XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

One of the areas where XR is seeing the most significant and rapid adoption, is in the world of education and training. Here, universities, schools, and training companies are embracing the experiential benefits of immersive XR technology to deliver lessons like never before. Meta Oculus and Aptiv. Microsoft HoloLens and GE.

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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!), You are all fantastic! Here you are my flower for you!

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

While companies like Walmart are preparing for the busiest shopping day of the year with Black Friday VR training simulators , i’m sure all you really care about is how to save some major dough this holiday weekend. Microsoft ‘Mixed Reality’ Headset Discounts. Oculus Rift Discount. It’s that time of the year again.

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AR Insider

JULY 19, 2021

Counterpoint’s Global XR (VR & AR) Model Tracker reveals Oculus Quest 2 Cumulative Sales. GIGXR Awarded Phase $750,000 Contract to Develop Extended Reality (XR) Simulation Training for Air Force Academy. The streaming giant is going head to head with Microsoft, Sony, Google and Apple. They estimate Facebook has sold 4.6

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

This is the first day of this sunny season (if you live in my same hemisphere of course), and I hope that you won’t have any Summertime Sadness like Lana Del Rey, but you all will enjoy the sun, have some relax, and forget for a moment all the hard times we are living in. Oculus Quest introduces multi-tasking in Runtime v30.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

These are longstanding and extensive training sets for object recognition that feed right into its AR play. We also like the alignment between AR team-productivity startup Spatial and Microsoft. Besides Scape and previous startup conquests like CTRL Labs, it claims the mother of all XR acquisitions: Oculus. made clear to us.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

There are quite a handful of platforms that allow you to develop virtual reality and augmented reality apps and content, but it is not easy to find an offline virtual reality school or academy with which to train for those interested in developing AR and VR apps. Those wishing to receive a certificate at the end of the course can pay $29.

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VRScout

JUNE 17, 2019

Originally released on SteamVR and Oculus this past April, Vacation Simulator arrives on PlayStation VR tomorrow ( June 18th ). Launched originally on Microsoft Windows back in 2017, Luna arrives on PlayStation VR tomorrow ( June 18th ) in North America followed by European release June 19th. MINI MECH MAYHEM from Futurlab.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. I’m a man, so of course, I don’t cry, but “a friend of mine” had his eyes become very wet while watching it. Oculus Quest is sold out, and Coronavirus may make the situation even worse. No availability.”

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

Oculus has gained in these years always more success in the consumers’ landscape, and now with the Oculus Quest , thanks to an affordable device running great content , it is making strides in the market. Today, finally, Facebook has changed all of this and i s making Oculus For Business available to all interested companies.

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2020

N ew technologies often follow a common course, starting with initial hype followed by a longer phase of sideways movement, then finally a breakthrough. Companies can no longer fulfill service contracts, in-person training can no longer take place, on-site sales demos and events are canceled. by Dirk Schart. The Rise of Remote.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft Teams to integrate Mesh in 2022. With a surprise move, Microsoft has announced that in 2022 it will integrate Microsoft Mesh, its framework to create shared XR experiences, inside Microsoft Teams. And if they have these features from Microsoft, they won’t need to get them from Meta.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 8, 2022

Not only do these tools support fantastic training opportunities, and exceptional customer service strategies, but they’re ideal for collaboration too. Of course, before you can begin to discover the benefits of XR for collaboration, you’ll first need to choose a vendor capable of helping you navigate the environment.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

for training), and also for full-body tracking by all people performing in VRChat. In September, the new Facebook Avatars will come and substitute the current Oculus avatars. This has of course nothing to do with gathering data from the biggest number possible of people. Read about Microsoft’s Ignite conference.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 7, 2019

If you have a recent phone, you can select the lipstick that you wish and see the image from your front camera updated automatically so that to let you preview how you look with that lipstick on (of course, I looked fantabulous!). Microsoft is shipping Azure Kinect. Microsoft is finally shipping its Azure Kinect devkits.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Of course if you’d like to include various other 3rd party models you can import objects from popular 3D model sites such as Sketchfab or Turbosquid. Customers across industries see the potential of VR and AR technologies for a wide range of uses—from educating and training employees to creating new customer experiences.

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InstaVR

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

But business impact has been substantial too — from Microsoft and Apple lowering financial projections to major conferences like Mobile World Congress and Facebook’s F8 being cancelled. . Companies like Apple and Microsoft are also having to look outside China for supply chain options now. Of course not. .

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

We’ve seen various flavors over the years such as Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D , and of course Google Earth and Street View. As we examined recently, Here Technologies has also jumped on the 3D mapping train with a developer platform for building immersive 3D maps. 3D mapping is a technology that’s perpetually on the horizon.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. For instance, since I work on a VR fitness game , I’m thinking about all the new training experiences that will become now possible. New info on Microsoft abandoning the Hololens 3. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! XR is going to conquer the consumer market.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I have to say that this “leak” comes in a very timely fashion , by chance exactly at the moment when Facebook was building the hype for Oculus Quest 2 Pro , convincing so some people to wait for Valve’s moves before buying the new Oculus headset. Microsoft is going to release a database of synthetic faces.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

A Fortnite data miner has found references to Oculus stuff in the latest update of Fortnite , Update 21.50. The guy, which goes under the nickname of HYPEX, is known to be a reliable leaker for Fortnite, so it is quite sure that there are now references to Oculus in the Fortnite code. There are hints about Fortnite coming to Quest.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The history of the Internet has already taught us some lessons: in the course of its development, lots and lots of different “-nets” were bunched together to form the Big Net. Metaverses are in line with the tech trend Oculus Quest reported sales growth, which indicates higher accessibility of VR equipment for the general audience.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We can say the new cycle started with the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro , because that has been a disruptive moment for our market: Road To VR’s Ben Lang says that it has been the most important moment for virtual reality after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus , and I agree. Of course not.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. Johnson also claims that ML2 will have the biggest FOV in the AR market (with the exception of RealMax, of course), with double of the field of view area of Magic Leap 1.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The shape of the controllers is slightly different than the one of the Oculus Touch, though, and there is a ring that surrounds the wrist of the user. There is also “finger-tracking” a la Valve Index , but just for the thumb, index, and middle finger (so, it is more a la Oculus Touch). Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2023

Of course, for mainstream adoption, we need much more than that. The cost is €399 + VAT , which is not cheap, but we have to remember that is an enterprise device, so its cost is higher than consumer devices like the Oculus Go. 6 M is a market that is not huge, but it is big enough for small-medium studios to survive in.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

With a résumé that ranges from the Air Force to Salesforce, his career is a veritable cross-training routine that’s primed him for his role in AR at Ostendo … not to mention podcast host. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments.” Then there’s Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

Of course, this is an acquisition to work on a long-term vision, not short-term releases. It can train a model 6–7x faster than the previous data center GPU. Microsoft and Nreal have developed a very interesting research project to help blind children in speaking with people around them. Kudos to the Asian company for this.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 1, 2019

During Oculus Connect 6 in San Jose, CA, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled that the Oculus Quest would allow for hand and finger tracking without the need of any hand controllers, and of course, I couldn’t wait to try it. Of course, the first thing I did was poke the floating eyeball. Image Credit: VRScout.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

(Image by Oculus). Oculus could be starting the production of a new Quest at the end of July. Multiple reports seem to confirm that Oculus is actually starting the production of a new Oculus Quest headset, with an expected release date in 2021. of units more produced annually. Other relevant news. Image by Pico).

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

Furthermore, my involvement is primarily confined to one particular social VR platform, AltspaceVR, owned by Microsoft, making most of my experience the product of a niche within a niche within a niche. There are other versions of VR History of course. If you can’t be in a flight simulator, the next best thing would be video.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. ”H-A-P-T-X, the ones that have air– Dean: I’ve trained theirs, but I haven’t tried that particular demo. And that was with controllers.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys — Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. ”H-A-P-T-X, the ones that have air– Dean: I’ve trained theirs, but I haven’t tried that particular demo. And that was with controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2019

As I’ve said while reviewing the Huawei VR glasses , after having tried this light and trendy design, I’m less interested in a shoebox like Oculus Go. I think that walking on this kind of devices needs a training phase because the sensation is always the one of walking on a slippery floor. Shadow Creator Action 1 Pro.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

I remember seeing the Oculus guys -- Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell and Brendan (Iribe) over at one of their CES tables in the early years, well before they were acquired. Dean: I've trained theirs, but I haven't tried that particular demo. And even the Oculus Quest is at $400, and they seem to be the $200 Oculus Go.

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