XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Combining virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), firms can empower teams with bespoke, targeted immersive experiences. Conversely, VR allowed participants to immerse in training scenarios to practice reactions to real-world experiences, the report stated. Changing the Way Companies Train Staff.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Virtual reality (VR) is all about immersion in whatever experience you happen to be in. One of the biggest names in the VR data glove field is Manus VR, and VRFocus recently got to test its new flagship product, Manus Prime Haptic. Then it came to the haptics. Well, sort of.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap 2 is coming in Q1 2022. Even if most of this roundup will be about Oculus, I have decided to put another brand on top of it and it is Magic Leap. Magic Leap won’t pursue anything that isn’t aimed at getting more enterprise deals. Image by HTC Vive).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Future of Magic Leap After Ross Rosenberg was appointed Magic Leap’s CEO in October 2023, the company has since focused on its enterprise roadmap for 2024; targeting its XR devices towards enterprise and industrial clients. Magic Leap started to understand that these walled gardens are not their future.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap pivots to enterprise, lays off 1,000 employes. With a long post on Magic Leap’s blog, in the end Rony Abovitz has admitted that the company is not going that well, and has announced a new course, that should eventually lead to Magic Leap 2. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

The HTC Vive is arguably the best out there, but having to buy a souped-up laptop just to run it, paying full price for brief games that feel more like demos, and trailing a huge cable off your head and fumbling to mount trackers on your ceiling…it’s not ideal. Body movement. Let’s start from the ground up.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

The notoriously secretive mixed reality company Magic Leap has acquired parts of Dacuda , a B2B computer vision software company. The company disclosed that it is divesting its 3D scanning assets which could be used to facilitate inside-out positional tracking (which does not require external sensors) for Magic Leap’s product.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

This is the first roundup of news of this new year, and to signal a change with the past, I’ve changed the name from “VR Week Peek” to “XR Week Peek”, because, hey, I like talking about all immersive technologies and not only Virtual Reality. I feel that this year will be full of big changes for me and this is just the first of a long series.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 18, 2023

So here you are a collection of the best news in immersive realities from the CES 2023, with many links to go deeper! Everyone I spoke with talked about an interesting event to attend for us XR people, and this shows that immersive realities are now in a quite mature status… to be niche technologies. Of course not.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

It is “easy” to create hype and get preorders and many sales on the first day: Even the Magic Leap One had a very strong first day, and the community was flooded with pictures of people donning the device… but in the end, it was a huge flop. Companies like HTC and Facebook have TOS that allows for the gathering of anonymized data.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2019

I had the pleasure of participating to the “VR Visionaries” event in Kaohsiung and then I headed to Taipei to meet some XR companies (like HTC ) and people. Are you ready for immersing into Taiwan? The FOV was not bad at all, it was quite immersive. We all participants of the VR Visionaries tour in Taiwan (Image by Digiblock).

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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.” You’re right, it is a magical experience. Bob: Right.

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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.” You’re right, it is a magical experience. Bob: Right.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2023

Image by HTC Vive). HTC’s new headset may be called Vive XR Elite. Thanks to the support of the community member Inscothen, I have discovered that the Korean website of HTC may have leaked the info about the upcoming headset that the company should unveil at this CES. Saudi Arabia fund gets control of Magic Leap.

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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." You're right, it is a magical experience. How quickly and easily you can become immersed.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Sam talks about the groundwork they’ve laid at Coachella for immersive reality so far, and where he plans to take it going forward. Have you tried Magic Leap? Sam: I have tried the Magic Leap, yeah. You’ve got Magic Leap, you’ve got Nreal, you’ve got HoloLens, you’ve got all these companies.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Sam talks about the groundwork they’ve laid at Coachella for immersive reality so far, and where he plans to take it going forward. Have you tried Magic Leap? Sam: I have tried the Magic Leap, yeah. You’ve got Magic Leap, you’ve got Nreal, you’ve got HoloLens, you’ve got all these companies.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Sam talks about the groundwork they’ve laid at Coachella for immersive reality so far, and where he plans to take it going forward. Have you tried Magic Leap? Sam: I have tried the Magic Leap, yeah. You've got Magic Leap, you've got Nreal, you've got HoloLens, you've got all these companies.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Don’t forget to catch the XR Awards on 25 May, 2023, where we celebrate the victories of the global immersive industry. Meta has even begun collaborating with massive automakers like the BMW Group to compete with Magic Leap, Microsoft HoloLens 2, and HTC VIVE Flow headsets. percent annually, topping $205.3

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Without HDR, you are conscious that you are seeing the world through a screen, while with actual HDR, you can feel the proper lighting of a scene, and it immediately becomes real and immersive. Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Flow Business Edition. For the first time I can see a real footage of the Teslasuit haptic gloves.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Oculus and HTC had been holding details surrounding Rift and Vive launch windows close to the chest, probably because they had delays to announce and need to nail down new plans. First, HTC delays the Vive until April 2016, with plans to show an updated developer kit at CES in January. In December, these plans become known.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The Side Blockers make it very easy to see your keyboard & mouse in work-focused use cases, but nothing takes me out of immersive VR gaming more than seeing my bright carpet constantly below me. This idea is used in mainline Quests, Pico headsets, Valve Index, HP Reverbs, Oculus Go, and the original Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It’s immersive tech, and can teach kids in new, innovative ways. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. But I've been writing a series of blogs about my journey using and integrating the HTC Vive headsets at GESS. I've never worked for Immersive. Steve: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It’s immersive tech, and can teach kids in new, innovative ways. You can go into Google, like "HTC Vive blog Steve Bambury" or something, you'll probably find them. But I've been writing a series of blogs about my journey using and integrating the HTC Vive headsets at GESS. I've never worked for Immersive. Steve: Yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Most of the provided use cases are pretty original: in one of them, the system provides the classical FOV reduction when the user moves in VR, but instead of showing a black frame in the peripheral vision, the system displays a blurred 1 Hz version of the world, that makes the visuals more immersive. HTC keeps updating the Vive Cosmos.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

This got some press, because HTC VIVE released a press release with Bell, saying that their latest helicopter was created 10 times faster using VR, and you guys were the company doing that. We've been approached by some of the bigger headset manufacturers -- Microsoft, Hololens and Magic Leap -- to build exclusively for them.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

This got some press, because HTC VIVE released a press release with Bell, saying that their latest helicopter was created 10 times faster using VR, and you guys were the company doing that. We've been approached by some of the bigger headset manufacturers -- Microsoft, Hololens and Magic Leap -- to build exclusively for them.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

This got some press, because HTC VIVE released a press release with Bell, saying that their latest helicopter was created 10 times faster using VR, and you guys were the company doing that. We've been approached by some of the bigger headset manufacturers -- Microsoft, Hololens and Magic Leap -- to build exclusively for them.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

This got some press, because HTC VIVE released a press release with Bell, saying that their latest helicopter was created 10 times faster using VR, and you guys were the company doing that. We've been approached by some of the bigger headset manufacturers -- Microsoft, Hololens and Magic Leap -- to build exclusively for them.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

From headsets to haptic suits, there is going to be a lot of accessories and apparel in XR to chose from, including some that expand senses you didn’t even know were XR-compatible. You’ve got things like haptic suits, haptic gloves. Let’s start at something crazy; haptic suits.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

From headsets to haptic suits, there is going to be a lot of accessories and apparel in XR to chose from, including some that expand senses you didn’t even know were XR-compatible. You’ve got things like haptic suits, haptic gloves. Let’s start at something crazy; haptic suits.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 22, 2019

From headsets to haptic suits, there is going to be a lot of accessories and apparel in XR to chose from, including some that expand senses you didn't even know were XR-compatible. You've got things like haptic suits, haptic gloves. Let's start at something crazy; haptic suits. You can have haptic feedback.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

One of my previous jobs — the one where I was building those immersive trainings — we were using Adobe Captivate, which is a pretty standard training software, where you make essentially interactive power points that save quiz data and such to a swarm database. We’re not tied to Magic Leap. Most definitely.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

One of my previous jobs — the one where I was building those immersive trainings — we were using Adobe Captivate, which is a pretty standard training software, where you make essentially interactive power points that save quiz data and such to a swarm database. I got the chance to use the Ultra Haptics, [which].

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

One of my previous jobs -- the one where I was building those immersive trainings -- we were using Adobe Captivate, which is a pretty standard training software, where you make essentially interactive power points that save quiz data and such to a swarm database. We're not tied to Magic Leap. Most definitely. We made it work.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In the three to four years since the release of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, the number of VR headsets available on the market has grown. The Magic Leap One has a smaller size for smaller heads and faces, so that helped tremendously, but none of the smart glasses fit my face right yet.” – Evo Heyning, CEO & Founder, Light Lodges.

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