VRScout

JULY 12, 2021

In terms of compatibility, the platform is cross-compatible with nearly every major VR & AR device, including the HTC Vive, Oculus Quest 2, Microsoft HoloLens 2, as well as AR-enabled iOS and Android devices; it’s never been easier to take your friends’ money!

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 27, 2024

Google Project Starline finally looks like it’s going to be rolling out to workplaces worldwide, potentially transforming the way we meet and collaborate in the future of work. Microsoft has its Mesh solution, and Immersive Spaces on Teams, designed to pull people into powerful virtual experiences during meetings.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

All these measures are very welcome and they were strongly needed because during Christmas 2021 many kids received a Quest as a gift. It was even featured on Google News. Image by Google). Google acquires micro-LED startup Raxium. Microsoft IVAS program is not doing great. Upload VR). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

I was expecting a PSVR 2 launch in 2021, but then suddenly Jim Ryan in an interview with The Washington Post has commented on VR with these exact words: PlayStation believes in VR. Coming in May 2021 , with first units sents to reviewers in January 2021, because the product is almost ready. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It is the final newsletter of the year, so… see you in 2021, a new year that I hope will be filled with many interesting news about immersive realities! Microsoft Flight Simulator releases VR patch. Asobo and Microsoft have worked hard for this and on 22nd, the VR patch has been released. Top news of the week. Image by HP).

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

After being acquired by ByteDance in August 2021, Pico job postings revealed the company was making a sizable expansion into the US to presumably better compete with Meta on its home turf. This follows a widening trend of layoffs which have affected nearly every big name in tech, including Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

” Well, the companies are getting ready to reveal the device on September 9th, 2021, so we’re sure to learn more then. — Boz (@boztank) September 6, 2021. — Boz (@boztank) September 7, 2021. — Boz (@boztank) September 7, 2021. pic.twitter.com/Vun7vmuCbU. pic.twitter.com/ul748jBS2Y.

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VRScout

JANUARY 22, 2022

“Big tech companies, rather than smartphone manufacturers, are leading XR devices because they have the necessary content and platforms,” said Kim Gwang-soo, an analyst at eBest Investment and Securities, adding, “Google has an operating system Android, Microsoft has Xbox and Sony has PlayStation. respectively.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 10, 2021

CES 2021 officially starts tomorrow, but Lenovo got a head start with its ThinkReality A3 smart glasses, which will be available to purchase later on this year. Still a little bulkier than the Google Glass, the ThinkReality weighs just under four and a half ounces — compared to 1.3 ounces of the Google Glass.

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2021

At Mobile World Congress 2021 today, the company announced that its CloudXR 3.0 It has an SDK for the service and has also brought CloudXR to the three leading cloud computing platforms : AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. It offers support for OpenXR, bringing SteamVR content to those devices.

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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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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Google is meanwhile motivated toward wearables to maintain direct touchpoints to consumers. This was the same strategy that drove Google’s investments in the Android OS years ago. Just like with mobile devices, Google can position itself closer to users as a “Trojan horse” for search. Trojan Horse.

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ARPost

JANUARY 13, 2023

After working on other major projects, such as Google Glass, and noticing the growing need for on-the-go mobile gaming experiences, he connected with progressive inventors in 2021 to start working on the VITURE One XR glasses.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 9, 2022

Similar to Meta, Microsoft has made some significant investments into the XR landscape in the last couple of years. Microsoft Teams now has its own Mesh integration, so companies can pull one of the world’s favourite collaboration apps directly into the MR space.

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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2021

As we move into 2021, both the VR and AR industries exhibit a plethora of career development opportunities for aspiring developers. Let’s discuss how to do so properly, as well as cover some of the paths you should consider pursuing in 2021. Set yourself up for success within the immersive industry. billion by end of 2020. .

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The report suggests that premium headset shipments like Google Daydream will see more growth over light mobile headsets. Google Daydream will sell the most premium headsets in 2017, getting 6.8M CCS Insight expects global sales of smartphone VR headsets to grow fivefold from 2017 to 70 million by 2021. billion by 2021.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 18, 2021

The glasses will be available in select worldwide markets in mid-2021. The company plans to ship its first SenseGloves Nova gloves in March 2021 and can be pre-ordered at $5,000 for a set of two gloves on the SenseGlove website. The product can still be pre-ordered on Indiegogo for $249 and plans to ship in May 2021.

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ARVR

JUNE 14, 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.” continuing here with Microsoft. This ties to Microsoft’s DNA, as enterprise productivity has been its core business for 30 years.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

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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AR Insider

JULY 22, 2021

Using their public projections from Q1 2021, we might reasonably expect they spend about $6 billion on XR this year for salaries, hardware and overhead. It’s likely that Sony and Microsoft start to actually make money on the massive quantities of identical hardware by mid-cycle. I’ll do some simple math based on public information.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 23, 2024

Snapchat has introduced ‘Snapchat Camera for Chrome’ that enable users to add AR Lenses to their webcams using a Google Chrome extension. Snapchat has obvious ties to the AR world, having introduced Local Lenses in 2020, Spectacles in 2021, and so on. Microsoft is involved in AR in a big way too.

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Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2020

billion since its initial Series A financing in 2014, garnering cash from the likes of Google, Alibaba, Qualcomm, and Andreessen Horowitz over the years. A wider launch is said to come a some point in 2021. Other options reportedly under consideration are potential partnerships and a stake sale.

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ARPost

JUNE 4, 2020

Brands like Bosch, Nreal, 0glasses, and Am Glass by Pacific Future joined Magic Leap, Vuzix, Microsoft HoloLens, and Epson Moverio this year, delivering a new way to experience 2D and 3D content and features. They will also impact the e-commerce industry. However, there is a major issue to handle if they do that: customer experience.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Multiple reports seem to confirm that Oculus is actually starting the production of a new Oculus Quest headset, with an expected release date in 2021. Google’s investment for a 7.7% Google-Jio joint venture to develop an Android-based platform for an affordable 5G phone. Not a great evolution from Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Meta’s earnings report for 2021 has both lights and shadows. We were all waiting for it, and then it finally arrived: Meta has finally released its earning reports for 2021, and for the first time it treated its Reality Labs division as a separate entity, so we know how well it is performing. Top news of the week. Image by Meta).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

The Quest 2 is quite powerful and so Facebook has confirmed tha t in 2021 there won’t be the need for a Quest 2 Pro as some people were supposing. NVIDIA doubles down on Cloud Rendering and Omniverse at GTC 2021. Google is hiring waveguide developers for AR. Other relevant news. Image by NVIDIA). Learn more and participate.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2020

That expansion will start in 2021 with the addition of action and adventure games. While other companies like Amazon, Google, NVIDIA, and Microsoft are building out their own cloud game streaming services, none of them have both a standalone VR headset and a major VR ecosystem for a complete end-to-end solution.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 19, 2023

Microsoft is reportedly reducing the size of its HoloLens group. Microsoft is far from the only big tech company to make this move – this week Amazon started laying off 18000 people, Meta laid off more than 11000 in November, and Snap laid off 20% of its staff in September. The contract is theoretically worth up to $21.88

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. 2021 will be a building year , where after the virus the world is rebuilding its economy, and consumers will start seeing and experimenting with these new XR technologies. There will be much more excitement than now. PS5 + PSVR2.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Efforts to construct and expand the Metaverse were sparked by Meta Platform’s major pivot in October, which saw Microsoft, NVIDIA, HTC VIVE, Qualcomm, Google, Varjo, and dozens of other tech giants enter the race for prime positioning to build the virtual and connected world. Meta Horizons. The Metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

A worker wearing HoloLens 2 (Image by Microsoft). So, I envision the main companies in the field, like Microsoft and Magic Leap, to put their efforts into improving their platform to offer better services to their enterprise customers. Google Maps has now AR features. GIF about the North Focals 2 (Image by North Focals).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Rendering of the 2021 version of the Panasonic VR glasses. Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership. Qualcomm and Microsoft have announced a partnership to push together the next-generation lightweight AR glasses. Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership (Road To VR). They looked quite cool (Image by Panasonic). Further references.

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ARPost

MAY 16, 2023

Bar-Zeev has worked in XR since 1992 including co-founding Google Earth, serving as a consultant for Linden Labs, a principal architect for Microsoft, advisor for Tilt Five and Croquet, and president of the XR Guild. Now, one app can do both jobs.

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AR Insider

MAY 3, 2021

While Burning Man announced it’s throwing in the towel on a live 2021 event, the world’s largest trade show, CES, will be back in Las Vegas the first week of January, 2022. The new holographic displays will ship with a number of standalone demos on them, including one from Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios.

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ARPost

APRIL 29, 2021

There are two premium price tiers with additional affordances, but there is also a free model with an easy sign-in using a Microsoft, Google, or Apple account or with a private email. TechSee and Vuzix (and Microsoft). Incidentally, Vuzix also supports Teams, Microsoft’s remote conferencing platform. Microsoft Mesh.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 29, 2023

OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, now operates partially under Microsoft, bringing a mass wave of developmental resources to the conversational AI space – especially for enterprises with the rise of CoPilot. What is Google’s Project Starline? Google is not ready to fully unveil its new and improved system yet.

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