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ZEISS Takes Majority Stake in AR/VR Optics Creator Tooz Technologies

Road to VR

ZEISS, the German optical systems manufacturer, announced it’s acquired majority share of the joint venture Tooz Technologies , an AR/VR optics creator founded by Zeiss and Deutsche Telekom in 2018. Zeiss is now sole owner of the startup.

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Zeiss' $6,000 Full-Frame ZX1 Is An Intriguing Little Camera with a Ridiculous Price Tag

GizModo VR

After announcing its compact full-frame camera more than two years ago , Zeiss’ $6,000 ZX1 has finally become… Read more. the zeiss zx1 is real zeiss zx1 cameras digital cameras photography full frame cameras photoshop lightroom consumer tech

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Vivo and Zeiss go bokeh mad with the new Vivo X70 phone series

Digital Trends

For the new X70 series, Vivo has worked with lens experts Zeiss to add iconic bokeh effects to the cameras, along with a new version of its gimbal stabilizer. Android Mobile News ViVo Vivo X70 Vivo X70 Pro zeiss

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Vivo's X60 Pro+ Leans on Zeiss for Big-Time Camera Upgrades

GizModo VR

Just this week we saw OnePlus team up with legendary camera maker Hasselblad to seriously upgrade the photo quality of its latest devices, and now OnePlus’ sister company, Vivo, is doing something similar with Zeiss for its new X60 Pro+.

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ZEISS VR ONE Connect lets you use a phone for SteamVR

Slashgear

Archive Android iOS mobile smartphone SteamVR virtual reality vr ZeissSome will argue that smartphone-based VR platforms like Cardboard and Daydream can’t give justice to what virtual reality is really capable of. While smartphone hardware has improved by leaps and bounds, they still pale in comparison to VR PC rigs. On the other hand, headsets like Vive, Oculus Rift, and PS VR are prohibitively expensive and tied to a specific … Continue reading.

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Raising Awareness About Eye Disorders With VR

VRScout

Now with an innovative combination of VR and eye tracking technology, German optical systems manufacturer Zeiss is on a mission to change that. In partnership with producer NMY, Zeiss created a VR experience to spread awareness on eye disorders by simulating cataracts or scotoma—two of the most prevalent eye disorders among adults—in healthy-eyed users. News Health HTC Vive Medical Zeiss

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Virtual Actuality Gaming! Oculus Rift & Cinemizer OLED

VRGames

At E3 2013 I acquired a fingers on of two VR headsets, Oculus Rift and the Carl Zeiss … resource. Videos 2013 austin evans cinemizer duncan33303 e3 gaming Oculus Rift OLED Review Virtual Reality vr zeissIs digital truth the future of movie games?

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Vivo X60 Pro Plus hands-on review: Feature-packed camera phone

Digital Trends

Vivo's X60 Pro Plus has a Zeiss-tuned camera and is set for a wide international launch. Android Mobile ViVo X60 X60 Pro X60 Pro Plus

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Stories you might’ve missed: $150 HTC Vive alternative, VR Twitch and Hero Vision

VRWorld

Zeiss provides a $150 HTC Vive alternative. Zeiss’s entry-level VR One headset changes this, though, and provides a viable HTC Vive alternative for the budget VR gamer. Business Companies Gaming News startups VR World Hasbro Hero Vision VReal Zeiss Zeiss One VR Zeiss VRThere are fast news days, and sometimes there are fast news weeks. Earlier this month, VR stories were coming out so quickly that we couldn’t keep track of all them!

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EON Reality is Taking Virtual Reality Jewelry Shopping to the Next Level

EON Reality

JCK Las Vegas Mary Spio New Social Media Platform New Social Networking App Next Galaxy Corp Next Galaxy Media Richline Richline Group Richline Jewelry Richline Jewelry Group Unique Virtual Reality Unique VR Virtual Reality App Virtual Reality Content Virtual Reality Software VR Wearables Zeiss OneEON Reality, Inc. Next Galaxy Corp. and Richline, a Subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, are Taking Virtual Reality in a Unique Direction.

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Football (Soccer) training and experiences with Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Tech at Soccerex 2015!

EON Reality

Sports experiences can be viewed anywhere with mobile Virtual Reality technology and headsets like Zeiss VR ONE and Google Cardboard. Join us tomorrow for the final day of Soccerex Global in Manchester, UK, and discover the place where athletes are using Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality tech to take their game to the next level. EON Reality will be at booth 175, where we will be showing how Virtual and Augmented Reality can impact the world of football.

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Samsung Reportedly Mulling Slick Tech and a Big-Name Camera Partnership for Future Galaxy Phones

GizModo VR

Vivo partnered with Zeiss , OnePlus teamed up with Hasselblad , and now, according to multiple reports, it appears Samsung may be looking to team up with Olympus to upgrade the cameras on future… Read more.

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An Immersive AR/VR mode is coming soon to AR-media

ARVR

This class of low cost devices include popular options like the Google Cardboard , the Samsung Gear VR and the Zeiss VR One.

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Top VR Media Players for Android and iOS

ARPost

Carl Zeiss is one of the best-known manufactures of camera lenses. As virtual reality content becomes increasingly pervasive so do the apps for users to enjoy this kind of videos. There is now a wide selection of VR media players for Android and iOS.

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Innoactive Secures €4.4M for Expansion of VR/AR Enterprise Software Platform

Road to VR

The company has also worked with MediaMarktSaturn, Carl Zeiss, Deutsche Bahn, Audi and Continental to name a few. Innoactive , the enterprise-focused VR/AR software company, announced it’s completed a successful funding round of €4.4 million (~$5.15 million USD). The lead investor is Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners (UVC Partners), and is joined by Capnamic Ventures.

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Spatial Beats: Apple, HTC & Niantic

AR Insider

These seven companies include founding charter member Verizon as well as ZEISS, RED Digital Cinema, Unity, Intel, NVIDIA, and Canon. W elcome back to Spatial Beats.

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NOLO VR Completes $10 Million Series A Financing Led by BlueRun Ventures

Road to VR

Global VR/AR hardware vendors that either support, or use Nolo CV1 for 6DOF tracking include devices from Deepoon, PiMax, Pico, Nibiru, AntVR and Carl Zeiss. Nolo VR , the China-based company behind the 6DOF mobile tracking system Nolo CV1, today announced they have successfully completed a $10 million Series A financing round. The Series A was led by the Menlo Park-based BlueRun Ventures , and included Nigeria-based Lotus Capital.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.12.28): Flight Simulator VR released, a new hack lets you use Quest without Facebook, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Tooz is a joint venture between two very big companies: Zeiss , that has a big expertise in optics and glasses, and Deutsche Telekom , that is one of the most important telco company in Europe. Happy Holidays , my dear AR/VR community!

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‘Monkey King’ is a Cinematic VR Series from Digital Domain and Qualcomm

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A preview of the Monkey King experience is on display at CES 2017 this week at the Alsace Ballroom in the Wynn Hotel, on Qualcomm Virtual Reality Concept designs powered by Snapdragon 835 at the Qualcomm Technologies booth in the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, and will be shown with Dacuda’s inside-out tracking for room-scale, mobile VR technology in the ZEISS booth of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

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Check out Vivo's fancy new foldable phone

Mashable VR

In the video, we see the phone folded, clad in what looks like blue leather, with a massive, Zeiss-branded, quad rear camera module on the back.

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Vivo X80 Pro may have solved the in-display fingerprint scanner

Mashable VR

Typically for Vivo, a big focus is placed on the Zeiss-branded camera, which has a 50-megapixel main sensor, a 48-megapixel wide sensor, a 12-megapixel sensor specialized for portrait shots and an 8-megapixel periscope camera with 5x optical zoom.

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Vimeo 360 is a Revolution for Immersive Storytellers—Here’s How

VRScout

Direct playability on the Vimeo app with Zeiss, GearVR, and Daydream HMDs. Vimeo 360 is here, and it’s more than just 360 video functionality. It’s a big day for VR and 360 video. In addition to Facebook launching a dedicated VR app for Samsung Gear VR , high-end video platform Vimeo has announced Vimeo 360.

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CES 2017 to feature more than 70 VR exhibitors

Hypergrid Business

Dacuda and ZEISS will be showcasing the world’s first mobile room-scale virtual reality system that uses standard mobile phones on the ZEISS VR One headset. More than 70 virtual and argumented reality companies will showcase their products, innovations and demos at CES 2017, starting this Thursday in Las Vegas.

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Hackvention 2016 Mashed Up A Hackathon With A Convention

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The award for the Best Pitch of the Virtual Reality Hackvention 2016, sponsored by ZEISS Group went to the team of Virtual Spice with Petr Legkov, Sergio Torcanin, Henri Hesse, Franziska Rücker, David Hörst & T M Hasan Özdemir for their welding app, Digital Dice. Virtual Reality hype is a worldwide phenomenon. However, at the moment there is no coherent ecosystem. On the one hand we have platform wars , where Vive, Play Station, Oculus and Microsoft compete for the users.

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The 2016 Virtual Reality Headset Shopping Guide

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In stores, you’ll find headsets ranging from around $30 for a View-Master to $130 for a Zeiss VR One Plus. Buying a virtual reality headset in 2016 is difficult, especially if you haven’t gotten hands-on time with the various systems. It can be even more difficult when you realize there are incredibly simple, and low-quality, VR headsets available at most retailers.

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VR and AR in 12 variations

VRGuy

3: VR, Phone-powered, Wide-field Examples: Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard, Zeiss VROne. I've been thinking about how to classify VR and AR headsets and am starting to look at them along three dimensions (no pun intended): VR vs AR PC-powered vs. Phone-powered vs. Self-powered. This looks at where the processing and video generation is coming from. Is it connected to a PC? Is it using a standard phone?

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