VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2017

Apple’s massive leap into augmented reality with no additional sensors or hardware, only the phone in your pocket, seemingly opened up the largest AR platform in the world overnight. Google has been investing heavily on the hardware side with Tango, requiring specialized devices to augment our reality.

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VRScout

APRIL 9, 2018

Thanks to custom designed waterproof VR headsets housing Samsung S8 mobile devices, over 9,600 attendees have gone down the VR slide since opening in February. The VR experiences are rendered in real-time inside Unity, so the tracking system can adapt to each user’s speed in real time.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

A haptic playback and authoring plugin for Unity allows filmmakers to tailor feedback to their experience. The paper details a ‘Haptic Chair’ that extends feedback beyond what you’ll get with position-tracked controllers like Oculus Touch and the Vive wands. Currently the system can produce five effects.

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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 update also includes Unity integration, APIs for server optimization, and low-latency connections. This week was pivotal for the XR industry.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This follows investments in mobile hardware capability, interest in immersive virtual experiences with the metaverse, and rising industry competition. It utilizes one of the most powerful hardware features for AR on a mobile device, the LiDAR scanner on the iPad Pro and Phone 12 Pro, 12 Pro Max, 13 Pro, 13 Pro Max and 14 Pro smartphones.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2018

The Xiaomi Mi VR Standalone headset is identical hardware to the forthcoming Oculus Go, the $200 standalone headset that Oculus announced late last year. Both headsets support the Oculus Mobile SDK, the software which currently allows developers to build apps for Samsung’s Gear VR headset (which runs Oculus’ software and store).

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

I’ve been a big fan of the cute little Samsung Gear 360 camera since its first unveiling in the spring of 2016, and always recommend it to people inquiring about the best consumer-friendly 360 cameras out there. The cost is lower than the 2016 version with a pricetag of $229 and you can record in up to 4K resolution.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It is also working on creating its own hardware : a previous report highlighted that it could build its own chips in the future, and this article shows how the company is working also in acquiring hardware parts markers. Of course its goal is to give importance to Steam, not to the hardware.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 4, 2024

The Levan Center of Innovation claims its facility can meet these goals based on a team of on-site experts and through the cameras and machine learning software technology it’s leveraging from Sony.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). Also, Mobile Phone manufacturers like Vivo and OPPO have rumored plans to release VR hardware in the future.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Initiatives like OpenVR have allowed platforms like Steam to be hardware agnostic, allowing almost any virtual reality (VR) headset which supports the protocol to be used. ” However, there are big plans for OpenXR which could make platforms like Oculus Home hardware-agnostic just like Viveport. .” The current OpenXR 1.0

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 16, 2022

The Croatian firm offers customers a rich XR asset library worth thousands to improve audience engagement and currently works with global XR-backed firms and brands such as Disney, Microsoft, Samsung, T-Mobile and many more. Delta Reality listed its Museum of Digital Life (MoDaL) as a piece of NFT real estate worth roughly 8.88

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And the price of the wireless add-on is even more suspicious: speaking with a hardware manufacturer, they told me that ONLY THE ANTENNAS of a Wi-Gig connection for VR streaming (like the one of the Vive Pro) costs around $100… so how can the whole wireless streaming device cost just $50?? Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Microsoft Magic Leap Varjo HP Acer Samsung ASUS Dell Biel AjnaXR FYR Medical ESight Canon IrisVision VRgineers Zappar Lynx Valve Microsoft Microsoft has been increasing its focus on the extended reality landscape in recent years, with the production of solutions such as Microsoft Mesh, and a metaverse environment for Microsoft Teams.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

The XR space has a lot to offer, and as more firms enter the industry as software or hardware solution providers, the use cases for XR will expand. This follows similar news from Samsung, who have noted that smartphone sales are decreasing and, in response, they are investing more in XR devices.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, a key difference and benefit that Apple has over some of its competition is the already-established iOS ecosystem of products and software. On the other hand, Apple is not the only XR firm pushing for interoperability and cross-pollination of hardware and software.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Varjo Exploring both software and hardware-based solutions for the extended reality world, Varjo is assisting businesses in numerous industries in the discovery of immersive opportunities. The solution turns tracking inside out to reduce setup time and loosens the hardware restrictions of other devices.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

We’re hearing this since many years, but now the sensation is that we’re coming close to the moment when the prophecy will come true: the rumors are intensifying and the software (ARKit) and the hardware (depth cameras, 5G) designed by Apple are all converging to the glasses solution. Samsung terminates its XR services.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

Despite this, innovation and XR hardware were moving “at breaking speed.” Explaining further, he added, “Not to be outdone, the Google-Samsung-Qualcomm power trio is cooking a comeback of their very famous mega Android partnership with a new XR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

Below the device are clearly visible the hardware IPD adjustment slider and the volume adjustment buttons. I think this will be fixed in a future software update ; Because of low computational power of mobile devices, the quality of the graphical elements shown in the various applications is far from realistic.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

The details are posted on GitHub , including assembly instructions, control software, and the code that stitches the images into seamless 360-degree content. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In 2015 my girlfriend came with a Cardboard and with no experience with Unity I created my first 360 photo which I’ve shown to my manger. We chose this method because this way the airline does not have any responsibility for hygiene or content on the device but also no need to certify the hardware on board of the airplane.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Here below I’m posting for you the best offers I’ve found: for instance, HTC is discounting basically every piece of hardware (including Vive Trackers that can be useful for all the VRChat fans out there), while Pico is offering one of the best deals with €100-worth-of-content given for free with every purchased Pico 4.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

In my opinion , the true error is with the Vive 1 , that will get a price that is higher than the one of all the competitors… and that will cost as much as a Samsung Odyssey, notwithstanding its far lower features. Oculus announces Hardware Reports. This is Oculus’s answer to Steam Hardware & Software Survey.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The first one is the usual SteamVR hardware survey. Just a little parenthesis to say that Zuck has also said that Facebook is working hard on AR hardware and operating system ) ARtillery Intelligence , an analytics company, still provides good news, but it wants to stop our enthusiasm. Unity now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

On the left side, there is the Daydream logo, that reminds the user that this is a product whose software has been offered by Google, and the Lenovo logo, because this hardware has been manufactured by Lenovo. When Daydream launched as an alternative to Gear VR, it seemed destined to kill Samsung’s ecosystem.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Read on for my breakdown of the Vision Pro hardware and software and the experience they enable. That Damn Battery Arguably the fiercest hardware debate right now in the industry is what to do with the damn battery.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Samsung starts off the month debuting its VR Internet browser for Gear VR, becoming the first to offer a VR browser. A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. December 2015.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

This trend will continue in 2021 : the new LiDAR sensor, which is rumored to be installed in all future iPhones, will for sure be copied also by Android phones (Samsung?) I expect Magic Leap in 2021 to create some kind of enterprise software ecosystem , with remote collaboration applications, integrated cloud services, AI services, and such.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt — which recently just got sold to Verizon — they had their Jaunt One camera. And he didn’t really see an all-in-one product in market like that at the time, four years ago.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt — which recently just got sold to Verizon — they had their Jaunt One camera. And he didn’t really see an all-in-one product in market like that at the time, four years ago.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. Samsung, Nokia entered with their OZO, Jaunt -- which recently just got sold to Verizon -- they had their Jaunt One camera. And what he wanted to do was create a product that was simple and easy to use and had 360-degree capabilities.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. I don’t know if it is the plan, but for sure it is a possibility. If you were always unsure if buying a headset or not, the time is now!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

The specifications look pretty cool as well: 1,600 × 1,600 LCD display per eye 90Hz refresh rate Software IPD adjustment 0-800 diopter adjustment for each eye 3DOF motion controller Phone connectivity. The Pimax 8K X in all its majesty (Image by Tom’s Hardware). Samsung AR glasses. Ok Samsung, you have our attention.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

Unlike the Lucasfilm AR headset, which uses a smartphone to power it (like the Google Daydream or the Samsung Gear VR does), the company says this concept is a standalone, self-powered headset. But it seems like Lenovo’s interests aren’t just tied to hardware; they also hinted at an “AR platform” on their blog post. via engadget.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. And so my co-founder at his lab in Oxford really just invented a way to do that in real time on a regular phone, all in-software. firm investing in AR solutions.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. And so my co-founder at his lab in Oxford really just invented a way to do that in real time on a regular phone, all in-software. firm investing in AR solutions.

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