AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

trillion) of the overall retail market — and expected to reach 22 percent by 2023 — brands know they need to create standout digital shopping experiences. That equates to huge return costs for online retailers who typically operate at thin margins to begin with. And with e-commerce making up 16.1 percent (about $4.2

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ARPost

MARCH 3, 2020

As AR and VR are slowly taking over many industries, including retail , agriculture, customer service, engineering, and education , there is a growing need in platforms that can take the lead and create resources to educate big companies as well as entrepreneurs about AR and VR technologies. million people in 2019.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The internationally available programmes help scale XR solutions for arts & entertainment, industry, tourism, retail, and more. Firstly, T-mobile added various companies to its accelerator, including solutions providers in industries, education, and retail. What Funding and Support are Available for the Virtual Reality Industry?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 1, 2023

Unity Unity stands as one of the market leaders in software development for the metaverse landscape and the XR economy. The Unity ecosystem enables business leaders and developers to create powerful immersive experiences using virtual, mixed, and augmented reality content.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? This makes us clearly understand that gamers are still not really into VR, and confirms the thesis by Microsoft that is not adding VR to Xbox. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins.

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XROM

MAY 15, 2023

Previous AWE Asia conferences have featured sessions from senior leadership at organizations such as #Intel, #Qualcomm, #Microsoft, #HTC, #Lenovo, #IEEE, #Sony, #Niantic, #Walmart, #Oppo, #Unity, #Baidu, and #PTC. AWE Asia has been hosted annually since 2015.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 14, 2023

Google’s latest row with European regulators comes as the company rolls out its Geospatial Creator for Unity platform. Using Unity Editor, people can create spatially-linked creative content across 3D map of the world while leveraging Google’s ARCore and Photorealistic 3D Tiles. billion USD.

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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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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Here are just some of the tech stocks many are looking at right now (in no particular order): Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) For the people who brought you the Hololens 2, probably the most sophisticated pair of mixed reality smart glasses out there to date. billion by 2024, a five-year CAGR increase of 54%.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 2022, the Immerse Global Summit featured speakers from some of the world’s best-known brands, including Amazon, Meta, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and Unity, and demonstrations of some of the most exciting metaverse technologies. Unity shared how digital twins were helping its customers unlock new levels of innovation.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

Air New Zealand is one airlines provider that is testing how the Microsoft Hololens can help improve in-flight customer service. Now this is what I call retail theater. Based in San Francisco, Unity Technologies has raised a new $400M round of private equity from Silver Lake Partners– bringing their total funding to almost $690M.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Five Boroughs of Igloo Vision According to Igloo Vision, its immersive spaces now include: Immersive visualisation room with floor projection : In a 5 x 5-metre space, Igloo Vision displayed 360 video, Insta360 live streams, Unity-based architectural models, Matterport-based photogrammetry models, and immersive presentations built on Slides.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

Manufacturing companies, enterprise brands, and even retailers build metaverse environments to enhance collaboration, unlock new levels of creativity, and improve customer experience. Currently, the metaverse space is expected to reach a value of approximately $426.9

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

The device is going to be retailed at $95 , and its advantage will not only be the $30 less but the fact that its dongle can connect to more trackers together. Read about Microsoft’s Ignite conference. My friend Giambattista De Giorgis has published a book about learning how to develop AR/VR applications in Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Also the price is getting closer to that plan, with the device now expected to retail for $1300. More info Jim Ryan hints at a possible PlayStation metaverse The court documents related to the FTC vs Microsoft trial related to the acquisition of Activision contain a very interesting piece of information related to what Sony may be working on.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. In related news, the consumer version of the HTC Vive is now promised to be shipped within 72 hours of ordering as well as additional retail availability and demo locations. Facebook Enables Native 360 Photos.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting. Additionally, sports, retail, logistics, healthcare and, more recently, financial services will lead the way. It remains to be seen.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 3, 2023

From Zoom to Microsoft, both platforms and others are helping to facilitate a better-connected world. However, it also displaces some jobs in traditional industries, such as manufacturing and retail. XR developer hubs like NVIDIA Omniverse, Unity, and Unreal also contain integrated emerging tools like AI.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

There’s no doubt that the announcements made on this conference might be the clearest direction where VR/MR/AR are heading as an industry, as it will happen after Microsoft Windows 10 Mixed Reality launches, as well as seeing the first sales results of next generation Oculus Rift headset. Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, 20th Century Fox.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The deskless workforce are found within industries such as retail, healthcare, and the supply chain sector, including manufacturing, warehousing, transportation and logistics. For frontline workers, it’s important that they have technology at their disposal that is entirely voice-controlled and, therefore, hands-free.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Matsuda himself subsequently began working in AR following the film's release, leading design teams at both Leap Motion (now Ultraleap) and Microsoft. That said, though Sen was a collaborative effort between Ito, CinemaLeap and Psychic VR, it was ultimately created using Unity.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

For larger companies looking to connect their entire team with HoloLens 2 headsets, Microsoft is offering a package that includes Dynamic 365 Remote Assist on each MR headset at the cost of $125 per user – per month. If you’re a developer working on your own, Microsoft offers the HoloLens 2 Development Edition.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. As John Riccitiello (CEO of Unity) said some years ago , the VR market won’t be interesting enough until it will reach the 10 million users mark. 2022 could be the key year for XR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Johnson has worked at Microsoft and Qualcomm before, and she is a very respected executive. Unity developers will get this joke Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Magic Leap has decided to put on sale its remaining units of the Magic Leap 1, its previous device, for just $550 , which is something like a -75% discount on its standard retail price. 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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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

So Microsoft, as you know, we support ARKit- and ARCore-enabled devices. Microsoft launched their Azure Spatial Anchors, we could support Azure Spatial Anchors as well, and take their augmented reality to the next level. One that comes to mind would be retail. Like very, very unexpected use cases sometimes. Yes, exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

So Microsoft, as you know, we support ARKit- and ARCore-enabled devices. Microsoft launched their Azure Spatial Anchors, we could support Azure Spatial Anchors as well, and take their augmented reality to the next level. One that comes to mind would be retail. Like very, very unexpected use cases sometimes. Yes, exactly.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has made significant contributions in various verticals such as entertainment, education, retail etc. Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market. It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic).

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

And things like Microsoft introducing-- or announcing the world of Minecraft and augmented reality, meaning anywhere in the world, you can start building Minecraft blocks and it will stay there, positionally tracked, so the next person that comes along and-- basically what you're doing is that level, but made for industry and enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The news is that the device may be called Vive Ultimate Tracker and retail at $200 per unit. In the month of October, companies will be able to use Mesh inside Microsoft Teams, so members of a company can meet in a 3D space (in VR or flatscreen) and interact together. To work, trackers need a custom Vive dongle which costs $39.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. Alan: I've got a call one thing, that I saw here on your site, and I just got to ask: VR bungee jumping?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. Alan: I've got a call one thing, that I saw here on your site, and I just got to ask: VR bungee jumping?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We started working really early on with the DK-1 from Kickstarter, testing, playing around with Unity, seeing what we could do, up to now where we're easily 200+ commercially funded, brand funded XR experiences. Alan: I've got a call one thing, that I saw here on your site, and I just got to ask: VR bungee jumping?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Tracey Wiedmeyer and Alan discuss a few ideas, from browsing the catch of the day in a VR tropical wonderland, to using VR and AR to test out retail layouts before you build them. So maybe you can just talk about InContext Solutions and what you’re doing for retailers. Alan: Today’s guest is Tracey Wiedmeyer.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

Tracey Wiedmeyer and Alan discuss a few ideas, from browsing the catch of the day in a VR tropical wonderland, to using VR and AR to test out retail layouts before you build them. So maybe you can just talk about InContext Solutions and what you’re doing for retailers. Alan: Today’s guest is Tracey Wiedmeyer.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever. It’s amazing.” ” Paul: [laughs] Right.

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