Road to VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Mozilla, the company behind the Firefox browser, shuttered most of its web-focused XR development back in 2020. At the time, the company’s web-based social VR app Hubs was spared from the chopping block. Now, after a new organization-wide restructuring, all development on Hubs is set to be wound down in May.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

With that backdrop, here’s our dialogue with Maher on the biggest trends and value drivers he’s seeing in brand marketing as we close out 2020. There continues to be competition for consumer mindshare from search, social, Amazon, or a brand’s own apps and properties. Click To Tweet. How do you see this playing out?

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AR Insider

MARCH 30, 2021

This is the topic of ARtillery’s recent report, Spatial Computing: 2020 Lessons, 2021 Outlook. Spatial Computing: 2020 Lessons, 2021 Outlook. Google is meanwhile motivated toward wearables to maintain direct touchpoints to users. This was the same strategy that drove Google’s Android OS years ago. Warming Up .

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Facebook wants to be the social layer to the spatial web, while Amazon wants to be the commerce layer and Apple envisions a hardware-centric multi-device play. Where does Google fit in all of this? That includes its “search what you see” Google Lens , and Live View 3D navigation. Level-Setting.

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AR Insider

MARCH 16, 2021

This is the topic of ARtillery’s recent report, Spatial Computing: 2020 Lessons, 2021 Outlook. Spatial Computing: 2020 Lessons, 2021 Outlook. Just as Google began indexing the web 20 years ago, the next evolution could be for someone to index the physical world in potentially more valuable ways. Foundational Principle.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

billion in 2019, with many billions more being invested in R&D by the likes of Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and many more. As of November 2020, they’re hiring for both New York and San Francisco positions. See Also: Choosing the Right AR SDK: Mobile AR App Development Toolkit for 2020.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 8, 2020

2020 has been a challenging year and nobody could be blamed if they were looking for a little reprieve from reality. Amazon’s a good place to get your VR experience going. Here’s a list of the ten most popular options currently available on Amazon. Buy on Amazon for $399. or used for $366 on Amazon.

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ARPost

JANUARY 29, 2020

Past attempts have been unsuccessful, such as Google Glass, due to reluctance and concerns over ethical issues such as privacy and security of AR glasses. See Also: AR and MR Headsets and Glasses 2019 and 2020 Overview. See Also: How Will AR and VR Change Industries in 2020. But, is there a market for them at the consumer level?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

At the same time, Facebook could have an approach similar to the one that Google has with Android: theoretically you can use an Android phone without a Google account, but good luck in doing it : since my phone is Chinese, I don’t have Google services and I can assure you that it is a true pain in the a**. Image by Google).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. And the same holds for Google, which is applying similar restrictions. Digital Markets Act.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

We had all the indications that this Q4 would have been good again, like the fact that the Meta Quest companion phone app was the first on the iOS store, that 1 Million people had played Batman Arkham Shadow, or that the Quest was the most sold console of 2024 on Amazon. The fact is: we didnt consider Ray-Ban Meta into the equation.

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AR Insider

JUNE 14, 2021

Visual search is just one of many developing flavors of AR, and it’s also being cultivated by Google ( Google Lens ) and Pinterest ( Pinterest Lens ). Mobile AR Global Revenue Forecast, 2020-2025. Google Lens is doing similar – seeding broad demand with pets and flower searches but increasingly expanding to products.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This will include “try-before-you-buy” AR visualization like we examined yesterday, as well as visual search a la Google Lens. It could even be simpler than Google’s advanced object recognition technology. Cashierless retail, à la Amazon Go, is a technology that’s aligned with Covid-era dynamics and demand signals.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Or is it just a talk about glasses?

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ARPost

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In the last couple of years, AR has experienced tremendous growth and popularity as big technology giants like Google, Amazon, Apple have adopted the technology. In 2020, the AR marketplace was valued at US$14.7 billion and was estimated to touch US$88.4 billion by 2026.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In this article I’ll describe the 6 most important AR trends to watch in 2020. Big names such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google are rapidly developing the technology, making it accessible to many industries. Apple and Google played big roles in this. How To Use the ARLOOPA App: A Step-by-Step Guide (2020) 3.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2021

That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , or visual search with Google Lens. As you can tell from the above examples, Google will have a key stake in this “Internet of Places.” In that way, the platform follows the path of one of the greatest enabling tools the tech world has ever seen: Amazon Web Services.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Less than a week before the 2020 presidential election, three of the biggest names in tech—Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey—will testify before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation about a longstanding law that protects websites from liability… Read more.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Amazon has recently introduced several new features for shoppers to find products from their mobile devices using augmented reality (AR) shopping technologies. The additions aim to challenge firms like Google, Pinterest, and others dominating the eCommerce search sector.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Niantic CEO John Hanke positions it as the “anti-Amazon.”. In either case, retailer declines are the inverse of Niantic’s 2020 engagement and revenue inflections noted above. Specifically, a four-month campaign started last month that designates 500 GameStop locations as Pokéstops.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2020

An official launch will come in Q3 2020, at first in China and then in the rest of the world. Anyway, it is like if Oculus had partnered with Google here in the Wes t, so I envision that great things could come out from this collaboration; A partnership between HTC and HP. It is like Google here. Strategic partnerships.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Companies like Ikea, Target, and Amazon have already used ARKit, mostly for placing virtual furniture in a room to see if it fits. High-end iPhones released in 2020 include advanced Lidar sensors embedded in their camera.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Today at GTC 2020, NVIDIA has released three very interesting news that we in the XR sector should care about: New enterprise NVIDIA RTX A6000 and NVIDIA A40 graphics card have been released; Cloud XR servers are now available on AWS; Omniverse, the collaboration tool for artists, enters open beta.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Let’s be honest: no one made correct predictions for 2020. But hey, let me play this game anyway, so here you are my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 based on the trends and the anticipations that we had at the end of 2020! 2021 won’t be the year of VR. I know, we all feel like this.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Rent or own it : Amazon 3. Rent or own it : YouTube | Google | iTunes | Vudu | Amazon Trending AR VR Articles: 1. How To Use the ARLOOPA App: A Step-by-Step Guide (2020) 3. Rent or own it : ABC | Netflix | YouTube | iTunes | Vudu | Google | Amazon 6. Rent or own it : YouTube | Google | Vudu | Amazon 9.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

If you want to enhance your home security, Amazon just dropped some hot Black Friday Google Nest Camera deals.

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Digital Trends

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Google's first Chromecast with a remote and on-screen interface takes on Roku, Amazon.

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Digital Trends

JULY 10, 2020

Enjoy high-end Android smartphones for less with the Google Pixel 4 and Google Pixel 4 XL, both reduced at Amazon right now.

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Digital Trends

JUNE 24, 2020

Whether you prefer Alexa, Google Assistant, or Siri, these are the smart speakers worth buying.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 8, 2018

By 2020, the average person will generate 1.5GB of data a day, a smart home 50GB and a smart city, a whopping 250 petabytes of data per day. He stressed, however, that it was just the beginning, as the work was never going to be done: “we’re going to continuously work to preserve privacy, this is just the starting point.”. Ethical AI.

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Digital Trends

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Looking to score Google's latest phone? Amazon has some juicy Google Pixel 5 Cyber Monday deals right now.

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 31, 2020

In 2020, that changed as e-commerce, enterprise automation, government, insurance, real estate and robotics companies turned to Scale’s visual data labeling platform to develop and apply artificial intelligence to their respective businesses. How 2020 shaped up for AI. That changed in 2020, Wang said.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Other evidence of AirPods’ momentum traces back to the broader wearables sector, which could inflect in 2020 based on signals we’re tracking. Google acquired Fitbit to buttresses its WearOS platform with some hardware skin in the game. The firm’s methodology includes Apple store checks, inventory levels and shortages.

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ARVR

MAY 26, 2022

Last week, Google teased its latest AR glasses?—?a The first was of course the ill-fated Google Glass which, in fairness, had a fruitful second life in the enterprise. Macro factors have changed, leading Google back to the consumer AR well. But the other factor that’s different about Google’s latest AR tease is focus.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

8th Wall recently partnered with Amazon Sumerian on a WebAR ad experience where, with just a click of a banner ad, an AR experience placed a 3D Spiderman into your space for you to interact with directly in your mobile browser. Just imagine a world where Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant have bodies. The Evolution of Brand Ambassadors.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

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Digital Trends

OCTOBER 13, 2020

All the best Google Pixel deals this Prime Day plus everything you need to know about purchasing one.

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