XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 17, 2023

Apple is set to reveal its long-awaited Reality Pro mixed reality (MR) headset at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on 5 June, news reports revealed on Sunday. What’s in the Bag for Apple? These include a lineup of new Apple laptops, Apple Watches, and software updates.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

It also extends beyond lenses altogether with things like visual search, to identify products ( via Amazon ), or do things like solve math problems. This live market experimentation is notable in that it deviates from other approaches, such as Apple. Spectacles are also a conditioning play. ” Seeding the Experience.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 4, 2023

Apple’s mixed reality (MR) headset is set to delay again amid its upcoming Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) from 5 to 9 June, a series of tweets has found this week. Reports have revealed that this may block Apple from unveiling the device at the key event.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Visual search will follow, led by Google , Pinterest and Amazon. For example, at the Google I/O developer conference in May, it showed how it’s positioning AR within search results for users to see 3D visual representations of search results. This is where the vast majority of AR ad dollars are spent, but the plot will thicken.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Why Facebook and Amazon have joined the race to bring computing to your face. — Facebook and Amazon each discussed computer glasses at launch events this week. — Amazon’s approach is to get a lightweight product out now, while Facebook is promising advanced technology in a few years. by Kif Leswing, CNBC, 9/29/19.

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2018

Available for sale on Oculus.com in 23 countries, online from Amazon , or in Best Buy Stores in the U.S., Announced at Facebook’s F8 developer conference today, Oculus TV is coming to Oculus Go in May. These apps hope to make the Oculus Go your next entertainment device. So a couple apps to look forward to.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 13, 2017

Dominic Mallinson, Senior Vice President of R&D at Sony Interactive Entertainment, spoke a little about the current areas of VR that the group is looking into in a video that ran before the company’s E3 press conference yesterday. You can see it below, the clip starts at around 43:20.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

AWS is present at the Mobile World Congress (WDC) 2024 conference in Barcelona, Spain, this week, showing a new product just as the leading enterprise solutions provider moves towards providing a robust spatial computing ecosystem.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 10, 2022

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference, better known as WWDC , is in full swing. But the major announcements were already revealed during the keynote presentation earlier this week. Read more.

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ARVR

MAY 11, 2022

This is what we call geo-local AR, and it’s all about AR experiences that are anchored to physical places in ways that confer meaning and relevance. Apple is similarly planting seeds for geo-local AR including its Geo-Anchors, visual navigation in Apple Maps and its Project Gobi for AR based point-of-sale engagement at retail partners.

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GizModo VR

MAY 20, 2022

It might not seem like the needle-moving announcement that Apple would make. But thanks to a news bit from a trusted analyst, there’s hope on the horizon that someday soon, Apple iPhones and Android smartphones will stop being separated—by charging cables , at least. Don’t expect any parity on messaging any time… Read more.

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ARVR

JUNE 22, 2022

Chatbots, AI & VOICE Conference 2022 (chatbotconference.com) Finding its Place Back to AR’s broader lifecycle , one key lesson of the past few years is that the technology isn’t a silver bullet. That gets back to Amazon and how it has slow-walked AR efforts. So expect to see more AR from players like Amazon.

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ARVR

JUNE 30, 2020

Creating remote MR productions Even ahead of California’s enactment of its mirror legislation, tech giants Apple and Microsoft declared their support for the GDPR and similar legislation in the U.S. “We Apple CEO Tim Cook in a speech at the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in October 2018.

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Robert Scoble

MARCH 28, 2022

Meta, Apple, and others. He’s had Apple devices since he was two years old. He can’t use systems like Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, or even Google’s Assistant with his voice. All around the audience were blind people. But all around were others working on augmented reality products.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2024

And Quest 2 is much cheaper (especially now that has been put at $199): during the last holidays, it outperformed the Quest 3 by a factor 3:1 on Amazon US. Quest 3 is more powerful than Quest 2, but the difference is not so big as to require an immediate replacement: if you just want to play games, Quest 2 is more than enough still today.

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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Altogether, AMD, Apple, Cadence, Google, Intel, MediaTek, NVIDIA, Samsung, Synopsys, and TSMC have signaled an interest to purchase up to an aggregate of $735 million of Arm's American Depositary Shares (ADS), SoftBank, the owner of Arm, disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 19, 2023

Amidst rumours of Apple’s new headset, many firms are ramping up efforts, perhaps partly due to a looming sense of competition. Apple Trademarks XR Operating System Apple has filed a trademark for “ xrOS ” with the New Zealand Intellectual Property Office, further teasing its upcoming MR headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2024

Apple, Apple, Apple. The impact of Apple’s headset is predicted by some in the XR industry to bring new eyes and fresh investments towards broader enterprise and consumer AR/VR/MR companies – already, it appears XR firms are taking note of the potential spatial computing trend of 2024.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 20, 2023

The news comes just days after Microsoft and Amazon announced cutbacks of roughly 10,000 employees. The news comes after numerous firms, including Microsoft, Apple, Meta Platforms, Snap, Alphabet, and many others, have faced similar layoffs due to the looming economic recession.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Also, the OpenSimulator Community Conference — which took place this past weekend — reported 326 active users. You can see all the OSCC23 presentations on YouTube here , and the livestreams from both days of the conference here. It is partnering with the Crystal Front Viewer team in the project.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 5, 2017

based Epic Games, this week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Sadly, we don’t know which company is really in the stronger position because their data comparisons are apples and oranges. More people build an Apple with Unity than anyone else. Both are stellar companies that started out in very different ways.

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Charlie Fink

JUNE 7, 2019

The conference and expo saw nearly 7,000 attendees, a 30% increase over 2018. Ori Inbar, co-founder of AWE and managing partner of Super Ventures, an AR-focused venture capital firm, took the stage to set the tone for his 10th conference. The 10th annual Augmented World Expo ( AWE ) wrapped on Friday, May 31st.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The Game Developers Conference , a big event where there have been in the past many announcements about VR, has been canceled after all the major brands withdrew from it , leaving the organizers with no choice. Is this really what Apple wants? (Thanks Robert Scoble for this news!). Do you want to read a good book on AR/VR?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 21, 2024

Amazon has its Echo Frames. In 2022, hope was revived with the introduction of “ Project Iris ”, a new project intended to help Google compete with companies like Apple, and their Vision Pro headset. The AI-focused conference drew a lot of attention to one of the tech giant’s most exciting new projects: Project Astra.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JUNE 2, 2023

This week marks the start of AWE 2023, a leading multi-day conference covering every aspect of the immersive industry, and the event is bringing in the biggest brands and best minds in XR to help evaluate the future of the technology space. Following hints by Apple, many XR observers expect the firm to debut its immersive device.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Get it for $25 on Amazon. This headset is just $6 on Amazon. Buy it for $14 at Amazon for the older one, or $30 on Amazon for the new one. It’s has a nice built-in button, so this is a great headset for users with iPhones, who can’t use a Bluetooth remote since Apple doesn’t support them.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Going into 2019, the industry eagerly awaits HoloLens 2 and Glass Enterprise Edition 2, as rumors swirl around the possibility of AR glasses from Apple and/or Facebook in the near future. More details, including agenda and early confirmed speakers, to come on the conference website. The company’s direction is unclear.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 8, 2023

The Quest 3 was announced somewhat hastily by the team, potentially to help Meta get ahead of the hype surrounding Apple’s upcoming headset, the Vision Pro. Meta’s leaders did share that they would be providing more information about the headset at the Connect conference this year, and they delivered on that promise.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

And it’s just incredible because it feels like a small conference, even though it’s not small, it feels like a small conference because everybody there is super passionate. Alan: That’s full conference pass? Anne-Marie: That’s full conference pass. They’re willing to share their experiences.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

And it’s just incredible because it feels like a small conference, even though it’s not small, it feels like a small conference because everybody there is super passionate. Alan: That’s full conference pass? Anne-Marie: That’s full conference pass. They’re willing to share their experiences.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Stay with me for this write-up inspired by the discussion made at the 2021 Smart haptics conference. Apple and Sony have brilliant scientists talking and working with open-minded product and designer teams. Market suggestions : Amazon is using haptics in their app when converting from the search list to the checkout.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 18, 2024

GTC — which in 15 years has grown from the confines of a local hotel ballroom to the world’s most important AI conference — is returning to a physical event for the first time in five years. Their goal in life is to generate revenues, in this case, intelligence.” The industry has already embraced Blackwell.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

And shortly after the event, Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook got on stage at the Facebook annual conference. But of course, with Electric Runway, we go in to technology events and conferences looking for that fashion and beauty and consumer experience angles. Alan: It’s incredible. They were all decorated, all nice. Amanda: Yeah.

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AR Insider

MAY 31, 2021

This week, we look at new VR mounts and locomotion inputs, the ongoing Apple/Epic saga, and hands-on with Huawei’s VR glasses. The lower-cost locomotion option, Cybershoes , is now on Amazon for $349. The Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference begins June 7th. W elcome back to Spatial Beats.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

And it’s just incredible because it feels like a small conference, even though it’s not small, it feels like a small conference because everybody there is super passionate. Alan: That’s full conference pass? Anne-Marie: That’s full conference pass. They’re willing to share their experiences.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

And shortly after the event, Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook got on stage at the Facebook annual conference. But of course, with Electric Runway, we go in to technology events and conferences looking for that fashion and beauty and consumer experience angles. [laughs] Alan: It’s incredible. They were all decorated, all nice.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

well, it's funny, that conference -- it was called In-store, and it was an immersive event on the future of retail -- and we were really trying to highlight the most prominent technologies that were of interest to the retail industry, and they were augmented reality, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. Alan: It's incredible.

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