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Varjo is Bringing Foveated XR Cloud Streaming to Its Headsets & Beyond

Road to VR

Rendering virtual content for those headsets understandably requires some pretty hefty hardware… a low-powered laptop simply won’t cut it. This is a turn-key solution that allows users with very different skill levels to be brought into an immersive environment to collaborate—something that hasn’t been possible before.”.

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The VR/AR Association Enterprise Forum 2022: What to Make of the Metaverse

ARPost

Mark Gröb, VR/AR Association Enterprise Committee Co-Chair and Head of Immersive Tech Center at UPS , started off the event with some observations from working with enterprises and XR solution providers. The hardware can be transitional, but so can the software. A lot of times, you have to trade immersiveness for scalability.

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Demystifying Media

Tech Trends VR

Those were some of the questions I got to explore during a recent visit to the University of Oregon. 3:48: How do you define immersive media? 6:30: What immersive content have you seen recently that stands out? We were also joined by fellow guest speaker Lisa Peyton, who is Immersive Media Strategist at Intel.

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Celebrating the 2023 Auggie Awards and XR Prize Challenge

ARPost

The group won over Mutienliao , Oregon Shakespeare Festival , and Ferryman Collective. Berliner talked about the growth of AWE and of XR generally, including the massive presence of XR hardware at the recent Consumer Electronics Show. Unfortunately, no one from Delta Reality was present to accept the award.

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AltspaceVR Offers Social Reach For Organizers In VR

VRScout

It also boasts 3D audio attenuation which makes conversations sound and feel real when immersed. “It Reggie Watts was supposed to come on, and he had somebody opening for him,” said Joshua Young, founder and CEO of Design Reality PDX , a monthly Portland, Oregon networking event that regularly hosts panelists from the VR community.

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Developing the Future of Mixed Reality

Tech Trends VR

For starters, they’re based in Oregon as opposed to Silicon Valley. And while Portland is by no means a backwater, it’s still not a major tech or immersive content hub like LA or San Francisco either. No matter how much money the investment in Magic Leap sounds, it’s still small compared to a company like Microsoft.

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

At Magic Leap, Paul recognized the lack of accessible tools for non-game developers that was hindering widespread adoption of immersive and spatial computing technologies. In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. To learn more about Torch, you can visit torch.app. Paul: Yeah.

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