Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive. Friday keynote speakers include: Cliff Plumer, CEO, The VOID. Gary Radburn, Director, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Dell. Hugo Swart, Senior Director of XR Product Management, Qualcomm. Katie Kelly, Head of Engagement, AltspaceVR / Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity). It will continue developing its AR platform for the future glasses, and educate its users, through ARKit. Samsung itself has stated that it is very interested in developing a future headset that is able to deliver both AR and VR.

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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. Samsung starts off the month debuting its VR Internet browser for Gear VR, becoming the first to offer a VR browser. December 2015. January 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. HTC has also been smart because every time someone says “Focus” during some VR event, he’s doing some hidden advertisement for its product. According to some reviewers, the display may also be the same one made by Samsung.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. HTC will focus more on the enterprise market.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

As the two premiere VR hardware manufacturers, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive both recognize this impediment to adoption and are lowering the price to play, albeit in different ways. HTC Vive has launched their own financing program which relieves the upfront pricing burden of their system– although still maintaining the total cost at $800.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

This trend will continue in 2021 : the new LiDAR sensor, which is rumored to be installed in all future iPhones, will for sure be copied also by Android phones (Samsung?) There are vaiours solutions to also export Unity XR projects to the web (Image by Mozilla). and I can expect more realistic filters with depth occlusion to come soon.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. so I got a little arts education, too. and one of my friends who I just made by being nerdy, worked for a company called HTC. The way that you can do it with Bose AR, if you’re a developer, is within Unity, you can actually do that same thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. so I got a little arts education, too. and one of my friends who I just made by being nerdy, worked for a company called HTC. The way that you can do it with Bose AR, if you’re a developer, is within Unity, you can actually do that same thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You've done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. so I got a little arts education, too. and one of my friends who I just made by being nerdy, worked for a company called HTC. The way that you can do it with Bose AR, if you're a developer, is within Unity, you can actually do that same thing.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software. This is a watershed moment for VR-style headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Image by Samsung). Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. But at the presentation of the latest Samsung Note 10, for the first time after the Note 4, Samsung has dropped support for Gear VR in its latest flagship device. And Samsung is not abandoning XR for sure.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

In fact, games only account for 35% of projects underway, as the rest are focused on fields like psychology and neuroscience (12%), education (7%), tourism (7% ), and architecture and real estate (6%). Dania Academy of Higher Education, Denmark. image courtesy VR First. California State University Monterey Bay, USA.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

And VR Days was one of the best conferences that bridged the gap between technology and arts, and also brought together everyone from military to education to healthcare, and also the creatives to drive that innovation. But otherwise we’re using the Samsung Gear VR. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

And VR Days was one of the best conferences that bridged the gap between technology and arts, and also brought together everyone from military to education to healthcare, and also the creatives to drive that innovation. But otherwise we’re using the Samsung Gear VR. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

And VR Days was one of the best conferences that bridged the gap between technology and arts, and also brought together everyone from military to education to healthcare, and also the creatives to drive that innovation. But otherwise we're using the Samsung Gear VR. And doing activations so we can import any Unity scene.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

He heads the institute’s efforts to evangelize its education by incorporating emerging technologies & platforms, through development labs setup in partnership with global technology giants. Kai holds several International Business director positions in VR educational companies and VR, AR hardware companies. 7- Alvin Graylin.

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