The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

This would be pretty disruptive, because up to now every standalone headset has been a walled garden with its own store and hardware, with the only exception being HTC trying to distribute its Viveport store to some other Chinese devices. Basically, Google could try to be for standalone devices what Steam has been for the PC VR ones.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 30, 2017

The two day conference was packed with simultaneous, back-to-back presentations and workshops from industry leaders such as Microsoft, Google, AMD, The VOID, IMAX, Two Bit Circus, Secret Location, Globacore, Quantum Capture, The Canadian Film Centre, and many more. It’s not just the collaboration and support from government-backed groups.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

A leak by the famous leaker WalkingCat shows some pictures of the HP Reverb G2, which is the result of a collaboration between HP, Microsoft, and Valve. There’s a speech at AWE held by Microsoft and HP on 28th , so this may be a good moment for the launch. Image by Microsoft). HTC announces Vive Pro Secure.

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VRWorld

APRIL 14, 2017

Following the ban on completion of Tianhe-2 supercomputer in 2014 , Chinese government did not double down, but decided to put semiconductor industry as one of top 3 national priorities, and started to infuse over a quarter of trillion U.S. Zhaoxin Semiconductor is a joint-venture between Shanghai Municipal Government and VIA Technologies.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 28, 2020

Likewise, the VR presentation on the Microsoft booth at the education show was muted – rather than the bewildering array of Windows MR headsets seen two years ago, the company promoted the virtual learning systems on only one provider, with the Samsung Odyssey on display giving an example of the education content.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores. The rise of enterprise.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” The government spent millions and billions of dollars on it at different levels.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” The government spent millions and billions of dollars on it at different levels.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I'm thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE -- first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now -- and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, "well, this is ready for prime time." One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But we’ve got some amazing people this year, both in the enterprise side — so talking about training — we’ve got a whole defense and government sector that’s happening at the event this year, a couple hours of that. Anne-Marie: So they have taken their training globally into VR and AR with their staff.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But we’ve got some amazing people this year, both in the enterprise side — so talking about training — we’ve got a whole defense and government sector that’s happening at the event this year, a couple hours of that. Anne-Marie: So they have taken their training globally into VR and AR with their staff.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

As the Meta Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, HTC VIVE XR Elite, Pico 4 Enterprise, Lenovo VRX, and, most recently, the Varjo XR-4 walk the extended reality (XR) runway, a gradual but measurable uptick in renewed consumer interest in all things immersive builds momentum. 2024: The Year of XR Learning? billion USD uptick.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Instead, he has concentrated his journalistic efforts on a stereotypical dystopia of avatars and social media white elephants from a caricatured Meta, Microsoft AltSpaceVR, and Decentraland. This fallacy consciously overlooks the massive numbers of startups, tech firms, analysts, experts, and others involved in the industry.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But we’ve got some amazing people this year, both in the enterprise side — so talking about training — we’ve got a whole defense and government sector that’s happening at the event this year, a couple hours of that. Anne-Marie: So they have taken their training globally into VR and AR with their staff.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. Sounded good. Smartglasses.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

On the enterprise side, many AR headsets, from firms like RealWear and Microsoft, for on-site usage provide eye and hand-tracking features to optimize workplace operations and communications. Take, for example, Lufthansa – they train their aircrew through a VR application created by NMY Mixed Reality Studio.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

On the enterprise side, many AR headsets, from firms like RealWear and Microsoft, for on-site usage provide eye and hand-tracking features to optimize workplace operations and communications. Take, for example, Lufthansa – they train their aircrew through a VR application created by NMY Mixed Reality Studio.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

We started talking with other professionals in the field, and they always kept saying to us “If Microsoft can’t do it, how can you do it?”. We’ve made demos with them to our early clients like some big corporates and government agencies, and now we’re going to send them small batch by batch.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

Alan: Big military simulation training. And training simulation, you’re doing it for a different reason. You talk about these things that make something replaceable, and how maybe military sim or even training is not looking for that. So when you’re training to become better at something, that’s a mindset.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

Alan: Big military simulation training. And training simulation, you’re doing it for a different reason. You talk about these things that make something replaceable, and how maybe military sim or even training is not looking for that. So when you’re training to become better at something, that’s a mindset.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As researchers continue to push the boundaries of what is possible and companies like Microsoft prototype new haptic devices, we can probably look forward to a near-future where the virtual world will not only look realistic, but also feel real to all our senses. Training and Education.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As researchers continue to push the boundaries of what is possible and companies like Microsoft prototype new haptic devices, we can probably look forward to a near-future where the virtual world will not only look realistic, but also feel real to all our senses. Training and Education.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

With Accenture recently purchasing 60,000 Oculus 2 devices for training, sales of the Oculus are looking good, Outside of Oculus, and new software platforms such as Meta, a number of AR glasses have also been released into the market recently. Microsoft has done well in the mixed reality space as it relates to enterprise adoption.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

Bytedance can’t compete out off the bat with Facebook, but it has deep pockets too and also may have the support (and the money) of the Chinese government, so it is a company to keep an eye on. HTC Vive Wrist Tracker (Image by HTC). PSVR 2 Controllers (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Accessories.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. Alvin is the China President at #HTC leading all aspects of HTC’s business in the region (Vive/VR, phone, Viveport content platform, partnerships and investments).

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily: Huge one is a shrinking workforce, that creates this need to train faster, better. So as the workforce ages — in manufacturing, I think the average age is like 40 to 50 now — and retires, not only do you need to attract new talent; you need to train them. And I think skilled trades training has dropped off a lot.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily: Huge one is a shrinking workforce, that creates this need to train faster, better. So as the workforce ages — in manufacturing, I think the average age is like 40 to 50 now — and retires, not only do you need to attract new talent; you need to train them. And I think skilled trades training has dropped off a lot.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emily: Huge one is a shrinking workforce, that creates this need to train faster, better. So as the workforce ages -- in manufacturing, I think the average age is like 40 to 50 now -- and retires, not only do you need to attract new talent; you need to train them. And I think skilled trades training has dropped off a lot.

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