Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Prolific YouTuber Tom Scott recently visited the Mixed Reality Lab at the YouTube Space studio in New York in order to showcase mixed reality capture. One of the persistent hurdles when explaining or promoting augmented and virtual reality technology is the need to convey the experience when viewed on a conventional display.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The IMAX VR Experience features a unique combination of premium technology and world-class content that lets users see, feel, move and play in new worlds in a powerfully immersive and realistic way, much like IMAX® theatres offer moviegoers a differentiated and best-in-class film experience.

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ARVR

MARCH 10, 2022

11 min read The technological as well as investment goal of metaverses is to connect physical reality with virtual reality, creating a digital space in which we can all come together and perform actions that affect both the virtual world of our avatar and the real and physical world. Are Metaverse NFTs Really Needed?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2022

I don’t know if it has been an intended move or if it truly happened by chance, but in any case, the news about Horizon has been the most discussed one of the week. Many journalists wrote bad things about Meta’s M-word efforts: they said that Meta invested $10B just to have this cringy virtual world. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Niantic has finally launched its VPS (Visual Positioning System), a solution that will allow developers to create AR applications that are persistent and shared in various locations in the world with centimeter accuracy. VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Late night talk show host Conan O’Brien visits YouTube Space New York to check out their mixed reality VR lab. One thing I find interesting is that he didn’t mention the headset or the controllers once. One thing I find interesting is that he didn’t mention the headset or the controllers once.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Also, for the other worlds, all people will start with the Safety Bubble on by default: Safety Bubble is meant so that people can’t come too close to you and physically harass you in the virtual world. This is important news, that becomes truly relevant if it is paired with the one of last week about Meta.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

ROSE , a minority-owned New York-based digital agency focused on AR, worked with XR platform 8th Wall to create a digital model of the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge and augment every step with historically significant media and information regarding the civil rights movement of the 1960s. However, it also would have been limiting.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 12, 2017

Hands-on With IMAX VR in New York Virtual reality has always been a tough sell. As long as the experience was safe and the risk of motion sickness was low, most would enjoy diving into a virtual world à la the Matrix. Not because people didn’t want it of course. IMAX and AMC are looking to change all that.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

You could usually expect all the “new releases” to have been checked out for weeks after first hitting shelves. But now we are in the time of VR, where anything is possible and whatever you want to create or do can all probably be done in a virtual world. Once your done, just toss the tape on the floor and move along.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 19, 2023

While wearing a custom haptic jacket which sends vibrational feedback through the body, participants enter the Oculus headset to find a virtual world composed of 3D scanned sights and soundscapes of Berlin, China and New York.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 31, 2021

Triad was an instrumental partner in bringing Valve’s tracking technology to production , with the photodiodes used in SteamVR headsets, tracking pucks, and motion controllers produced by Triad’s factory and shipped to off-shore manufacturing partners building XR equipment for brands like HTC, Pimax, Varjo , StarVR, and Valve.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

In a recent report from the New York Times, Meta revealed new AI features for its smart glasses product – that Meta developed using Ray Ban frames – following the firm’s promise of broader virtual assistant tools for the product range at last year’s Connect event.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The Void covers very large regions with Optitrack cameras overhead to find the locations of people, controllers or other objects that are part of the overall story. When we got a look at the refined Rapture hardware from The Void, co-founder James Jensen noted the controller and headset are no longer covered with external tracking markers.

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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. VISUALIZE DATA IN VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2019

Neurable setup: as you can see there is a game that you play with a modified version of the Vive including an EEG (Image by Christie Hemm Klok for The New York Times). There’s no way that people will wear sensors all over the body to simulate in a realistic way all the sensations of a virtual world.

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ARVR

MARCH 9, 2022

A great example of augmented reality is Pokemon Go, where pokemon were hidden like Easter eggs for users to find in the real world. As for Virtual Reality (VR), it’s a complete immersion into a virtual world, shutting off the physical world entirely through special VR devices like HTC Vive, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Rift.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

John Hermann, in a recent article for New York magazine titled The AI Magic Show ( original ; archived version ), wrote: In 2022, artificial-intelligence firms produced an overwhelming spectacle, a rolling carnival of new demonstrations. to a virtual world or social VR platform near you. Stay tuned!

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VRScout

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The New York-based company Littlstar (which is backed by Disney) has released a VR-viewing app made for smart TVs , launching first for Sony’s Brava Android televisions. Available through the Google Play Store, the app allows users to navigate around the 360 degree content with their remote control.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2016

If you’re one of the lucky winners, you get a cash prize, masterclasses with VR filmmaking pros, and travel to the Creators Awards ceremony in New York– because what is a competition without an awards ceremony? In July, the Samsung Creators program is launching a competition in ten categories for VR/360 content creators.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Some news on the metaverse. These are a few interesting articles I have found about the M-word this week: Zero10 and Crosby Studios have partnered to open in New York a physical pop-up store, where internally you can buy only digital clothes. News from partners (and friends). Try Party Pie.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

This year Flock (video above) will expand upon some of the concepts of Holojam with a multi-user untethered virtual world “designed to get people to move, shake, and flock together.” Neurable: Brain-Computer Interfaces for Virtual and Augmented Reality. Control software with your mind. Facing Mike.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 4, 2017

One of them appears in a new video released today, showcasing a “Grand Hall” environment inspired by a New York hotel. I’ve been to other virtual worlds in beta stage before, but Sansar is taking it from another direction. “If It’s about you and what you want to do. That’s empowerment,” says Hyde.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 3, 2017

We are happy to present a chapter from Warcross, an upcoming book from Marie Lu, a New York Times’ bestselling author behind The Young Elites and Legend series. Before becoming a full-time author, Marie Lu spent time as an artist for video games, and this is her first book influenced by both games and virtual reailty.

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ARVR

AUGUST 21, 2020

The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. and control of the OASIS itself.” A #1 New York Times Bestseller which was adapted into major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 30, 2017

With the release of Oculus Touch and Vive Trackers, the number of VR experiences that utilized motion controls went up since the last festival. But even more impressive, were the projects that used physical objects layered with virtual reality to bring greater immersion. You extend your arms out, holding Oculus Touch controllers.

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TechCrunch VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Alice Lloyd George is an early stage investor based in New York and the host of Flux , a series of podcast conversations with leaders in frontier technology. She has shape-shifted across media types, spending time in everything from AOL and chat rooms, to MMOs, virtual worlds and social media platforms. Contributor.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Some teams have begun the process of integrating XR for Recruitment and Retention of new staff for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) training, employee counseling, conflict resolution, traumatic stress exposure strategies, and at the time of intervention, to improve Command and Control of operations (C2).

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

At Glimpse, DJ’s responsibilities include overseeing the production of all the VR and AR content, as well as leading efforts to locate new subsidiary companies. In addition, DJ is the organizer of the New York virtual reality meetup. NYVR is the second-largest virtual meetup in the world, with over 6,000 members.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

At Glimpse, DJ’s responsibilities include overseeing the production of all the VR and AR content, as well as leading efforts to locate new subsidiary companies. In addition, DJ is the organizer of the New York virtual reality meetup. NYVR is the second-largest virtual meetup in the world, with over 6,000 members.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

Touchscreens, accelerometers, and a bevy of easy-to-use external controllers have given performers many options in how to control and shape sound and music. The impossibilities of VR are extremely exciting as anything in virtual space can be controlled by the performer and used to create sound and music.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

So, a lot of people don’t actually know this — I think the international community knows this little bit more — Madison Square Garden, I think, is in the top five or top 10 most-visited, most iconic places in New York City. Being able to store ourselves in the virtual world. I don’t know.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

So, a lot of people don't actually know this -- I think the international community knows this little bit more -- Madison Square Garden, I think, is in the top five or top 10 most-visited, most iconic places in New York City. Being able to store ourselves in the virtual world. And it's just your hands. I don't know.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 31, 2019

So, a lot of people don’t actually know this — I think the international community knows this little bit more — Madison Square Garden, I think, is in the top five or top 10 most-visited, most iconic places in New York City. Being able to store ourselves in the virtual world. I don’t know.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

What would some of the practical use cases of this… I can see one in military training, where you’re in a virtual world, you’re in a hostile environment, and maybe something explodes behind you — a piece of shrapnel hits you — and maybe it vibrates. Alan: So, let’s unpack this for a second, Tony.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

I can see one in military training, where you're in a virtual world, you're in a hostile environment, and maybe something explodes behind you -- a piece of shrapnel hits you -- and maybe it vibrates. So it will be probably a bit better than the Focus, for what concerns the comfort and the controllers -- it is more ergonomic.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

I recently spoke at the retail show in New York, and they're very interested on the ROI in the retail environment. One of the challenges that we keep seeing -- and I'm seeing it right across the board -- is the facilitator controls; being able to control experiences, and know what somebody is in. Alan: Agreed. Definitely.

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