Cats and VR

JULY 15, 2016

A team of developers with a Hololens dev kit were able to create a demo showcasing Pokemon GO as a Hololens App. A more challenging thing is how to access the Google Maps API and enabling it within a running app. Looks like Pokemon GO is really going to push acceptance of AR. Cats And VR .

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VRScout

OCTOBER 18, 2020

GIGXR launches AR tool designed for medical training. HoloPatient Remote is an extension of HoloPatient , a tool used in traditional classroom settings that allows students to examine a realistic AR patient with their instructor via a Microsoft’s HoloLens headset.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 13, 2022

Among the biggest technology brands in the world, and a major name for any company interested in advertising within the digital world, Google has plenty to offer in XR promotion. Most companies investing in concepts like SEO and content marketing will already have a strong knowledge of Google and the company’s wide range of tech resources.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

You may not be aware of this but for years now Microsoft has been steadily working to build the world’s smartest computer brain. Today, Microsoft is announcing Custom Speech Service, the latest program to join the ranks of Microsoft Cognitive Services. Now, that brain is getting a whole lot smarter. Meet CRIS and LUIS.

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

As one of the leading tools for 3D content creation, Unity is also one of the engines driving XR content and experiences. Also, Athena Demos of Big Rock Creative (the group that brings Burning Man to AltspaceVR ) presents “Principles in the Metaverse (Multiverse).”. Niantic (and 8th Wall ). Autodesk Inc. Magic Leap. Big Rock Creative.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

In many ways they’re your typical tech company – my demos are delivered in the familiar blueprint of a trendy open-plan office with exposed brick walls, which sits above a sushi restaurant – but it’s got a different vibe from a lot of similar start-ups.

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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. Google is hiring waveguide developers for AR. Protocol’s journalist Janko Roettgers has spotted that now Google is hiring many figures in the waveguide field.

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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. In 2017, Apple released software called ARKit, which includes tools for software makers to determine how far away an object or wall is, if the phone is moving, or identify limbs in a human body, among other functions.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

EON Reality’s metaverse tools will also boost the efficiency of training Axelrod Holdings employees and affiliated institutions, and will additionally slash costs for infrastructure and allow the UAE to explore further possibilities with bespoke “hands-on” upskilling experiences at institutions and enterprises.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 3, 2024

Apple’s Persona system is still in its Beta stage; however, it is working to integrate the service further into its device – showing that the firm sees value in immersive collaboration tools on its emerging MR device. Apple first noted the Avatar system would upgrade during its Vision Pro 1.1

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2020

Change cannot be achieved gradually, and the pain was obviously not big enough to replace existing tools, even though the problems were known (difficult to understand instructions for complex tasks, wasted time searching for information, unnecessary travel costs for experts, etc.). And the solution: remote work and support. Remote AR 4.0

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

This is what video game giant Wargaming are hoping to prove when they start demoing their latest offering at Gamescom in Germany this week. Their first MR project used Google Tango and the Microsoft HoloLens to bring a rare digital tank from their game to a real-life exhibit at the Tank Museum at Bovington , UK. billion by 2022.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Epson’s demoed its Moverio BT-45C and BT-45CS devices at the event. The new industrial tools aim to tackle the rising demand for remote guidance, repair, maintenance, and training-based AR applications.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This typically involves a number of different technologies working together, such a GPS and other location tools Digital compass Camera Accelerometer and Gyroscope Depth sensors Latest devices are equipped with depth-sensing hardware (LiDAR, ToF) to improve precision. This technique is useful for cause-and-effect demonstrations.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Some the participating companies included Mozilla, Google, Samsung, Oculus, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Valve, Sony, Yahoo, Unity, Intel, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, HP, Dolby, High Fidelity, JanusVR, and Sketchfab.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

AR is also great for training purposes and could become a powerful tool in the future of collaboration and communication. XR tools represent a powerful step forward for training and education. Demand for improved communication and collaborative tools in the workforce has skyrocketed. Interactions Between Humans and Computers.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Matt Bell founded Matterport after the release of Microsoft Kinect and seeing it’s potential to create 3D environments to give someone that immersive feeling in a space. Bell and I discuss what it was like founding the company, building the prototype and looking forward to Google Project Tango. How did Matterport come to be?

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

Unity revealed that representatives from Google, Samsung Gear VR, PTC Vuforia, Sony PlayStation VR, and Microsoft HoloLens will be on hand to discuss new developments in their individual technologies. The “VR Game Dev” track will tackle platform-specific development, case studies, and tool/service demos.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! This is the 150th Week Peek! Happy birthday, Oculus Quest!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 24, 2024

The firm is flying XR experts to US retail stores to prepare employees for a 25-minute demo and onboarding sessions to help guide potential customers towards the product. Meanwhile, competitors such as Meta and Microsoft are working to get XR devices into employees’ hands today. But enterprise adoption may come.

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 5, 2023

The Genesis of ChatGPT OpenAI released an early demo of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, and the chatbot quickly went viral on social media as users shared examples of what it could do. In January, Microsoft expanded its long-term partnership with Open AI and announced a multibillion-dollar investment to accelerate AI breakthroughs worldwide.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

These have appeared across Google’s ARCore, Niantic’s Lightship AR developer kit (ARDK), Snap Lens, Meta’s Reality system, and Apple’s ARKit platforms, namely for smartphones. Companies like Lenovo, ARuVR, Microsoft, and ArborXR have mastered such device requirements with administrative account management.

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Road to VR

MAY 21, 2016

In this session, David Beard will provide a technical tutorial on how to build a Vuforia app for HoloLens, Microsoft’s AR visor. Creating Mixed Reality Apps and Games with Project Tango: See the types of experiences enabled by Google’s Project Tango and how to build your own apps and games.

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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. Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

I’m of course referring to the Dead and Buried demo showcased at OC5. 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. Google Glass 2 is now available for direct purchase. Great post.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

One virtual room for all meetings, demos, workshops and lectures — they only need to put on their headsets to come in. Limited input-output tools Humans are imperfect. Secondly, the existing technical tools cannot reproduce the physical sensation such as smell and touch. It’s so exciting to see where it all goes.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

New Technology Walkers (NTW) has released on SideQuest a free demo of HitMotion: Reloaded, a fitness XR game that was already one of the launch titles of the Vive Focus Plus. More info (Kopin’s pancake lenses) More info (Cornell’s metalens) More info (Facebook’s text style copy tool). MEGA-GIGA NEWS OF THE WEEK. This is just fantastic.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 7, 2018

it makes strategic sense that Pearson has partnered with Microsoft to develop content for the HoloLens Click To Tweet. One of the Pearson applications I demoed showed was called Holopatient. We think this allows us to deliver the best of digital, while preserving what’s brilliant about the oldest content delivery system of all.”.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Generative AI In Gaming In 2024, we will start to see the impact of the latest generation of generative AI tools really take off in the gaming space. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Viveport is improving a lot, and now HTC is also launching the Vive XR Suite , which will be distributed thanks to the support of a strong network of partners like HP, NVIDIA, Baidu (the Chinese Google), and Accenture. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

I’ve been pining for a HoloLens ever since I demoed it a few weeks ago. But as Microsoft made very clear when we met, HoloLens is nowhere near a consumer launch yet. I picked up my glass of water, and saw the half-eaten mince pie that Simon had been working on as he setup the demo. Or so I thought.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 16, 2016

billion in funding from investors such as Google, Andreessen Horowitz and Alibaba. The very few hands-on demos that Magic Leap granted journalists relied on an almost comically large device –apparently referred to as “the Beast” within the company – which was roughly the size of a refrigerator and had to be lugged around in a cart.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

A new set of tools for developers to build all of this. 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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

I think that, after a year, its specifications don’t sound exceptional anymore and maybe it is better that LG jumps directly to a second generation or that enters the standalone market (as it seems, since there are some rumors about a new revolutionary headset screen developed by Google and LG). Epic Siren demo.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

One of the most stunning demos offered by Magic Leap has been the AI-driven avatar Mica. This has been reported by someone that has tried the demo: he said that it is actually worse; Even in the demo video, my “uncanny valley” detectors got triggered. This is for instance something that Microsoft lacks completely.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Sounded good.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership. Qualcomm and Microsoft have announced a partnership to push together the next-generation lightweight AR glasses. Further, the announcement reveals plans to integrate Microsoft Mesh—the company’s multi-user XR foundation—with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces XR development tools.

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