XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2024

Big vendor news this week, Admist start-ups and fresh ideas; this week, big names like Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Apple took the headlines due to each firm’s optimisation of its XR product portfolio. Surgeons can train repeatedly with customized modules to improve their efficacy, skills, and data retention.

Microsoft 66

Microsoft Apple Education Training 66

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2023

As the ever-growing technology space finds its footing in enterprise and for consumers, industry leaders are ensuring that the market stands upon a strong foundation of industry-wide collaboration and rich design tools. On the other hand, Unity is introducing tools that leverage AI to simplify XR content creation processes.

Unity 61

Unity Apple Tools Immersion 61

The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

But there’s even more: Unity has already published a page about how it is possible to build for the Quest 3 using not only the XR Interaction Toolkit, but also AR Foundation. Unity page also confirms that the headset will provide plane detection, so you will be able for instance to detect the walls and the desks in your room.

Unity 294

Unity Retail Eye Tracking Simulation 294

The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

If OpenAI wanted to slow down to have time to understand the consequences of this new type of AI, Microsoft would already ready be to hire all the talents of OpenAI and carry on AI developments by itself. Now Microsoft is discontinuing them , putting another nail in the coffin of the HoloLens. Thanks to Davy Demeyer for the tip!)

Augmented Reality 331

Augmented Reality Apple Samsung Ukraine 331

Road to VR

AUGUST 1, 2023

Here’s how the alliance describes their new OpenUSD inititive: Created by Pixar Animation Studios, OpenUSD is a high-performance 3D scene description technology that offers robust interoperability across tools, data, and workflows. OpenUSD is based on years of research and application in Pixar filmmaking.

Apple 191

Apple AR Machine Learning Industry 191

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

When Mark Zuckerberg acquired Oculus, all the eyes of the tech industry started looking at VR as the “next big thing” And now that Apple entered the field, all people in the technology world are talking about the Vision Pro, and especially of the future evolutions of the device, which could become mainstream.

Trends 407

Trends Apple Google Unity 407

ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Recent technological advancements have pushed the envelope of what modern technologies are capable of. Furthermore, these innovations have greatly changed the way users interact with such technologies. Unfortunately, such beliefs stem from a misunderstanding of the technology and how it works.

Virtual Reality 400

Virtual Reality Unreal Technology Tools 400

XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Regarding technologies, the Metaverse will incorporate artificial intelligence (AI), virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), the internet of things (IoT), and hand and eye tracking tools. Theme and amusement parks have begun incorporating VR technologies from HTC VIVE for novel attractions. VR Theme Parks. Meta Platforms.

Entertainment 300

Entertainment United Kingdom Immersion Charlotte 300

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

The OpenXR API is a core piece behind many XR headsets from vendors such as Acer, ByteDance, Canon, HTC, Magic Leap, Meta, Microsoft, Sony, XREAL, Qualcomm, Valve, and Varjo. Moreover, RT3D development services like Autodesk VRED, Blender, Godot, NVIDIA’s Omniverse, StereoKit, Unreal Engine, and Unity support OpenXR integration.

Unity 90

Unity Groups Unreal Industry 90

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

AR/VR/MR headsets are increasingly equipped with hand and eye tracking technology. Although, with more recent commercial headsets like the Meta Quest Pro and Sony’s PSVR 2, the technology is finding a home in affordable immersive products. How has eye and hand-tracking tracking technology advanced in 2022 and 2023?

Hand tracking 89

Hand tracking Technology Eye Tracking Hardware 89

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Igloo Vision was among a number of leading emerging technology companies showing face at the event to highlight the future of workplace technology -with the firm successfully showcasing how immersive spaces are a valuable enterprise tool via its Igloo Core Engine solution. ISE 2024 is wrapping up, and visitors are heading home.

Immersion 107

Immersion Architecture Microsoft 360 Video 107

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A leader in AI development for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) solutions, Meta’s latest involvement in the AI Alliance will help facilitate an ethical framework for the emerging technology.

Unity 89

Unity Cleveland Tools Microsoft 89

The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

What is worrisome the most is that it is unclear what will happen to all the other amazing XR projects that Mozilla was managing like the WebXR framework A-frame or the WebXR exporter for Unity. Is The Sony XRperia coming? Sony has just published a job offer looking for professionals to build an XR headset. News worth a mention.

Sony 341

Sony Eye Tracking HTC Unity 341

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Meta’s Oculus team have already partnered with leading companies like Sony Music to give fans an immersive way to explore music videos and unique content. Although Microsoft hasn’t shown much of an investment in the entertainment and arts sector as of yet, it has a lot of potential to offer with the HoloLens ecosystem.

Entertainment 114

Entertainment Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Unity 114

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2023

South Korea’s LG Electronics announced on Monday a partnership with Oorbit to develop serious gaming metaverse technologies for LG TVs. The former will deploy its cloud streaming technologies along with high-fidelity metaverse worlds. Microsoft explained at the Immerse Global Summit’s Metaverse 2.0

South Korea 75

South Korea Motion Capture Microsoft Sony 75

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 23, 2024

Lenovo, ASUS, Qualcomm, and More to Support Open Future The revamped Meta Horizon OS aims to scale and drive XR application and hardware development, building upon core technologies such as high-resolution passthrough, scene understanding, spatial anchors, and body tracking, eventually powering metaverse experiences.

Hardware 89

Hardware Magic Leap Apple Industry 89

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 week, a rumor spread among XR communities: next-gen PSVR will be announced at a press conference to be held by Sony on February, 5th. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. PSVR 2 could be revealed next month.

Samsung 415

Samsung Survey Unity Oculus 415

The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world. What is impressive is that using the technology acquired with another startup, which is The 8th Wall, Niantic has also teased that VPS will be available also for WebAR experiences. News worth a mention. Image by Magic Leap).

Magic Leap 295

Magic Leap Virtual World Ukraine Augmented Reality 295

Voices of VR

JULY 13, 2023

Liz Hyman President and the CEO of the XR Association (XRA), which is a non-profit, industry trade association representing 47 XR companies including major players like Meta, Google, Microsoft, HTC, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Unity, and HTC. XR Access co-founder Shiri Azenkot told me "But it was always a retroactive thing.

Government 40

Government Unity Technology HTC 40

The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Image by Sony, from Road To VR). Sony announces PS5, it supports PSVR. With an online livestream of around 1 hour, Sony has finally unveiled the design of the PlayStation 5. But Sony has confirmed that while we wait for it, the PS5 will be able to work with the current PSVR device. I hope you’ll enjoy it…. SSD (8–9 GB/s).

Sony 300

Sony AR Augmented Reality Czech Republic 300

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 25, 2023

.” US Attorney General Merrick B Garland said in a statement, “Today’s complaint alleges that Google has used anticompetitive, exclusionary, and unlawful conduct to eliminate or severely diminish any threat to its dominance over digital advertising technologies. Not Too Big to Fail? billion USD deal.

Microsoft 101

Microsoft Google Rhode Island Colorado 101

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

I expect all these trends to continue in 2021, for a year that will see the growth of the technology on all its sides (software and hardware). And in fact, some weeks ago Sony has made everyone understand that it has delayed the launch of the PSVR 2 because the market is not there yet.

Virtual Reality 517

Virtual Reality Trends China HTC 517

The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

China 304

China Industry Government AR 304

The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Sony). 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. Thank you all for making me feel your warmth, you are an amazing community! Top news of the week.

Oculus 446

Oculus Switzerland Italy Microsoft 446

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. One-year price performance for SNAP as of 2/3/20 Sony Corp.

Virtual Reality 130

Virtual Reality AR Augmented Reality Google 130

The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

For me this is not a fortunate sentence: this is what Alex Kipman said about the HoloLens, a few weeks before the whole Microsoft Mixed Reality division was disbanded and he was fired from the company. 1 billion of this money is planned in Germany, with €500 million for a new Technology Campus in Erlangen.

Apple 289

Apple Survey Machine Learning AR 289

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Instead of showing people how the “metaverse” is now with very rough images (that easily become memes) or how it may be in the future with some fluffy videos, Zuck has used the best technologies from the Meta R&D department: Meta’s Codec Avatars. More info Some news about content Sony has announced a few new games for its PSVR 2 headset.

Las Vegas 349

Las Vegas Amazon Controllers Gaming 349

The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Image by Sony). Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. So, PSVR2 probably won’t launch before 2022 : Sony can afford that also because it has no competition in the console VR space , so there is no need to rush.

Sony 354

Sony Oculus Controllers Haptic 354

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

As the gaming industry eclipses the movie and filmmaking sector, gaming firms are leveraging their technologies to create next-level immersive experiences. Companies such as Meta, holoride , Improbable , Steam, Sony, and many others have begun tapping their serious gaming technologies to achieve this.

Industry 68

Industry Immersion Gaming Motion Capture 68

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 17, 2022

We share our new members’ excitement about the limitless possibilities of XR technology”. Aneesh Kulkarni, Chief Technology Officer of Striver , added his company had seen how the adoption of technologies had transformed how people “engage, learn, and work.”

Immersion 76

Immersion Atlanta Conference Healthcare 76

XROM

MAY 15, 2023

AWE Asia brings together developers, creators, founders, product leads, C-level executives, enthusiasts, media, and analysts interested in #virtualreality, #augmentedreality, and related #Web3 and #metaverse technologies in Asia. AWE Asia has been hosted annually since 2015.

Asia 72

Asia Singapore Conference Healthcare 72

The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. More info Sony Mocopi seems to be good for full-body VR Thrillseeker, the superstar VR Youtuber, is experimenting with Mocopi, the lightweight full-body VR kit by Sony.

Apple 269

Apple Ukraine Samsung Data 269

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I’m pretty excited to receive this headset because I want to see the clarity of the images everyone is talking about and I also want to play around with mixed reality, a technology I am a big fan of. Sony’s entertainment assets have huge potential in the metaverse area.”

Apple 326

Apple Unreal Hand tracking Ukraine 326

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 22, 2022

The news comes as global entities prepare to design, test, and deploy the Metaverse, a merger of the Internet with spatial computing features and incorporating rising technologies such as virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR), digital twins, real-time 3D content, and others. Metaverse Standards Forum Flow Chart. PHOTO: MSF.

Industry 85

Industry Technology Tools Unreal 85

The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

technology (with support for Steam VR 1.0 Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Especially eye-tracking is the special feature here since it would make the PSVR2 the first consumer-oriented device to use this technology. This could be The Unity Cube 2.0. base stations) Controllers : Vive Wands. Other relevant news.

Eye Tracking 344

Eye Tracking HTC China Amazon 344

The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device.

Survey 293

Survey Apple AR Samsung 293

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Attendees learned and experienced the firm’s technologies and the growing number of use cases for simulations, collaboration, engagement, and visualisation. It also leverages technologies such as six Epson EB-PU1007W projectors and Igloo Vision’s Immersive Media Player (IMP III).

Immersion 87

Immersion 360 Video Architecture Microsoft 87