Bernard Marr

AUGUST 8, 2022

Huge companies like Facebook and Microsoft are throwing vast sums of money at their attempts to build, and therefore define, the metaverse. Basically, if the metaverse is the new internet, then everyone wants to be the new Google - holding the keys to the huge amounts of money to be made from selling advertising there.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All these data together make me a bit skeptical about the capabilities of this company: developing such kind of a high-quality headset requires a lot of expertise, while the company is very small and features no known expert in the field. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Gaming On-Demand Google's Stadia streaming gaming service may not exist in 2023 - it proved to be a great idea, backed by solid technology, that just didn't catch on with consumers. However, other cloud services continued to grow, including Nvidia's GeForce Now and Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes. Accompanying this will be persistent, stateful geographic Assets and Data, some static, others interactive with behaviors of their own.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

After that, I headed for China to pursue my dream and headed marketing and strategy for the release of the Microsoft A.I. PanguVR trained rigorously using hundreds of Terabytes of data from real designers and architects and using various A.I. product Cortana in China. What does PanguVR do? algorithms to improve over time. What is it?

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

Bloomberg has reported that Sony’s new PlayStation VR2 Headset is projected to sell 270,000 units as of the end of March, based on data from IDC. Earlier this year , I wrote about how Microsoft and other companies have pulled back on their VR and AR plans. In mid March , Google announced the end of Google Glass Enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

So, the company has created this androgenic girl called Mica , which should be as close as possible to a real human, featuring a great visual quality (thanks to Unreal Engine) and credible eye movements and facial microexpressions. This is for instance something that Microsoft lacks completely. Avatar Chat.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

If we look at the data of the three independent reports, we get a clear coherent picture. Google’s investment for a 7.7% Google-Jio joint venture to develop an Android-based platform for an affordable 5G phone. Not a great evolution from Microsoft. India’s first 5G network; 2. stake in Jio Platforms; 3.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. Furthermore, AR can aid technicians in troubleshooting and performing maintenance tasks by overlaying step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and relevant data onto physical equipment. This ensures consistency and accuracy in the manufacturing process.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

This means that while you have the Quest on, your microphone data will be always listened by the device, and you can imagine my profound happiness in knowing this. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And are also good for data harvesting cough cough cough. This move resembles the one that Google had with TiltBrush: instead of killing the program, it is returning it back to the community, and this is for sure a good decision. Eye-tracking could also be used for foveated rendering, letting the Quest 2 Pro having a sharper display.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Because most VR developers know well Unity or Unreal, and WebVR languages like A-frame are based on Javascript, that is very different from the usual programming flow of the game engines. Microsoft has released the news that it is increasing the availability of HoloLens 2 and that tens of thousands of units have been shipped to date.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? There’s one, you need to get data in somehow, right? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. First of all, we’re getting data in.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? There’s one, you need to get data in somehow, right? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. First of all, we’re getting data in.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

In this first post we will be describing what OpenVR is, what it may be useful for and finally, we will go through a little OpenVR application to demo some of the core functionality of the API in what respects to interacting with a VR system (get connected devices, get tracking data, etc). You may be saying “Come on!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Learnings Of Early Access From ‘Raw Data’ When?: Survios came out swinging with the pre-release version of Raw Data and ended up with big success , so they’re definitely a team you should listen to if you’re considering this route for your VR game. Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

So you don't know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. Alan: So how do you then get people to learn how to do Unreal and Unity without teaching them? There's one, you need to get data in somehow, right? So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity. First of all, we're getting data in. Affordable.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Manus VR is a company developing virtual reality gloves – so instead of using controllers as data input, we use what comes naturally: our hands. Using the Unreal Engine 4, NASA has created an extremely detailed and realistic VR model of the interior of the ISS, and astronauts use the Manus gloves in the model for training simulations.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Broadly, the important tiers are: Infrastructure : The data the connects your glass Hardware : Does the glass work? We’re looking at you, Google Glass. Besides the announced partnership with Google, this provides for easy developer support and backward compatibility for 2D apps to be ‘pinned’ to your peripheral vision.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

So things like Uber or Google Maps and directions were native to the phone, that were kind of useless on the PC. So that was a problem that, in the past, could only be solved with expensive depth cameras or Google Street View-style cars, or take a thousand photos and wait a day for it all to be processed.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

So things like Uber or Google Maps and directions were native to the phone, that were kind of useless on the PC. So that was a problem that, in the past, could only be solved with expensive depth cameras or Google Street View-style cars, or take a thousand photos and wait a day for it all to be processed.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

So things like Uber or Google Maps and directions were native to the phone, that were kind of useless on the PC. So that was a problem that, in the past, could only be solved with expensive depth cameras or Google Street View-style cars, or take a thousand photos and wait a day for it all to be processed.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 2, 2019

On the web, if you create a website, you can go to Google and you get a tag, and you can put ads and you can make a living out of it. So, I mean, our solution is compatible with all of them, because it’s based on Unity and Unreal and basically on the game engine. But that’s actually not what happens right now in VR and AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 2, 2019

On the web, if you create a website, you can go to Google and you get a tag, and you can put ads and you can make a living out of it. So, I mean, our solution is compatible with all of them, because it’s based on Unity and Unreal and basically on the game engine. But that’s actually not what happens right now in VR and AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

So going back to 3D and computer graphics, the thing is to be able to do this, we have to handle a lot of 3D data. Of course, moving 3D data between different applications has always been hard. Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. Because you've seen it before and it actually fills in the data.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

So going back to 3D and computer graphics, the thing is to be able to do this, we have to handle a lot of 3D data. Of course, moving 3D data between different applications has always been hard. Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. Because you've seen it before and it actually fills in the data.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But then you look at Unreal. Tools like that, like Chalk, and I think Microsoft has their version of it as well on Hololens and other things. Alan: And you have the ability to transfer data instantly. Epic sued Apple and Google this year over the duopoly of the app stores. just, Google it. You look at Epic.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But then you look at Unreal. Tools like that, like Chalk, and I think Microsoft has their version of it as well on Hololens and other things. Alan: And you have the ability to transfer data instantly. Epic sued Apple and Google this year over the duopoly of the app stores. just, Google it. You look at Epic.

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Machine Learning Education Apple Technology 78

XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

So going back to 3D and computer graphics, the thing is to be able to do this, we have to handle a lot of 3D data. Of course, moving 3D data between different applications has always been hard. Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. Because you've seen it before and it actually fills in the data.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But then you look at Unreal. Tools like that, like Chalk, and I think Microsoft has their version of it as well on Hololens and other things. Alan: And you have the ability to transfer data instantly. Epic sued Apple and Google this year over the duopoly of the app stores. just, Google it. You look at Epic.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

Outside VR, the big news to keep an eye on is the dispute between Epic Games and Apple (and Google), which could lead to a complete change in how app stores are managed, even in VR. After having read this post, I think that people at Unity and Unreal Engine should do something to fix this issue. Watch Microsoft Office in XR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2024

Big vendor news this week, Admist start-ups and fresh ideas; this week, big names like Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Apple took the headlines due to each firm’s optimisation of its XR product portfolio. Surgeons can train repeatedly with customized modules to improve their efficacy, skills, and data retention.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And now, the data coming back is way better than anybody could have ever imagined. I think just something so simple as a 360 video — which is very easy to capture now, the cameras are under $5,000, and that’s for 8k cameras — and then being able to overlay the data that you need. We’re not tied to Microsoft.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And now, the data coming back is way better than anybody could have ever imagined. I think just something so simple as a 360 video — which is very easy to capture now, the cameras are under $5,000, and that’s for 8k cameras — and then being able to overlay the data that you need. We’re not tied to Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Google unveils Starline communication solution. At Google I/O, Google has announced Project Starline, an interesting project it has worked on for five years. I find Starlight an AMAZING project on the research side , and I think that all these technologies Google has developed for it may be re-used in other XR projects.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And now, the data coming back is way better than anybody could have ever imagined. I think just something so simple as a 360 video -- which is very easy to capture now, the cameras are under $5,000, and that's for 8k cameras -- and then being able to overlay the data that you need. We're not tied to Microsoft. I jumped back.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. Turning Data into Information Trends A stream of XYZ hand coordinates is useful. Smart software can turn data into higher-level information. Analyzing real-time data gets us closer to understanding emotion and intent.

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