XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

This week saw Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, Meta, and Sony move to optimize their product offerings and business operations. Shahram Izadi, Vice President of AR at Google , notes how Android ecosystem support will enable developers to collaborate with Samsung and Qualcomm to drive the future of immersive and spatial XR.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

This sounds like black magic and it is really fascinating: using eye tracking and other hints, the system may understand what is that you want to hear, and filter out all the rest. HTC CEO Yves Maitre resigns. HTC, you did it again. Google releases a tool for body tracking on your phone.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2022

Responsible for some of the most impressive MR and VR headsets on the market, HTC VIVE could be a phenomenal partner for any company in the gaming landscape. VIVE has a huge range of tools to support different kinds of XR gaming, from the VIVE Flow for wireless wellness, to the VIVE Pro Eye, with built-in eye tracking capabilities.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2018

HTC has maybe been the virtual reality company that has shown the most interesting things at this MWC. From the talk, it is clear that HTC is betting a lot on these new technologies and envisions a future where all of us will wear these devices every day. tracking technology. He has a point. Let’s start! Samsung S9.

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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! Participate in a VR eye-tracking apps contest!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Mister President launching the Vive Focus (Image by HTC). That’s why the other companies, like HTC and Pico, have decided to aim at the enterprise market. The latest phones produced by Google and Samsung are still compatible with Daydream View and Gear VR headsets, but there has not been any new release of a mobile VR headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Learning and training have probably become the biggest use case across industries. Enterprise users will be more likely to spend time in the headset, and this should even further accelerate training, learning, and development use cases for enterprises. This helps reduce errors, minimize training time, and enhance overall productivity.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

HTC Vive Wrist Tracker. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). HTC has made an announcement at this CES and it has been a pretty cool one. The company has just revealed the Vive Wrist Tracker, which is an external 6DOF tracking unit that can be put on the wrist of the user or also on external props.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

7invensun for eye tracking addons). The document is divided into nine parts: I will report them here, as a small summary of mine, together with the full text translated with Google Translate (so, RIP English), if you want to read it. 7Invensun’s aGlass DK II eye tracking addon. Introduction.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores. The rise of enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

This special version of the headset features additional sensors that can get more data about the user: A heart rate sensor on the forehead; Two additional cameras that track the lower part of the face of the user, so that to read his facial expressions; Eye-tracking cameras , that can also detect the dimension of the pupil.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.”

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.”

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed. Image from Amazon).

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I'm thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE -- first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now -- and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, "well, this is ready for prime time." When they enlisted VR training as part of their training, they did two teams with two teams without.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. eye-tracking analysis to see if you have fallen asleep while driving). The official computational unit runs Android. All APIs have a plain C version. for fitness).

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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. The never-ending story. Thanks to Miss S. This is a big point for Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

It will be the first consumer headset with eye-tracking and foveated rendering, and also the first one to feature haptics directly on the headset. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. It seems like a great tethered headset for the PS5.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. January 2016.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Allen discussed the benefits of immersive learning platforms, citing a company study on the return on investment (ROI) for clients via VR training. Such tools needed a strong ROI to “compensate for those costs,” namely by reducing risks and creating on-demand training solutions. Oberon Technologies.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. Jeri, at Valve they did have that sort of choice point, and they chose to do Steam VR and get behind the HTC Vive. You can train a neural network and it’s not going to take 10 years anymore. GB: Google Glass.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. You have the presence, for things like training, for things like real-time engineering. Cameron: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. You have the presence, for things like training, for things like real-time engineering. Cameron: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. You have the presence, for things like training, for things like real-time engineering. Cameron: Absolutely.

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Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training 60

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. You have the presence, for things like training, for things like real-time engineering. Cameron: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

You don’t need to be a super well-trained videographer or you don’t need a buy or rent tons of stabilization gear to stabilize your camera. When you open the box, camera’s inside, but there’s also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

You don’t need to be a super well-trained videographer or you don’t need a buy or rent tons of stabilization gear to stabilize your camera. When you open the box, camera’s inside, but there’s also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

You don't need to be a super well-trained videographer or you don't need a buy or rent tons of stabilization gear to stabilize your camera. When you open the box, camera's inside, but there's also a VR viewer, like a little Google Cardboard kind of thing, a little plastic thing that you slap on your phone. You see Google.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

2016 provided hints of where Facebook, HTC, Sony, Google, and more will take their headsets in the near future, but where does the industry’s best and brightest think we’ll end up this time next year? 1) I believe the virtual reality market will continue to have steady sales reaching over 2 million HMD’s between Sony, HTC and Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And XR Collaboration introduces that way of thinking, that way of training each other, and mentoring each other, and using that technology to express our creativity. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things. Nobody can. What was your biggest challenge?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And XR Collaboration introduces that way of thinking, that way of training each other, and mentoring each other, and using that technology to express our creativity. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things. Nobody can. What was your biggest challenge?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

And XR Collaboration introduces that way of thinking, that way of training each other, and mentoring each other, and using that technology to express our creativity. So front facing cameras, IR cameras, eye tracking cameras, facial tracking cameras, all of these things. Nobody can. What was your biggest challenge?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

But recently both Google and Oculus have gotten behind it, and as a result we’re seeing accelerated adoption of web VR. You have to train. Above: VR Funhouse is a series of mini games for the HTC Vive virtual reality headset. Money is coming from Oculus, Google, and others, but not at the scale some people expect to get.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Thanks to eye tracking, this headset is able to detect your IPD and automatically adjust the distance between the lenses to fit your eyes. HTC releases eye and face tracking for Vive Focus 3. HTC doesn’t want to lose the VR train, so it has just found a creative way of competing with Meta Quest Pro.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And one of the… I don’t know how many names I should name, but there’s definitely a large company here in KC that uses VR for training employees. I worked at their technology headquarters, and we did technology training for the employees. Michael: Most impressive business cases, I think, go back to training.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And one of the… I don’t know how many names I should name, but there’s definitely a large company here in KC that uses VR for training employees. I worked at their technology headquarters, and we did technology training for the employees. Michael: Most impressive business cases, I think, go back to training.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

I don't know how many names I should name, but there's definitely a large company here in KC that uses VR for training employees. It might be two months out before the store's built, but they want to hire their people two months early and give them two months of what's essentially hands-on training before their physical store even exists.

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