XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 2, 2023

We discussed his company’s waveguide and materials research, using AR for medicine and surgery, and the Apple Vision Pro. This is due to several “false starts” with Google Glass , Microsoft HoloLens2, and Magic Leap, although the companies remain potential customers.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

We often forget that when the iPhone came out in 2007, high penetration levels didn’t happen until about three years later. Boland and McDowall run through each of these players — Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft — to compare and contrast their AR ambitions. Collectively, where does this all point?

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AR Insider

JULY 18, 2019

This could extend from Google’s work to index knowledge, but amplify that work with even easier access. By indexing knowledge, [Google] eliminated the need to occupy cognitive space with rote facts,” said Boland. No one was thinking of Uber and Snapchat when the iPhone launched to a desktop-minded world in 2007.

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AR Insider

JULY 31, 2019

We often forget that when the iPhone came out in 2007, high penetration levels didn’t happen until about three years later. Boland and McDowall run through each of these players — Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft — to compare and contrast their AR ambitions. Collectively, where does this all point?

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2020

Google Trends indicates a smaller impact for the term “Augmented Reality,” while “Remote Support” shows much stronger relevance. Apple completely turned the mobile age upside down in 2007, Microsoft shaped the way we work on computers. Monthly Active Users (MAU) rose from 10.7

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

A few years later, in 2007, Danish investment bank Saxo opened an office on the platform, with many of the features that today’s metaverse bankers are building, such as the ability to interact and communicate via avatars. This trend is actually not as new as it seems, however.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Martin: I started 13 years ago now in 2007, and I was hired to try to make use of computer graphics into a volume production, instead of just doing a few models or images a year or two, large volumes. So it took like from 2007 to 2012. And then the Apple guys came with a brilliant ARKit, and it worked beautifully. Martin: Okay.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Martin: I started 13 years ago now in 2007, and I was hired to try to make use of computer graphics into a volume production, instead of just doing a few models or images a year or two, large volumes. So it took like from 2007 to 2012. And then the Apple guys came with a brilliant ARKit, and it worked beautifully. Martin: Okay.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Martin: I started 13 years ago now in 2007, and I was hired to try to make use of computer graphics into a volume production, instead of just doing a few models or images a year or two, large volumes. So it took like from 2007 to 2012. And then the Apple guys came with a brilliant ARKit, and it worked beautifully. Martin: Okay.

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HaptX

JANUARY 9, 2018

So we conceptualized ‘haptic media’ fairly broadly, enough that it includes devices like Apple Watch along with Q*bert arcade cabinets. I graphed the uptick at one point based on Google Scholar results, and the results are really striking. What do you think it means for our relationship with technology?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

Other teams in this group include Survios ( which is funded by investors to the tune of $50 million ) and Owlchemy Labs ( acquired by Google ). They recall demos of Owlchemy’s Job Simulator, Google’s Tilt Brush and Valve’s early robot demo, each of which made excellent use of those hand controls.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Since then the HTC Vive , PlayStation VR and Google Daydream View have all entered the arena. The organization found that, by the end of 2016, the Oculus Rift is projected to sell 355,088 units; the HTC Vive will sell 420,108 units; Google Daydream will sell 450,083 units; and the PS VR will sell 2,602,307 units.

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