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Can Niantic Drive Local Business Foot Traffic?

ARVR

including AR creation tools and ad placement?—?could percent boost in loyalty program signups (a campaign objective) during scheduled raids around its locations in Taiwan. 7-Eleven similarly activated raids around thousands of its locations in Taiwan and Mexico. and overlapping to some degree?—?is is AR marketing. This field?—?including

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The XR Week Peek (2021.02.15): Facebook keeps working on its masterplan, WebXR arrives on iOS, and more!

The Ghost Howls

It is the first step towards the Infinite Office solution that FRL wants to offer in some months , transforming the Quest into some kind of work tool (or trying to do so). WebXR is the standard to provide augmented and virtual reality experiences on the web. I can’t wait for them to be implemented in XR. Let them know!

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My Taiwanese XR Chronicles part 3: Vive Pro Eye hands on, meeting with iStaging, Lyra VR and Women in XR!

The Ghost Howls

In this third and last article about my trip to Taiwan (here you are the links to my first and second one , if you missed them), I want to tell you about some other amazing XR stuff that I did there. iStaging is one of the companies that I loved the most in Taiwan. I have asked them how it is being a wo m an in XR in Taiwan.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.14): Meta lays off 11,000 people, Apple works on some sort of “metaverse”, and more!

The Ghost Howls

According to the news outlet DigiTimes, Apple will use Taiwan-based Pegatron as its sole assembly manufacturer for it, and mass production of the device is set to begin “at the end of the first quarter of 2023”. This video about a “virtual reality viewer” from 1830 has been one of the viral content of the week. Learn more.

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Hands-on Vive Focus Plus Hand Tracking SDK

The Ghost Howls

HTC announced that it was going to make the joints tracking also mobile-compatible, but when I visited the headquarters of the company in Taiwan, people there told me that full-hand tracking was more probable for the next-generation of devices. It’s also great that it can work on many devices.

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First look at HTC Vive Sync

Hypergrid Business

Introducing VIVE Sync Open Beta, a VR collaboration tool that allows businesses to hold virtual meetings/presentations in real-time from the comfort of home. That’s been a significant usability barrier for virtual reality headsets for quite a while now. Virtual reality user interfaces are a tricky thing.

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

The Ghost Howls

Virtual Reality is becoming always more important in enterprise settings , for training, architectural visualization, prototyping, and more. Companies are understanding that virtual reality is making them spare a lot of time and money , and also guaranteeing better safety for their workers. Why is this relevant?

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