VRScout

JUNE 15, 2019

Originating from a San-Franscico-based pop-up developed in 2018, The Unreal Garden is a combination of art and technology, fusing entertainment with augmented reality, projections, and soundscape technology. It’s just a shame the limited FOV of the gen 1 Microsoft HoloLens made the experience so restricting.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Microsoft has confirmed that development kits of VR headsets for their Windows Holographic platform are in the works and will make their debut at GDC 2017 in March. Today Microsoft confirmed that VR headsets from major manufacturers are set to launch in 2017.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Meanwhile, the immersive industry is coming closer to a potential paradigm shift in 2024, as big technology brands plan to make a mark on the emerging sector. Moreover, Michael Guerin said that over the next few years, immersive and spatial storytelling experiences would become “much more prevalent in the next three to five years.”

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

The online platform promotes interactive social and immersive gaming worlds with rich branding and content creation opportunities. The platform promotes immersive user-generated content, enabling an ecosystem of platform creators using Spatial to build and share online experiences and worlds. Spatial also assists in the We3 revolution.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 27, 2019

Knight Foundation is looking for pitches on how to enhance and augment traditional creative arts through immersive technologies. We’ve seen how immersive technologies can reach new audiences and engage existing audiences in new ways,” said Chris Barr, director for arts and technology innovation at Knight Foundation, in a statement.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The free to attend showcase features women-led businesses in immersive technology (XR) and is hosted by the WXR Fund, a venture fund dedicated to amplifying female founders and XR startups committed to gender equality. The founders received a Microsoft mixed reality headset and are currently enrolled in the WXR Mentorship Program beta.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 27, 2017

This week, Microsoft announced the launch of Microsoft Reactor in San Francisco —the flagship hub for the tech giant’s efforts in mixed reality (MR). “We are at the threshold of the next revolution in computing,” Liz Hamren, corporate vice president of Microsoft Devices Marketing, wrote in a blog post.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This year, in 2023, MWC will provide attendees with a great place to learn about 5G, 6G, IoT, and immersive tech. GDC March 20-24th, 2023, San Francisco The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an informative and educational event where attendees can learn all about the newest technologies influencing the gaming landscape.

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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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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2019

Lyft drivers would access this information through an AR headset, such as a Microsoft HoloLens, Google Glass, or Magic Leap, which would place the digital content directly in the view of the Lyft driver, or through an AR enabled smartphone. Image Credit: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

It was well over a year ago that the promise of Xbox streaming to the Oculus Rift was first promised by Phil Spencer during a June 2015 press event in San Francisco. The idea was to allow your Rift to function as a highly immersive monitor for your Xbox console. Tagged with: Headset , microsoft , oculus , rift.

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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. Major cooperations are building upon 2022’s technology innovations to provide reliable XR SAAS platforms, giving developers space to leverage immersive solutions across the workplace.

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2017

Last Monday, I walked three blocks uphill on Mason St in San Francisco to the Fairmont Hotel to demo a stealth product that had been touted to me as one of the biggest advancements in XR tech this side of Magic Leap. So what is Varjo?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

GDC (Game Developers Conference) March 20-24, San Francisco The Game Developers Conference is definitely a worthwhile event to attend for content creators and entertainment brands, but anyone with a love of XR can get involved. Here are some top options worth adding to the calendar this year.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 19, 2023

This week, the immersive space felt an injection of innovation, with various leading firms hinting at the big news and committing to more prominent partnerships. However, an increased marketplace awareness leads to some great partnerships that solidify a handful of immersive firms in their enterprise presence. The news is ramping up!

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Users will still be able to see most of the real world in front of them — unlike virtual reality, which completely immerses the user in a computer-generated fantasyland, augmented reality layers computer-generated text and images on top of reality. All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well.

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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. I also found features in Microsoft’s gear I instantly wished were included in my Rift and Vive back at home. I’ll get straight to the point.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 19, 2017

Microsoft didn’t even mention VR at all during the reveal of the Xbox One X even though executives have suggested the system will still support it. The creators of the tool have plans to add haptic sensors to the base glove in the future, so we could be witnessing an affordable and functional new step for immersive input in VR.

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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. Tim Sweeney has some stern words for some of VR’s biggest players.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Many Unity developers have slammed the new fees as unfair, prompting the San Francisco-based firm to rescind its announcement partially. As Unity is the most widely-used real-time 3D (RT3D) engine for immersive experiences, this is set to affect many enterprises aiming to build Metaverse platforms for the business.

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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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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 round was from SRI Capital, which is a seed stage venture fund in Philadelphia.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

The conference takes place on December 7th and 8th in San Francisco Marriott Marquis. Marcus Kühne, Strategy Lead, Immersive Techologies, AUDI. Stephanie Llamas, Head of Immersive Technology Insights, SuperData Research. Vicki Ferguson, Programming Team Lead, Virtual Reality, Ubisoft. Tommy Palm, CEO, Resolution Games.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2022

You know well that I’ve been at SXSW , but, shame on me, I haven’t stayed a few days more to attend the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The Japanese startup H2L is working on a bracelet to provide haptic feedback of various kinds to increase immersion in VR worlds. Upload VR). Other news. Learn more. Learn more.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The city of San Francisco will be getting its very first dedicated AR maker space thanks to Enklu , a cutting-edge company that approaches traditional venues and transforms them into modern experience centers using immersive AR technology. Memberships and day passes are now available to west coast developers and players.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

I attended the Experiential Technology Conference (XTech) in San Francisco this week to hear talks about creating virtual experiences that truly immerse you in another world. We have 3D sound as well, but we need more than that to achieve real immersion, said Tal Blevins, head of media at UploadVR, in a panel at XTech.

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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. Over time we think AR and VR converge into a world that the Microsoft folks call “mixed reality.”

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for The “metaverse” was not a key topic inside “Microsoft Build”. Microsoft Build is one of the most important yearly events organized by Microsoft. This is the reason why I think this announcement is so 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. There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire.

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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. There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire.

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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. There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire.

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 12, 2020

With just a few weeks before the event is set to kick off, the organization is bringing together a group of technologists with backgrounds in virtual reality, blockchain, hypnotism and immersive theatre to create a web of hacked-together social products that they hope will capture the atmosphere of Burning Man.

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VRScout

JUNE 3, 2018

Nestled under fir tree-covered mountains and bordered by beaches, the city’s urban center boasts businesses that are transforming industries, creating immersive stories, and defining the next wave of computing. Vancouver is one of the fastest growing VR, AR, and MR hubs in the world. Its expansion is staggering. Now, there are over 200.

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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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