It feels like we’ve been talking about Oculus Touch for awhile — and that’s probably because we have.

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Road to VR

APRIL 10, 2018

I’ve had a chance to try out the Infinadeck at several key milestones during its development, as far back as 2014 when the device made its debut at the very first SVVR Conference & Expo. Freeman wasn’t ready to disclose an exact price for the system, but he did say it falls into the ‘greater than $10,000’ category.

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