VRScout

MAY 10, 2018

Microsoft teases practical MR worker tools for Hololens at 2018 Build Developer Conference. Call me strange, but of all the mixed reality demos I tried at this year’s Microsoft Build Developer Conference in Seattle, Washington, the one I actually found the most fun had me repairing an electric panel.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 21, 2018

The benefits of using immersive technologies as teaching tools have been widely documented and extensively discussed, specially in recent years with the rapid development of Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed reality hardware and applications. And that, in fact, is the ultimate goal of any transformative technology.

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VRScout

AUGUST 16, 2019

Mat Chacon , co-founder and CEO of Doghead Simulations , the company behind the VR tool Rumii, spent most of his life in remarkable shape. After all, he is the CEO of the company that created Rumii , a social VR tool that gives users a virtual space in which to collaborate and learn. . I’m in Seattle. Great 60 min.

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TechCrunch VR

JUNE 8, 2020

Over the past few days, TechCrunch has been catching up by watching the shared video pitches from the five presenting demo classes, including the Lisbon demo day, its Seattle batch, the Los Angeles-based music-focused group, the Air Force-sponsored accelerator and the Cox Enterprises Social Impact Accelerator Powered by Techstars.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 4, 2018

“In a world rapidly shifting to asset performance and predictive analytics, human capital has been largely ignored with outdated training and development tools,” said Ray Lane, a GPV Managing Partner and now member on STRIVR’s Board of Directors.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 14, 2023

Immersive View for Routes will start to roll out in the coming months in 15 cities, including Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, Florence, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Tokyo, and Venice. Google is also going to launch a game to showcase the features you can build with these tools.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2016

New VR peripherals will be shown off at Steam Dev Days this week as developers gather in Seattle, Washington for two days of meetings and sessions covering the latest “tools, services, and hardware in production for 2017 and beyond.” Summit for Desktop, Living Room, and VR Content Creation.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The transformative tool allows businesses to receive enhanced services, operations, and customer experiences (CX). Leveraging cutting-edge tools like artificial intelligence (AI), mixed reality (MR), the Internet of Things (IoT), and many others, Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 will provide a roster of new features for users.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Pixvana will launch the beta for a new suite of tools designed for virtual reality professionals to stitch, edit, publish and distribute 360-degree content in Q1 2017. The tools work with the desktop Chrome browser, so an artist can work from anywhere,” Safreed said.

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VRScout

JULY 21, 2016

But as the technology make its way into the hands of a new breed of creators, we are getting more glimpses into the greater potential of VR — one of those being educational VR tools. The post Educational VR Comes to Seattle’s Pacific Science Center appeared first on VRScout. Bretz is one of those new breed of VR creators.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Google previously debuted its own multisearch tool via its Google Lens platform, with Lens initially debuting in October 2017. The company also launched the multisearch tool last year. The computer vision tool then searches for the item by comparing it to the captured image.

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VRScout

AUGUST 8, 2018

All of this operating on Magic Leap’s LuminOS, a new operating system specializing in high quality visual renderings via a combination of middleware and machine learning, as well as a custom SDK and developer tools. Take a look at the specs below: CPU & GPU: NVIDIA® Parker SOC. CPU: 2 Denver 2.0 Image Credit: Magic Leap.

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VRScout

JUNE 8, 2016

The business is an attempt by the Seattle-based agency to further its involvement in the 360-degree and VR industries by providing an impressive collection of over 12,000 high-res 360-degree premium images collected over the past four years.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 25, 2019

It covers six US cities: Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, New York City, as well as Seattle. Ally Financial hopes that the augmented reality game Ally + MONOPOLY will be an entertaining and helpful tool for people who want to improve their money management skills.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2018

Oculus also designed Venues with safety in mind from the start, building other tools like being able to block someone and even report activities that violate Oculus’ Code of Conduct. June 13 // MLB: Los Angeles Angels @ Seattle Mariners // 1:10 pm PT. June 11 // School Night! Live from Hollywood // 8:00 pm PT. June 18 // School Night!

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Road to VR

MAY 16, 2017

At that time, Valve partnered with Synapse , a Seattle-area product development firm, to provide a mandatory training program for all SteamVR licensees. Road to VR: Getting to Seattle is a difficulty for some VR startups. Is having a remote course something that you would consider providing in the future?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

In a mission to make 360 video less terrible, the Seattle-based company has developed a number of technologies since they came out of stealth last December. They’re calling it Pixvana SPIN. Pixvana has shown the best-looking VR video we’ve seen to date,” said Valve’s Sean Jenkin. “An

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Bernard Marr

MARCH 17, 2023

The Seattle-based software giant brought office and home PCs into the mainstream in the eighties, thanks to its Windows and DOS operating systems. In effect, this will mean that it can “bring to life” some of its most well-known and widely used applications and tools. Will it work? Just as importantly, should it work?

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Pluto is a new social app currently in alpha from the Seattle-based startup Pluto VR. To learn more about VR’s newest social tool, I popped into the app with Pluto VR co-founder Forest Gibson and Mad Scientist (real job title) Shawn Whiting, co-founder of early social VR space ConVRge.

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HaptX

JANUARY 19, 2021

Remote work environments reveal the need for virtual training and design tools. A venture-backed startup, HaptX is headquartered in San Luis Obispo, CA, with offices in Seattle and San Francisco. The COVID-19 pandemic has only increased demand for this technology. Technology companies are increasing their investment in telerobotics.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Microsoft Ignite 2023: An Industrial Metaverse Showcase Ignite 2023 took place online this week via an official digital portal, and at its Seattle location, Microsoft invited the general computing industry to participate and see the firm’s innovative workplace solutions from Copilot, Hololens, Teams, Mesh to Dynamics 365 Guides.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The Impact Reality Summit—hosted by Kaleidoscope and Vulcan, and held at Vulcan’s Seattle Headquarters Jan. Vulcan Productions has teamed up with Kaleidoscope to launch the Impact Reality Summit, a two-day event celebrating the very best in “XR for Good” storytelling.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Up north in Seattle, Amazon announced Echo Frames, lightweight glasses with the Alexa voice assistant embedded in them. Apple CEO Tim Cook has said AR is “profound” and his company has integrated AR tools into the iPhone’s operating system. Microsoft’s second AR headset, Hololens 2, is expected to be released this month.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 6, 2017

New Tools For Game Designers. Tobii showed its technology integrated with the popular multiplayer world Rec Room while SMI allowed me to chat with someone in Seattle as if he was standing right next to me. A look inside a headset with eye tracking from Tobii. Social interaction in VR with current consumer technology is fairly awkward.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 14, 2020

So we're looking at big box stores by giving them the powers of augmented reality and enabling all of the same tools that shoppers would typically have online, offline. So typically, you don't have these tools available to you offline. Michael: Oh, we have offices in Austin and Seattle. Alan: That's really interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 14, 2020

So we're looking at big box stores by giving them the powers of augmented reality and enabling all of the same tools that shoppers would typically have online, offline. So typically, you don't have these tools available to you offline. Michael: Oh, we have offices in Austin and Seattle. Alan: That's really interesting.

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VRScout

MAY 24, 2022

Lightship VPS currently supports 30,000 locations across six major cities: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, London, and Tokyo. Basically, just providing some tools to make all this smoother and easier for these users.”. The company plans on expanding to 100 global cities by the end of the year.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Zoë Kravitz stars as Angela, a Seattle tech worker tasked with resolving confusion around requests that the app didn't understand. Kimi ultimately entreats us to use these incredible tools of modern tech to do more good than harm and to truly listen to each other. That is, if we dare. Kimi is now streaming on HBO Max.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

Colin Northway’s art gallery is still very early too, but he’s already using cutting edge tools like Valve’s Steam Audio to bring life to the space for people gathering to check out creations from a wide range of artists. Embracing New Tools. “Isn’t this the best medium for Contraption?”

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 14, 2020

So we're looking at big box stores by giving them the powers of augmented reality and enabling all of the same tools that shoppers would typically have online, offline. So typically, you don't have these tools available to you offline. Michael: Oh, we have offices in Austin and Seattle. Alan: That's really interesting.

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Mashable VR

MAY 25, 2022

Just the same, individual donors should extend the same care and attention that literacy advocates give to reading campaigns, with more awareness to how simple book donations can act as a tool for social justice. Books are important social and educational tools, used as facilitators of change, of community, and of personal identity.

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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. SEE ALSO Madrona Venture Group on Why Seattle is a Hotbed for VR and AR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

Moreover, digital twins are an incredibly valuable tool for training scenarios. The retailer has implemented a first-of-its-kind use case for Omniverse at two test stores in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Seattle, Washington. Canada, and Mexico.

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NVidia VR

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When Seattle-based startup Proprio Vision says its technology for fusing human and computer vision is cutting edge, they mean it. Its technology allows doctors to gain familiarity with tools, learn new skills and simulate surgical procedures — all in a virtual environment. Learn More About NVIDIA GPUs in Healthcare.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

There was just one catch though: people hoping to use SteamVR Tracking in their devices would need to attend a $3,000 introductory course in Seattle. “After working with numerous third parties and updating the tools, Valve is opening more direct access to the technology and course work, available free of charge in English and Chinese.

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Bernard Marr

MARCH 5, 2023

Although unexpected, it’s a claim that makes sense, given that the Seattle tech giant recently became the OpenAI’s largest single shareholder, with a $10 billion investment. But some have speculated that this is the version powering the newly-launched ChatGPT functionality within Microsoft’s Bing search engine.

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NVidia VR

OCTOBER 17, 2019

When Seattle-based startup Proprio Vision says its technology for fusing human and computer vision is cutting edge, they mean it. Its technology allows doctors to gain familiarity with tools, learn new skills and simulate surgical procedures — all in a virtual environment.

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