ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

These investments are seen as foundations for future content and hardware, and with consumers purchasing more immersive tech hardware, it’s likely that we’ll be seeing more VR and AR content. We’re already seeing key metaverse players coming together in the collaboration between Meta and Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Both Apple and Google already have very popular stores , they have full suits of tools (think about the Google Docs suite) and entertainment channels (think about Apple TV), and they have enormous expertise in building hardware and operating systems. And they are entering it to dominate it. This is the moment of the truth for Meta.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 5, 2022

AR has opened a new door for games developers to combine the real and virtual worlds for immersive interactions. Using immersive technology, creators can start to build more community-driven gaming experiences for the Metaverse, and build groups of adoring fans for their brand.

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ARVR

JANUARY 11, 2021

Virtual Reality is an immersive simulation of reality in which the surrounding world is completely replaced with a computer generated world. This is achieved using a headset that completely fills the users field of view in combination with body tracking to map the players body into the virtual world.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 17, 2017

VR and AR headsets are heading to market from Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others that have a wide range of capabilities. What’s unclear is just how you’ll be able to interact with the virtual worlds and objects produced inside these headsets. ” The head of J.P.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

Apple’s eye-catching ARKit is on the verge of release alongside a series of Microsoft-backed VR headsets. New efforts are likely to be revealed heading into January’s CES 2018 that could further improve VR with wireless setups, lighter weight headsets, less expensive hardware and more capable systems overall.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In the US, stores like Microsoft, Gamestop, and Micro Center host Vive setups offering public demos, while you can find the system in Europe in locations like Currys PC World, GAME, and Scan Computers. Oculus has a healthy smattering of demo locations across the US in many Best Buy and Microsoft stores.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. Of course, it will exploit the already awesome Microsoft platform.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

The omniverse solution is available as a platform-as-a-service offering, running on Microsoft Azure. Cavrnus Otherwise known as Cavrnus VR, Cavrnus is a Metaverse builder platform , designed to help every creator share their vision of a metaverse on the internet.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Russian company Radix Universal is working on a new kind of omnidirectional treadmill for VR, that according to the company can also simulate you going on stairs in the virtual world. The negative reputation could stick with the social network, but not influence products like Oculus headsets, for instance.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s take on immersive technologies will also test the future of XR hardware solutions and their roles in the broader XR community through rigorous use cases. This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. This was done by introducing flat, resizeable virtual screens to maximise productivity.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

HOUSEKEEPING NOTICE: Yes, I know this blogpost is somewhat off-topic for a blog about “news and views on social VR, virtual worlds, and the metaverse,” but hey, my blog, my rules. Community Support : Join online forums, communities, or user groups dedicated to macOS to get help, tips, and advice from experienced users.

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ARPost

MARCH 31, 2023

So, in the past few weeks we have seen big tech, including Meta and Microsoft, announce massive layoffs , mostly to their XR division and at the same time, pivoting towards artificial intelligence and generative content. The hardware consisted of blue HTC Vive Pros connected to the gaming PCs above. When it works, it works.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

DJ Smith is the co-founder of The Glimpse Group, an XR technologies accelerator that’s doing startup incubating in a whole new way. Alan: We have an amazing guest today: DJ Smith is the co-founder and chief creative officer at The Glimpse Group. In addition, DJ is the organizer of the New York virtual reality meetup.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 15, 2019

DJ Smith is the co-founder of The Glimpse Group, an XR technologies accelerator that’s doing startup incubating in a whole new way. Alan: We have an amazing guest today: DJ Smith is the co-founder and chief creative officer at The Glimpse Group. In addition, DJ is the organizer of the New York virtual reality meetup.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This is a pretty extreme pivot, and it is causing internal turmoil inside all the Meta group: the company is suggesting many people from Facebook and Instagram join Reality Labs instead , or it is promoting people working on social media to have also metaverse roles. It makes totally sense. Some updates on Meta products.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

Virtalis is also constantly updating its platform with immersive design components built to reduce the barriers to enhanced virtual meetings. Alongside software, Virtalis also designs systems and hardware for immersive collaboration, such as the ActiveCube, ActiveWall, and ActiveMove technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2020

And now also companies are affected directly : after a worker has been found positive to the virus in the Seattle venue, now a group of Facebook employees has been left working from home. First of all, I shouldn’t be forced to join a group to see my game published. That’s a disaster. I think this answer has no sense.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

And by ’99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. So we were very early adopters of virtual reality already in that period. There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. And then we have a third group we call Industry 4.0,

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

And by ’99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. So we were very early adopters of virtual reality already in that period. There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. And then we have a third group we call Industry 4.0,

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

XR Today: What progress have you made in your AR Smart Glass hardware, services, and solutions? Now that our hardware platform is stable and scalable, we are investing heavily in our software stack. Hardware is always the barrier to market entry, but it is the software and content that makes the product magical.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

This is a free association headed by Khronos Group, the consortium behind the OpenXR standard, which aims at creating standards for the future metaverse. The Khronos Group already succeeded with OpenXR, so it has a good track in helping in creating standards. Metaverse Standards Forum aims at setting standards for the metaverse.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

And by '99, the hardware was there, so you can start running this on PCs. So we were very early adopters of virtual reality already in that period. There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. And then we have a third group we call Industry 4.0, Alan: I love it.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2023

Virtalis is also constantly updating its platform with immersive design components built to reduce the barriers to enhanced virtual meetings. Alongside software, Virtalis also designs systems and hardware for immersive collaboration, such as the ActiveCube, ActiveWall, and ActiveMove technologies.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

At this year’s IMMERSE Summit , Road to VR sat down with Matt McIlwain , managing director at Madrona Venture Group (investor in Envelop VR and Pixvana ), and Patrick Eggen , managing director at Qualcomm Ventures (investor in Owlchemy Labs and Magic Leap ), to discuss their investing strategies when it comes to virtual and augmented reality.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While the first version was an all-in-one with diffractive waveguides like Microsoft HoloLens, the new one is an all-in-two light device that connects to your smartphone and uses birdbath optics. I’m very curious to see how it will be successful because I think that if it will succeed, many other virtual worlds will copy VRChat’s example.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

Computing Unit: Weight : 170g Hardware Platform : Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Operating System : Android. Being the lens transparent, you can see through it both the real and virtual world. A little fact: due to their combined shape, the unit+the controller form a group called “Oreo” Controller.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

All across the planet, our technologies are breaking out from behind the screen and into the physical world around us. Simultaneously, the people, places, and things in our world are being digitized and brought into the virtual world, becoming part of the digital domain. Better hardware, faster networks, more users.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

He’s been pushing the envelope of this technology and software for the Microsoft Hololens, and recently built an app for the global launch event of the next generation Hololens 2. And then a lot of that feedback went back to Microsoft, to help inform where the next generation headset was going. Where are we on the timeline?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

He’s been pushing the envelope of this technology and software for the Microsoft Hololens, and recently built an app for the global launch event of the next generation Hololens 2. And then a lot of that feedback went back to Microsoft, to help inform where the next generation headset was going. Where are we on the timeline?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

He's been pushing the envelope of this technology and software for the Microsoft Hololens, and recently built an app for the global launch event of the next generation Hololens 2. And then a lot of that feedback went back to Microsoft, to help inform where the next generation headset was going. Where are we on the timeline?

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

One of the Facebook groups yesterday, somebody posted how their son was in the hospital with a chipped tooth and a broken ankle from playing VR and falling. And it’s this kind of a-ha moment, where they go from the real world of crappy pass-through camera to the completely virtual world. Bob: –over, right?

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Leapmotion

APRIL 25, 2015

As participants add data to the wall, sticky notes appear in thematic groupings spatially across the board. With the rise of augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), this can finally be achieved by providing opportunities for spatial cognition. And spatial memory is free – even in virtual worlds. Czerwinski et al.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

We just booked an autism -- they just booked five days in May; they came in last year -- an autism group. You can teach a group of 30 kids science -- I'd say 10 of them are interested in science, 20 of them don't care, and we're still pushing them into that? It's just not giving them hardware and saying, "figure it out yourself.".

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 3, 2020

One of the Facebook groups yesterday, somebody posted how their son was in the hospital with a chipped tooth and a broken ankle from playing VR and falling. And it’s this kind of a-ha moment, where they go from the real world of crappy pass-through camera to the completely virtual world. Bob: –over, right?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. And we produced a 65 page resource guide on how this could take place in your world. We saw teachers try to teach online.

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