ARVR

MARCH 16, 2021

Microsoft announced their new platform Mesh last week to enable better mixed reality experiences across not only AR and VR headsets, but also mobile and desktop. Mesh is built on Microsoft Azure which enables developers to build immersive, multiuser, cross-platform mixed reality applications through an SDK.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

As teachers and training teams look for new ways to engage and inspire their students, XR represents a new landscape for hands-on, immersive experiences. With XR solutions, people can step into immersive environments, where they can learn both soft skills for customer service and communication, and technical abilities.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Several new companies have begun exploring immersive avatar development and photorealistic holograms for future communications platforms, using bleeding-edge real-time 3D (RT3D) engines. Such technologies were conceptualised in science fiction, but are now becoming a (virtual) reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Though mixed reality is evolving at a slightly slower rate than augmented and virtual reality, market leaders like Microsoft are beginning to introduce the world to what the future of MR could really look like. Here’s your insight into the definition of Mixed Reality. What is Mixed Reality?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Demand for Extended Reality (XR) is growing at an astonishing rate. In recent years, companies from virtually every industry have begun to discover just how beneficial immersive technology can be when it comes to improving collaboration and productivity.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 25, 2017

Virtual reality is all about immersing a person inside a digital world. VR headsets are designed to block out light and envelop our field of view as completely as possible with high quality, low latency visuals. We mentioned Microsoft already above but Google, Snap, Inc., with our natural environments.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Three basic features of a metaverse will be: Immersiveness. Let’s dive in: Metaverses build engagement A virtual reality is almost impossible to ignore, as it occupies 100% of a user’s attention. Gaming experience has been forcing reality to include interactive communication. What are the specific features of a metaverse?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Demand for Extended Reality (XR) is growing at an astonishing rate. In recent years, companies from virtually every industry have begun to discover just how beneficial immersive technology can be when it comes to improving collaboration and productivity.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft ramps up distribution of HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Microsoft is working to improve the distribution of its latest devices: HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. A doctor has created the website VR Therapists to connect patients with psychologists offering immersive VR therapeutics.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Microsoft announces Mesh, an XR collaboration platform. Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. But since Microsoft owns one of those studios (and using it costs around $100K/day if I remember well!), Here you are my flower for you! Image by OceanX).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

According to the very famous market analysis company Gartner, Augmented Reality is no more an “emerging” technology, but it has graduated as a mature one. The fact that all immersive technologies have been flagged as mature by it means that many more companies will believe in their potential and will want to implement them.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

According to the Financial Times, “In June, AR, VR, and mixed reality start-ups in the US raised $208 million, almost as much as the previous three months combined ”. This made sure investors gained some trust for immersive reality startups again, something that will be beneficial for our whole industry.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 7, 2023

larger than Quest) and this is good for enhancing immersion. Unrelated to my demos with the XR-4, I have also tried a demo with a previous Varjo headset and a plane simulation machine together with Microsoft Flight Simulator. The lenses of the device. I have to tell you that anyway, it was large, but not THAT large (e.g.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 1, 2022

Over the last two years, metaverse technologies have matured due to investments from firms such as Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Epic Games, and many others. The immersive and real-time aspects of a genuine metaverse may revolutionize a variety of human activities, including gaming, social interactions, eCommerce, entertainment, and e-sports.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

Like every year, during this event we have seen some important AR news, but not that many, since the event was more focused on mobile phones than immersive technologies. Frontal view of the device (Image by Microsoft). The biggest news of the MWC for what concerns XR has been for sure the announcement of the HoloLens 2 by Microsoft.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 30, 2023

The result is deeper immersion, improved user experiences, and a stronger link between humans and computer systems. 1. More Immersive, Intuitive User Experiences Perhaps the most significant reason to invest in eye and hand-tracking solutions for extended reality is that they can massively improve user experiences.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

2020 smartphones will also sport powerful chips and processors designed to power immersive experiences. Virtual reality devices are beginning to double as AR headsets thanks to stereo video passthrough. The combination of these ingredients are solving for some of the biggest challenges video passthrough faces such as latency.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Are they as revolutionary as RayNeo says, or will they quickly fade into the background as companies like Meta, Microsoft , and Apple continue to invest in the XR landscape? There’s still the potential issue of latency causing a little “ virtual reality sickness ,” too. Let’s find out.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Augmented reality, while growing in buzz, has been around in some form or another for more than two decades. But immersive head-mounted AR for consumers has had one major hurdle that Microsoft may have just solved. If Microsoft’s inside-out tracking success can be replicated, the next step is making it affordable.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 24, 2022

While virtually every industry is discovering new uses for XR in the realms of education, collaboration, and even wellbeing, the gaming landscape still remains one of the most valuable ecosystems for immersive technologies. ARKit and ARCore offer quick and simple ways to bring immersive technology into the smartphone landscape.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Demand for immersive experiences is growing in virtually every industry. Currently, the extended reality (XR) market is growing at a phenomenal CAGR of 48.3%, as innovative companies continue to uncover the benefits of unique, virtual landscapes. They also need to be able to leverage the most effective connections.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2022

Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) has begun trialling augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) smart glasses with Keppel Operations and Maintenance (O&M), the latter announced on Wednesday. ” The IMDA and Emerging Technologies.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 30, 2020

That in itself is also a sign of how immersive, three-dimensional media is possibly, finally approaching a breakout moment. That will also be buffered by a raft of new hardware, Agarawala said. “The industry is firing up 5G and that will also be a big push.” “The industry is firing up 5G and that will also be a big push.”

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Since this article was going to foster a new wave of “VR is dead” articles from mainstream media, one of the other cofounders of Oculus, Palmer Luckey, has answered sharing some of the secret numbers of virtual reality headsets’ sales. Facebook Reality Labs has released two interesting research results. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This is one of the most awaited titles of the year, and the arrival of it on Quest will draw people passionate about the saga to buy an Oculus headset to be immersed in its horror world. Microsoft is going to release a database of synthetic faces. News worth a mention. Image by ambr). NASA is using AR/VR on ISS.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The Vive Focus Plus represents a new class of full-function full-fidelity and fully standalone VR device that will enable unpresidented immersion in a portable VR device. If this gets fixed, I can say that the tracking will become as the one by Microsoft. The latency is really a lot less perceivable. Alvin Wang Graylin.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In its upcoming 5-year development plan, there should be measures to favor the growth and the spread of Immersive Realities. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. This week, Facebook and Microsoft have released two interesting works from their R&D department.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s Vision Pro triggered new discourse on the future of virutal, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR). Apple’s take on immersive technologies will also test the future of XR hardware solutions and their roles in the broader XR community through rigorous use cases. Brian Meaney , Head of Product, Alteon.io

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 29, 2024

Therefore, these demographics are used to seeing interfaces, latency, and frame rates and are more accepting of the technology benefits. This factor gives companies like Apple and Microsoft a lead in providing enterprise XR due to a trusted history. However, XR champions exist across all demographics.

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Road to VR

MARCH 24, 2017

Today’s most immersive virtual reality systems, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, rely on a bothersome tether to send power and high fidelity imagery to the headset at low latency. But everyone agrees a dangling cable is not only annoying, it’s an immersion detractor. IMR – Immersive Robotics.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 26, 2018

It involves capturing, processing and stitching together footage from up to 32 cameras and, in the case of live events, streaming it in real time with minimal latency. STRIVR helps clients ranging from Walmart to the New York Jets to step up their game with immersive VR training. STRIVR Advances 360-Degree Video Training.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Using HTC Vive immerses you in a virtual environment, but you can still feel the wire, ravel and worse. This restricts the user and reduces immersion. A few days later, TPCast officially announced that it can reach the latency of just two milliseconds when running the Vive’s 2K resolution at the frame rate of 90Hz.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

But I would wait to rejoice from it: VR requires a very short motion-to-photon latency, and as of today no cloud rendering service can offer such low latency in every possible location of the user. The “metaverse” was not a key topic inside “Microsoft Build”. A bit of boomer humour about virtual reality.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Business leaders gathered at this year’s Seattle based IMMERSE Summit ( previously Sea VR ) to explore how VR/ AR and Mixed Reality is transforming manufacturing, design, education, health and medicine and much more. Road to VR: Last year, this event was called SEA VR and it was focused mainly on virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! This commercial video about Google Glasses led me to immersive realities. Sounded good.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 22, 2022

It will offer shared virtual spaces to combine the physical and virtual worlds using virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) technologies. Users will pilot digital avatars to explore immersive worlds with XR technologies to shop, socialise, research, game, and travel.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic). “Cyberspace” was coined by SF author William Gibson.

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