XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

RT3D engines such as Adobe Substance, Unity, and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools. Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) technology is an essential emerging tool which dramatically decreases production pipelines by enabling quick digital twin creation. Google: RawNeRF. NVIDIA Instant NeRF.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Extended reality and Metaverse firms lack standardised metrics for measuring human behaviour in virtual environments based on current legacy data analytics, a new report on Monday has found. What’s the Deal on Data? Data and metrics on attention were scalable with current headset and handset technologies, the report noted.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

It includes some of its data and takeaways. Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer data if applicable. This approach has attracted Sony Pictures, Miller Lite, and Porsche as clients for AR campaigns. This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, AR Advertising Deep Dive, Part I: The Landscape.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 8, 2024

As companies continue to discover new methods for producing lightweight, wearable devices, the number of immersive tools in this landscape is growing. Goertek is even working with Sony on the development of new PlayStation headsets. Additionally, these tools come with stereo speakers and microphones for conveying audio data.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The GDC Expo showcases the latest game development tools and services from leading technology companies such as Amazon, Epic, Google, Intel, Nvidia, Oculus, and Sony. For deeper XR data and intelligence, join ARtillery PRO and subscribe to the free AR Insider Weekly newsletter. .

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Instead, cloud service providers make it available "as-a-service," running on their own servers and data centers. On top of this, the growing pile of legislation around how businesses can store and use personal data means that the risk of fines or (even worse) losing the trust of their customers is a real problem.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

The ring should have a double purpose: on one end, it should act as a health sensor, able to track heart data like a smartwatch; on the other end, it should act as a controller to be used in conjunction with XR glasses. The purpose of the group is of course the one of fighting the duopoly of Apple Maps/Google Maps.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2020

Google acquires North. It is official: after we all heard the rumor that Google was acquiring North for $180M, the Big G has confirmed the acquisition, not disclosing the actual amount of the deal. Let’s see if Google will use this acquisition to revive its original vision of the Google Glasses. News worth a mention.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

As companies continue to discover new methods for producing lightweight, wearable devices, the number of immersive tools in this landscape is growing. Today, the market for smart glasses is growing at a CAGR of 10.3%, expected to reach a value of around $12.76 billion by 2030.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 5, 2023

AI will require “open and transparent innovation” to “empower a broad spectrum of AI researchers, builders, and adopters” with critical information and tools, the organisation explained. Its CloudXR and Omniverse platforms are empowering companies with tools designed to build the industrial metaverse.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

HTC is set to reveal its new VIVE Mars CamTrack solution at the SIGGRAPH 2022 in Vancouver, Canada, where it will showcase the immersive production tool with Departure Lounge and Arcturus, it was revealed on Tuesday. One-click origin reset and simple calibration tools for cameras. Multi-cam tracking for up to three cameras.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

A lot of data that will be very useful to Facebook to create its Live Maps functionality. Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. SideQuest is the tool used by thousands of people every month to sideload unapproved applications on their Oculus Quests. Sony closes its game studio in Manchester.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

Facebook will analyze and store how the users will react to the different ads, and will also merge the data about what apps the user uses in VR with his/her behavior on the Facebook social media to propose more relevant ads. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Users may decide to hide an ad or explore it. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Augmented Reality is being a great tool for e-commerce: AR tools have increased the user’s likelihood of purchase by 11 times; Build.com found that the return rate after selecting items in AR has decreased by 22%. More info (Use Google Translate). Google Chrome now supports WebAR. Are we at an inflection point for VR?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. From the above data and the pictures, it is clear it is a headset very similar to the Oculus Quest 2. Google is hiring waveguide developers for AR. billion valuation.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Image by Sony). Sony officially states it is going to launch the PSVR 2. PlayStation VR has been the most successful headset until now (if we exclude the crappy mobile viewers), but now it is pretty dated and people were wondering what Sony was going to do. Some people started to think that Sony could have abandoned VR.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony Interactive Entertainment has l et many famous journalists and influencers (like Mike Virtual Reality Oasis) try the new headset in dedicated sessions where they could play four upcoming games: Horizon Call of the Mountain, Resident Evil Village, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

As companies continue to discover new methods for producing lightweight, wearable devices, the number of immersive tools in this landscape is growing. Today, the market for smart glasses is growing at a CAGR of 10.3%, expected to reach a value of around $12.76 billion by 2030.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

As companies continue to discover new methods for producing lightweight, wearable devices, the number of immersive tools in this landscape is growing. Goertek is even working with Sony on the development of new PlayStation headsets. Additionally, these tools come with stereo speakers and microphones for conveying audio data.

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AR Insider

JULY 7, 2020

It includes some of its data and takeaways. Some are AR-native players building tools and technologies to advance the state of the art ( AR enablers ). This has attracted Sony Pictures, Miller Lite, and Porsche as clients. More can be previewed here and subscribe for the full report.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. The Sony game was nominated for four DICE Awards this year, but failed to take home any of them. Make Real uses VR technology for tools and entertainment.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In the meanwhile, John Carmack has said that we must be excited about the new Infinite Office because Facebook really wants to make Oculus Browser a productivity tool. It so seems that Sony told him about PSVR 2, but now, after Jim Ryan told him that probably PSVR won’t come to light in 2021, these plans have probably changed.

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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. Sony will give PS4 camera adapters for PS5 for free.

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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. Additionally, engineers train Deep Learning algorithms to accurately detect markers in live video data. The tool can hear a dialog partner, then translate the speech to one of the available languages.

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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. Let’s look back: Early trials: Virgin Atlantic ’s 2014 trial at London Heathrow Airport – in collaboration with SITA – included both Google Glass and the Sony SmartWatch 2.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

A word of caution: this is the analysis group that was sorely mistaken on their 2016 sales predictions (thanks for that, you so-called “Super” Data). The company has a free AR smartphone app that reacts to ‘zapcodes’, along with their flagship content creation tool ZapWorks. PSVR’S SALES NUMBERS REVEALED AS A PLEASANT SURPRISE TO SONY.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

A new set of tools for developers to build all of this. Either way, what this means is a computer somewhere else in the world can change the data on the cube, or show users what my street looks like. So developers can leave data literally on any surface or, even, the air around you. New 3D experiences for inside cars.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

If you make some calculations using these data, the result is that Meta has probably sold 9–10M Quest 2 units until now. So creating new devices that young kids may like (the Quest 2) and that have an independent store (Quest Store) and where Meta can perform all the data tracking that it wants, seems the ideal scenario.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

PlayStation VR 2 Logo (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Of course, the object must be in the FOV of the cameras of the headset to be tracked, even if HTC says that the tracking can somewhat continue also when this condition is not true (i guess using just IMU data). Click to read the thread on Twitter… it is worth it.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Image by Sony). Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. So, PSVR2 probably won’t launch before 2022 : Sony can afford that also because it has no competition in the console VR space , so there is no need to rush.

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Road to VR

APRIL 24, 2017

Google today announced what the company is calling the “next-generation” of its ‘ Jump ‘ 3D 360 camera initiative. Update (4/24/17, 11:34AM PT): Google reached out to correct the price of the Yi Halo camera to $17,000, having initially stated the camera’s price as $18,000.

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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

JANUARY 20, 2021

And in fact, some weeks ago Sony has made everyone understand that it has delayed the launch of the PSVR 2 because the market is not there yet. And a big company like Google could also afford to sell it at the same price as the Quest 2, hoping for a future domination of the VR ecosystem. PlayStation believes in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. Intel Vaunt was canceled for risks involving data privacy. The team was composed of more than 300 people. Microsoft Maquette gets discontinued.

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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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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

We captured the transition from a couple companies shipping development tools to hobbyists into a fast-moving industry driven by some of the world’s largest tech companies, each of which is selling increasingly sophisticated systems directly to consumers. Google transitions Clay Bavor into a position as head of VR. November 2015.

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