Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Unreal Engine 4 is also an industry standard although it has a steeper learning curve than Unity. Another course named how to make VR experiences with Unreal Engine in C++ will train you how to develop apps for Oculus Rift and Steam VR. You also give 5% of net revenues per quarter although its free to use.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Per se, this is not a surprising news (all companies are working on next iterations of their devices), but what is surprising is the timing that the report suggests: a new Oculus Quest should have been announced at the end of 2020, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, it will come in 2021. Investments in AR/VR companies are at 2013 level.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The good news of the week is that I’ve been selected as one of the speakers at AWE USA 2020 ! And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

The price of these two new models $375 for the Pico G2 “4K S” and $450 for the G2 “4K Enterprise” (that will be available in Q3 2020). In its personal crusade against Microsoft, optics expert Karl Guttag has listed in 4 articles all the defects of the HoloLens 2. Not a great evolution from Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The results are intriguing: while VR adoption is on the rise (“23 percent of households own or have access to a VR headset, up from 19 percent in 2020”), people that are interested in getting a VR headset are lowering (“Non-VR users report relatively low interest in VR ownership?—?20 20 percent, down from 29 percent in [2020]”).

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 24, 2022

XTAL won the prestigious Red Dot Product Design Award in 2020 and was also among the finalists for VR Awards 2021. Microsoft Windows Operating System compatibility. Compatible with Steam VR and OpenXR drivers, Unity, Unreal Engine, and other game engine plugins, as well as C++ libraries such as Direct X, OpenGL, and Vulcan.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. Microsoft Flight Simulator is adding VR support, but…. Microsoft Flight Simulator is launching on August, 18th, without support for virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. This week, Facebook and Microsoft have released two interesting works from their R&D department. Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge VR” is coming to Oculus Quest on November, 19th 2020. The modality to ask for the adapters is not clear yet, though. Learn more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The Varjo XR-4 series follows the highly successful XR-3 headsets, launched in 2020 , with more advanced graphics, tracking technology, and integration with the NVIDIA Omniverse. This aligns it with the prices for competing solutions like the Apple Vision Pro and Microsoft HoloLens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 8, 2019

nReal has been sued by Epic Games for the name too similar to Unreal and by Magic Leap that claims that nReal CEO Chi Xu has stolen the technology of the American company while working there. Microsoft has surely spent lots of money to make sure that HoloLens’s holograms look absolutely fixed in space. Expected price.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In a post summarizing the results obtained in 2019 and talking about the future projections for 2020, Valve has teased interesting news for next year, saying that SteamVR 2.0 I had forecasted it in my predictions for augmented reality in 2020 : AR Cloud wars are starting. Do you want to know the best XR events of 2020?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Apart from the AWE that has become an online event, as I’ve highlighted in my intro, also Oculus Connect 7 and Gamescom will transition to a fully digital version for 2020. Microsoft has released the news that it is increasing the availability of HoloLens 2 and that tens of thousands of units have been shipped to date.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. The finalists for the VR Awards 2020 have been revealed!

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. You can see this in today’s AR products (and despite what Microsoft or Magic Leap call their devices, they really are augmented reality devices that you wear on your face).

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

We are not living in this future yet , but there is a strong case to be made that we are accelerating towards it, in 2020, faster than ever before. Apps & services : Third-party developer adoption Content : The things that keep you coming back for more How close are we to realizing this? So how did we get here anyway?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

We have an Unreal engine SDK. And there was this rumor that came a couple weeks ago that Apple’s releasing their AR glasses in 2020. We don’t want to have a closed system, where we only have a few apps, or make it really tough for developers to develop applications. We have a Unity SDK. Nobody really knows. So what is that?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

We have an Unreal engine SDK. And there was this rumor that came a couple weeks ago that Apple’s releasing their AR glasses in 2020. We don’t want to have a closed system, where we only have a few apps, or make it really tough for developers to develop applications. We have a Unity SDK. Nobody really knows. So what is that?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

We have an Unreal engine SDK. And there was this rumor that came a couple weeks ago that Apple's releasing their AR glasses in 2020. We don't want to have a closed system, where we only have a few apps, or make it really tough for developers to develop applications. We have a Unity SDK. Nobody really knows. So what is that?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

video) More info (Unreal Engine with Octane Renderer) More info (Wi-fi is not enough for VR streaming). Microsoft has just released its OpenXR implementation, while other companies like Oculus and Epic Games are still working on theirs, and they will be released soon. Other relevant news. Image by HTC). News worth a mention.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

For those of you who are new this, the iPad Pro 2020 edition comes with a LiDAR scanner, which allows you to kind of point cloud map your world and embed 3D objects in a very contextualized way. Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. Alan: I haven't read about that. Martin: Okay. Martin: Yep.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

For those of you who are new this, the iPad Pro 2020 edition comes with a LiDAR scanner, which allows you to kind of point cloud map your world and embed 3D objects in a very contextualized way. Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. Alan: I haven't read about that. Martin: Okay. Martin: Yep.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

For those of you who are new this, the iPad Pro 2020 edition comes with a LiDAR scanner, which allows you to kind of point cloud map your world and embed 3D objects in a very contextualized way. Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. Alan: I haven't read about that. Martin: Okay. Martin: Yep.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

2020's been a hell of a year, huh? Alan: Well, I figured since we're about to end 2020, and I also figure that since this is our 150th episode, I would crack a beer while we record this episode, because what a year we have had. We reached out to them earlier this week, asking them what was your biggest success in 2020?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

2020's been a hell of a year, huh? Alan: Well, I figured since we're about to end 2020, and I also figure that since this is our 150th episode, I would crack a beer while we record this episode, because what a year we have had. We reached out to them earlier this week, asking them what was your biggest success in 2020?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

2020's been a hell of a year, huh? Alan: Well, I figured since we're about to end 2020, and I also figure that since this is our 150th episode, I would crack a beer while we record this episode, because what a year we have had. We reached out to them earlier this week, asking them what was your biggest success in 2020?

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. However, in June 2020, a U.S. VeeR has opened more than 5 VR cinemas and has plans to expand to more locations in China by 2020. 3- Ayden Ye. 4- Kshitij Marwah. 14- Kai Liang.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

HTC had $210 million as the total revenue for 2020. Microsoft confirms (again) it wants to build consumer HoloLens. Alex Kipman, the mind behind Microsoft HoloLens, has confirmed again in an interview that Microsoft will one day build a consumer version of HoloLens. More info (Use Google Translate).

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