The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Meta has not officially answered this report, but Andrew Bosworth, the CTO of the company, has indirectly commented on it: “ We’re going to ship wrist wearables and AR glasses that bring completely new tech?—?like Microsoft will for sure keep pushing for immersive realities and “the metaverse”, but in a completely different way.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 18, 2023

However, reports in August surfaced that Google insiders had said original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) had received pitches from potential Project Iris developers, including Samsung Electronics. Meta Makes Moves towards AR Smart Glasses at Connect 2023 Furthermore, both Meta and Microsoft shuttered their AR smart glass ventures.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Microsoft and Zoom have also released their respective apps into the Vision Pro this week. It’s still more or less the game of of Microsoft. It allows users to walk around in a shared virtual environment without requiring a controller. Kevin also explained that XR devices are not wholly defined as headsets or wearables.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

An odyssey is an epic journey, and Samsung’s Odyssey VR headset seems to be the latest upcoming step in theirs. The timing of this coincides with the upcoming Microsoft Mixed Reality Event next week and SDC next month. The post Samsung’s Odyssey VR Headset Is On The Horizon appeared first on VR World.

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EnterpriseWear

AUGUST 1, 2018

Ideas on the ground and on board: The airport industry first began toying with wearable technology with the release of the original Google Glass in 2013. More recently, the use of wearable augmented and virtual reality devices by airport and airline technicians to train, perform maintenance, and receive remote support has gained traction.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 24, 2024

Meanwhile, competitors such as Meta and Microsoft are working to get XR devices into employees’ hands today. Moreover, with Apple’s dive into XR, it seems other giants like Samsung, LG, and Google are placing sights on the market, perhaps watching Apple closely to see if their XR gamble pays off.

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

Hearables with augmented reality features are becoming ubiquitous thanks to the overall spread of wearables, the contribution of tech giants, and the growing demand for emerging technologies. While visual forms of AR communicate with screens or glasses, smart hearables as a subset of wearable technology introduce audio augmented reality.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

A new OS for wearable, on face, computers. When I worked at Microsoft I got in trouble with the lawyers over patents so they made me sleep with a lawyer (true story, that was my punishment). I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JANUARY 31, 2024

They were named the “best wearable tech” at the Esquire Gadget Awards in 2021. However, the limited functionality of the wearable does make it feel more like an “early generation” headset than a future-facing device. Controllers and Tracking You may have noticed we haven’t mentioned the controllers for the HTC VIVE Flow so far.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

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. Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Some will also feature tracked controllers. Sounded good. Nu Eyes AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

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 Not a great evolution from Microsoft. Read about Google experiments with AR and wearables.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

Beliaeff: If you look at the evolution of video games, they’re trying to control everything a person is experiencing. Just with all the volumetrics and the sensors we can put on someone with a wearable device, we can start to understand more about their life and help them. Above: Microsoft’s HoloLens in action.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2019

And therefore, we can access and engage with content in a new way, with either a wearable device or with a mobile device initially. So we have come at it from this approach of what– we have the tools — with augmented reality — to view the information and to get content onto a mobile device, or onto a wearable.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2019

And therefore, we can access and engage with content in a new way, with either a wearable device or with a mobile device initially. So we have come at it from this approach of what– we have the tools — with augmented reality — to view the information and to get content onto a mobile device, or onto a wearable.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2019

And therefore, we can access and engage with content in a new way, with either a wearable device or with a mobile device initially. So we have come at it from this approach of what-- we have the tools -- with augmented reality -- to view the information and to get content onto a mobile device, or onto a wearable. Emily: Uh-huh.

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