ARPost

JULY 16, 2020

Winners from the past three events include Oculus Rift and Quest, Google Tilt Brush, HTC VIVE Pro, and the Vader Immortal series. VRChat , the group bringing the VR Awards online, is a free-to-play virtual world currently in early access on Steam , Oculus , and VIVEPORT. VR Hardware of the Year. Pimax Artisan.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

These companies make components and enterprise hardware that’s usually a cut above available consumer models. I got to get my hands on some of their hardware at last year’s expo and left feeling enlightened. DigiLens , Vuzix , and Lenovo will also be on the AWE Expo floor. Trying them out can be a glimpse into the future.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

Meta Quest for Business service allows companies to use a framework of XR hardware, software, and management tools to help enterprise end-users get started with the firm’s immersive portfolio. million from app revenue, which could become a valuable source of income and services for Meta’s XR hardware ecosystem.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 17, 2017

VR and AR headsets are heading to market from Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others that have a wide range of capabilities. Just last week we learned about Facebook’s plan for a $200 headset that occupies the low end of the market while Google continues work on a six degrees of freedom standalone headset.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 25, 2023

According to media reports, the layoffs include its entire Mixed Reality Toolkit group and the AltspaceVR team, effectively killing Microsoft’s own Hololens project. What about Meta, Google and Apple? Google has scaled back its VR ambitions a couple of years ago, ending support for its Daydream platform in 2020.

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ARVR

JANUARY 11, 2021

This is achieved using a headset that completely fills the users field of view in combination with body tracking to map the players body into the virtual world. Augmented Reality combines aspects of virtual reality with the real world around you in a way that enhances the real world experience.

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ARVR

AUGUST 15, 2020

I’ve been thinking a ton about ways to facilitate connection and truly engaging experiences in virtual worlds. This has always been something that interested me, from virtual reality’s debut and decline to our current pandemic where virtual is the only way to connect for many of us.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Honor to all the other countries, some of them probably deserved more than us, but I think Italy won because we were a true team, a group of people that supported each other for a goal they craved to reach. Both Facebook and Google have decided to double down on AR effects inside calls. Meet and Portal double down on AR effects.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Google Daydream. Google’s Daydream headset works in conjunction with ‘Daydream ready’ Android phones (like the Pixel ) and apps to create a high-end mobile VR experience that rivals Samsung’s Gear VR. SEE ALSO Google Daydream Review: Casual VR Closes the Gap. Find a Daydream Demo Location.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2023

XMReality The Glimpse Group FutureSightAR (Dauntless) Arvizio RealWear Vuzix Iristick The Wild Yulio Immersionn Make Real Spinview XMReality Focusing on virtual and augmented assistance, XMReality produces tools that support the transfer of knowledge and guidance between employees anywhere in the business landscape.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

In short, I saw a series of well-designed spaces equipped with some of the best virtual reality hardware and software available. An arcade version of its Viveport VR content store is designed to make it easier for groups to set up a location equipped with a variety of worlds to visit. Photo provided by IMAX.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

New efforts are likely to be revealed heading into January’s CES 2018 that could further improve VR with wireless setups, lighter weight headsets, less expensive hardware and more capable systems overall. And amid all this, dozens of new virtual worlds arrive each week for people to explore in VR headsets.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 13, 2019

High Fidelity, a virtual world platform from Second Life founder Philip Rosedale. It hit all the buzzwords — an open source code base, a Blockchain-based virtual currency, and even had avatars that could duplicate your actual hand gestures and facial expressions. What about its virtual workplace? Not just yet.

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ARVR

JULY 29, 2021

Is the evolution in the exploration of virtual and augmented realities, because it takes advantage of the power of the web together with the unification of these realities, facilitating the creation of immersive and interactive environments, virtual reality tools, and more. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.How

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2017

The world’s most-visited theme park company, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Worldwide, dominates the charts, entertaining over 130 million people each year, more than double the attendance of the next largest company, Merlin Entertainments Group. DisneyQuest’s ‘Ride the Comix’ | Photo courtesy Dave Pape ( CC BY 2.0 ).

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

HOUSEKEEPING NOTICE: Yes, I know this blogpost is somewhat off-topic for a blog about “news and views on social VR, virtual worlds, and the metaverse,” but hey, my blog, my rules. Community Support : Join online forums, communities, or user groups dedicated to macOS to get help, tips, and advice from experienced users.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2021

Virtual reality is described as a “three-dimensional, computer-generated environment which can be explored and interacted with by a person. That person becomes part of this virtual world or is immersed within this environment and whilst there, is able to manipulate objects or perform a series of actions.” (“What is Virtual Reality?”,

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

According to The Verge, the top executives from Facebook are working on a rebrand of the company, most probably to create a parent company that owns all the various businesses controlled by Facebook … something similar to what Google made when it created Alphabet. Snap and Google Partner to Bring “Quick Tap to Snap” to Pixel 6.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 12, 2023

More info (Ray-Ban Meta review) More info (Varjo XR-4 preview) Discover fashion in the digital worlds An interesting article in Vogue speaks about the new fashion trends in virtual worlds. This way every user can have decent full body tracking without having to buy external hardware and without having to wear anything.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2016

Samsung solidified its commitment to the virtual reality space with some big announcements that essentially add up to an end-to-end consumer VR solution. Samsung VR is now somewhat similar to the App Store or Google Play store in that it’s where you can find the latest content for virtual reality products.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Soon you’ll be able to wave around a controller to instruct your virtual worlds, probably like a laser pointer. If you’d say this sounds similar to the Bluetooth-connected controller from Google’s Daydream, we wouldn’t disagree with you. BEST 360 CAMERAS ACCORDING TO TOM’S HARDWARE.

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 17, 2022

As somebody who writes about social VR and flatscreen virtual worlds on this blog, with a popular Discord server packed with metaverse fanatics and a front-row seat on pretty much everything that has been happening in this space, let me tell you, the past twelve months have been a wild ride.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The event hosts people from very important companies like NVIDIA, VR Chat, The Khronos Group, Alibaba (there is Jack Ma!), This was an amazing idea because apart from being technically supercool, it let all Focus users have their controllers upgraded from 3DOF to 6DOF without having to change hardware. pic.twitter.com/X1dWr780Se.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s take on immersive technologies will also test the future of XR hardware solutions and their roles in the broader XR community through rigorous use cases. Platforms already exist that provide the immersion Apple offers but without the need to have a bulky — and very expensive — piece of hardware strapped to your face.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

A lot of startups have started working on the so-called “ARCloud”, that is a persistent and shared virtual world that is coherent with the real one. This means that it is possible to create AR experiences that are persistent in whatever place of the world and that are shared among all people of the world.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 6, 2017

I asked him where we were in our ability to create the Metaverse, the immersive virtual world envisioned by sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson in Snow Crash. They represented applications, user interface, and hardware perspectives on AR. Sometimes the hardware is a limitation. It was a World War. In the U.S.,

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

DJ Smith is the co-founder of The Glimpse Group, an XR technologies accelerator that’s doing startup incubating in a whole new way. Alan: We have an amazing guest today: DJ Smith is the co-founder and chief creative officer at The Glimpse Group. In addition, DJ is the organizer of the New York virtual reality meetup.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

DJ Smith is the co-founder of The Glimpse Group, an XR technologies accelerator that’s doing startup incubating in a whole new way. Alan: We have an amazing guest today: DJ Smith is the co-founder and chief creative officer at The Glimpse Group. In addition, DJ is the organizer of the New York virtual reality meetup.

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Infinityleap

MAY 11, 2016

Facebook’s upcoming “360 Photos” feature will let people upload flat panoramas like those taken on iPhones, Google Photo Spheres or photos from 360 cameras. Max Cohen, Oculus’s head of mobile, told a group of journalists earlier this week that the company’s “goal is to get to as many people as possible.”. Photo credit: Facebook).

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 3, 2022

AI has been described by Google CEO Sundar Pichai as “more significant than fire or electricity” in terms of the impact it will have on human civilization. This is an entity – which could be a company, charity, service provider, or community group – managed and administered via software and rules enshrined on a blockchain.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Moreover, as the technology evolves, XR hardware and software are becoming sophisticated enough to provide immersive learning solutions which prove positive outcomes for trainees and mentors. What makes sense in one scenario, age group, industry, or environment may not be the best XR approach in another.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Moreover, Web3 is sustained by increasingly powerful hardware like smart glasses. As AR hardware designers work to increase smart glasses’ connectivity, portability, and usability. Also, firms like RealWear and Arvizio offer hardware-agnostic solutions that prompt cross-platform industry 4.0 work procedures.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

What virtual avatars, creatures, information layers or interactive components are here. The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes. What room are you in, what objects or other people are around you.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This is a pretty extreme pivot, and it is causing internal turmoil inside all the Meta group: the company is suggesting many people from Facebook and Instagram join Reality Labs instead , or it is promoting people working on social media to have also metaverse roles. It makes totally sense. Learn more (OpenBrush reaching v1.0)

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

This week, the damn coronavirus has caused the cancelation of three super-important events: GTC (that will be substituted by the streaming of the sessions), SXSW and Google I/O. More info (GTC canceled) More info (SXSW canceled) More info (Google I/O canceled) More info (Facebook & working from home). 3dRudder becomes wireless.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

And by ’99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. So we were very early adopters of virtual reality already in that period. There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. And then we have a third group we call Industry 4.0,

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

And by ’99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. So we were very early adopters of virtual reality already in that period. There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. And then we have a third group we call Industry 4.0,

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