VRScout

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Often incorporating various haptic feedback elements alongside advanced full-body capture, location-based VR has gone from niche to one of the more popular renditions of VR entertainment since there initial introduction. From product marketing to interactive games, AR has proven itself a useful tool for multiple industries.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

As companies continue to discover new methods for producing lightweight, wearable devices, the number of immersive tools in this landscape is growing. Today, the market for smart glasses is growing at a CAGR of 10.3%, expected to reach a value of around $12.76 billion by 2030.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

As companies continue to discover new methods for producing lightweight, wearable devices, the number of immersive tools in this landscape is growing. The demand for smart glasses in the AR space is accelerating at an incredible pace. Today, the market for smart glasses is growing at a CAGR of 10.3%, expected to reach a value of around $12.76

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 1, 2022

Over the last two years, metaverse technologies have matured due to investments from firms such as Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Epic Games, and many others. This refers to the plethora of design tools and applications used by developers and content creators to produce digital resources, immersive experiences, and other assets.

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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2019

Lyft drivers would access this information through an AR headset, such as a Microsoft HoloLens, Google Glass, or Magic Leap, which would place the digital content directly in the view of the Lyft driver, or through an AR enabled smartphone. You could also use your own smartphone or any type of wearable AR device to find them yourself.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

As companies continue to discover new methods for producing lightweight, wearable devices, the number of immersive tools in this landscape is growing. Today, the market for smart glasses is growing at a CAGR of 10.3%, expected to reach a value of around $12.76 billion by 2030.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. SideQuest is the tool used by thousands of people every month to sideload unapproved applications on their Oculus Quests. Google Glass 2 is now available for direct purchase. Google states this decision was taken because the headset was selling very well among companies and developers.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

HP has fixed many of the visual problems of the headse t, and Microsoft has just released a patch on Windows 10 that aims at solving many visual issues of all WMR headsets (like Chromatic aberration). But honestly, I expected a bit more … it’s a bit weird that Microsoft hasn’t solved its biggest pain point yet.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Some of the biggest names in social impact will be in attendance, including: Participant Media, Conservation International, the Rainforest Alliance, Connect for Climate/World Bank, and the Milken Institute, as well as tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Oculus.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 31, 2022

While Meta focuses on creating virtual reality environments, companies like Microsoft and Nvidia are developing metaverse environments for collaborating and working on digital projects. Crucially, it’s one where, unlike social and search, which are pretty well sewn up by the likes of Google and Meta, there is still everything to play for.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Viveport is improving a lot, and now HTC is also launching the Vive XR Suite , which will be distributed thanks to the support of a strong network of partners like HP, NVIDIA, Baidu (the Chinese Google), and Accenture. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. More info (Facebook’s typing research?—?Road

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Haptic technologies were represented at CES very well especially by two companies: OWO and bHaptics. OWO Haptic Vest (Image by OWO). bHaptics, a company we already know well, has instead announced TactGlove, a pair of very lightweight haptic gloves. Skinetic haptic suit (Image by Actronika). Further references.

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AIXR

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Meta SEO With Meta (formerly Facebook) committing to the Metaverse, all eyes are on fellow digital juggernauts such as Google, Bing, and Microsoft to see which – if any – becomes the next to buy into the Metaverse in a big way. Brands will need to develop campaigns with this in mind.

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

But AR/VR solutions are not limited to Google Glass, mobile apps for trying on shoes or accessories, and AR-based games. Overall, augmented reality brings robust capabilities to solutions across multiple modalities — visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory, and olfactory. Sponsored content. Sponsored by Softeq. Mobile application.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Or some haptic accessories?). Accenture’s Julie Sweet highlighted how in a time where people work from home, the company needs new tools to train its employees in an effective way and also to create a bond between the new employees and the company. VR came into mind as the ideal tool to provide both.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Our brain is very plastic and the BCI could trigger the right parts of the brain so that you feel haptic sensations on 6 fingers if your avatar has 6 fingers. Google makes Tilt Brush opensource. Google has just announced that the VR painting program Tilt Brush has been put opensource on GitHub. This is both bad and good news.

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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. The expected price is around $900 There has been a lot of talk around the OWO haptic vest, a very lightweight T-shirt able to provide vibrational and electrical feedback directly on your skin.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Especially the DualSense is an amazing piece of tech, with very stable IMUs and haptic sensations that increase a lot the “immersion” in the games : they can provide you the sensation of resistance, of textures of materials, of movements. More info (New features of OpenXR) More info (OpenXR in Unity) More info (OpenXR in Microsoft products).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

Tender Claws and Google ARCore. As extended reality gaming experiences continue to take the world by storm, leading cloud and technology vendors like Google are offering game creators and developers an easy avenue into the ecosystem. RoboRaid and Microsoft HoloLens.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

I think that, after a year, its specifications don’t sound exceptional anymore and maybe it is better that LG jumps directly to a second generation or that enters the standalone market (as it seems, since there are some rumors about a new revolutionary headset screen developed by Google and LG). Google AR apps.

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CraneMorley

AUGUST 1, 2023

Microsoft’s Plan Microsoft’s new industrial metaverse plan is to focus on the areas that matter most to its customers, such as: Remote collaboration: The industrial metaverse can be used to enable remote collaboration between engineers, technicians, and other workers, regardless of their location.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The result is that many big brands are canceling their presence at CES: Google, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, Lenovo, and many others, have decided not to go , and maybe provide their news virtually. The second one is a device that should be presented at CES: the OWO haptic suit. More info (Lick It Up TV) More info (Owo haptic suit).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The news of the week is that Meta is poaching talents from all the other companies : in particular, it has been able to “steal” 100 employees from the HoloLens team in Microsoft. More info (XTAL 3 hands-on) More info (Haptic gloves hands-on). Which tools and platforms are you using to build mind-bending creations?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

It has feet controllers, haptic feedback for hands, vibrational feedback for the hand, and other cool features that are missing in the most common headsets. VR animation tool Quill has proved to be an interesting tool for creators these years. Last Call has been released.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

This would be amazing because Oculus could prove that its social tool (currently in closed alpha stage) works very well even for important events and can fulfill the mission of “defying distance”. Basically, projects that give value to the device and to Microsoft in general. Google Glass can help Autistic kids.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 1, 2019

They won’t stop at augmenting our eyes, either, Bose already has wearable devices (they look like glasses, but don’t really do much for your eyes, it’s rather your ears they focused on) that augment our hearing and there are tons of haptic devices being developed that augment our ability to feel, touch and other things.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

We captured the transition from a couple companies shipping development tools to hobbyists into a fast-moving industry driven by some of the world’s largest tech companies, each of which is selling increasingly sophisticated systems directly to consumers. Google transitions Clay Bavor into a position as head of VR. November 2015.

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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. Pico Neo Eye 2 and controllers.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Alan: Slicing fruit in VR is magical, and the fact that they have the haptic feedback to the controller is just… [implied Chef Kiss]. One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. You’re right, it is a magical experience. A lot of companies focusing on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Alan: Slicing fruit in VR is magical, and the fact that they have the haptic feedback to the controller is just… [implied Chef Kiss]. One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. You’re right, it is a magical experience. A lot of companies focusing on it.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

8agora provides creative teams, individuals, and groups with customizable virtual reality avatars that they can use to attend meetings and events, three-dimension high definition graphics, instant chat, simultaneous translation from any language, and many other business-oriented tools. (Image courtesy 8Agora.). Image courtesy Avatour.).

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Alan: Slicing fruit in VR is magical, and the fact that they have the haptic feedback to the controller is just. One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. implied Chef Kiss]. You're right, it is a magical experience. A lot of companies focusing on it. Alan: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

And it really cannot be replicated in a vibe or an Oculus Rift or avoid I’m sure spaces is going to do this as well but using haptics and vibration plates and sent machines and spatial audio. And Torch is an AR authoring tool that lets you create augmented reality experiences. So it’s more like AR on a Google map.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

And it really cannot be replicated in a vibe or an Oculus Rift or avoid I’m sure spaces is going to do this as well but using haptics and vibration plates and sent machines and spatial audio. And Torch is an AR authoring tool that lets you create augmented reality experiences. So it’s more like AR on a Google map.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

The big entities; the Googles, Microsofts, where we would hold our event, as well as the whole investment community. And then most recently, we’ve been working with universities who love the tool in order to bring data visualization — or immersive data visualization — to their students. It was amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

The big entities; the Googles, Microsofts, where we would hold our event, as well as the whole investment community. And then most recently, we’ve been working with universities who love the tool in order to bring data visualization — or immersive data visualization — to their students. It was amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

And it really cannot be replicated in a vibe or an Oculus Rift or avoid I’m sure spaces is going to do this as well but using haptics and vibration plates and sent machines and spatial audio. And Torch is an AR authoring tool that lets you create augmented reality experiences. So it’s more like AR on a Google map.

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