ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In order to do this, Sion teamed up with the minds at COFFEE Labs, high-tech marketing strategists that have worked with everyone from Microsoft and Medtronic to Ketel One and Adidas. COFFEE labs created the experience, the Holiday Hunt, which is made available through 8th Wall’s hardware agnostic and easy to use WebAR infrastructure. “

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VRScout

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Spatial , a team of 3D Design and AR/VR experts based out of New York and San Francisco, today unveiled their cross-reality collaboration platform after two long years in stealth. Cross-reality collaboration arrives as Spatial reveals holographic teleportation through augmented reality.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. cities, starting with San Francisco. But that’s a non-starter for anyone outside of the few million people that own VR hardware (much less the compatible HTC and Oculus hardware).

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Representing most of the VR industry’s core hardware and software makers, NVIDIA, AMD, Valve, Oculus, and Microsoft were the initial members of the VirtualLink Consortium. This week at the XRDC conference in San Francisco, HTC announced that it had opted to join the group in support of the VirtualLink connection standard.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Additional collaboration with major telecoms like Vodafone would also help facilitate 5G connectivity to alleviate motion sickness, create more realistic immersive experiences, improve hardware performance and form factors, and boost opportunities for gaming to grow across the sector. This resulted in gaps in understanding.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

Spatial is a leading RT3D Metaverse platform for various hardware, including web browsers and XR headsets. Spatial Hits Big at GDC 2023 In March, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023 in San Francisco, Spatial announced the platform’s new Unity Creator Toolkit is entering its beta stages.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It was really interesting to see Microsoft pivot towards enterprise with the HoloLens and I think it was absolutely the right move for them to make Click To Tweet. 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.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

Are you attending XRDC’s AR and VR conference in San Francisco on October 14-15? As software, hardware, and applications improve, so do the mental health and medical fields. Being able to just pick up a piece of hardware, put it on, and get started is amazingly helpful in actually getting people to use your application.” .

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We also like the alignment between AR team-productivity startup Spatial and Microsoft. Besides being a partner and key corporate use case for Hololens, Spatial could advance Microsoft’s application layer (think: MS Office for AR) as it continues to take a full-stack approach to AR. Both companies diverge from ad revenue, as 6D.ai

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AR Insider

AUGUST 14, 2019

Apple took us on a surreal walk through San Francisco, looking at digital art on an iPhone . San Francisco looks different through an iPhone XS Max — it’s still a city, but now there are floating balls of fabric, speech bubbles, and words popping out from the trees and buildings. You can read the original piece here. .

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Microsoft is trying to nudge laptop and deskbound computers to interact with the three-dimensional world. ” The hardware that does typically pack rear-facing cameras — smartphones and tablets — is almost always powered by Apple’s iOS or Google’s Android, rather than Windows. .”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Microsoft is looking to unify manufacturers around using Windows to power mixed reality headsets, with a plan to support HMDs featuring a wide range of specifications. Microsoft at its Windows Hardware Engineering Community event (WinHEC) in Shenzhen, China, also announced a partnership with Chinese VR headset maker 3Glasses.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 24, 2023

Also, among new consumer-based immersive hardware and software launches, the industrial XR space is accelerating across the enterprise space. The updates also integrate third-party tools from solution providers like Microsoft Azure, Siemans, and Unity to elevate workflows. This week was pivotal for the XR industry.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2019

– – — – – GDC 2019 is being held next week from March 18th to 22nd in San Francisco, CA. Oculus is already confirmed as attending the event but hasn’t said anything about the potential of a new headset being revealed. We’ve reached out to Oculus for comment. Stay tuned.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. Academy of Art San Francisco, USA. VR First Institutions (including new openings).

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 27, 2019

Through a partnership with Microsoft the foundation is offering a share of a $750,00 pool of cash and the option of technical support from Microsoft, including mentoring in mixed-reality technologies and access to the company’s suite of mixed reality technologies. “Our

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for This time we don’t have more info about the hardware, but about the software. Somnium is already an investor in XTAL, and it is so strengthening its position as a leader both in the software and the hardware necessary to access virtual worlds.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Apple is also adding hardware to its iPhones that hint at a headset-based future. One wearer said she was assaulted outside a San Francisco bar in 2014 for wearing the glasses. Microsoft’s store currently has 343 HoloLens apps.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

I tried a Microsoft prototype VR headset at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco and got the first public look at the company’s vision for mixed reality beyond Hololens. While those units are expected to be an improvement, the prototype internal hardware I tried was running at 60 frames per second.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 9, 2016

The legendary programmer and founder of Epic Games sat down with me after his keynote address at the VRX conference in San Francisco and, as conversations with Sweeney usually do, the topic quickly turned to the issue of open platforms. “There’s an ethic that needs to develop in the VR industry. .

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

For this, it has just started Access Hardware, a program that gives for free Magic Leap glasses plus dedicated support to all developers that are planning to do interesting applications using the Magic Leap 1, especially in the enterprise sector. Image by Microsoft). New SteamVR devkit aims at making custom hardware easier.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Microsoft and Samsung formally announced the Odyssey Windows VR headset today, positioning it as the “premium” option among the Windows VR headsets, with a range of features not found on the other headsets, and the top price point. Higher performance display: OLED vs. Higher performance display: OLED vs. LCD. Ergonomics.

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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. Brain-Computer Interfaces. Lighter, Faster, Cheaper.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

With no hardware currently expected, this will likely focus on software, namely Facebook Horizon. March is also an interesting month as Oculus tends to have a significant presence at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

Remember, HTC is the Taiwanese-based hardware manufacturer and the HTC Vive Tech Corporation is a subsidiary that partners with American-based software company Valve for content via their huge Steam library. Air New Zealand is one airlines provider that is testing how the Microsoft Hololens can help improve in-flight customer service.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Just like last year, they will run essentially concurrently again in and around the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. On the hardware side, we don’t expect much news. What to Expect from Microsoft. What to Expect from PC Hardware Companies. It’s slated to arrive on Windows 10 PCs later in 2017.

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InstaVR

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

But business impact has been substantial too — from Microsoft and Apple lowering financial projections to major conferences like Mobile World Congress and Facebook’s F8 being cancelled. . Companies like Apple and Microsoft are also having to look outside China for supply chain options now.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 9, 2016

San Francisco-based Occipital is one of the many companies that wants to bring inside-out tracking to mobile VR, but its means of doing so stands apart from others. He says that the company is working towards the future in which the capabilities of devices like Microsoft’s system are available in mobile-based kits.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

Held annually in San Francisco, Game Developers Conference has undeniably been a focal point for VR the industry, and as augmented reality continues to heat up, we expect it to be increasingly important for AR as well. Continued on Page 2: Sony, Magic Leap, LG & Microsoft ».

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 19, 2023

The trademark filing relates to the font used in the forthcoming xrOS branding, which Apple is trademarking under its own San Francisco typeface. Apple’s upcoming MR headset is expected to be a high-end device that will compete with headsets from Meta and Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2022

At Lightship Summit on May 24th & 25th in San Francisco, Niantic may launch its City-Scale Visual Position System. This is amazing because it lets you have full-body tracking with no external hardware in your room. I can’t say I’m surprised, considering the very limited scope of Venues and the mediocre success it was having.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 20, 2019

It makes its own hardware so its customers can “dive through” massive amounts of data much easier than trying to see the same data in older tools like Microsoft Excel, or charts. She showed me a factory floor (we were walking around this factory floor while drinking tea in a San Francisco).

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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. Brain-Computer Interfaces. Lighter, Faster, Cheaper.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Upload VR has been able to visit Kura offices in San Francisco and try the technology behind the Kura Gallium glasses, the AR devices that promise a 150° FOV, a resolution that goes up to 8K, variable focus, and brightness that allows for outdoor usage. Minecraft porting on Quest is “Under Review” by Microsoft. DisplayPort 1.2

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 26, 2017

Why do people fork over cash for new hardware when the well is dry, but shy away from it during a boom? Then consider their platforms, made by Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. Chris Orris directs Oxygen Public Relations’ San Francisco office. What gives? Notice anything about them? VR’s titles don’t begin to compare.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In April, we opened the doors to the first Upload Collective in San Francisco, a hub for VR and AR startups, development, co-working, education, meetups and even live broadcasting. With over 40 member companies in San Francisco, The Upload Collective has quickly grown both in size and in scope. March 2016. November 2016.

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VRWorld

JULY 5, 2017

Varjo’s prototype is based on unique technology created by a team of optical scientists, creatives and developers who formerly occupied top positions at Microsoft, Nokia, Intel, Nvidia and Rovio.” You can see the comparison images below: Varjo 20|20 technology (above) vs. Oculus Rift (below) on San Francisco demo image.

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