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How to Watch the 2018 Winter Olympics in VR

Road to VR

The 2018 Winter Olympics is about to kick off in PyeongChang, South Korea today, and this year you’ll be able to watch a total of 30 events in VR, shared across live and on-demand 360/180 recordings. Google Daydream – Google Play. Windows ‘Mixed Reality’ VR Headsets – Microsoft Store.

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VR Reader

ARVR

Furthermore, my involvement is primarily confined to one particular social VR platform, AltspaceVR, owned by Microsoft, making most of my experience the product of a niche within a niche within a niche. If you can’t be in a flight simulator, the next best thing would be video. until Google Cardboard showed it didn’t have to be.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.04.13): iPhone 12 adds depth camera, StarVR One is back to the market and much more!

The Ghost Howls

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google.

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Facebook Experiments With New Unit of Time Called The ‘Flick’

VRScout

For example, say you’re working on a 360° video. Now, instead of telling one of your collaborators to have the bear enter “about fifteen seconds” into the video, you can tell them to unleash the beast “exactly 65 flicks after the fifteenth second.”

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My predictions for virtual reality in 2021

The Ghost Howls

Until now, this graph has been realistic during all the XR over-hyping and the depressions: it forecasted the winter of VR in 2017-2018, and the new growth in 2019-2020, so I keep trusting it and I think you should do that, too. I can’t imagine what company can steal Facebook’s thunder. OpenXR will finally be implemented.

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The Down-Low on What You Need to Know (To Be Competitive in XR), with SuperData’s Carter Rogers

XR for Business Podcast

We’re part of Nielsen as of late 2018, and the original focus of the company was on digital games — video games, primarily. And being immersed in a 360 video, for example, makes a wonderful training tool. Outside of that, we’ve worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture.

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The Down-Low on What You Need to Know (To Be Competitive in XR), with SuperData’s Carter Rogers

XR for Business Podcast

We’re part of Nielsen as of late 2018, and the original focus of the company was on digital games — video games, primarily. And being immersed in a 360 video, for example, makes a wonderful training tool. Outside of that, we’ve worked with companies like PayPal, Microsoft, Accenture.