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Top XR Stories of 2019

Tech Trends VR

At this year’s year’s E3 conference, Facebook’s Vice President of Special Gaming Strategies Jason Rubin told audiences that the Oculus Quest was seeing “console-like” engagement from users, selling $5 million worth of content in first 2 weeks since the device started shipping back in May. Google Ends the Daydream.

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Supporting Creative Storytelling in VR

Tech Trends VR

Run by the organisations in collaboration with commercial partners including Google, BBC and Sky, the programme is dedicated to supporting the development of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) products and their application within the creative industries.

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The Top 5 Metaverse Trends In 2023

Bernard Marr

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. No one knows for sure what the winning strategy will be yet, but one thing is for certain – you’ve got to be in it to win it. The Corporate Metaverse.

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How VR and AI Will Supercharge Learning

Tech Trends VR

These are the eerily prophetic words of the late Science Fiction author and futurist visionary Isaac Asimov , long before Google became a part of our lexicon. “In “It seems to me that it is through this machine that for the first time we will be able to have a one-to-one relationship between information source and information consumer.”.

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All the most important AR and VR news from the GDC 2018

The Ghost Howls

This business strategy of selling to few people for a high price has completely sense , considering that all the device has been conceived to add all the features that could make it compelling mostly for professionals. Google AR apps. Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). It’s actually funny.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

The company was later acquired by Google in 2010. Prior to Presence Capital, he was the founder and CTO of MyMiniLife (acquired by Zynga) and the founder and CEO of Toro (acquired by Google). As a customer-focused product strategist, he oversees platform strategies that unify the product category for emerging technologies.