AR Insider

JUNE 4, 2020

This timing prompted Spatial to launch on Oculus Quest and make its PRO tier free. Starting at the beginning, the Spatial user experience (UX) is the first thing you’ll notice when entering the app (I accessed via Oculus Quest). This is by design says VP of BD and Strategy, Jacob Lowenstein. Here’s the deep dive.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

Oculus Go price cut down to $150. Facebook has permanently cut down the price of the Oculus Go to $150 , the same price that made it sell incredibly well on Amazon during the Cyber Monday. More info (Oculus Go price cut) More info (Xiaomi laying off the team dedicated to Go). Microsoft admits display problems on HoloLens 2.

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Road to VR

APRIL 18, 2017

Windows Holographic, a set of APIs integrated into Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system, was first touted by the computing giant during the company’s surprise reveal of their augmented reality headset, the HoloLens.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2021

The seed round was led by KB Partners and TitletownTech, with participation from Greycroft, Verizon Ventures, Haslam Sports Group, 49ers Enterprises, and SC Holdings, and “additional strategic celebrity investors.”. Ball is a former Amazon strategy executive turned investor. I Expect You To Die 2 Released This Week.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 8, 2022

Not only do these tools support fantastic training opportunities, and exceptional customer service strategies, but they’re ideal for collaboration too. For instance, Meta offers access to the Oculus, as well as Meta Workplace, and a series of apps through the Oculus store. Step 4: Look for Flexible, Scalable Solutions.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In just a few days time, Microsoft will host WinHEC , its annual hardware / platform conference. Intel has 600 people here working on hardware form factors, while the similar story is with Microsoft and a few other known global players. Microsoft is not playing such tricks. 4 GB of RAM. A graphics card with DirectX 12 support.

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Cats and VR

JANUARY 15, 2019

ARwall’s cumulative new talent has helped paved the way for companies including Apple, Facebook, Oculus, Microsoft Hololens, Survios, Disney Studios Technology Group, Microsoft TV and more. Mosco has held notable positions at Apple, Facebook, and Oculus.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 18, 2023

According to the VRARA and its Global Executive Director Kris Kolo , Meta’s renewed dive into the business world – following the Quest Pro and other delves during the Oculus era – may be rife with issues. This consumer-focused strategy is designed to make headsets ubiquitous daily, with improved optics and familiarity.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

I don’t know how many of them will prove to be true, but for sure they all can be something that can inspire you to define your XR strategy for this year. In this blog, I told you about the Finnish Metaverse Strategy , but I’ve heard that also The Netherlands and Korea are bullish on this new technology.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Some of the biggest names in social impact will be in attendance, including: Participant Media, Conservation International, the Rainforest Alliance, Connect for Climate/World Bank, and the Milken Institute, as well as tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Oculus.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 19, 2020

Where possible, companies are trying to implement a work from home strategy so that employees aren’t all bunched together on a commute or close proximity in an office. Spatial supports one to one or group holographic meetings using Magic Leap 1, with a range of features so that employees can productively work from home.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

For instance, I’m very grateful that everyone on the team has been very tolerant these days when I had some small network glitches during the group calls Take with you everything that is needed for an international trip (e.g. While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 24, 2022

At the same time, there are a number of development platforms out there specifically designed to assist companies in their AR strategies. VR is becoming more affordable for a wide range of gaming customers, thanks to tools like the Oculus Quest, which sold 15 million units during just 20 months on the market.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Through comprehensive media services (mainly including media coverage, expert consultation, data research, and event and public relation management), it helps entrepreneurs with idea incubation, financing, strategy consultation, and publicity. and covered more than 80% of the XR pioneers as communities members.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

As an electronics company, Apple’s general strategy seems to be to wait until a market is well established before joining it, then attempt to create an Apple-idealized product for that market. Apple is infamous for its patent strategy and you shouldn’t be surprised to find that they’re well into it in the AR/VR space.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

At Facebook Connect this week , Facebook has: Released the powerful Oculus Quest 2 , powered by Snapdragon XR2, and with a 4K display. It is a perfect strategy, that makes NVIDIA able to offer very comprehensive end-to-end solutions (e.g. Microsoft finally enables Research Mode on HoloLens 2. Even Apple uses modified ARM chips.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

This latest acquisition is another piece in a secretive strategy: over the past few years Snapchat has quietly acquired a couple of other potentially augmented reality-related companies as well as talent. Newly Formed Getty Images Virtual Reality Group Wants to Put You Inside Stock Photos. Facebook Enables Native 360 Photos.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

This business strategy of selling to few people for a high price has completely sense , considering that all the device has been conceived to add all the features that could make it compelling mostly for professionals. Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. Some magazines reported this news as a sign of the failure of Meta’s strategy about the metaverse. A report from Insider states that Microsoft may have canceled its plans for HoloLens 3.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Road to VR ‘s Michael Glombicki caught up with two VR/AR investors to get their insight into the opportunities available in the immersive technology space and the strategies they’re employing to capitalise on them. SEE ALSO Madrona Venture Group on Why Seattle is a Hotbed for VR and AR. Patrick Eggen, Madrona Venture Group.

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VeeR VR

APRIL 10, 2018

Alan's business has worked with companies like Samsung, HBO, Techweek, Microsoft, Comcast, and many more. He is the youngest AR developer in the world to be sponsored by Microsoft to develop for the Microsoft HoloLens. CEO and Founder of the Emblematic Group, one of the world's leading virtual reality experience agency.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg talks about the future of VR and AR at Facebook’s recent Oculus Connect conference. It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. The tech industry is gearing up for a new paradigm shift.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2019

But it was delicious, so the “yes yes” strategy is paying off. And there are booths of many important companies : Lenovo, Microsoft, HP, Huawei, GoPro, etc… so this event has cool stuff to showcase. This was even more evident in VR mode, where I am used to the fantastic positional tracking of devices like Oculus Rift S.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

In September of 2016, I attended a group meeting with some folks in Dallas, and then by January of 2017, we had our first major product in a school. It’s also we generally put that out there as a free download on the Windows Mixed Reality store and Oculus as well as VIVE. We set to work figuring it out. Steve: It is.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

In September of 2016, I attended a group meeting with some folks in Dallas, and then by January of 2017, we had our first major product in a school. It’s also we generally put that out there as a free download on the Windows Mixed Reality store and Oculus as well as VIVE. We set to work figuring it out. Steve: It is.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

In September of 2016, I attended a group meeting with some folks in Dallas, and then by January of 2017, we had our first major product in a school. It's also we generally put that out there as a free download on the Windows Mixed Reality store and Oculus as well as VIVE. We set to work figuring it out. Steve: It is. Alan: Excellent.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

When I worked at Microsoft I got in trouble with the lawyers over patents so they made me sleep with a lawyer (true story, that was my punishment). I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. Why am I so confident? Disclaimer.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2020

Oculus Quest. Image courtesy Oculus. Oculus Quest is surely the most important headset to launch in 2019. The headset’s ease-of-use, solid game library, and reasonable price has pushed it to become Oculus’ best rated headset on Amazon thus far. Oculus Rift S. Image courtesy Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. And alongside Hill+Knowlton Strategies, one of the WPP [Group] PR and strategy agencies. I'm a cyclist.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. And alongside Hill+Knowlton Strategies, one of the WPP [Group] PR and strategy agencies. I'm a cyclist.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. And alongside Hill+Knowlton Strategies, one of the WPP [Group] PR and strategy agencies. I'm a cyclist.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

We have Brandon Harper, he’s a designer at Hololens at Microsoft, with an amazing story to tell. So he’s there and he’s rolling out this VR/AR strategy for Shell out across the world. You know, Jack McCauley, he was one of the founders of Oculus. Benjamin: From Shell? Alan: Yeah. Benjamin: Well, there you go.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

We connect them all in an agnostic way, and try to make sure that these folks are set up in the right way for success, that they have a strategy for achieving success and then for taking success and moving it into what I would call scale deployment. ” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Is it the training group?

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

We connect them all in an agnostic way, and try to make sure that these folks are set up in the right way for success, that they have a strategy for achieving success and then for taking success and moving it into what I would call scale deployment. ” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. Is it the training group?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

We have Brandon Harper, he's a designer at Hololens at Microsoft, with an amazing story to tell. So he's there and he's rolling out this VR/AR strategy for Shell out across the world. You know, Jack McCauley, he was one of the founders of Oculus. Michel van der Aa, who's a Dutch composer, and now also great VR maker. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

We connect them all in an agnostic way, and try to make sure that these folks are set up in the right way for success, that they have a strategy for achieving success and then for taking success and moving it into what I would call scale deployment. Alan: We've got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, "We want that!".

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

We have Brandon Harper, he’s a designer at Hololens at Microsoft, with an amazing story to tell. So he’s there and he’s rolling out this VR/AR strategy for Shell out across the world. You know, Jack McCauley, he was one of the founders of Oculus. Benjamin: From Shell? Alan: Yeah. Benjamin: Well, there you go.

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