XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 22, 2023

Recently Microsoft noted how MR represents the “ eyes and ears ” of AI. Following a mainstream steer away from the Metaverse by some towards genAI – the latter may be gaining the most focus currently – but roadmaps are already in place by firms such as Microsoft to develop the industrial Metaverse by 2024.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The Use of VR in the Field of Education Vindevogel goes on to say that VR will be a useful tool in the field of education. More Accessible Developer Tools VR solutions are becoming more popular in commercial settings and it’s expected that developing such solutions will become simpler in the coming years.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 21, 2023

One of the best ways to stay on the cutting edge of the MR landscape, is by attending insightful events and conferences. IEEE VR+3D User Interfaces March 25-29th, Shanghai Celebrating its 30 th anniversary in 2023, the IEEE VR and 3D user interface conference offers a behind-the-scenes insight into all-things extended reality.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

What’s more, as the technical landscape continues to evolve, developers and designers are discovering new ways to introduce users to the benefits AR has to offer. For companies looking to learn more about the opportunities offered by AR, events and conferences can be an excellent way to stay up to date.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Although Microsoft hasn’t shown much of an investment in the entertainment and arts sector as of yet, it has a lot of potential to offer with the HoloLens ecosystem. Microsoft’s technology could easily be the basis behind a number of mixed-reality and unique event experiences in the entertainment world going forward.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

In the XR landscape, conferences and expos offer a hands-on opportunity for business buyers to test out the latest technology, and gather some useful insights from innovators in MR, AR, and VR. Conference sessions are planned to cover everything from user experience, to programming, design, and team management.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 1, 2023

The hardware-agnostic technology is compatible with a range of different devices to ensure everyone in the workplace can interact with the same holographic tools. Accenture, as well as other leading firms, have already highlighted the benefits of the technology for immersive, metaverse-ready experiences, employee training and conferences.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 24, 2023

NVIDIA Strikes Big at GTC 2023 This week at NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2023, the leading technology firm announced a trove of announcements cementing the firm in its immersive solutions journey. The update also includes Unity integration, APIs for server optimization, and low-latency connections.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Users are discovering that virtual reality isn’t just a powerful tool for entertainment. Renowned for its ingenuity, Apple has continuously pushed the boundaries of what is possible with its rich tech ecosystem, namely amid increasing competition with Microsoft. Demand for virtual reality is expanding at an incredible rate.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Microsoft announces Mesh, an XR collaboration platform. Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. But since Microsoft owns one of those studios (and using it costs around $100K/day if I remember well!), It is not an app, but a tool to build apps.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

With a lot of sadness, I’m here watching the photos and the videos of WCVRI , the big Chinese conference about VR that is held every year in Nanchang. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. Of course, it will exploit the already awesome Microsoft platform.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 17, 2023

The Apple Vision Pro has made headlines across the media after the Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) in early June. Apple’s partnerships with major companies like Microsoft, Unity, and others are also set to offer headset users greater access to immersive tools.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 8, 2023

Along with NVIDIA, Unity and Epic Games, the world’s largest gaming engines, have also joined efforts to build the industrial metaverse. The big reveal rocked the industry following Monday’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). NVIDIA is leading the charge on this with its Omniverse and digital twin solution platform.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

Demonstrated live on-stage during the Unity Vision Summit, you can already try it out for yourself in the Unity 2017 beta. ICYMI: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW FROM FACEBOOK’S F8 CONFERENCE. In a possible direct move against their upstart competitor, Facebook has announced their Camera Effects suite with two major tools.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Matsuda himself subsequently began working in AR following the film's release, leading design teams at both Leap Motion (now Ultraleap) and Microsoft. As I spoke about in our piece on Air Race X, Styly is an all-in-one tool for creators and consumers alike and the bedrock behind the company's CityXR vision. I started making it in 2013.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

We had at the same time the Game Developer Conference (the GDC) and the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) by NVIDIA, so we had lots of announcements about 3D technology in general and also about XR. Furthermore, Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint, will be connected with Omniverse Project Mellon has been unveiled.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg talks about the future of VR and AR at Facebook’s recent Oculus Connect conference. It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. The tech industry is gearing up for a new paradigm shift.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

Earlier this year , I wrote about how Microsoft and other companies have pulled back on their VR and AR plans. But, other than giving a presentation at the OpenSim Community Conference in December , I can’t remember the last time I went in-world for a meeting. It’s all Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, and occasionally Microsoft Teams.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Using their forward-facing cameras, hand and eye tracking, and 3-6 degrees of flight (DoF), the world’s most popular headsets have employed motion-capturing tools to boost user immersion. We have two kits developed on the Unity gaming engine and feature motion tracking via a single RGB camera.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

We captured the transition from a couple companies shipping development tools to hobbyists into a fast-moving industry driven by some of the world’s largest tech companies, each of which is selling increasingly sophisticated systems directly to consumers. March 2016. HTC also announces a $100 million VR investment fund.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Varjo exited stealth mode with an investment, a prototype that journalists have tried during a press conference, and announcing only one single technology (the double-displays stuff) for a device targeted at the enterprise (and so, l ittle volumes at high prices , something manageable by a little company). Even Half-Life: Alyx is 25% off!

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We were so blessed to find literally the man that wrote the book on Unity [chuckles] Joe Hocking, to join the team. They want immersive tools. You can now go deep on it with 3D tools that are baked into the platform. And their audience expects modern tools to learn. And Lewis Gardner on our CMS. They want on-demand.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We were so blessed to find literally the man that wrote the book on Unity [chuckles] Joe Hocking, to join the team. They want immersive tools. You can now go deep on it with 3D tools that are baked into the platform. And their audience expects modern tools to learn. John: Exactly. And Lewis Gardner on our CMS.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

Nothing works right — it’s easier to have a phone call or video conference. Acadicus is a tool for medical simulations and for training, and works both with or without a virtual reality headset. Acadicus is a tool for medical simulations and for training, and works both with or without a virtual reality headset.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We were so blessed to find literally the man that wrote the book on Unity [chuckles] Joe Hocking, to join the team. They want immersive tools. You can now go deep on it with 3D tools that are baked into the platform. And their audience expects modern tools to learn. John: Exactly. And Lewis Gardner on our CMS.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4. Together with the SDK, it is also possible to access the developer tools as for instance the Magic Leap emulator that I’ve used to infer the Field of View of the device. Header image by GDC Conference).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. Conferences are returning to digital. The Unity Cube ?? (PS Respect for the devs of Cooking Simulator, it is actually a good game. Microsoft Maquette gets discontinued. But it’s not the best PCVR game of 2021).

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XROM

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Zoom's fast ascent to $ 100 Billion was thanks to #covid, #zoom was the single most used platform for meetings, conference, webinars, virtual gatherings & events soon after the world went into a lockdown. You can also check the CO2 levels in the conference room. We are bringing more elements, all around collaboration,” said Raje.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He organizes the annual GamesBeat and GamesBeat Summit conferences. It sounds really awesome, and it is — it’s really fun and exciting — but what it really gets down to it is they’ve shown the increased sales by 25-150 percent using just web-based interactive tools. Alan: Have you been to the Microsoft campus?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He organizes the annual GamesBeat and GamesBeat Summit conferences. It sounds really awesome, and it is — it’s really fun and exciting — but what it really gets down to it is they’ve shown the increased sales by 25-150 percent using just web-based interactive tools. Alan: Have you been to the Microsoft campus?

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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). Liz Mercuri (Unity).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He organizes the annual GamesBeat and GamesBeat Summit conferences. It sounds really awesome, and it is -- it's really fun and exciting -- but what it really gets down to it is they've shown the increased sales by 25-150 percent using just web-based interactive tools. Alan: Have you been to the Microsoft campus? Dean: Thank you.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

He organizes the annual GamesBeat and GamesBeat Summit conferences. It sounds really awesome, and it is — it’s really fun and exciting — but what it really gets down to it is they’ve shown the increased sales by 25-150 percent using just web-based interactive tools. Alan: Have you been to the Microsoft campus?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

As the pioneer of utilizing AR for industry support and training, Scope AR are partnered with technology leaders such as Google and Microsoft. Since founding the company in 2011, Scott as one of the first executives to get augmented reality tools in use by multi-billion dollar corporations. Scott, welcome to the show. Unscrew this."

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