Road to VR

JULY 16, 2016

Just announced at a Star Wars “Meet ILMxLab” panel at the Star Wars Celebration expo in London, Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine will be released for the HTC Vive on Steam for free on Monday 18 July. The post ‘Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine’ is Released for HTC Vive 18 July appeared first on Road to VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 6, 2020

Until recently, Brian Kane has been highlighting more experiential demos - like one that puts a porthole to the ocean in your living room - to highlight the power of the Magic Leap, and of spatial computing in general. Magic Leap is one of these Magic Leap devices, you put it on, and your whole world is spatial computing.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Extended reality (XR) is making a substantial impact on how companies train and upskill their employees. Combining virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), firms can empower teams with bespoke, targeted immersive experiences. Taqtile’s Manifest platform provides remote workers with immersive AR remote guidance.

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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. Top news of the week.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Shen Ye, Global Head of Products at HTC, Lisa Watts, Vice President of Product Marketing and Developer Programmes at Magic Leap , and Fraser Bowie, Chief Product Officer for NuEyes Technologies spoke at a panel discussion on the adoption of such technologies. HTC #HTCVIVE #VR #LBE pic.twitter.com/ia79RZZhlS. —

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Immerse Global Summit 2022 Miami concluded on Wednesday, where some of the biggest players in the tech industry gathered to explore the future of Web3 technologies. This began with devices from Lenovo, HTC VIVE, Pico Interactive, and Meta Platforms, so the growth we’ve seen for consumer use cases has been very strong since then.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Here, universities, schools, and training companies are embracing the experiential benefits of immersive XR technology to deliver lessons like never before. HTC Vive and Penn State. Through virtual reality, students can also learn more about how water flows through soil, affecting plants, air and humans in a multitude of ways.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 12, 2020

Of course, he also talks about immersive realities. HTC reduces the Vive Pro price by $200. The Vive Pro, the enterprise headset offered by HTC, has just seen a big discount : the headset only now costs $600, and the full bundle with the SteamVR 2.0 It also puts in the right context the $3B investment got by Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). Rony Abovitz steps down from Magic Leap CEO. This was a very good thing and attracted many people to Magic Leap. I hope that Magic Leap will benefit from it and will recover pretty soon.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Yes, it looks awful (Image by VRTUOLUO) We were all waiting for the moves by Google and Samsung, and it was great to see that they announced that they were working together on a headset, with each company doing what it knows how to do best: Google the operating system and Samsung the hardware. None of them made XR to skyrocket.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

While many other AR glasses (like Nreal Light or HoloLens 2 ) have a Field Of View in the 50° ballpark, RealMax glasses have always had ones above 100° , for a more immersive augmented experience. I can say without any doubt that the FOV of RealMax, which is beyond 119°, is how every AR headset should be. It is just amazing.

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

Apple seems to be cornering the popular entertainment industry, with the acquisition of NextVR, as industry rivals such as Magic Leap focus on enterprise solutions. How to use subtle AR filters to survive your Zoom meetings? Take collaboration to a new level with the immersive experience that MeetinVR offers?—?with

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The firm’s first XR headset is due soon, and with it comes a spatial computing ambition that draws similarities and differences to Lenovo, Microsoft, Meta, HTC VIVE, and other XR headset vendors. To lead the immersive space race, Apple is smartly and gradually integrating spatial computing features into the iOS ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

It’s been another interesting week in immersive realities, so let’s see what happened in our field in the past few days! Kudos to this guy, which has also released opensource how to recreate this device. The resulting wide-FOV headset, dubbed “Hades Widebody” looks like a Frankenstein of components, but it surprisingly works.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

More info (Official launch post) More info (How to buy the Quest 2) More info (My review of the Quest 2) More info (Ben Lang’s review of the Quest 2) More info (Ben Lang’s review of the accessories of the Quest 2). They tell you what games to buy, how to customize your headset, what options to activate, and much more. Good job, Zuck.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Two years ago, the company had won a $480M deal with the army to produce the first evaluation units (beating Magic Leap in this contest and condemning it to a sad fate) that should have increased soldiers’ efficiency and lethality. How you look with your tethered headset on Funny link. What puzzles me is why this partnership.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

But if I have to look at the numbers, some kind of AR is already mainstream : yes, the smartphone doesn’t provide immersive AR and people using it maybe don’t even know that it is called AR (maybe they call it just “filters”), but it is anyway augmented reality and it is of very common use now. What about Magic Leap ?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

Tablet mode may be a reference to how to launch 2D Android apps because a Facebook employee has inadvertently revealed that employees can already use some 2D apps like GDoc inside the Quest. More info (HTC Vive Pro 2 review) More info (HTC Vive Pro 2 review?—?cached HTC is having RMAs issues with the Vive Pro 2.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

So to introduce a little bit about South Korean XR market, South Korea's telecom operators are really striving to create the right range of immersive mixed reality content to leverage their 5G network and attract more customers. And even HTC is teasing it, these lightweight pair of glasses. Or did you partner with companies to do this?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

So to introduce a little bit about South Korean XR market, South Korea's telecom operators are really striving to create the right range of immersive mixed reality content to leverage their 5G network and attract more customers. And even HTC is teasing it, these lightweight pair of glasses. Or did you partner with companies to do this?

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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.” How quickly and easily you can become immersed. 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.” How quickly and easily you can become immersed. 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." How quickly and easily you can become immersed. Those were the Tenets of Immersion.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 26, 2020

So to introduce a little bit about South Korean XR market, South Korea's telecom operators are really striving to create the right range of immersive mixed reality content to leverage their 5G network and attract more customers. And even HTC is teasing it, these lightweight pair of glasses. Or did you partner with companies to do this?

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2023

We’re not ready to give up on mobile phones so why don’t we stop talking about how to replace them and start talking about how to leverage them?” Presence is more important than immersion.” Steve Lukas “To increase XR’s adoption curve, we must first flatten its learning curve, and that’s what Qualcomm just did,” said Lukas.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Then you’ve got AWE, which is very kind of enterprise focused, how to make money? We’ve got beautiful immersive artists and people working in immersive storytelling that are coming. So it’s really– so there’s one stage that’s enterprise, and one stage that’s immersive.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Then you’ve got AWE, which is very kind of enterprise focused, how to make money? We’ve got beautiful immersive artists and people working in immersive storytelling that are coming. So it’s really– so there’s one stage that’s enterprise, and one stage that’s immersive.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

I ended up at Valve Software running their hardware department, putting the team together that created the HTC Vive. We were tasked with exploring how to bring new gamers into the Steam platform. Jeri, at Valve they did have that sort of choice point, and they chose to do Steam VR and get behind the HTC Vive.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Then you’ve got AWE, which is very kind of enterprise focused, how to make money? We’ve got beautiful immersive artists and people working in immersive storytelling that are coming. So it’s really– so there’s one stage that’s enterprise, and one stage that’s immersive.

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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. So we sent a lot of messages to people as they walking into the Sahara tent with instructions on how to use the experience. Have you tried Magic Leap? Sam: I have tried the Magic Leap, yeah.

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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. So we sent a lot of messages to people as they walking into the Sahara tent with instructions on how to use the experience. Have you tried Magic Leap? Sam: I have tried the Magic Leap, yeah.

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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. So we sent a lot of messages to people as they walking into the Sahara tent with instructions on how to use the experience. Have you tried Magic Leap? Sam: I have tried the Magic Leap, yeah.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Immerse Global Summit (IGS) 2022 took place in Miami 5 to 7 December, and concluded its final days in the sunny backdrop of Miami Beach’s historic Fontainebleu Hotel. Allen discussed the benefits of immersive learning platforms, citing a company study on the return on investment (ROI) for clients via VR training.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

He regularly advises Fortune 500 brands and Triple-A game publishers on how to succeed in the interactive media space. As SuperData’s lead XR analyst, Carter is responsible for the company’s reports on immersive technology. And being immersed in a 360 video, for example, makes a wonderful training tool.

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