Bernard Marr

APRIL 7, 2023

As big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence continue to gain prominence in information technology, experts are raising concerns about the environmental costs of computation — primarily data and AI’s carbon footprint and greenhouse gas emissions. Follow Google’s “4M” best practices.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

As software, hardware, and applications improve, so do the mental health and medical fields. Being able to just pick up a piece of hardware, put it on, and get started is amazingly helpful in actually getting people to use your application.” . Technology improves over time. The report has lots of interesting use cases for AR and VR.

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ARPost

APRIL 29, 2021

The company offers free trials and platform support comes through three price tiers including a free price tier with limited functionality, so how you use XMReality can scale with the size and technical hardware investment of your company. TechSee and Vuzix (and Microsoft). Microsoft Mesh. TeamViewer Pilot.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

Ultraleap’s computer vision and machine learning models also enable low-cost hand-tracking integration for enterprise end users. Ultraleap also notes how hand tracking is becoming a “mandatory feature” of major available and upcoming headsets from firms including Microsoft, Meta, and Apple.

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CraneMorley

AUGUST 1, 2023

It is a combination of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), (MR) mixed reality, the internet of things (IoT), AI (Artificial Intelligence), machine learning and edge computing. Enhanced safety: The industrial metaverse can help to improve safety by providing workers with a safe and controlled environment to learn and work in.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Apple is constantly improving its ARKit solution, adding always more features, and also Google is (slowly) updating ARCore. AI and Machine learning make software always more capable of recognizing people and objects. On the hardware side, additional sensors on phone (e.g.

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ARVR

JANUARY 21, 2022

It is generally seen as being a bit of a different challenge than ARKit due to the fact that special attention should be paid to the wide variety of hardware that exists on devices running Android. This past year, Google introduced a few new features for ARCore such as recording and playback APIs. It is expected to grow to $12.97

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Eventually, Apple could take lessons it learns from the virtual reality headset and apply it to a pair of lightweight AR glasses with transparent displays. Google’s approach was significantly lighter and simpler than what’s come since.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A report from Insider states that Microsoft may have canceled its plans for HoloLens 3. There is instead a rumored partnership with Samsung , where Samsung would actually build a new XR device and Microsoft offer the platform on top of which the headset may run. Learn more. Some updates on Meta products. Les Mills BodyCombat.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

The Quest 2 is a great gaming machine offered at a ridiculous price, and it has totally crushed the competition. Just to make an example, I was there when there was the Netscape vs Internet Explorer war, but now the leading web browser is Google Chrome. Apple is proposing itself to be the next competitor of Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2022

Google acquires Raxium. The news about Google being willing to acquire Raxium had been leaked a few weeks ago, but now it has become official. Snap has bought Compound Photonics, Meta has established a strategic partnership with Plessey), and Google has just done this important move, too. Learn more. Learn more.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

Major Firms Enter the XR Market During a launch event at MWC 2024, Samsung showcased a new XR headset developed in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm. Additionally, as Samsung and Google have partnered with Qualcomm, it is reasonable to assume that the device will use the Qualcomm XR2+ Gen 2 Platform, which supports AI-ready wearables.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market. ARCore   — ARCore is an AR SDK released by Google in 2018 for building augmented reality experiences. It can run on AR/VR hardwares.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

It is also the time when all magazines create a list of “best of” the year and give awards to the best content and hardware … about which there is always someone that doesn’t agree. Somnium Space gives detail on its new hardware. It’s the end of the year, and it’s time to look back at what has happened in 2021. I like this approach.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Google unveils Starline communication solution. At Google I/O, Google has announced Project Starline, an interesting project it has worked on for five years. I find Starlight an AMAZING project on the research side , and I think that all these technologies Google has developed for it may be re-used in other XR projects.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Google’s investment for a 7.7% Google-Jio joint venture to develop an Android-based platform for an affordable 5G phone. In its personal crusade against Microsoft, optics expert Karl Guttag has listed in 4 articles all the defects of the HoloLens 2. Not a great evolution from Microsoft. India’s first 5G network; 2.

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AR Insider

JULY 15, 2021

Machine learning algorithms for avatars will use tracking data from our eyes, mouths, and bodies. FWIW, Google had also partnered with Luxottica but never shipped a more fashionable version of Glass.]. What they need to learn is how to make the eventual consumer glasses cheaper and more power-efficient for all-day use.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. Facebook keeps running fast towards its vision of the m verse, both from a hardware and software standpoint. Microsoft X-Rings is a controllers that can change its shape.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Meta has not explained why it was removed: some people suspect it was because it could have been used “to see through some clothes”, but I don’t know if the truth is actually some software/hardware incompatibility. Partnership with Microsoft. Highlights of the partnership between Meta and Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

It showed what is its vision for the long-term future: AR glasses that are intelligent enough to learn about your behavior and to examine the context you are in so that to be able to already provide you suggestions about what they can do to help you. Image by Microsoft). Google halves its revenues on the Play Store.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 18, 2024

We’re going to train it with multimodality data, not just text on the internet, we’re going to train it on texts and images, graphs and charts, and just as we learned watching TV, there’s going to be a whole bunch of watching video.” “We need even larger models,” Huang said. The Blackwell platform is built to meet this challenge.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Yesterday, Google announced that their generative AI tool, called Google Bard, had been renamed to Gemini, and was now finally available in Canada ( The Globe and Mail newspaper provides some background on why there was a delay ). Hardware & Connectivity Ports: MacBook Pros primarily feature Thunderbolt/USB-C ports.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 5, 2023

Through extended reality software and hardware, organizations can train their team members to be more productive and efficient in the workplace, while reducing health and safety risks. Users can leverage learning sessions through a VR headset, phone, tablet, or browser.

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Bernard Marr

APRIL 17, 2023

In the simplest terms, it involves providing computer storage, processing power, and applications via the internet, so users don't need to worry about buying, installing, and maintaining hardware and software themselves. Will Amazon or Google welcome the idea of “sharing” their cloud customers with competing services?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Microsoft has released the news that it is increasing the availability of HoloLens 2 and that tens of thousands of units have been shipped to date. Basically, projects that give value to the device and to Microsoft in general. Of course, the hardware you use must provide access to this software solution. Learn more.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Mr. Mike Powell, he is the head of the Microsoft Garage and the author of “Age of Smart Information,” a new book about how artificial intelligence and spatial computing will transform the way we communicate forever. You really needed some hardware and software that didn’t exist at that point to enjoy the information, right.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Mr. Mike Powell, he is the head of the Microsoft Garage and the author of “Age of Smart Information,” a new book about how artificial intelligence and spatial computing will transform the way we communicate forever. You really needed some hardware and software that didn’t exist at that point to enjoy the information, right.

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Bernard Marr

MAY 20, 2024

Dall-E uses OpenAI’s language model, GPT-3, to process its users’ natural language prompts and has also been integrated by Microsoft (a major OpenAI investor) into its Bing, Co-Pilot and Designer tools. This means anyone can create custom versions to suit their own requirements and even run it locally on their own hardware.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 14, 2019

— AR uses cameras and machine learning technology to place digital graphics in the real world. The walk, which launched on Saturday, is a new program at Apple stores called “AR[T],” which is a play on words on augmented reality, a technology that uses cameras and machine learning to place digital objects in the real world.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And the price of the wireless add-on is even more suspicious: speaking with a hardware manufacturer, they told me that ONLY THE ANTENNAS of a Wi-Gig connection for VR streaming (like the one of the Vive Pro) costs around $100… so how can the whole wireless streaming device cost just $50??

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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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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

After that, I headed for China to pursue my dream and headed marketing and strategy for the release of the Microsoft A.I. The aim in developing the PanguVR engine was to equip content producers to create immersive and interactive content, in UE4 (Unreal VR Engine), automatically meaning without any learning curve. What does PanguVR do?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 2, 2024

These are the chips companies need to train cutting-edge AI programs like OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4 and Google’s PaLM 2. As demand for intelligent and spatial computing increases, businesses need hardware that supports high amounts of memory. Here’s what we’ve learned based on industry reports and insights: 1.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

I’ve studied at important universities like UC Berkeley, and I’ve worked on many technical projects (for work or personal interest) in electronics, optics, brain-machine interface , natural language processing, etc…. People at Kura love to experiment with hardware going very hands-on the technology (Image by Kura Technologies).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

I can say that this week we had no disruptive news about XR hardware or software , and most news that I’ve read on the most popular VR magazines have been about content, mostly games. MRTK, not to be confused with VRTK, is the official SDK to develop for Microsoft HoloLens and HoloLens 2. Someone made Google Lens work in VR.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Gaming On-Demand Google's Stadia streaming gaming service may not exist in 2023 - it proved to be a great idea, backed by solid technology, that just didn't catch on with consumers. However, other cloud services continued to grow, including Nvidia's GeForce Now and Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming.

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