TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Step forward Cosmos Video , which has a virtual venues platform that allows people to work, hang out and socialize together. Cosmos allows users to create virtual venues by combining game mechanics with video chat. 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 - Big XR News tag

MAY 17, 2022

The week of the 10 to 13 May offered a celebrated event at Spain’s Fira de Barcelona, which hosted the Integrated Systems Europe 2022 for hundreds of the world’s top immersive and audiovisual tech firms. Krouli, Avocor Explore Google Glass and Google Meet at ISE 2022. Zuckerberg Teases Project Cambria VR Headset.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Volumetric video specialists 8i have announced their latest series B funding round has netted them a further $27 while also unveiling Holo, a mixed reality video app, powered by Google’s Tango technology. SEE ALSO Asus 'ZenFone AR' Google Tango, Daydream VR Phone Launched, Specs Revealed. The Lenovo Phab Pro 2. “As

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AR Insider

JULY 13, 2021

Serving 33 million mobile and fixed-line subscribers in the country and throughout Europe, there’s a good chance that anyone you call in the Netherland is picking up the call through a KPN connection. The result was a customized combination of Google Glass and Upskill Skylight. Operational Scale.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Today I perform a dive in my past and I review the Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2! Disclaimer: this review has been made in collaboration with VR Expert , which sells and lends XR devices in Europe and has sent me a unit for free, but it is not a paid article). Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 Video Review.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

As someone who’s terrified of heights I felt butterflies even watching the video for the experience that adidas TERREX—the company’s outdoor brand—recently launched in China. The project team also partnered with Google to repurpose an 8k resolution stereoscopic rig—called Google Jump—to film the expansive landscape in detailed 360 degrees.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 3, 2020

XR Talks is a series that features the best presentations and educational videos from the XR universe. It includes embedded video, as well as narrative analysis and top takeaways. For example, it pegged average AR session lengths at 75 seconds , which is 4x that of video advertising. Speakers’ opinions are their own.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

As it had promised on my blog last year , its cool Nreal Light AR glasses have finally arrived in Europe. It’s good to see this cool product finally arriving in Europe, not anymore as a devkit, but as a full-fledged product. Volu lets you take volumetric videos with your smartphone. Google halves its revenues on the Play Store.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Google and Discovery expand the Discovery VR app with new VR travel series. Over the course of 38 episodes spread throughout seven chapters, you will travel throughout North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and Antarctica in the first virtual reality series to cover all seven continents.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 19, 2017

But, as Oculus software engineer Mike Armstrong revealed at React Europe today, React VR also helped bring some other huge improvements to Home. According to Armstrong, a small team also replicated this for photos and video applications. React VR isn’t intended for Facebook’s Oculus platforms alone, though.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

More info (Lynx R1 Launch post on Road To VR) More info (Lynx R1 Launch post on Upload VR) More info (Some more info on its special lenses) More info (Launch keynote) More info (Video that explains this kind of lenses) More info (Feedback on this kind of lenses) More info (Stan Larroque talking about the success of the sales). Let’s hope so.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Yesterday I was hanging around on Reddit, where I found a video getting very little attention, but with very interesting content: it talked about how to use the Quest 2 without having a Facebook account. Google lets now everyone contribute to StreetView. Other relevant news. Of course, it works by being connected to the phone via USB.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 1, 2022

Lots of interesting insights, which you can find here below, either in the original video format or with a slightly-edited transcription. I was a journalist, so I was always trying to tell stories from other countries and bring them over to Europe or the United States to the audiences there. We had video editors as well as filmmakers.

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2019

Epson Moverio features include video and audio sharing and a cloud-based portal and usage tracking and analytics. Products like Google Glass and Microsoft HoloLens are too heavy, and their batteries do not last long enough. Instead, the technician gives the rest of the team a clear look at what’s happening in real-time.

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ARPost

APRIL 29, 2021

Most AR headsets are compatible with video conferencing solutions, but not all of those headsets are listed here. the platform allows users to connect with one another via video conferencing and to connect with enabled IoT devices. To try to narrow things down, we deliberately excluded some adjacent topics. Currently in version 2.2,

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Someone has already received it and has already shared on the social media videos of the Air Link in action. 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. I hope to see many more in the future!

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ARVR

JULY 20, 2021

Serving 33 million mobile and fixed-line subscribers in the country and throughout Europe, there’s a good chance that anyone you call in the Netherlands is picking up the call through a KPN connection. The result was a customized combination of Google Glass and Upskill Skylight. This operational scale means?—?like

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Leveraging its Igloo Core Engine (ICE), the company has curated a host of content in its viewing spaces, including building information modelling (BIM), metaverse worlds, 360-degree video, game engine demos, and many others. People can also view YouTube 360 videos, Google Street View, as well as the enterprise’s bespoke 360 web browser.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Two companies are attempting to make remote video conferencing more holographic, realistic, and life-size, but without the spectacle associated with Tupac's 2012 Coachella appearance or Kim Kardashian's father's resurrection. It felt like I was experiencing something like Google's Project Starline concept to create 3D video calls.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For sure you all know HADO: even if you don’t remember the name, you have for sure seen one of those viral video where people with an AR headset on the head throw fireballs each other. We also have a small office and a couple of people overseas in Europe and America. This is the video I’m talking about.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

million pixels per eye resolution, 4K video output, 120Hz refresh rates, and 256 GB of storage space. The company also announced at the Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 Europe in Portugal that it would launch its product across 19 countries. It will also include numerous upgrades, including a 70-degree field of view (FoV), 2.5

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

I have to admit that at least Zuck tried to do this in the best way possible : he has taken full responsibility for the problems in a video call where he announced the layoffs and has offered a good severance package for people going away. This video about a “virtual reality viewer” from 1830 has been one of the viral content of the week.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Google has also paused Russia's ability to profit off of content across its services. YouTube is blocking state-sponsored ads from Russian channels on its platform, and is limiting video recommendations to Russian channels while blocking them entirely in Ukraine, at the request of the Ukrainian government. Tweet may have been deleted.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2023

Following the latest updates from Meta, Disney, Accenture Amazon, Google, and others, Apple could potentially delay the device again due largely to adverse market conditions. Numerous tech innovators have shifted to generative AI platforms such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, leading to Google’s BardAI, Microsoft’s Bing AI, and others.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2018

Maybe reading these lines you have in your head the same thought that came into mine when going to Lenqiy website: “But… ahem… Space Draw is a clone of Google Tilt Brush and Space Block is a clone of Google Blocks… ehm… why have you developed them??”

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Peter Graham

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Main Stage: AR Collaboration – Goodbye Video Conferencing | Jacob Loewenstein, Spatial. Main Stage: Enabling immersive exploration with Google Earth VR | Rupert Breheny, VR Manager, Google. Main Stage: XR and European Institutions | Fakhreddine Aouadi, European Parliament and Fabien Benetou, European Parliament and UNICEF.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 6, 2017

Unlike the Google Glass and many other AR devices that we’ve seen in the past, the Raptor doesn’t display information within the lenses themselves. Now for the actual intention of the glasses, you can watch the video embedded near the top of this article. The most impressive feature to me was the built-in camera.

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Bernard Marr

APRIL 2, 2024

If you run a business that operates in Europe or sells to European consumers, there are some important things you need to know. Limited and minimal-risk use cases could include applications of AI purely for entertainment, such as in video games, or in creative processes such as generating text, video or sounds.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Nreal noticed that in some countries, users of Nreal Light AR glasses used the device just to watch video content on a big virtual screen , so it has understood that there is a market for this kind of device. iOS 15 finally brings AR navigation instructions to Apple Maps , in a way similar to the one that Google is already offering.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It has also published a video suggesting how to design an app with accessibility in mind. Google releases the Objectron dataset. This is why I felt very honored when Bob asked me to be one of the hosts of the event, and to moderate part of it inviting speakers from Europe. Cornell University experiments with flexible gloves.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

This headset should feature pancake lenses, mixed reality capabilities, and micro-LED displays by Raxium , a startup owned by Google. More info AWE announces a $200K price for XR startups AWE announced that at the upcoming AWE Europe in Vienna there will be the usual XR Startup Pitch competition.

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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! Visbit unlocks 6K 60FPS videos for standalone headsets. We’ll see….

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AR Insider

JULY 28, 2021

We also partnered with Bumble and Viber to bring Lenses to their respective mobile apps, and are working with Google to bring our Lenses directly to the new JioPhone in India with a native camera integration. In Europe, DAU grew by 7 million or 10% year-over-year to reach 78 million.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

This startup just exited from stealth mode, is like Google Maps but for the interior of shopping centers, offices, and other closed environments. I can proudly say that we Italian have been the first in Europe to adopt a thermal scanning helmet in an Airport. More info (Google Lens) More info (AR copy to Photoshop) More info (VROOM).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

More info (Use Google Translate). Google Chrome now supports WebAR. More info (Google Chrome 81 supports AR) More info (Nicolò Carpignoli’s initiative). There you can discover more the VR landscape of Northern Europe, make community, and get to listen to the talks of people from Nokia and Hugo Boss! News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

And it’s not over on the content side: they are going to launch the Pico Video app with 600+ videos on day 1 , and are partnering to have immersive concerts with Wave. Doing its keynote on video, CEO Jensen Huang introduced the new RTX4080 and RTX4090 graphics cards, which are based on the new Ada Lovelace architecture.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2019

VR just passed the thorough of disillusionment and is here to stay thanks to investments in the AR/VR market by Facebook, Google and Apple. Millennials did the same with video games. It’s not a video game anymore. VR is a place for the next generations to have fun together at. Such simulators are quite popular in Asia.

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