Road to VR

AUGUST 28, 2017

Microsoft debuted the lengthily-named “Windows Mixed Reality motion controllers” back in May, but until now we haven’t had a chance to actually try them out. During a recent meeting with Microsoft in San Francisco, I got to try the VR controllers for the first time paired with the Acer Windows VR headset.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

It was well over a year ago that the promise of Xbox streaming to the Oculus Rift was first promised by Phil Spencer during a June 2015 press event in San Francisco. ” According to the blog, the data will be shared between the two systems via your home’s wifi network. .” It will be free of charge.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 20, 2019

It makes its own hardware so its customers can “dive through” massive amounts of data much easier than trying to see the same data in older tools like Microsoft Excel, or charts. The kind of data businesses are generating now just requires new approaches. Think about dwell times in retail stores.

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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. Lyft is a San Francisco, CA based company offering ridesharing services in the United States and Canada. Calling a Lyft driver is a pretty simple task.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 27, 2019

Through a partnership with Microsoft the foundation is offering a share of a $750,00 pool of cash and the option of technical support from Microsoft, including mentoring in mixed-reality technologies and access to the company’s suite of mixed reality technologies. “Our Project lead: Nicole Keating | Miami | @ArshtCenter.

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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.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. One wearer said she was assaulted outside a San Francisco bar in 2014 for wearing the glasses. Microsoft announced its augmented reality headset, Hololens, in 2015, and released the first version in 2016.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 5, 2017

I interviewed both John Riccitiello, CEO of San Francisco-based Unity, and Tim Sweeney, CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based based Epic Games, this week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Sadly, we don’t know which company is really in the stronger position because their data comparisons are apples and oranges.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

When I interviewed Facebook’s Sean Liu , he told me that 2019 was an inflection point for VR, and the data around us seems to confirm this statement. This expertise is also paid very well , with high salaries in cities like London or San Francisco. Image by Microsoft). Are we at an inflection point for VR?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2023

Empirical data from Vuzix’s collaborations and ventures has led to a series of reports evidencing respective use cases for its technologies. With our smart glasses, they can get an expert from New York City, San Francisco, or [Baltimore-based] Johns Hopkins to join the theatre experience.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

So I was a little confused upon entering the second door to find a brightly lit, carpeted, and perfectly kept living room that looked like something out of a swanky San Francisco apartment. Up to this point I hadn’t even been told what I was about to see.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 19, 2023

The new system will combine BMW’s sensor data with Meta’s tracking systems and technologies to create a “car-locked” immersive entertainment console. These include driver assistance techniques like locating vehicles in car parks, alerting drivers to hazards, and displaying critical vehicle data.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

You know well that I’ve been at SXSW , but, shame on me, I haven’t stayed a few days more to attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. It can train a model 6–7x faster than the previous data center GPU. GDC 2022 featured many VR companies, but few announcements. Other news. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

(Image by Microsoft). According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. HoloLens 2 could be put on sale on September. In any case, we will see.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It eats up parts of several days of my time, contacting everyone, collecting the stats, analyzing them and writing them up, then fixing any errors and updating data from grids that only respond to my emails after the report has already been published. Incomplete data, inaccurate data, and assorted weirdnesses of various kinds.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

I attended the Experiential Technology Conference (XTech) in San Francisco this week to hear talks about creating virtual experiences that truly immerse you in another world. Gazzaley’s brainwave sensors would capture data on the part of the brain that was stimulated. He said the brain doesn’t see the raw data of reality.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2019

– – — – – GDC 2019 is being held next week from March 18th to 22nd in San Francisco, CA. Oculus is already confirmed as attending the event but hasn’t said anything about the potential of a new headset being revealed. We’ve reached out to Oculus for comment.

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VRScout

JUNE 3, 2018

The city has always shown a strength in creating enterprise, architecture, and data visualization solutions. Finger Food Studios, an XR organization whose clients and partners include Microsoft, Hootsuite, and Cirque du Soleil, was integral in securing $1.4 billion in government funding to boost Vancouver’s digital technology.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In April, we opened the doors to the first Upload Collective in San Francisco, a hub for VR and AR startups, development, co-working, education, meetups and even live broadcasting. With over 40 member companies in San Francisco, The Upload Collective has quickly grown both in size and in scope. March 2016. November 2016.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2016

To get some insight into those numbers, I moderated a panel on investing in virtual reality and augmented reality at Greenlight Insights’ recent Virtual Reality Strategy conference in San Francisco. Toby Zhang: I’m a partner with Youku Global Media Fund and CRCM in San Francisco. It focuses on media, AR/VR, and A.I.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

If they’ve not yet using their layered waveguides to achieve a light-field display it is because their client use-case has never required it — they have thus far specialized in contextual navigational data, rather than entertainment. As Executive Creative Director he helped launch Tokyo based smartglasses startup Telepathy.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Over time we think AR and VR converge into a world that the Microsoft folks call “mixed reality.” We’re not biased towards San Francisco and we’re one of the rare firms that invest in fly-over states. As we saw with the AR data points, it took a long time before we got through the woods to this renaissance.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Filling up the halls of San Francisco’s Moscone Center, GDC has been a big event for the VR industry over the past few years, but it is seeing something of an explosion this year, which runs from February 27th – March 3rd. Learnings Of Early Access From ‘Raw Data’ When?: Room 135, North Hall.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. They are a passionate team of 3D designers, VR and AR experts based in New York and San Francisco. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. They are a passionate team of 3D designers, VR and AR experts based in New York and San Francisco. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. And I actually had the opportunity to DJ at the Microsoft Build conference in — I want to say 2015 or 2016 — in the Wave, which was incredible. And that’s going to help the experts more accurately analyze data, what the problem is.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. And I actually had the opportunity to DJ at the Microsoft Build conference in — I want to say 2015 or 2016 — in the Wave, which was incredible. And that’s going to help the experts more accurately analyze data, what the problem is.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. They are a passionate team of 3D designers, VR and AR experts based in New York and San Francisco. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 26, 2017

Then consider their platforms, made by Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. Then look at the names of the best sellers: Job Simulator , Tilt Brush , Google Earth, Raw Data , Land’s End , Onward , etc. Chris Orris directs Oxygen Public Relations’ San Francisco office. Notice anything about them? Tagged with: recession.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. And I actually had the opportunity to DJ at the Microsoft Build conference in — I want to say 2015 or 2016 — in the Wave, which was incredible. And that’s going to help the experts more accurately analyze data, what the problem is.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Alice: I think one of the recent examples — and you were talking about it when you were saying about doing your news roundup — in the last week was really that Microsoft demo at Inspire. They had a beautiful central hub in San Francisco and LA and they were the hub of virtual reality. That really did blow my mind.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Alice: I think one of the recent examples — and you were talking about it when you were saying about doing your news roundup — in the last week was really that Microsoft demo at Inspire. They had a beautiful central hub in San Francisco and LA and they were the hub of virtual reality. That really did blow my mind.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

Why would a company need some sort of augmented reality, where it’s capturing the world’s data? But most people don’t realize that it’s the camera that’s capturing as much or more data around the world to create this conceptualized data. But, how do you secure that data? Terry: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

Why would a company need some sort of augmented reality, where it’s capturing the world’s data? But most people don’t realize that it’s the camera that’s capturing as much or more data around the world to create this conceptualized data. But, how do you secure that data? Terry: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Alice: I think one of the recent examples -- and you were talking about it when you were saying about doing your news roundup -- in the last week was really that Microsoft demo at Inspire. They had a beautiful central hub in San Francisco and LA and they were the hub of virtual reality. That really did blow my mind.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 2, 2019

Now we have also an office in San Francisco. Because one of the things that stood out to me at the Microsoft Hololens presentation at WMC this year, Mobile World Congress, one of the things that stood out to me was the fact that they mentioned that every company is now a technology company. Sam: Yeah, yeah, for sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 2, 2019

Now we have also an office in San Francisco. Because one of the things that stood out to me at the Microsoft Hololens presentation at WMC this year, Mobile World Congress, one of the things that stood out to me was the fact that they mentioned that every company is now a technology company. Sam: Yeah, yeah, for sure.

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