XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and many others started to reestablish the Metaverse and XR as serious business tools following a lacklustre adoption rate from consumer markets. Despite the 2022 Metaverse boom that swept imagination and scepticism equally, 2023 was tough during H1 for the immersive industry. This is not a new scenario.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We’re already seeing key metaverse players coming together in the collaboration between Meta and Microsoft. To continue providing users with seamless software experiences and improved productivity and collaboration capabilities, Microsoft and Meta have teamed up to bring Mesh for Teams to Meta Quest headsets.

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XROM

MAY 5, 2024

Augmented Reality, with its ability to overlay digital information onto the real world, started gaining prominence in the early 2000s with the advent of smartphones and wearable devices. The realm of XR applications raises concerns about data privacy, security vulnerabilities, and the potential misuse of personal information.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 13, 2018

When I tried Microsoft Remote Assist with the HoloLens back in May at Microsoft Build I was able to “repair” a complex electrical panel in a matter of minutes. Of course it was a staged demo scenario, but the principle stands. This allows workers to access, capture and send digital information about the activity in real time.

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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. Read up on Goertek news here. → Latest Goertek News NReal Focusing on the augmented reality landscape, NReal produces lightweight, wearable devices for consumers and businesses alike.

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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 Magic Leap also recently achieved an IEC 60601 certification for its headset.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

Air New Zealand is one airlines provider that is testing how the Microsoft Hololens can help improve in-flight customer service. Although this project is only in the testing phase right now, it’s interesting to note that the software company that Air New Zealand is partnering with is Dimension Data. Apparently the $1.4B

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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2019

Behind the scenes, however, there are six years of accumulated data-rich information that, from Lyft’s perspective, could used to transform the current rideshare experience. You could also use your own smartphone or any type of wearable AR device to find them yourself. Calling a Lyft driver is a pretty simple task.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Though mixed reality is evolving at a slightly slower rate than augmented and virtual reality, market leaders like Microsoft are beginning to introduce the world to what the future of MR could really look like. Microsoft is perhaps one of the companies most effective at defining MR today. million – a CAGR of 41.8%. MR Definition.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

With all the phone and watch and TV and game and chip and other chip news coming out of Apple’s big event, it was easy to forget the company’s longest-running background process: an augmented-reality wearable. Inside that set of tools lurked data files for what appeared to be two different headsets, codenamed Franc and Luck.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments.” For example, struggles that counterbalance 2019’s progress include Microsoft’s challenge in scaling up Hololens II production. Then there’s Magic Leap. Could it run low on cash?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

These are all great news for the ecosystem, but someone in the communities pointed out that we should beware of companies claiming vague data about sales without absolute numbers (for instance, it may also be that previous headsets sold worse than we thought). Microsoft signs a $22B deal with the US Army. Well played, Microsoft.

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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). Magic Leap will meet its fate. Duck Face, Magic Leap One, and me.

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. Next year, the new Quest will help in getting there, but it will be Apple that will really disrupt the market, because it will come up with cool wearable glasses. “He has one million cars collecting data of the world.

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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 for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Alan: So give us an example of why that would be important, where you need to be contextually aware and why you would need 3D data. Alan: Interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Alan: So give us an example of why that would be important, where you need to be contextually aware and why you would need 3D data. Alan: Interesting.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by Magic Leap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. Accompanying this will be persistent, stateful geographic Assets and Data, some static, others interactive with behaviors of their own.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2023

This offering could be the key to helping the tech giant preserve its market share, as innovators like Apple , Microsoft, and Magic Leap all increase their focus in the business world. You can integrate third-party MDM solutions such as Ivanti, Microsoft Intune, and VMWare Workspace One. What is Meta Quest for Business?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Sensors use IoT technology and can be built into everything from standalone systems to wearable headsets and smartphones. Data decoding: Spatial computing solutions need to understand our actions and decode the instructions we give through gestures, speech, and more. However, there are many different use cases for spatial computing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 29, 2019

It wasn’t quite like the demand Magic Leap or HoloLens, where the holograms were in a positional space; it was more this heads-up display to give you almost, like, superpowers. And I think you’re right; Microsoft are listening, and they’ve got lots of requirements coming in. Vuzix and Magic Leap.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 29, 2019

It wasn’t quite like the demand Magic Leap or HoloLens, where the holograms were in a positional space; it was more this heads-up display to give you almost, like, superpowers. And I think you’re right; Microsoft are listening, and they’ve got lots of requirements coming in. Vuzix and Magic Leap.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Steve Mann is commonly referred to as the “father of wearable computing” for innovations like the EyeTap, which combined computer processing with graphical design and textual overlays. But building a wearable general-purpose computer with wireless digital-communications capabilities was itself a feat.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Microsoft Capture Studio is offering such services scanning celebrities and performers for entertainment and education purposes. Check out the example below of Mica , Magic Leap’s intelligent agent. The Evolution of Consumer Data. Virtual humans are getting more and more real. The Evolution of Brand Activations.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

However, some of the underlying technologies, principles and potential paint for a very interesting picture on how a country with over a billion people could have access to consumer grade wearable computing. Broadly, the important tiers are: Infrastructure : The data the connects your glass Hardware : Does the glass work?

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 13, 2022

Remember Magic Leap? This week, I spent an hour or so playing around with the unreleased next-generation Magic Leap headset, all while discussing the augmented reality company’s wild ride with Magic Leap CEO Peggy Johnson and other members of their executive team. So, let’s talk about it.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Will this Convergence lead us into the futuristic dystopia of our nightmares — the one where we are jacked into a simulated reality, a siloed and centralized network where we are constantly under surveillance by dark forces operating in the shadows, all the while being mined for our data like a natural resource?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

GB: Magic Leap is a big presence in the AR discussion. Outside of the sort of people in this room and in the games press, I don’t think most people know what Magic Leap is. When you talk about investment, certainly Magic Leap has garnered the most, but ODG just closed a big round. Image Credit: Microsoft.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

Sort of a three-dimensional mesh of everything, or as Charlie Fink likes to say, “painting the world with data.” ” The data associated with the identity of that part: is it accurate? We want to rely on those data sets. For example, that engine. And it also allows them to be shareable. Alan: Very interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

Sort of a three-dimensional mesh of everything, or as Charlie Fink likes to say, “painting the world with data.” ” The data associated with the identity of that part: is it accurate? We want to rely on those data sets. For example, that engine. And it also allows them to be shareable. Alan: Very interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

Sort of a three-dimensional mesh of everything, or as Charlie Fink likes to say, "painting the world with data." The data associated with the identity of that part: is it accurate? Now you've got verifiable data, and this becomes very critical when we start to look at industrial environments or high-transactional environments.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So Metastage uses Microsoft’s volumetric Hcap, holographic capture. If we go back from the 80s — that I remember — we had the personal computers, PCs.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So Metastage uses Microsoft's volumetric Hcap, holographic capture. And what we've discovered is that every 10 years there are technology cycles. Michael: Yeah. Intel has it.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

2010, we had wearable technologies like the Fitbits, the Apple Watch, so forth and so on. These are like the Microsoft Hololens, Magic Leaps. So Metastage uses Microsoft’s volumetric Hcap, holographic capture. If we go back from the 80s — that I remember — we had the personal computers, PCs.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Mr. Mike Powell, he is the head of the Microsoft Garage and the author of “Age of Smart Information,” a new book about how artificial intelligence and spatial computing will transform the way we communicate forever. Certainly if you look at the Microsoft Dynamics line of mixed reality products that we brought out.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Mr. Mike Powell, he is the head of the Microsoft Garage and the author of “Age of Smart Information,” a new book about how artificial intelligence and spatial computing will transform the way we communicate forever. Certainly if you look at the Microsoft Dynamics line of mixed reality products that we brought out.

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