Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Samsung’s 2023 Unpacked event was all about the company’s Galaxy S23 hardware, although at the end of its hour-long presentation the South Korean tech giant announced it was working with Qualcomm and Google to develop an XR device. Samsung was one of the first truly massive tech companies to develop VR hardware.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It will also “foster a vibrant AI hardware accelerator ecosystem” by increasing the number of contributions and adoptions of key software technologies. For example, Google has begun integrating its AI capabilities for massive LLM tools with its PaLM platform and next-level processing capabilities with TensorFlow, among others.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The AR squadron contained John Hanke ( Niantic chief executive — Developer of Pokemon Go ), Stanley Pierre-Louis, (General Counsel for the Entertainment Software Association), Brian Blau ( Gartner Research Vice President), and Ryan Calo (Assistant Professor of Law, University of Washington).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Attendance of the meetup comes just weeks after the Microsoft Ignite event , which showcased many of the Redmond, Washington-based firm’s key innovations in extended reality (XR), avatars, artificial intelligence (AI), the user experience (UX), and productivity tools, among many others.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 8, 2018

Addressing an audience of over five thousand developers in Seattle’s Washington Convention Center, Nadella struck a soberly optimistic note; on the one hand insisting on the message he delivered last year about the great transformative power of technology, but also highlighting the monumental challenges that come with its rapid development.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2016

Samsung VR is now somewhat similar to the App Store or Google Play store in that it’s where you can find the latest content for virtual reality products. Samsung solidified its commitment to the virtual reality space with some big announcements that essentially add up to an end-to-end consumer VR solution. NEW LAUNCHES, MOVEMENTS, AND MONEY.

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Everything VR & AR

JULY 19, 2016

We also discuss some of the equipment that the team uses to capture this fantastic footage including the Theta S from RICOH and software called Liquid Cinema to help direct the viewers attention to what the storyteller wants views to focus on.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

Joining today is: Max Bickley, Senior Product Designer of Omniverse at NVIDIA Tim Giuliani, Orlando Economic Partnership President & CEO Betsy Gilbert, Marketing and Business Development at Arvizio Omer Shamay, Treedis CEO How do digital twins operate in tandem with XR hardware and software? Factories of the future will be digital first.

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NVidia VR

JULY 31, 2018

A software developer who’d just sold his industrial mapping company, Kacyra wanted to do something good with his technology skills. Working on powerful workstations equipped with NVIDIA Quadro P6000 cards, CyArk technicians convert the data to 3D imagery using a software package called Capturing Reality. Taste of What’s to Come.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The price and availability of this device are still undisclosed , but HP has clarified that if you use its software services (that handle and analyze the sensors’ data) for your profit, you have to give 2% of your profit to it. Google drops support for Daydream. It seems fair to me. RIP Daydream, it has been nice dreaming with you.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

I was expecting a PSVR 2 launch in 2021, but then suddenly Jim Ryan in an interview with The Washington Post has commented on VR with these exact words: PlayStation believes in VR. Facebook will have its own Cloud Gaming Service, entering so the field of the future of gaming where other companies like Google (Stadia!),

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Their approach is different than what Microsoft or Google has built but Facebook highlights a shared central challenge: dealing with Apple. Apple was initially slow to provide a path forward for cloud gaming apps from Google and Microsoft, which had previously been outlawed on the App Store. Virginia and West Virginia.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 1, 2019

We have already seen some devices like Google Glass that gave us a taste of how they would improve the world, even while introducing new problems, deepest amongst them was that they didn’t provide enough benefit to offset the real social costs of wearing a computing device and the weight that a computer put on our face.

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ARPost

AUGUST 10, 2022

The Washington DC-based association sees it as a vital element of the emerging tech ecosystem. This includes headset makers, software developers, and parts and accessories vendors. Google, HTC Vive, Microsoft, Meta, and Sony Interactive Entertainment jointly created XRA. The XRA represents the extensive XR ecosystem.

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Last week, researchers from Google and University of Texas at Austin Christopher Shallue and Andrew Vanderburg, announced that a machine-learning algorithm had discovered two new planets, Kepler 80g and Kepler 90i. Now artificial intelligence is helping to find even more. It also orbits its star every 14 days.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: I know that’s one of the main reasons why the automotive industry is one of the very early, big adopters and investors in the hardware and software. Talking on that point, Merge VR — which is an AR hardware/software platform — has completely taken off in the education market. Really simple.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: I know that’s one of the main reasons why the automotive industry is one of the very early, big adopters and investors in the hardware and software. Talking on that point, Merge VR — which is an AR hardware/software platform — has completely taken off in the education market. Really simple.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: I know that's one of the main reasons why the automotive industry is one of the very early, big adopters and investors in the hardware and software. Talking on that point, Merge VR -- which is an AR hardware/software platform -- has completely taken off in the education market. Not just the elderly, but older working people.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

ZeniMax sued Oculus, Facebook, and well-known virtual reality leaders John Carmack and Palmer Luckey for misappropriating trade secrets after Carmack left ZeniMax’s id Software and went to work at Oculus. He showed his creation to Carmack, who was at id Software. ZeniMax alleged those files contained ZeniMax-owned VR technology.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 15, 2023

It’s no secret that Washington and Beijing have remained in a massive impasse over the US-China trade war. Government officials cited ‘national security threats’ — sanctions from Washington for using Huawei kit. Huawei’s P30 series was the last flagship phone to include Google Mobile Services (GMS) natively.

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