Road to VR

DECEMBER 1, 2016

San Francisco based Osterhout Design Group (aka ODG) announced today that they’ve raised a significant $58 million Series A investment to accelerate production and R&D of its smart glasses products. It may not be immersive yet, but ODG aspires to make their smart glasses product line into a major augmented reality platform.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

VR is being used to correct conditions like amblyopia (sometimes called “lazy eye”) by San Francisco-based company Vivid Vision; instead of a childhood-scarring eyepatch or invasive surgery, virtual reality is the prescribed treatment. The covert product still has not been publicly shown, and the well-funded Magic Leap ($1.3B

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VRWorld

JULY 5, 2017

While I am an enthusiast for VR and all associated technologies, one major issue that’s really breaking my immersion into different VR environments is – resolution. Over the past two years, we tested dozens of VR headsets and two offered the best immersion experience; Acer/IMAX/Starbreeze StarVR and PIMAX 4K and 8K VR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for Image by Magic Leap). Magic Leap has sold units of its first device for $550. The “metaverse” was not a key topic inside “Microsoft Build”. Microsoft Build is one of the most important yearly events organized by Microsoft.

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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. With HoloLens and Magic Leap we’ve seen a broadening of the conference to include augmented reality as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

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. Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. It’s great. That’s important.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

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. Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. It’s great. That’s important.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

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. Anne-Marie: Magic Leap’s doing a workshop. It’s great. That’s important.

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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. February 2016. March 2016.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

Terry Schussler is the director of Immersive Technology at Deutche Telekom, and he’s working to bring 5G into the XR domain, and expand the capabilities of mixed reality technologies. Alan: I wonder if you could do a combination of putting ARCore and ARKit capabilities, mixed with GPS, mixed with the Magic Leap, to give it all in one.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 8, 2019

Terry Schussler is the director of Immersive Technology at Deutche Telekom, and he’s working to bring 5G into the XR domain, and expand the capabilities of mixed reality technologies. It is with great honor that I welcome Director of Immersive Technology at Deutsche Telekom, and founding member of the Open AR Cloud, Mr. Terry Schuster.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. They are a passionate team of 3D designers, VR and AR experts based in New York and San Francisco. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. Why would I want that?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. They are a passionate team of 3D designers, VR and AR experts based in New York and San Francisco. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. Why would I want that?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Alice is a technology writer/producer/consultant with a particular interest in the immersive space. Alice: I think one of the recent examples — and you were talking about it when you were saying about doing your news roundup — in the last week was really that Microsoft demo at Inspire. That really did blow my mind.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Alice is a technology writer/producer/consultant with a particular interest in the immersive space. Alice: I think one of the recent examples — and you were talking about it when you were saying about doing your news roundup — in the last week was really that Microsoft demo at Inspire. That really did blow my mind.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. They are a passionate team of 3D designers, VR and AR experts based in New York and San Francisco. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. Why would I want that?

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Alice is a technology writer/producer/consultant with a particular interest in the immersive space. Alice: I think one of the recent examples -- and you were talking about it when you were saying about doing your news roundup -- in the last week was really that Microsoft demo at Inspire. That really did blow my mind.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Alice is a technology writer/producer/consultant with a particular interest in the immersive space. Alice: I think one of the recent examples — and you were talking about it when you were saying about doing your news roundup — in the last week was really that Microsoft demo at Inspire. That really did blow my mind.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

To get some insight into those numbers, I moderated a panel on investing in virtual reality and augmented reality at Greenlight Insights’ recent Virtual Reality Strategy conference in San Francisco. Toby Zhang: I’m a partner with Youku Global Media Fund and CRCM in San Francisco. It focuses on media, AR/VR, and A.I.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: I think one of the ones is doing that amazingly is a company out of San Francisco called zSpace. So, being able to use that asset across Web and Snapchat and Facebook and, in the future, LinkedIn and Instagram, and also on VR and a AR and Hololens and Magic Leap; being able to use that across everything.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: I think one of the ones is doing that amazingly is a company out of San Francisco called zSpace. So, being able to use that asset across Web and Snapchat and Facebook and, in the future, LinkedIn and Instagram, and also on VR and a AR and Hololens and Magic Leap; being able to use that across everything.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: I think one of the ones is doing that amazingly is a company out of San Francisco called zSpace. So, being able to use that asset across Web and Snapchat and Facebook and, in the future, LinkedIn and Instagram, and also on VR and a AR and Hololens and Magic Leap; being able to use that across everything.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

Alan: I think one of the ones is doing that amazingly is a company out of San Francisco called zSpace. So, being able to use that asset across Web and Snapchat and Facebook and, in the future, LinkedIn and Instagram, and also on VR and a AR and Hololens and Magic Leap; being able to use that across everything.

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