XR Today - Virtual Reality

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

In recent years, numerous leading brands have begun to build their own Metaverse strategies, designed to engage customers, support employees with immersive training and improve collaboration. In the sporting world, the metaverse space allows teams and athletes from every environment to connect with fans in a new, more engaging space.

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VRScout

AUGUST 5, 2022

For the past six years, the Academy of International Extended Reality (AIXR) has been recognizing incredible ground-breaking milestones in the VR industry with its annual VR Awards. The prestigious VR ceremony returns with a live in-person event in Rotterdam, Netherlands. This year’s awards promise to be even bigger. Credit: AIXR.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Over a dozen years of audacious augmented play beyond the beloved brick. For over a dozen years LEGO has augmented our world with audacious augmented play beyond the beloved brick. Over the years we have seen significant changes in augmented reality (AR) technology. Life of George (2011) . Ultra Agents (2014).

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

THE PLATFORM: ALL FUTURE EVENTS WILL BY HYBRID. “We We are promoting the idea that every live event designed in the future will be a hybrid event, fully physical, and fully online,” said Reilhac. In 2019, they were already planning for a hybrid event, and 2020 was only an acceleration of the process.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Beyond that, there’s not much else to the app. That said, the developer is working to introduce additional features in the near future. The app allows you to build complex VR and AR experiences without the need for any coding knowledge. Another month, another round of free games and apps for the Oculus (Meta) Quest 2.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

During the Connect 2021 conference last week, Meta Reality Labs’ Chief Scientist, Michael Abrash, offered a high-level overview of some of the R&D that’s behind the company’s multi-billion dollar push into XR and the metaverse. At Connect 2021, Abrash shared some of the group’s very latest work.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2024

This is the moment we’ll read if there is something beyond the initial WOW effect or if this is just a glorified devkit. This is going to be the week of the Apple Vision Pro, with the first people who preordered it finally receiving the device at home! Finally, we will have some real impressions on the device not coming from scripted demos.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The company behind the multiplayer plugin Normcore proves the viability of a virtual office and beyond. The 2017 video from Normal VR started with an adorable, yellow, blob-like virtual avatar daintily standing in the middle of a real, physical office. It was a glimpse of the interconnected metaverse of the future.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 12, 2023

As enterprises leverage virtual reality (VR) for a host of use cases, one specific example remains team-building. XR Today spoke to Raghu Bathina, Chief Executive, Playin Games, to discuss the sports craze of Pickleball and how virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) games can benefit enterprises.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Comedy skits go virtual for the first time ever in Horizon Worlds with Skits & Giggles VR comedy show at the 30th Raindance Film Festival. As metaverse projects grow and diversify, live entertainment and performances are slowly, but surely, finding their place in the virtual world. Live VR Comedy Show in Horizon Worlds.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Flex NBA is a new basketball-themed trading card game that brings augmented reality to the sport’s biggest names. It’s also augmented reality artwork and cinematics. However, through the game’s mobile app, you can also play with anyone anywhere using a virtual board and virtual dice. What Is Flex? Flex is a lot.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Virtual events and remote presence platform rooom has been around for a while now. Our mission is simple: to help people easily create, manage, and produce digital environments that amaze, impress, and facilitate attendance as the world moves to hybrid or even fully virtual alternatives.”. “Our Building Beyond Virtual Events.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 18, 2021

The studio says it plans to use the new funding to focus on building more social VR games, growing its development team, expanding to more platforms, and continuing to improve ForeVR Bowl over time. VR developer ForeVR Games today announced it has raised an additional $7 million in seed capital, bringing its total capital raise to $8.5

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announces important AI and XR news at Google I/O This Google I/O has seen immersive realities back to the menu. But to summarize, the most important XR-related tidbits have been: Google confirmed that is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung to build an XR headset. Are you ready?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 8, 2024

Immersive spaces are quickly emerging as valuable solutions for the future of work. In the past, “immersive technologies,” like virtual reality headsets, offered organizations an opportunity to bridge the gaps between distributed teams. Here’s why you should consider investing in immersive spaces in 2024 and beyond.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

VR collaboration platform Morpheus announced on Tuesday it had launched its virtual reality (VR) remote collaboration platform to boost engagement across enterprises. Such efforts aim to boost real-world return on investment (ROI) for companies working with teams in disparate locations. million USD in pre-seed funding.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Of all of the various forms of extended reality (XR), virtual reality (VR), is the most familiar. The technology allows people to create ‘virtual’ landscapes and environments that simulate the real world. Interest in VR is rapidly increasing with a forecasted 48.7 billion USD in 2021 to $84.09 VR, Defined.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 12, 2024

These apps will include specific spatial computing and mixed-reality features. New VisionOS apps: These are apps built from the ground up to work in mixed reality and fully take advantage of the spatial computing capabilities offered by Vision Pro. Since then, Apple has gone all-in on expanding its app store.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 26, 2023

While this could be negative in the long run, thanks to significant promises being made and not being met within consumers’ quick turnaround expectations, but also the wave of hype helped to establish a virtual future where individuals can socialize and work, even if there is still work to be made towards designating those digital platforms.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

The holidays are just over, and the fun for us has already started with the CES, where a lot of pieces of tech news have already been announced. I’m not there (I’ve still never been to CES…), but as usual I will follow the news and report it on this blog, so stay tuned! The headset will be available for purchase in the U.S., and Super Fruit Ninja.

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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. Using the algorithms acquired with 6D.ai, Niantic can so finally let developers offer augmented reality experiences that are shared and persistent in a location, that is exactly what we need for our mixed reality future.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Jack Daniel’s opened its virtual doors to the public by commemorating urban art and the 50th anniversary of hip-hop in late September. Currently ongoing, the iconic brand has launched The Verse — the company’s first virtual reality (VR) immersive experience — under its Art, Beats + Lyrics programme.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Bigscreen) Bigscreen unveils its Beyond headset I was not expecting this. The company behind the popular VR experience Bigscreen VR has announced a high-end PC VR headset called Beyond. The company behind the popular VR experience Bigscreen VR has announced a high-end PC VR headset called Beyond.

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ARPost

JUNE 2, 2022

It was also about presence and how both augmented reality and virtual reality companies are trying to achieve it. This year, both were as energetic as one could expect as Inbar played air guitar with “audio augmented reality” bracelets from Mictic that translated his hand movements into an audible air guitar solo.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Extended Reality could be the most powerful technology to influence the educational industry in years. However, the benefits of XR in education extend far beyond the traditional school space. Let’s explore how you can build a business case for XR training in your company. Step 1: Find Your Ideal XR Environment.

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EON Reality

DECEMBER 13, 2023

EON Reality and VEDX Solutions Collaborate to Amplify Spatial AI Education Across the Americas and beyond. With VEDX’s prominent influence and its proficiency in seamless educational VR deployments, this collaboration will empower both our teams to reach more educators globally. EON’s founder and team share the same dream.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2022

Zuckerberg sets the Metaverse for 2030 and beyond. The Zuck has had the hard task to speak with Meta’s investors and tell them that while the revenues of Reality Labs are increasing thanks to Quest 2, actually all the “metaverse” division is losing $3B a quarter. Send me hugs. Top news of the week.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Mission : Beyond a mere statement, the mission is your guiding ethos, encapsulating your purpose, offerings, and target demographics. Vision : An envisioned future where your organization doesn’t just participate but sets standards, breaks boundaries, and leads transformations. Generative AI : This is AI in its most creative form.

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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2021

Facebook today revealed some of its latest research and vision for a wrist-worn input device that the company expects to form the basis of AR and VR interactions and haptics in the future. Beyond the concept video, the researchers also discussed the work happening to bring it to fruition. Input on the Wrist. Image courtesy Facebook.

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VRPlayin

JUNE 14, 2023

The Evolving Landscape of Team Building Team building has always been vital in cultivating workplace cohesion and productivity. Interestingly, with technological advancements, the approach to team building is evolving. One such game-changer is Virtual Reality (VR).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 8, 2024

Immersive environments and spaces in the corporate landscape deliver a host of benefits to businesses and their teams. Combining cutting-edge innovations in artificial intelligence, extended reality, and the metaverse, these spaces can adapt to various use cases.

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VRScout

JANUARY 26, 2021

When your hand touches a virtual object, our SDK determines the contact force and object surface geometry, and turns this into a picture of exactly how your skin would be deformed at each of 133 points of contact per glove as if the virtual object were a real object touching their skin.”.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The Fifth Annual VR Awards hosted by the Academy of International Extended Reality (AIXR) took place last Thursday night. We are paving the road for the future,” said Render. This award truly celebrates all of the work of our team at Osso VR,” said Fong. The VR Awards in AltspaceVR. VR Healthcare of the Year.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg and the other Facebook executives have spent around 80 minutes explaining with many words, images, and videos what is the “metaverse” , why it is our future, why Facebook should invest in it, what could be Facebook’s business model in it, and how Facebook is already working on it. Are you ready?

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VRScout

AUGUST 9, 2020

Kai XR offers students a unique look into their futures. Kai Frazier is a woman on a mission who wants to know why we aren’t building technology for children. The dedicated Techstars entrepreneur has always shown a passion for the difficult, yet rewarding work of teaching students. I never really left my neighborhood.”.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2024

In my article about the craziest XR devices out there , I mentioned Ekto VR , the shoes that let you walk in real life to walk in virtual reality. He was very kind to accept and to dedicate some time to show me the new version of the shoes and to explain what is Ekto today and what can be in the future. Hello, Brad. How is life?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

this one about Holoride and this about Lynx-R1 ), but many will come in the following days! After I will be back in Italy, on the 20th, I will also be a speaker at Virtual Reality Day , the 24h-conference about VR held by Bob Fine. You can read some of my hands-on articles on my blog (e.g. Top news of the week.

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