XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Last Wednesday, augmented reality (AR) software studio Niantic partnered with Qualcomm to leverage the latter’s Snapdragon Spaces extended reality (XR) platform for geotagged immersive content and supporting hardware. Developing AR Hardware. The partnership sees Niantic integrate its Lightship Visual Positioning System (VPS)? —

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VRScout

JANUARY 11, 2022

You’ve just finished installing a new game or app and excitedly dive in only to find yourself feeling nauseous from the experience just moments later. This includes everything from hardware to software-based solutions. Physically-active VR games can make some players feel uneasy. Image Credit: Crytek.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Since I first picked up my Oculus Rift , I’ve accumulated a pretty substantial gaming library. And have battled my way up scoreboards in movement intense games like “Beat Saber”. As you may know, VR headsets heat up from the energy needed to power screens, surround sound, and run games at the same time. Thank goodness for this.

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VRScout

AUGUST 30, 2022

The absurdly popular battle royale game Fortnite may receive official VR support for Meta Quest headsets, according to HYPEX, a well-known Fortnite leaker with a solid track record. References to the Meta Quest and Meta Quest 2 were supposedly found in the latest update for the game’s third season. Image Credit: Epic.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2018

Citing “people familiar with the matter,” Bloomberg reports a small group of unnamed software developers recently received test units. This is emblematic of the sort of information publicly available on Magic Leap One, as the company is staying mum on definitive hardware specs.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2020

Valve just took a big step in prepping Steam game developers for the full arrival of OpenXR, the new industry-wide open standard for AR and VR headsets. With today’s news we’re hoping Oculus Store game developers will be getting that prototype sooner rather than later. version of OpenXR.

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2022

Khronos Group, the consortium behind the OpenXR standard, is helping to assemble other XR industry players in service of cooperatively building interoperability standards for what it hopes will be an “open and inclusive metaverse.” ” Image courtesy Metaverse Standards Forum.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2023

The Seamless Walk system ditches wearable hardware in favor of pressure sensors and machine learning technology. Accordingly, we decided to develop a VR game controller with the ‘intelligent carpet’ sensor that would be useful in VR gaming.”

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VRScout

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Intellivision Amico: remixing retro gaming and AR. Legendary video game hardware manufacturer Intellivision is making a grand return this year with the Intellivision Amico, a brand new console that promises to combine the nostalgia of late-70s gaming with modern technology.

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VRScout

JULY 21, 2020

Link up with seven friends and jump into select games together. The Oculus Quest is a fantastic VR headset, but for a piece of hardware built by the most dominant social media company in the world, it’s social capabilities have been surprisingly lacking. Looking to add some fresh faces to the crew?

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Better keep a tight grip on that wallet—the next month and a half will see the launch of a flurry of anticipated games for Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3 (and a few which are also coming to PSVR 2 and PC VR). EVER-CHANGING DUNGEONS Explore randomly-generated dungeons across multiple game modes and realms – no dungeon run is the same.

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ARPost

JULY 4, 2022

NVIDIA joined Meta , Epic Games, Khronos Group, Avataar , Microsoft, Unity, XR Association , and many other founding members to lead the development of interoperability standards to drive the growth of the metaverse. As a 3D environment, you can expect some advanced software and hardware behind its development.

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2023

Probably 90% of what consumers are using VR headsets for today is entertainment, and of that entertainment, most of it is gaming. And if you’re among those people using such headsets today, you’ll reasonably be disappointed that Apple Vision Pro lacks controllers and isn’t going to be playing top VR games anytime soon.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For example, Project Cambria, the codename for Meta’s (previously Facebook) MR hardware, is continuously being classified as either AR, VR, or MR depending on the article or publication. Out of the current mainstream XR technologies, mixed reality is possibly the least well-known due in part to the hardware costs and practical applications.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

As the hardware becomes more affordable and the software becomes more robust, the experiences enabled become more valuable. The first cohort of students went through a hybrid physical/virtual program but the second group was entirely online. How XR Terra Met the Glimpse Group. But, they don’t necessarily become easier to use.

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ARPost

MARCH 2, 2022

Virtual reality and metaverse are mainly associated with men and gaming. White men are particularly leading the charge in today’s top gaming platforms such as Roblox, Sandbox, and Decentraland. Some groups such as Women in Blockchain Talks and Curious Addys are guiding women toward crypto-literacy.

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OCTOBER 9, 2016

A new report from market analysis group Juniper Research states that VR hardware will be worth $50 billion by 2021. By hardware, Juniper means VR headsets, peripherals, and 360 cameras. To give you an idea of how much growth that would be, Juniper projects VR hardware revenues to hit $5 billion this year.

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Road to VR

JUNE 23, 2022

Tencent, the China-based multinational known for WeChat and a host of mobile games, reportedly announced to staff that was creating a unit dedicated building out its XR offerings. Tencent Games Global’s Chief Technology Officer Li Shen is said to head the unit, and it will be a wing of its Interactive Entertainment business group.

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MARCH 18, 2019

It’s backed by many of the biggest names in the VR and AR industries and has been in development by the consortium for two years now, organized by Khronos Group. The group today announced the ratification of OpenXR 0.9, Image courtesy Khronos Group. Today the group announced the ratification and release of OpenXR 0.9,

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

It’s a major milestone, according to Khronos Group which has overseen development of the standard by a consortium of many of the biggest names in the AR/VR sector. OpenXR’s ‘working group’, under which representatives from member companies have been actively developing the standard, is facilitated by Khronos Group.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

The last days of AltspaceVR have seen many events happening in the platform where people said farewell not only to the platform, but also to the communities and the groups they were part of. Now all these groups of people do not have a house anymore: some of them will migrate to other social VR platforms (e.g.

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Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2019

With a history of developing some of the greatest games ever made— Half-Life , Portal , Counter Strike , Team Fortress , to name a few—the VR space has high hopes for the three VR games that the company has confirmed it’s developing. The layoffs are believed to have largely impacted the company’s VR hardware group.

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The AR Show

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Replay of an interview originally published in April 2023: Maryam Sabour is the General Manager and Head of Business for the AR Headsets group at Niantic, where the goal is to enable everyday adventures and real-life social interaction through location-based augmented reality.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 5, 2022

For most people, gaming represented the ultimate “initial” market for the extended reality landscape. Ever since the early days of exciting new concepts like Pokémon Go , games developers and entertainment companies have been doubling down on their investments into immersive experiences. The Potential for XR in Gaming.

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ARPost

AUGUST 1, 2023

To learn more about the present and potential future of this technology, ARPost spoke with hardware manufacturer Lumus and XR analytics specialists Cognitive3D. When a gamer experiences a usability problem in a console game or mobile app, they’re likely to blame that specific game or app and move onto a different one.

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The AR Show

APRIL 11, 2023

Maryam Sabour is the General Manager and Head of Business for the AR Headsets group at Niantic, where the goal is to enable everyday adventures and real-life social interaction through location-based augmented reality. Maryam studied law and business at university, going on to earn a Juris Doctorate at McGill University.

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AR Insider

JULY 19, 2021

This week, we look at Looking Glass’ latest hardware, New avatars at Rec Room and lots of new funding. Let’s dive in… Genvid Raises $113M to Build Out Massive Interactive Live Games , Taps Ex-Netflix Content Exec Cindy Holland as Adviser. Resolution Games Closes $25M Investment. W elcome back to Spatial Beats.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Image by Epic Games). Sony invests $250M in Epic Games. Sony has announced that it has made a big investment of $250M in Epic Games through one of its subsidiaries. The long-term results of these partnerships are unforeseeable, but we can still play the speculation game. Rockstar is working on AAA VR open world game.

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ARPost

AUGUST 2, 2021

The respondents were made up of a 20-person focus group consisting of “industry leaders” as well as 164 “industry executives.” The report focused on enterprise applications and companies rather than gaming and entertainment. standard , and that their coming “ Reality Cloud ” will be hardware cross-compatible.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 11, 2023

Quest users can install the AX1690 Wi-Fi chip into a standard gaming PC setup. Although, thanks to Intel’s chipset innovation, users can now directly connect to a gaming PC as a “one-hop” procedure that skips connection to a router. AX1690 Wi-Fi: Powerful One-Step PCVR Streaming.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Key executives from LG Group’s IT component subsidiaries are also said to be in attendance. Whether those things are actually go into a potential Quest Pro 2 is another matter, although if Meta wants to beat Apple at its own game, it’s certainly going to require some one-upmanship in both the hardware and software department.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Following funding via COVID-related investments, the region gained the support required to kick off the VR immersive learning program, starting with just 50 Oculus Gos, before reaching its current hardware figure. The project also leveraged a partnership with Xreps that provided immersive learning experiences to enable engaging maths games.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 22, 2021

XR Safety Week took place entirely in AltspaceVR , and games and gaming were another uniting conversation topic. While some of the opportunities and obstacles discussed in the talks were anything but a game, much of XR technology has its roots in gaming and that is how many people are introduced to the space. Medical XR.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Everything from hardware to experiences to people, the XR world is recognized, and Inbar is the master of ceremonies. The company has since teased hardware and a collaboration with Microsoft Mesh , so their AWE appearance could mean anything. Unity is “just a game engine” like XR is “just a game.” Panel Discussions.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2022

While there’s more to XR than just the potential for amazing games, the novel and fun experiences offered by immersive technologies allows all kinds of companies to reach their audience on new levels. Embracing the thrilling power of virtual reality, the MLB group decided to launch a new competitive experience for fans within a VR simulation.

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ARPost

MARCH 7, 2023

Game of the Year Award “Game of the Year” is a broad category as most WebXR experiences are arguably “games” – and that’s what makes the award so important according to presenter Rik Cabanier, a software engineer at Meta. The award went to the mini golf game Above Par-Adowski by Paradowski Creative.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Tobii will continue to develop and supply new eye-tracking hardware and algorithms as part of its plans, which hopefully means it will be creating some of those solutions. Tobii, meanwhile, already has its tech integrated into several rigs and monitors with 40 non-VR games already implementing its eye-tracking.

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