TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2023

“Using technology, Emperia aims to make virtual worlds into the future of e-commerce, expanding the reach to new and future online shoppers, increasing brand loyalty and creating a complete new shopping experience,” Dogadkina said. On the other hand, a Deloitte survey from September found that just 5% of U.S.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 31, 2022

While Meta focuses on creating virtual reality environments, companies like Microsoft and Nvidia are developing metaverse environments for collaborating and working on digital projects. No one knows for sure what the winning strategy will be yet, but one thing is for certain – you’ve got to be in it to win it.

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 5, 2022

Countless couples in real life first met in a virtual world like Second Life (check out Draxtor Despres’ video series Love Made in Second Life if you want a few examples; also please watch Joe Hunting’s excellent feature-length VRChat documentary, We Met in Virtual Reality , currently streaming on HBO Max, or on Crave TV here in Canada).

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AR Insider

MARCH 8, 2021

This week, we look at takeaways from Microsoft Ignite, Space X, Pokemon Go and VR training from Bank of America. The company is going all in on Mixed Reality, to paraphrase its chief executive Satya Nadella, who used Microsoft’s AltspaceVR platform for his keynote. W elcome back to Spatial Beats. Psychic VR Lab raises $8.5M

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 21, 2022

These professionals use new devices to merge the physical and virtual worlds with creative, engaging immersive content. XR blends the physical and virtual worlds with digital overlays that interact in real-time with real-life objects. Enhance training and development strategies. billion USD this year.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For the most part, your digital identity on channels like Microsoft Teams and Zoom is likely to consist of a face and a set of shoulders. A full-body avatar could improve that sense of presence, helping employees connect in a more human, engaging format in virtual worlds. Are Full Body Avatars the Future?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

This means having AR and VR on the same device ; A 5G modem ; 8K videos playback at 60fps; Accelerated AI so that to be able to perform objects recognition and other cool stuff on the camera feed. There is not much to say, but there is a lot to see… so click on the below links, watch the videos and let them inspire you!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 28, 2017

Those experts helped break down the basics of VR, pointing out much of the technology needed to make it possible was already in millions of homes with accessories like Microsoft’s Kinect sensor. This strategy allowed the title to rake in millions while being built by a relatively small team.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

HOUSEKEEPING NOTICE: Yes, I know this blogpost is somewhat off-topic for a blog about “news and views on social VR, virtual worlds, and the metaverse,” but hey, my blog, my rules. Backup Strategy : Set up a backup strategy using Time Machine or a third-party backup solution to ensure your data is protected.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Niantic has finally launched its VPS (Visual Positioning System), a solution that will allow developers to create AR applications that are persistent and shared in various locations in the world with centimeter accuracy. VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

I hope that a future rumor clarifies a bit more what is Facebook’s strategy. (Thanks Alessio Palumbo for the tip!). CTRL+C in the real world, CTRL+V in the virtual one. Microsoft presents VROOM, a solution that mixes AR and robotics to let you have a telepresence robot with your AR avatar during meetings.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Road to VR ‘s Michael Glombicki caught up with two VR/AR investors to get their insight into the opportunities available in the immersive technology space and the strategies they’re employing to capitalise on them. How do you process that video? SEE ALSO Madrona Venture Group on Why Seattle is a Hotbed for VR and AR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Some magazines reported this news as a sign of the failure of Meta’s strategy about the metaverse. A report from Insider states that Microsoft may have canceled its plans for HoloLens 3. Microsoft has answered the report saying that “HoloLens is doing great” , and Alex Kipman has tweeted not to believe what you read on the internet.

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VeeR VR

APRIL 10, 2018

Alan's business has worked with companies like Samsung, HBO, Techweek, Microsoft, Comcast, and many more. Sabarish is a 14 year-old Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality developer. He is the youngest AR developer in the world to be sponsored by Microsoft to develop for the Microsoft HoloLens. Antony Vitillo.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Regarding first use, the company has started sharing videos to teach how the properly wear the headset , so that users do not make mess while wearing it, even if they don’t have personal dedicated support. But she can point things, and this is something; The visual aspect is not as cool as the one of the presentation video.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

After that, I headed for China to pursue my dream and headed marketing and strategy for the release of the Microsoft A.I. VR, as we all know, is a medium; it is a virtual world , a container in which we can see and experience. product Cortana in China. What does PanguVR do?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. Alan: This sky slide that you built, if you want to see it, it's happyfinish.com, and there's a video there. It's truly amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. Alan: This sky slide that you built, if you want to see it, it's happyfinish.com, and there's a video there. It's truly amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. Alan: This sky slide that you built, if you want to see it, it's happyfinish.com, and there's a video there. It's truly amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

They want videos. Next thing you know, you have a subject matter expert video. If they start looking at, "Hey, why did so many of our people look at this video so often? Versus dealing with a company that, you know, I'm not trying to be in any way offensive by saying they're laggers -- that's just their strategy.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

They want videos. Next thing you know, you have a subject matter expert video. If they start looking at, "Hey, why did so many of our people look at this video so often? Versus dealing with a company that, you know, I'm not trying to be in any way offensive by saying they're laggers -- that's just their strategy.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

They want videos. Next thing you know, you have a subject matter expert video. If they start looking at, "Hey, why did so many of our people look at this video so often? Versus dealing with a company that, you know, I'm not trying to be in any way offensive by saying they're laggers -- that's just their strategy.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Apart from the hardware, Somnium is moving well also on the software side: the graphics of the virtual world is improving over time, and soon will be released the first game built on top of Somnium. But it is anyway great news and makes us hope for a great 2022 for the whole XR ecosystem. I like this approach.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2024

For instance, we use a slightly modified version of Microsoft guidelines for C# for the coding phase, and every code is reviewed during the pull request stage Try to ask for high standards from everyone. I've just started… the first pages have been interesting, I will tell you how it is when I've finished it.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

Beliaeff: If you look at the evolution of video games, they’re trying to control everything a person is experiencing. If you saw those first pictures in Central Park, you got this experiential blend of the video game portion of it and the reality around you. Then we add video game depth to it, as well as the social aspect.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. Or even 360 videos, we support that, too. The world of 3D, 120 formats. A billion dollar to spend on virtual worlds. So is, I think, Microsoft with Hololens. That raised and crashed also, pretty tough.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. Or even 360 videos, we support that, too. The world of 3D, 120 formats. A billion dollar to spend on virtual worlds. So is, I think, Microsoft with Hololens. That raised and crashed also, pretty tough.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. Or even 360 videos, we support that, too. The world of 3D, 120 formats. A billion dollar to spend on virtual worlds. So is, I think, Microsoft with Hololens. That raised and crashed also, pretty tough.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 9, 2017

Attach it to a phone to make your single player VR game a two player game with the second player looking into the virtual world through their phone. Microsoft, for example, is sharing its HoloLens tracking technology with partners, which could translate to an even cheaper and easier solution for buyers.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. So anybody who had a reasonable platform for video conferencing and events and things like this skyrocketed. Alex: Mm-hm.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. So anybody who had a reasonable platform for video conferencing and events and things like this skyrocketed. Alex: Mm-hm.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

We saw a world go into lockdown. And we're not going back to the old world, the way it was. So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. So anybody who had a reasonable platform for video conferencing and events and things like this skyrocketed. Alex: Mm-hm.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 9, 2022

Launching so many devices (smartwatches, VR glasses, AR glasses) in so small time may be confusing for users, so I’m not so sure that this will be the actual strategy by Meta. So this is just another speculative virtual world; The minting was so successful that it disrupted the whole Ethereum blockchain. Meta kills Venues.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As another year hurtles inexorably towards Christmas, it’s an opportune time to take stock of how far XR has come so far, and what 2020 might hold in stock for building a virtual world we might actually want to live in. . to develop the world-mapping capabilities that will take us a step closer to the Matrix.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Meta Quest Pro announcement video. Don’t expect the passthrough to be like your normal vision, though… it is a bit like seeing reality through a video (washed-out colors, a bit of blurred resolution, etc…). The Quest Pro fits very well this strategy since it is a headset made for professionals. Meta Quest Pro.

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Tech Trends VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

As another year hurtles inexorably towards Christmas, it’s an opportune time to take stock of how far XR has come so far, and what 2020 might hold in stock for building a virtual world we might actually want to live in. . to develop the world-mapping capabilities that will take us a step closer to the Matrix.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Just for Context the worlds current population is 7 Billion, India & China's Collective population is 2.7 Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. It was called “the most intense AR experience” by Fast Company.

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