XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 29, 2023

Visitors to the immersive space can receive medical attention, advice, and documentation in real-time with the help of real staff and virtual, AI-powered chatbots. People seeking visas, passport renewals, and updated country info can use cross-platform tools to receive key information and documents for their travels.

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Next Reality AR

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Augmented reality productivity software maker Upskill has expanded the reach of its Skylight platform with support for Microsoft HoloLens. Presenting this information in augmented reality allows them to keep their hands-free for the task at hand and reducing "swivel chair" between the task and a laptop.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JANUARY 23, 2023

Google Parent Alphabet Lays Off 12,000 Jobs Late last week, Alphabet, Google’s parent firm, laid off roughly 12,000 individuals. The move accounts for around 6 percent of Google’s global workforce. Google’s layoffs come just days after Microsoft and Amazon announced cutbacks of roughly 10,000 employees.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 21, 2018

Google harnesses the power of photos and street view to deliver simplified VR development for teachers and students. The benefits of using immersive technologies as teaching tools have been widely documented and extensively discussed Click To Tweet. And that, in fact, is the ultimate goal of any transformative technology.

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Bernard Marr

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Google Bard Many of us thought Google—the reigning champion in the world of AI—had been caught on the back foot by the arrival of ChatGPT. When ChatGPT emerged, it was immediately recognized as perhaps the first serious threat to Google’s long-term dominance of the search industry—the source of the majority of its revenue.

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ARPost

MAY 16, 2023

Bar-Zeev has worked in XR since 1992 including co-founding Google Earth, serving as a consultant for Linden Labs, a principal architect for Microsoft, advisor for Tilt Five and Croquet, and president of the XR Guild.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

Googles solutions allow developers to quickly optimize their augmented reality experiences for android devices, with a convenient Software Development Kit (SDK). Companies can also take advantage of real-time and historical analytics from all of their campaigns.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 5, 2023

ChatGPT uses machine learning (ML) to aggregate data from the internet, generating content such as images, sound, documents, and chat texts. Numerous firms such as NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Unity, and many others have incorporated versions of GPT on their own solutions to increase content development dramatically.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 3, 2017

Microsoft’s Windows Holographic VR headsets are going to run the gamut of specs like input, field of view, and resolution. Lenovo’s headset looks very similar to the white device here seen at Microsoft’s announcement last year. Lenovo’s offering sounds like it might sit somewhere in the middle.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 8, 2024

The technology has since been updated, to form the Glass 2 device, which features safety frames, a lightweight form factor, and instant access to software for collaboration capabilities. The Google Glass 2 smart glasses run on an Android open source project operating system, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 18, 2021

The glasses tether to a PC or select Motorola smartphones via USB-C cable to enable smart workers to view documents, collaborate, and visualize schematics. The company is currently developing an email service to compete with Google and Microsoft. Lenovo introduced the ThinkReality A3 AR glasses for enterprise at CES.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Yesterday, Google announced that their generative AI tool, called Google Bard, had been renamed to Gemini, and was now finally available in Canada ( The Globe and Mail newspaper provides some background on why there was a delay ). It’s great for backups, syncing files across devices, and photo/document storage.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, is working on improving its accuracy — and the billions just invested by Microsoft will definitely help. “Today, the scale of the largest AI computations is doubling every six months, far outpacing Moore’s Law,” Google CEO Sunchar Pichal  said in a post last week.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Although the benefit for businesses could be significant, smart glasses enable workers to access mission-critical documents hands-free with increasingly sophisticated eye tracking and voice-assisted navigation options. This allows onsite employees to perform operations such as repairs while also navigating instructional documents hands-free.

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Bernard Marr

JANUARY 4, 2023

Google AutoML. Ok, so Google’s first no-code AI solution isn't for complete beginners, as some understanding of ML is recommended. Everything runs in Google Cloud, so it will be familiar to anyone who has used other Google productivity tools. Google Teachable Machine. Microsoft Lobe.

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The competition is the incumbent video conferencing platforms such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams, but calls on these platforms have a set agenda, and are timeboxed – they’re rigid and repetitive. As you move your avatars closer to one another person you can video chat with them, as you might in real life.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

Latest ThirdEye News Google Google was one of the first companies to introduce the world to smart glasses technology, with the “Glass” headset. Read up on the latest RealWear news here. Latest RealWear News Microsoft Microsoft’s smart glasses are designed with a focus on the mixed reality landscape.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 8, 2018

There are plenty of players like Microsoft HoloLens and DAQRI which consistently deliver not only cool demos, but real use-cases for holographic Mixed Reality Click To Tweet. Considering how much flack Microsoft gets for its FOV, it seems unfair to cut Magic Leap any slack on that.

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ARVR

MARCH 22, 2021

Prominent examples within this technology come in the form of wearable devices such as smart glasses ( Microsoft Hololens, Google Glass, RealWear, etc) and offer many benefits to managers who have chosen to embrace this technology and make it part of their comprehensive process so that they can increase the value of their businesses.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2016

It contains an extensive set of samples to showcase what can be done with VR on the web, along with documentation to help developers get started making their own content. It is in a very early state; you can’t even access the address bar right now. Rift support for Carmel should be arriving later down the line.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

The technology has since been updated, to form the Glass 2 device, which features safety frames, a lightweight form factor, and instant access to software for collaboration capabilities. The Google Glass 2 smart glasses run on an Android open source project operating system, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support.

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GizModo VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The QR code is having an extended moment, given that we’re all still wary of dealing with physical documents, touching surfaces, and generally interacting with the world at large. The switch to digital for everything from tickets to menus has been accelerated, and QR codes are a simple and convenient option for… Read more.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: Episode 28 of the VRScout Report, we got new 360 toys on iOS, Hololens is helping elevator technicians, VR might help you control your dreams, Apple CEO Tim Cook on augmented reality, VR/AR industry funding wrapup, and more… iOS NOW CAN TAKE 360 PHOTOS WITH GOOGLE CARDBOARD CAMERA, TOO.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

It was announcements and product launches galore with news coming from key players like Oculus, Sony, Microsoft and Google dominating the headlines almost every week. almost heard a choir of angels) and I even documented in on Facebook. October was such an important month for the virtual reality and augmented reality industry.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Google Google was one of the first companies to introduce the world to smart glasses technology with the “Glass” headset. Microsoft Microsoft’s smart glasses are designed with a focus on the mixed reality landscape. Goertek is even working with Sony on the development of new PlayStation headsets.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 22, 2022

Because everything is automatically stored on Google Drive, your kid won't lose all of their work if they forget to save a document or if the Chromebook itself crashes. This also means that kids can access their slideshow or essay on any computer where they can log into their Google account. You just need to pick a favourite.

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Bernard Marr

APRIL 2, 2024

It also covers the models themselves in a way that seems particularly aimed at big tech AI providers like Google, Microsoft and OpenAI. If regulators accept the likely objections that documenting algorithms, weightings and data sources is confidential business information, then these provisions could turn out to be fairly toothless.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In a statement made to XR Today in March 2022, Realwear explained the benefits of its headset for the leading German automotive client: The rollout of HMT-1s has enabled Mercedes-Benz Otomotiv to connect experts to staff out in the field via live video calls using Microsoft Teams to settle any issues that dealers are not able to resolve.

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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! Image by Microsoft). This is the 150th Week Peek! News worth a mention.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2024

In 2024, the space saw far less sophisticated XR devices with older products like early Oculus or Google Glasses. At the same time, XR’s enthusiasts were well aware of other players in the headset space, like Microsoft, Varjo, HTC VIVE, and others. But the race is on. While the Reality Labs division did lose $4.65

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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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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

And with this, we hope to either substitute a large part of the beacon deployments, or of course enrich beacon deployments by creating continuous digital twins that can be used for documentation as well as other things. So Microsoft, as you know, we support ARKit- and ARCore-enabled devices. We have people trying to do construction.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

And with this, we hope to either substitute a large part of the beacon deployments, or of course enrich beacon deployments by creating continuous digital twins that can be used for documentation as well as other things. So Microsoft, as you know, we support ARKit- and ARCore-enabled devices. We have people trying to do construction.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 7, 2023

The metaverse has been pioneered largely by innovative start-ups, but there are concerns that the likes of Microsoft and Meta could trample over these firms due to their existing reach and scale. Despite concerns, the document actually proposes relaxing regulations to help foster innovation in “Sandboxes”.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

And with this, we hope to either substitute a large part of the beacon deployments, or of course enrich beacon deployments by creating continuous digital twins that can be used for documentation as well as other things. So Microsoft, as you know, we support ARKit- and ARCore-enabled devices. We have people trying to do construction.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A report from Insider states that Microsoft may have canceled its plans for HoloLens 3. There is instead a rumored partnership with Samsung , where Samsung would actually build a new XR device and Microsoft offer the platform on top of which the headset may run. Some updates on Meta products. Learn more (OpenBrush reaching v1.0)

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. He's designed and developed Paint Space AR, named by Apple as one of the best apps of 2017 and currently works full time at Google as an AR Interaction designer. Austin: Thank you for having me, excited to be here.

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