ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

But AR/VR solutions are not limited to Google Glass, mobile apps for trying on shoes or accessories, and AR-based games. In particular, AR places 3D models into real situations and adds contextual information to a camera display or headphones. Sponsored content. Sponsored by Softeq. Gyroscopes and accelerometers also help with this.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. Especially Apple and Google, which are the dominant players in the smartphone industry, are both launching headsets this year.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 21, 2020

With the power to bring digital information to you in real time, augmented reality is showing great potential. HoloLens 2 AR glasses (Image by Microsoft). Augmented reality glasses are eyewear that have the technology to merge what you see in the real world with virtual information. What Are AR Glasses? FORM Swimming Goggles.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

The controllers had already been unveiled, but at CES we discovered their name: “PlayStation VR2 Sense Controllers” No words have been said about the release date (that will be this year, by the way) and the price. Controllers specifications. The Touch controller and its mount are bigger than the glove itself.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Apple has been prototyping headsets for years, and recent reports from The Information and Bloomberg suggest that Apple could release a headset as early as 2022 that could cost as much as $3,000. All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well.

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ARPost

MAY 3, 2021

Augmented reality tools that allow you to work on data, visualize information, and collaborate from multiple locations are already here. At its core, it helps us make sense of the situation at hand (humans process visual information faster) and take better decisions. Manufacturing and quality control.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Many of the speakers came from familiar companies within the space, including Deutsche Telekom, Google, Lenovo, PTC, PwC, and Qualcomm. In addition to speakers, attendees could exchange information, chat and video call one another, and visit exhibitor booths. Increased Support for Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Because of my busy time, the commentaries to this and the next two newsletters will be a bit shorter than usual, but I’ll try to be informative the same, just with fewer words. To keep the price this low, the headse t will ship without controllers, it will feature Fresnel lenses and black/white passthrough.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 29, 2017

For every Nintendo there is a Sega and for every Apple there is a Microsoft. There are a handful of major players already cutting their teeth in VR including Google, Sony and Samsung; but the two titans sitting at the top of the heap are Oculus and HTC. HTC/Microsoft . The technology world is always a game of rivals.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 8, 2024

Goertek XReal Lenovo Iristick Vuzix Magic Leap XYZReality Longan Vision Rokid ThirdEye Google Toshiba Epson RealWear Microsoft Lumus TCL RayNeo Goertek Offering a variety of extended reality products for virtual and augmented experiences, Goertek has a range of smart glasses included in its portfolio.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Apple is constantly improving its ARKit solution, adding always more features, and also Google is (slowly) updating ARCore. They are all building the AR cloud, and systems to make people have a persistent shared AR (Niantic Lightship, Microsoft Mesh). AR games and experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Meta Quest Pro and controllers (Image by Meta). Drawing with the back of the Touch Pro controller in mixed reality (Image by Meta). Controllers : Quest Pro has very innovative controllers. Controllers are for sure one of the biggest features of this device. The Quest Pro is not a huge bump over the Quest 2.

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ARPost

MARCH 2, 2021

Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time. The scenario of the learning process can be programmed and controlled with high accuracy. A significant part of the information can be submitted playfully. Google Earth VR.

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AR Insider

MAY 28, 2021

Like Google’s Cloud Anchors and Microsoft’s Spatial Anchors — these let multiple users experience positionally-tracked lenses together from different vantage points. In other words, insights from lens-based try-ons can inform brand marketing strategies or decisions about product pipelines and logistics.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash of 1992, the internet has been superseded by the Metaverse, a multi-person shared virtual reality with both human-controlled avatars and system “daemons”. What virtual avatars, creatures, information layers or interactive components are here. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

Then they slowly kicked away all the previous executives from Oculus and took control of the company. On the web, Google has similar behaviors. And this also thanks to the non-mandatory but very-much-advised Google login on Android phones. Then they absorbed Oculus into Facebook.

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ARPost

AUGUST 2, 2019

In the film, overruling aliens subconsciously control the humans on Earth through subliminal media messaging, encouraging them to consume, reproduce and obey. Items like Google Glass and Focals offer consumers today the ability to text, update their calendar and even control their smart homes directly from their glasses.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 18, 2017

Before my demo at Google I/O, Google’s head of VR Clay Bavor outlined a series of caveats and expectations for what I was about to experience. The demo, according to Google, would reset after each journalist so the hardware would see the room fresh each time after each person donned the headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2022

According to a report by The Information, Meta is going to launch four VR headsets from now to 2024: The first one is Project Cambria, which is going to be released this Autumn, probably at Meta Connect Then there are two Quest headsets, codenamed Stinson and Cardiff, to be released in 2023 and 2024. Google acquires Raxium.

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Road to VR

JULY 31, 2023

Gaming in XR is considerably enhanced by fully immersive experiences and motion controllers, and Apple will probably start feeling the pressure of that demand from gamers and developers alike when it kicks off a consumer headset sometime down the road, causing them to relent (if only just).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 15, 2023

With major technology firms like Meta, Google, and Microsoft investing millions into the emerging space, enterprise end-users are already feeling the innovative presence of genAI – and there is more to come. The trainee can then practice conversing in a safe and controlled environment. Generative AI is here to stay.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

Major Firms Enter the XR Market During a launch event at MWC 2024, Samsung showcased a new XR headset developed in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm. Additionally, as Samsung and Google have partnered with Qualcomm, it is reasonable to assume that the device will use the Qualcomm XR2+ Gen 2 Platform, which supports AI-ready wearables.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2018

Called Vuzix Blade, the smartglasses are more of a heads-up display akin to Google Glass than a positionally-tracked AR headset like Microsoft Hololens or the upcoming Magic Leap One , although the Blade’s styling certainly comes closer to ‘normal’ than many we’ve seen before. image courtesy Vuzix.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Only a minimum of the data should be shared with the online servers and most of them should be handled locally; the applications and the communications should be secure; the user must have all the control among what data of his/hers gets shared and what not. For us XR fans, there has been some interesting information too.

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ARPost

JANUARY 29, 2020

Past attempts have been unsuccessful, such as Google Glass, due to reluctance and concerns over ethical issues such as privacy and security of AR glasses. Fast-forward a few years from the failing Google Glass, and now it turns out the popularity of smart-glasses has increased again, thanks to numerous new developments.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Some rumors talk about the board receiving the information about a breakthrough algorithm called Q* (Q-Star) which showed the signs of being able to make maths reasonings, which would mean that it could lead towards AGI. Now Microsoft is discontinuing them , putting another nail in the coffin of the HoloLens.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Microsoft, Google and Apple all have their own approaches to augmented reality and virtual reality, but the race for the face is particularly critical to Facebook and Amazon, because they have yet to establish computing gateways. Microsoft (enterprise) 4. Google (search). We view who is best-positioned in consumer AR: 1.

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ARVR

JUNE 30, 2020

Companies fined to date include Google (€50M euros) in relation to transparency and a lack of valid consent. It includes the right to know what information is collected, how it is shared, the ability to opt out of businesses being able to sell personal data, and to request that personal information is deleted.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

They have their own barcode scanner for sharing hands-free information, and are designed to look and feel like a standard set of eyeglasses. The FVS (Fusion Vision System) comes with enhanced vision and information sharing abilities, to help firefighters see through smoke and locate victims.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Key features of HoloPatient Remote according to GIGXR: Remote and/or socially distanced student groups connect with their instructor, who is wearing a Microsoft HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset, using their iOS or Android device. Instead of a HoloLens, however, students view the content through a mobile device or tablet. .

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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. The Touch controllers feel like little magical half-doughnuts and are smooth and intuitive.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Sounded good.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2017

Apple and Google beat the billionaire social media magnate to creating the smartphone — the dominant platform underpinning the Facebook network. Companies like Google and Apple have done that instead. Microsoft has invested aggressively in the technology: it unveiled its HoloLens AR headset two years ago.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Daniel Berrick, Policy Counsel at the FPF and infographic co-author , said explained that organisations could “use pupil dilation and gaze to potentially infer information” about user age, sexual orientation, race, gender, age, and others.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL, SNE, and NVDA According to the latest report from Statista , the global augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) markets are rapidly growing and are forecast to reach a total of $72.8 Microsoft’s smart glasses are now used as an enterprise solution by many companies around the world.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Google’s investment for a 7.7% Google-Jio joint venture to develop an Android-based platform for an affordable 5G phone. In the book The Final Hours of Half-Life: Alyx, available on Steam , it is possible to discover much interesting information about Alyx. Not a great evolution from Microsoft. A very interesting read.

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