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VR & AR 2018: A Year In Review

VRScout

Major hardware releases, vast improvements to software, and various other integral advancements have quietly solidified VR & AR as viable, long-term technological platforms for years to come. Of course we can’t talk about standalone VR without bringing up the HTC Vive Focus. LOCATION-BASED VR.

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How Do AR Advertising Platforms Stack Up?

AR Insider

ARtillery Intelligence recently performed this exercise including compatible hardware bases and active users (see below). Furthermore, this mobile AR market-sizing exercise reveals another factor: platform fragmentation. Microsoft is doing the same with Hololens. Web AR may have another advantage: platform reach.

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BISim tells us how XR is relevant for the Army

The Ghost Howls

In the work we have done with VR, we were able to take the theoretical capabilities of VR and insert them into joint military training exercises. VR, for example, allowed some of our customers to focus on pilot training to start to train flying in formations which was not possible with previously used displaying hardware (i.e.,

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The High-end VR Room of the Future Looks Like This

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

The HTC Vive is arguably the best out there, but having to buy a souped-up laptop just to run it, paying full price for brief games that feel more like demos, and trailing a huge cable off your head and fumbling to mount trackers on your ceiling…it’s not ideal. Being able to pick up your VR hardware and take it with you is a big benefit.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.30): OC6, Pimax Day, Huawei VR glasses, Minecraft Earth and much more!

The Ghost Howls

You have to buy base stations and controllers separately from HTC or Valve. Huawei is advertising these glasses as competitors of Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Pro, but don’t get mislead by this. I hope that at least they will keep the software infrastructure alive even if the officially dedicated hardware has been abandoned.

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Vive Trackers Experiments – Part 1: Everything you need to know about Vive Trackers

The Ghost Howls

Thanks to the support of HTC, Rob is experimenting with Vive Trackers , and is very eager to tell you everything about his experiments with them, in a series of two very detailed posts. The post finishes also with the little surprise of an interview with HTC’s Shen Ye. HTC Vive Trackers (Image by Rob Cole). Introduction.

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Best Places To Learn AR and VR Development Online in 2020

Hypergrid Business

Examples are HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Cardboard and other that are now very popular VR platforms for building experiences. WebVR is also becoming a formidable force for those who love HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard, in a web browser. This brings the point home about the need to learn how to develop content on other platforms.

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