AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Users will still be able to see most of the real world in front of them — unlike virtual reality, which completely immerses the user in a computer-generated fantasyland, augmented reality layers computer-generated text and images on top of reality. All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well.

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DECEMBER 9, 2016

The legendary programmer and founder of Epic Games sat down with me after his keynote address at the VRX conference in San Francisco and, as conversations with Sweeney usually do, the topic quickly turned to the issue of open platforms. “There’s an ethic that needs to develop in the VR industry. .”

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MARCH 1, 2017

I tried a Microsoft prototype VR headset at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco and got the first public look at the company’s vision for mixed reality beyond Hololens. I also found features in Microsoft’s gear I instantly wished were included in my Rift and Vive back at home. I’ll get straight to the point.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

VR is being used to correct conditions like amblyopia (sometimes called “lazy eye”) by San Francisco-based company Vivid Vision; instead of a childhood-scarring eyepatch or invasive surgery, virtual reality is the prescribed treatment. The round was from SRI Capital, which is a seed stage venture fund in Philadelphia. …and more.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

The conference takes place on December 7th and 8th in San Francisco Marriott Marquis. Marcus Kühne, Strategy Lead, Immersive Techologies, AUDI. Stephanie Llamas, Head of Immersive Technology Insights, SuperData Research. It is surprising not to see major players from Amazon, Facebook, Google or Valve.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The city of San Francisco will be getting its very first dedicated AR maker space thanks to Enklu , a cutting-edge company that approaches traditional venues and transforms them into modern experience centers using immersive AR technology. Memberships and day passes are now available to west coast developers and players.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for This is why Tim Sweeney, talking about the metaverse, rants about how we should avoid having again companies like Google and Apple that may decide the destiny of the others thanks to the immense power they have. Other news. Learn more. Learn more.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We’ve got beautiful immersive artists and people working in immersive storytelling that are coming. So it’s really– so there’s one stage that’s enterprise, and one stage that’s immersive. There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

We’ve got beautiful immersive artists and people working in immersive storytelling that are coming. So it’s really– so there’s one stage that’s enterprise, and one stage that’s immersive. There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

We’ve got beautiful immersive artists and people working in immersive storytelling that are coming. So it’s really– so there’s one stage that’s enterprise, and one stage that’s immersive. There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In April, we opened the doors to the first Upload Collective in San Francisco, a hub for VR and AR startups, development, co-working, education, meetups and even live broadcasting. With over 40 member companies in San Francisco, The Upload Collective has quickly grown both in size and in scope. November 2015. March 2016.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). It’s not often you get both Oculus and Valve together days, let alone Google and Samsung, with bonus helpings of Epic Games, Owlchemy Labs, and Sensics. Stefan Walker (Google), Luca Prasso (Google). Alex Lee (Google). Experiments in Social VR.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. Alan: It’s really, really important to get you excited about it, builds the immersion before you even put the headset on. You can learn more about the GFR Fund by visiting gfrfund.com. Teppei, welcome to the show, my friend. Teppei: Oh yeah. Teppei: Yeah.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. Alan: It’s really, really important to get you excited about it, builds the immersion before you even put the headset on. You can learn more about the GFR Fund by visiting gfrfund.com. Teppei, welcome to the show, my friend. Teppei: Oh yeah. Teppei: Yeah.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop — a 3D physics multi-touch desktop — to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Why would I want that?

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop — a 3D physics multi-touch desktop — to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Why would I want that?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. Alan: It’s really, really important to get you excited about it, builds the immersion before you even put the headset on. You can learn more about the GFR Fund by visiting gfrfund.com. Teppei, welcome to the show, my friend. Teppei: Oh yeah. Teppei: Yeah.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop -- a 3D physics multi-touch desktop -- to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. It was around 2015, the first Hololens had come out.

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JULY 2, 2019

Now we have also an office in San Francisco. The whole idea that we realize is that there’s so many great, immersive content being created, whether it’s VR, AR, and this is really going to be the way that content is going to be consumed in the future. So for me, it really shows the power of ads in immersive media.

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JULY 2, 2019

Now we have also an office in San Francisco. The whole idea that we realize is that there’s so many great, immersive content being created, whether it’s VR, AR, and this is really going to be the way that content is going to be consumed in the future. So for me, it really shows the power of ads in immersive media.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2016

To get some insight into those numbers, I moderated a panel on investing in virtual reality and augmented reality at Greenlight Insights’ recent Virtual Reality Strategy conference in San Francisco. Toby Zhang: I’m a partner with Youku Global Media Fund and CRCM in San Francisco. It focuses on media, AR/VR, and A.I.

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JULY 8, 2019

Terry Schussler is the director of Immersive Technology at Deutche Telekom, and he’s working to bring 5G into the XR domain, and expand the capabilities of mixed reality technologies. Google, about a month ago, announced their AR navigation system. Microsoft said, “we’re going to own the enterprise space.”

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JULY 8, 2019

Terry Schussler is the director of Immersive Technology at Deutche Telekom, and he’s working to bring 5G into the XR domain, and expand the capabilities of mixed reality technologies. It is with great honor that I welcome Director of Immersive Technology at Deutsche Telekom, and founding member of the Open AR Cloud, Mr. Terry Schuster.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Well informed on Microsoft came out and said, hey, their studio does two terabytes a minute of data capture. Alan: I know Google and Amazon and pretty much everybody's working on computer vision for products. We are very immersed in the technical side of things. And we're very immersed in this space. So we use 360 video.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Well informed on Microsoft came out and said, hey, their studio does two terabytes a minute of data capture. Alan: I know Google and Amazon and pretty much everybody's working on computer vision for products. We are very immersed in the technical side of things. And we're very immersed in this space. So we use 360 video.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Well informed on Microsoft came out and said, hey, their studio does two terabytes a minute of data capture. Alan: I know Google and Amazon and pretty much everybody’s working on computer vision for products. We are very immersed in the technical side of things. And we’re very immersed in this space.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Well informed on Microsoft came out and said, hey, their studio does two terabytes a minute of data capture. Alan: I know Google and Amazon and pretty much everybody’s working on computer vision for products. We are very immersed in the technical side of things. And we’re very immersed in this space.

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VRScout

JANUARY 21, 2017

Unfortunately, when it comes to immersive experiences, WebVR sits backstage, while VR headsets from HTC, Oculus, Playstation VR, Google and Samsung soak up all the limelight. Here is Yagiz Mungan’s (San Francisco) entry into the competition as an example of some of the concepts being entered.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

AR headset distribution is much more dramatic, as students are mainly developing on Microsoft HoloLens (43%), with Google Glass, Vuzix AR headsets, Epson Moverio, Meta AR Dev Kits making up the rest of the pie chart. Academy of Art San Francisco, USA. development at Carleton University, image courtesy VR First.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. So those huge breakthroughs are actually being applied and deployed into these immersive technologies. I ran into him at the Decentralized Web Summit and I was really curious, because he works at Google.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. So those huge breakthroughs are actually being applied and deployed into these immersive technologies. I ran into him at the Decentralized Web Summit and I was really curious, because he works at Google.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

And so I feel like there's this metaphor of a blue ocean and a red ocean, where right now there's so much opportunity for these immersive technologies that it's really a chance for people to collaborate and to work with other people on these big initiatives, and that you could actually do a lot of really big important things together.

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