Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

” Not a month later and the company was seeking four additional hires with immersive tech talent , including a ‘VR/AR Programmer’ Then there was Apple’s hiring of Doug Bowman , Director of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech, and an influential figure in the world of virtual reality academia.

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Digitalnauts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO IMMERSIVE TECH. XR, or Extended Reality, is an umbrella term for a variety of immersive technologies including VR (Virtual Reality), MR (Mixed Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality). In a Virtual Reality experience users are fully immersed in a simulated digital environment, shutting out the physical world.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Now the pivot comes too little, too late: Microsoft is years ahead of its competitors in offering services for big companies (Azure is a fantastic solution in this sense), and Magic Leap is really behind in this. Google ARCore now adds depth detection. More info (Firefox Realities update) More info (Google Chrome 79).

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Meet GIGXR , the new owner of all of the assets of Pearson Immersive Learning Group , a subsidiary of the education and media publishing giant, Pearson. As a training tool in enterprises, virtual and augmented reality headsets find themselves following a similar trajectory as Google’s trailblazing (and much maligned) Glass technology.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Side note that AR will be much bigger than VR, in both the diversity of use cases and market size (analysts predict $30B for VR versus $90B for AR by 2020), but I still believe that most homes will have a dedicated VR space for total immersion. Body movement. Let’s start from the ground up. Squishier objects will have more give.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

I attended the Experiential Technology Conference (XTech) in San Francisco this week to hear talks about creating virtual experiences that truly immerse you in another world. We have 3D sound as well, but we need more than that to achieve real immersion, said Tal Blevins, head of media at UploadVR, in a panel at XTech.

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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. At the same time, personal voice assistants developed by tech giants — Alexa from Amazon, Siri from Apple, and Google Assistant — are standing at the forefront of the audio augmented reality market.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It was a device that the user sat in-front of while their head was encased on four sides by a screen and they watched any one of five films, which all engaged sight, sound, smell and touch. In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted display (HMD) system for immersive simulation applications.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2020

Glue is a modern collaboration platform that takes advantage of recent advances in immersive 3D graphics, virtual reality, and cloud computing. Collaborate on the data together in one room with two HoloLenses, or bring in more people from all over the world, wearing a Microsoft Mixed Reality Head-Mounted-Display (HMD).

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass? Alan: Kind of like heads-up instructions. What did it enable?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass? Alan: Kind of like heads-up instructions. What did it enable?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In the figure below, the patent shows off a Google Glass-style configuration that is “especially well suited to be used with head mounted displays and a camera pointed at the space in front of the user.” ” Apple’s ‘Google Glass-style’ configuration, image courtesy USPTO.

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VR Playhouse

JUNE 15, 2017

One day, we will all regularly consume media through head mounted displays, just as we all watch television today. While Sony competed in the home console space with several other companies, such as Sega and later Nintendo and Microsoft, what made the PS2 stand out was its built in DVD player.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Greg has been designing and driving the development of immersive digital simulation for architecture, engineering, and construction markets for the last 20 years. So it’s immersive. And then a lot of that feedback went back to Microsoft, to help inform where the next generation headset was going. So I think that was good.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Greg has been designing and driving the development of immersive digital simulation for architecture, engineering, and construction markets for the last 20 years. So it’s immersive. And then a lot of that feedback went back to Microsoft, to help inform where the next generation headset was going. So I think that was good.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Greg has been designing and driving the development of immersive digital simulation for architecture, engineering, and construction markets for the last 20 years. He's been pushing the envelope of this technology and software for the Microsoft Hololens, and recently built an app for the global launch event of the next generation Hololens 2.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 1, 2017

Highlights of today’s remarkable announcements include: CieAR is unveiling its new AR film platform which enables a unique and immersive film experience in real space and time with life-sized 3D virtual characters. Kopin is unveiling a reference design with Goertek for a new lightweight, super high-res, OLED-powered head-mounted display.

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