The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

More info (Twitter post that describes the excitement around this project) More info (Official launch blog post) Other relevant news (Image by Google) Chrome ships WebGPU Chrome , the most popular browser around, has just implemented WebGPU. This research, taken further, could bring many interesting innovations in the AR field.

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VRWorld

MAY 8, 2018

Google opens their proprietary VR180 format, JPEG introduces JPEG XS. First up is Google, with their VR180 format. By surveying over 12,000 adults in the U.S., Meanwhile, researchers at the University of Malta have been working to create VR experiences to simulate that of an autistic child.

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VRWorld

MAY 8, 2018

Google opens their proprietary VR180 format, JPEG introduces JPEG XS. First up is Google, with their VR180 format. By surveying over 12,000 adults in the U.S., Meanwhile, researchers at the University of Malta have been working to create VR experiences to simulate that of an autistic child.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Owlchemy Labs adds subtitles to Vacation Simulator. I want to highlight 3 reports: Steam Hardware survey. More info (Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Superdata XR Update) More info (Digicapital Report). Google Chrome adds supports for WebXR. Finally, the popular Google Chrome browser is adding support for WebXR.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

Flight simulators are VR for some people, and military funding to train pilots better is deeply involved in the origin story, which goes back to the 1920s according to some sources. If you can’t be in a flight simulator, the next best thing would be video. until Google Cardboard showed it didn’t have to be.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 9, 2016

When coupled with a low cost viewer, such as Google Cardboard, a basic VR hardware stack is accessible at a fairly low cost. In addition to the low-end Google Cardboard, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, Samsung Gear VR and most recently Google Daydream, provide a variety of viewers with different capabilities and price points.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

More info (PwC research) More info (Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Counterpoint Research) More info (Moss and Gorn selling more than 1M units). On a separate news, Facebook has hired Joshua To, a previous key AR/VR director from Google who worked on AR/VR projects like Lens and Daydream and that will help FRL in its AR efforts.

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EnterpriseWear

AUGUST 1, 2018

Ideas on the ground and on board: The airport industry first began toying with wearable technology with the release of the original Google Glass in 2013. Let’s look back: Early trials: Virgin Atlantic ’s 2014 trial at London Heathrow Airport – in collaboration with SITA – included both Google Glass and the Sony SmartWatch 2.

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 28, 2022

It might sound fantastic, but a 2020 Ericsson survey found that 70% of respondents believe we will be able to create VR worlds that our brains can’t distinguish from real worlds by 2030. Google Earth, for example, already allows us to put on a VR headset and view virtually any part of the planet in a 360-degree, first-person perspective.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

The manager added, “The players at the biggest clubs tell us that it is more fun to go in football simulators at their clubs because that is more like playing football. Findings from the survey revealed over 40 percent of athletes had ‘subclinical deficits’ leading to poor brain performance.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. Let me copy-paste for you what it is about: AR/VR creators, this survey is for you. Take the survey to help the global community learn more about the skills and technologies necessary to succeed in 2023 and beyond.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

So we do the webinars, industry surveys and reports, as well as three events throughout the year across the US and Europe. And there was some really interesting patterns that emerged when we looked at the 2019 survey compared with the 2018 survey. And then we also put together various types of content throughout the year.

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Bernard Marr

APRIL 3, 2023

Perhaps even more so – Google CEO Sundar Pichai famously stated back in 2016 that it would have a bigger impact than fire or electricity. You might be one of the many who don’t even realize it – a survey a few years back found that while 84% of us were using AI on a daily basis, only 34% knew we were doing it.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

More info (Meta’s losses in 2023) More info (Meta expecting even higher losses in 2024) Quest 3 enters the Steam chart at 0.15% Meta Quest 3 appeared for the first time in Steam’s Hardware Survey, with a 0.15% share of the market. It seems the journalist liked them.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

I think that, after a year, its specifications don’t sound exceptional anymore and maybe it is better that LG jumps directly to a second generation or that enters the standalone market (as it seems, since there are some rumors about a new revolutionary headset screen developed by Google and LG). Google AR apps.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2019

So we do the webinars, industry surveys and reports, as well as three events throughout the year across the US and Europe. And there was some really interesting patterns that emerged when we looked at the 2019 survey compared with the 2018 survey. And then we also put together various types of content throughout the year.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The result is that many big brands are canceling their presence at CES: Google, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, Lenovo, and many others, have decided not to go , and maybe provide their news virtually. Participate in the survey. But it said that it needs at least 6 years to make it become reality. News from partners (and friends). Some XR fun.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

Steve: Well, it was a MetaVRse product that I downloaded to my phone some time, in Google Cardboard. And that’s when Carolina Biological, the largest provider of animal specimens for dissection, contacted us because they had been looking for a digital product that could simulate what happens in real life. What are you seeing?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

Steve: Well, it was a MetaVRse product that I downloaded to my phone some time, in Google Cardboard. And that’s when Carolina Biological, the largest provider of animal specimens for dissection, contacted us because they had been looking for a digital product that could simulate what happens in real life. What are you seeing?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

Steve: Well, it was a MetaVRse product that I downloaded to my phone some time, in Google Cardboard. And that's when Carolina Biological, the largest provider of animal specimens for dissection, contacted us because they had been looking for a digital product that could simulate what happens in real life. What are you seeing?

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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? Charlie: VR has a lot of fantastic applications in training and simulation.

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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? Charlie: VR has a lot of fantastic applications in training and simulation.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 30, 2023

has been released The XR dev community has not only kept TiltBrush alive after it has been abandoned by Google, but it has managed to keep improving it and now the open-source version of TiltBrush, called OpenBrush, has reached version 2.0.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Market analysis firm ARtillery Intelligence has conducted a survey about VR in the US. This move resembles the one that Google had with TiltBrush: instead of killing the program, it is returning it back to the community, and this is for sure a good decision. VR adoption is on the rise, but interest towards VR is not.

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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. Image by Acer).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Part of the funding comes from Google Ventures, so people start fantasizing that Google may come back to VR and SideQuest may become something like its official store. I doubt about it, because actually, Google has already its store, and it is already used “slightly more” than SideQuest…. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

More info (Sebastian’s Tweet) More info (Sebastian’s Tweet with answer by GermanRifter) More info (Google Cache for Bestware shop page for Cosmos). Latest Steam survey still highlights Oculus domination of the consumer market. In the latest hardware survey, Oculus still owns around 50% of the headset market among Steam users.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 16, 2018

There are also large, variable-sized regions for flight simulations available on request, but the prices for these are not currently posted on the company’s land sales page. There’s no centralized way to find OpenSim grids, so if you don’t tell us about it, and Google doesn’t alert us, we won’t know about it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

The amount of money that they can save on having to physically do a build of a design — a first iteration of a car, what have you — I mean, that’s millions of dollars of time in labor that they can save if they can learn as much as they can through a VR simulation of the car. Bob: It was kind of a model simulator.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

The amount of money that they can save on having to physically do a build of a design — a first iteration of a car, what have you — I mean, that’s millions of dollars of time in labor that they can save if they can learn as much as they can through a VR simulation of the car. Bob: It was kind of a model simulator.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

HyperLoop has experimented with immersive touch windows dedicated to the entertainment of travelers, allowing them to simulate an external panorama , but also to take advantage of entertainment and shopping services. On Android devices alone, the application has been used by over 10,000 travelers.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

The amount of money that they can save on having to physically do a build of a design -- a first iteration of a car, what have you -- I mean, that's millions of dollars of time in labor that they can save if they can learn as much as they can through a VR simulation of the car. Bob: It was kind of a model simulator. Holy moly!

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And the day we can interact with virtual humans in believable virtual environments, then you can start having simulations, social simulations where you can build experiences on demands and soft skills. But what you’re saying is you’ve created training simulators to train on how to deal with people.

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EnterpriseWear

MARCH 4, 2019

In a recent mailer campaign to convey the importance of professional alarm monitoring services, ADT sent out Google Cardboard-like VR headsets that put recipients into a simulated life-threatening situation. Eye-tracking in VR provides richer and more accurate behavioral data than traditional testing.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And the day we can interact with virtual humans in believable virtual environments, then you can start having simulations, social simulations where you can build experiences on demands and soft skills. But what you're saying is you've created training simulators to train on how to deal with people.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

A friend of mine, James, he went in a virtual reality crane training simulator, spent an hour in it. Often, we do consumer surveys — surveys of enterprise developers, users, that sort of thing — to gain a better idea of what people are interested in the market. Then they took him outside, put him on a real crane.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

A friend of mine, James, he went in a virtual reality crane training simulator, spent an hour in it. Often, we do consumer surveys — surveys of enterprise developers, users, that sort of thing — to gain a better idea of what people are interested in the market. Then they took him outside, put him on a real crane.

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