The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Google lets now everyone contribute to StreetView. If you have an ARCore-powered Android device, you can now contribute to Google StreetView. A very interesting research is being carried out at Yale University: a professor is trying to understand more about human vision by studying the vision of flies. News worth a mention.

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ARPost

MARCH 12, 2021

The exciting news is that we have started a new tech cycle, with the combination of augmented reality , virtual reality , and artificial intelligence. Many leading technology companies such as Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Google are investing billions into developing these technologies. The Beginnings of a New Tech Cycle.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. In case you are in need of a solid team able to build a high-quality XR virtual environment, please let me know.

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2017

Following a recent Christmas break where he says he studied a robot vacuum cleaner, tested all available voice-input devices for the home (such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home smart speakers), and watched every Black Mirror episode, it was voice control that excited Sony’s head of Magic Lab the most.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 29, 2024

Coursera/Daydream: Introduction to Augmented Reality Created by Google Daydream in collaboration with Coursera , the Introduction to Augmented Reality and ARCore workshop is a beginner-level course. It teaches students how to use standard tools for AR development, like Google’s own ARCore kit.

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Immersive Authority

JUNE 30, 2016

Unless you’ve been studying immersive technologies very closely, you may not have seen the rising use of the term Mixed Reality. Everyone probably has a good idea of what Virtual Reality is all about. It’s the immersion of a user into a fully virtual environment, by means of a VR headset.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

To me, modern VR started when Google released the Cardboard App in 2014 basically for free to a world that basically scratched its head and said, ‘huh?’ It is still far from clear what Google was thinking but it sent a kind of signal. until Google Cardboard showed it didn’t have to be. That was 24 years after ‘The Year of VR.’

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2016

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. 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.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

Today, to provide an insight into the opportunities for XR in the gaming landscape, we’re going to be looking at some of the most impressive case studies from the last few years. Tender Claws and Google ARCore. To unlock this new world, Sense Arena worked with the experts at VIVE.

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ARPost

MARCH 24, 2021

Gamers 18 or older represent nearly 80% of the video-gaming population, based on a 2020 study , and lest you think most of those are new to adulthood, the average gamer is actually 34 years old and nearly a quarter (23%) of all gamers in the United States are over the age of 50. Google Earth VR. Who Is Playing Games? Everest VR.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 12, 2022

More companies are planning to invest in the new frontier that is the metaverse, but cybersecurity threats are a top concern, according to a study released today by cybersecurity company Tenable. (Image courtesy Riki32 via Pixabay.). And other companies are jumping on the metaverse bandwagon.

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VRScout

AUGUST 8, 2020

Studies show that learning through VR versus traditional means result in measurably higher retention rates and performance gains,” Henderson adds, “The benefit of VR learning with a solution like Lenovo VR Classroom 2 is the ability to engage students and immerse into subjects and scenarios that are beyond paper or screens.” .

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Leapmotion

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

With Paper Plane , we studied the basic features of Leap Motion using fairly simple mechanics. Our designers plunge into the creation of special interfaces, as it’s very interesting and qualitatively expands new opportunities within the virtual environment. How did each idea come about?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

Google releases an opensource library for hand tracking. Google has released opensource a library for tracking your hands on a mobile device. Someone made Google Lens work in VR. Developer Phasedragon has developed a VR experience where you hold a virtual smartphone in your hand. Decentraland is growing.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Advrty wants to offer a new avenue of monetization for virtual reality developers which doesn’t involve full field-of-view pop-up ads with a platform aimed at designing and incorporating nonintrusive product placement. While not swapping anything out, Google is attempting to make the world an ad through its visual search app–Google Lens.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 28, 2019

So, meetingRoom is a service that allows people to work with each other, using familiar meeting room facilities — like whiteboards — in a virtual environment, from anywhere. In a study of a hundred people, which got published in spring early on this year, we beat out Skype for Business. Or can I grab PDFs?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 28, 2019

So, meetingRoom is a service that allows people to work with each other, using familiar meeting room facilities — like whiteboards — in a virtual environment, from anywhere. In a study of a hundred people, which got published in spring early on this year, we beat out Skype for Business. Or can I grab PDFs?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 28, 2019

So, meetingRoom is a service that allows people to work with each other, using familiar meeting room facilities -- like whiteboards -- in a virtual environment, from anywhere. In a study of a hundred people, which got published in spring early on this year, we beat out Skype for Business. Can I grab my team's stuff?

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XR for Business Podcast

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. It ruins not only the reputation of the company, but of the reputation of what virtual reality is doing today. Or for Coca-Cola?

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XR for Business Podcast

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. It ruins not only the reputation of the company, but of the reputation of what virtual reality is doing today. Or for Coca-Cola?

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XR for Business Podcast

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. It ruins not only the reputation of the company, but of the reputation of what virtual reality is doing today. Or for Coca-Cola?

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XR for Business Podcast

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. It ruins not only the reputation of the company, but of the reputation of what virtual reality is doing today. Or for Coca-Cola?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

I got in VR, I operated the machine, I drove it around, I killed some virtual people. I’m actually gonna do a little study with my two children, and put them in and let them spend an hour training on this excavator. A friend of mine, James, he went in a virtual reality crane training simulator, spent an hour in it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

I got in VR, I operated the machine, I drove it around, I killed some virtual people. I’m actually gonna do a little study with my two children, and put them in and let them spend an hour training on this excavator. A friend of mine, James, he went in a virtual reality crane training simulator, spent an hour in it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

I got in VR, I operated the machine, I drove it around, I killed some virtual people. I'm actually gonna do a little study with my two children, and put them in and let them spend an hour training on this excavator. A friend of mine, James, he went in a virtual reality crane training simulator, spent an hour in it. Alan: Right.

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AUGray

MAY 22, 2023

Web showrooms allow potential customers to explore your products in a virtual environment, which can be especially helpful during the pandemic. Develop a content strategy that includes blog posts, case studies, videos, and infographics.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And I think so far we’ve failed a little bit on creating virtually real humans. 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.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And I think so far we've failed a little bit on creating virtually real humans. 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.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And I think so far we’ve failed a little bit on creating virtually real humans. 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.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And I think so far we’ve failed a little bit on creating virtually real humans. 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.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 14, 2018

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 This essentially means that when we enter a virtual environment, we believe we are present, in spite of our conscious brains telling us that this is indeed a simulation.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Google uses it to find the information we need; Amazon uses it to suggest things we should buy; Netflix uses it to recommend movies; Spotify uses it for music – it’s all powered by AI. Like all of the AI we see today, generative AI grew out of a field of AI study and practice called machine learning (ML). How Does It Work?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Jeremy Bailenson is the director of the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab, and I help out there as the medical advisor and expert. We can do larger scale studies. It takes a little bit time to do the studies to demonstrate safety and efficacy, but we’re in the process of doing that. We know that.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Jeremy Bailenson is the director of the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab, and I help out there as the medical advisor and expert. We can do larger scale studies. It takes a little bit time to do the studies to demonstrate safety and efficacy, but we're in the process of doing that. We know that.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

If they know that if they dig a certain amount of rock out based on their studies, they’ll get a certain amount of gold. Then with Google Maps, it gives us a better option, where we can see the path. Yeah, I think it’s going to open up incredible possibilities. Right now, mining companies, for example, they have a formula.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

If they know that if they dig a certain amount of rock out based on their studies, they’ll get a certain amount of gold. Then with Google Maps, it gives us a better option, where we can see the path. Yeah, I think it’s going to open up incredible possibilities. Right now, mining companies, for example, they have a formula.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Jeremy Bailenson is the director of the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab, and I help out there as the medical advisor and expert. We can do larger scale studies. It takes a little bit time to do the studies to demonstrate safety and efficacy, but we’re in the process of doing that. We know that.

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