article thumbnail

The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.16): Oculus Quest gets hand tracking, Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise and much more!

The Ghost Howls

At the same time, Magic Leap has also shipped a new runtime for its hardware , with the addition of new nice features like vocal commands. Google ARCore now adds depth detection. Great news for all the augmented reality developers: the next version of Google ARCore is adding depth detection. Join VRX Webinar.

article thumbnail

Lenovo makes major push into education market

VRWorld

To this end, the package comes with over seven hundred Google Expeditions VR field trips pre-installed, and also adds exclusive-to-Lenovo “Wild Immersion” (Jane Goodall) content. Available in the U.S.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The State of the XR Marketplace, with XR Intelligence’s Kathryn Bloxham

XR for Business Podcast

I’m going to be speaking at your VRX conference — we’ll talk about that, and all the great things — and you also host a number of really informational webinars. So we do the webinars, industry surveys and reports, as well as three events throughout the year across the US and Europe. So we’ll get into that.

Survey 78
article thumbnail

Nothing New: HTC Exec Slams Apple’s Vision Pro’s ‘Pricey’ XR Headset

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

According to a Patently Apple report citing Statcounter data, “The rapid drop in market share can be attributed to stiff competition from its competitors, which are macOS from Apple and Chrome OS from Google. This will offer the best ‘stick and carrot’ method for developing its XR hardware. USD in 2023, up $866.04

HTC 61
article thumbnail

The State of the XR Marketplace, with XR Intelligence’s Kathryn Bloxham

XR for Business Podcast

I’m going to be speaking at your VRX conference — we’ll talk about that, and all the great things — and you also host a number of really informational webinars. So we do the webinars, industry surveys and reports, as well as three events throughout the year across the US and Europe. So we’ll get into that.

Survey 60
article thumbnail

Are The Metaverse And Web3 Still Relevant?

Bernard Marr

A year or two back, a Google search for the term "metaverse" would bring up pages of stories about companies making a move into virtual worlds. Today – not so much! Crucially, the concept of merging the real and virtual worlds is central to the metaverse.

article thumbnail

Will Smart Glasses Replace Smartphones In The Metaverse?

Bernard Marr

After all, most of us already have them, removing the friction necessitated by requiring an expensive new hardware purchase simply to join in the fun. Others – such as those behind the popular Sandbox and Roblox platforms – say there is a lot of mileage still in flat displays, such as computers and mobile phones.

Wearables 137