XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 19, 2023

The decision follows the US government’s total $1.75 The news comes just a day after a Bloomberg report revealed Apple had indefinitely postponed plans for its augmented reality (AR) smart glasses. Setbacks Across XR Headset Manufacturers The news is one of the latest setbacks for Microsoft’s military project.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JANUARY 27, 2023

Recently, Microsoft and Amazon cut back roughly 10,000 employees, and Meta dismissed approximately 11,000 people. Apple Teases Reality Pro Specs, Disney/Sony Partnership On Monday, Apple Inc. Reports reveal that Apple is talking to the Walt Disney Company to develop a VR platform.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 24, 2021

Bloomberg was first to report that Biden has plans this Wednesday to meet with the CEO’s from Apple, Microsoft and Amazon to… Read more. After over a year where the U.S. faced slews of cyberattacks hitting hospitals , banks , and just about everything else , President Joe Biden is turning to tech’s top players for some advice.

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Anand Tech

JULY 26, 2023

But Rapidus, a semiconductor consortium backed by the Japanese government and large conglomerates, plans to leapfrog several generations of nodes and start 2nm production in 2027. As demand from Japanese companies alone may not suffice, Rapidus is looking for orders from international corporations like Apple, Google, and Meta. "We

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2024

Supporting that trend is a broad scope of heavyweight companies debuting XR devices this year, most notably the Apple Vision Pro, which is driving the productivity and workplace solutions market forward.

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Mashable VR

APRIL 29, 2022

Musk's fans may admire him for building SpaceX, a space exploration company, however, that company's success was made possible through billions in government funding — subsidies Musk later said shouldn't exist (for others, of course). Apple and Google have an absolute stranglehold on the mobile market.

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Anand Tech

DECEMBER 6, 2023

One of the most notable drivers of TSMC's revenue was the formal start of Apple's 3nm chips shipments (or rather revenue recognition) in the third quarter. TrendForce believes that TSMC's growth was supported by robust demand across various sectors, including PCs and smartphones. SMIC, on the other hand, recorded a 3.8%

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

This feature isn’t available on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max, or Hulu. Amazon was the most onerous, as there I couldn’t set restrictions by profile, but only by device – the assumption being that each family member would have their own. Reader, of course I couldn’t.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 22, 2022

Matthew Ball , Author, formerly Amazon AMZN -2.9%. Here he is criticizing the fact that most users who access his existing “virtual world” – Facebook – through mobile devices, do so through portals that are ultimately beyond his control – i.e. Google GOOG -2.3% or Apple's AAPL -1.5% app stores. Tim Sweeney , Epic Games.

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VRWorld

JUNE 29, 2017

Yet the people walking around the ISC 2017 show floor were either journalists, manufacturers or interested parties belonging to governments of several countries, as well as universities and other similar institutions. After all, Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft – all use liquid cooled data centers.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Regarding the glasses, I have not big hopes for true AR glasses, but I think that thanks to Facebook and Apple, finally we’ll have some important smartglasses entering the market , making the mainstream think about wearing something on their face to enjoy notifications from the phone. Phone AR will be always more popular.

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EON Reality

JULY 30, 2021

It’s a global project that requires millions of people, which is why the XR giant is recruiting all sizes of governments, academic institutions, and entrepreneurial businesses to participate and help add their own experiences to the knowledge metaverse. This includes supporting most smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops that over 5.3

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Building the Metaverse

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Amazon, Netflix, Google) were built on this ecosystem, or benefitted from expanding into it (Microsoft, Apple). The blockchain is a shared ledger that allows companies, applications, governments, and communities to programmatically and transparently exchange value (assets, currencies, property, etc.)

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

They’ve already got, you know, in your Apple phone, RF detection is already built in. Amazon Prime has a series coming up called Good Omens, which is about angels and devils among us in the days before the apocalypse. Charlie: Yeah it’s it’s a series on Amazon. Charlie: They’re taking the Amazon route.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

They’ve already got, you know, in your Apple phone, RF detection is already built in. Amazon Prime has a series coming up called Good Omens, which is about angels and devils among us in the days before the apocalypse. Charlie: Yeah it’s it’s a series on Amazon. Charlie: They’re taking the Amazon route.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

If you want to embed an AR experience in an existing mobile app — which is a very popular request we hear — you’ve either got to write to Google Sceneform or Apple’s ARKit, or kind of hack Unity into your mobile app. To be fair to everyone else, Apple’s very tightly coupled to the hardware. Paul: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

If you want to embed an AR experience in an existing mobile app — which is a very popular request we hear — you’ve either got to write to Google Sceneform or Apple’s ARKit, or kind of hack Unity into your mobile app. To be fair to everyone else, Apple’s very tightly coupled to the hardware. Paul: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

If you want to embed an AR experience in an existing mobile app -- which is a very popular request we hear -- you've either got to write to Google Sceneform or Apple's ARKit, or kind of hack Unity into your mobile app. To be fair to everyone else, Apple's very tightly coupled to the hardware. It's all very fragmented by the tool.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. They were acquired by Apple. You know why Apple bought them? Learning and education, you having… in Germany, the best-paid people that the German government pays are teachers. It’s not in context to my world. Alan: Oh, Vrvana! Björn: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. They were acquired by Apple. You know why Apple bought them? Learning and education, you having… in Germany, the best-paid people that the German government pays are teachers. It’s not in context to my world. Alan: Oh, Vrvana! Björn: Yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2024

Heck, I think probably the Apple Vision Pro with some of what people are doing, extending with Steam will work with that. You get that bowling alley shoe rental feeling there. It’s still in beta. It takes a bit of an extra setup process compared to what they’re expecting to release eventually.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 27, 2023

The news also comes amid fierce standoffs with the British government, which passed its Online Safety Bill. Companies such as Alphabet, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon, Apple, and Tesla also reported a rise in earnings following their respective layoffs.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But we’ve got some amazing people this year, both in the enterprise side — so talking about training — we’ve got a whole defense and government sector that’s happening at the event this year, a couple hours of that. And then another stage on Saturday that’s all about defense and government.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But we’ve got some amazing people this year, both in the enterprise side — so talking about training — we’ve got a whole defense and government sector that’s happening at the event this year, a couple hours of that. And then another stage on Saturday that’s all about defense and government.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

But we’ve got some amazing people this year, both in the enterprise side — so talking about training — we’ve got a whole defense and government sector that’s happening at the event this year, a couple hours of that. And then another stage on Saturday that’s all about defense and government.

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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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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Netflix's transformation from DVD rentals to streaming and content creation, Apple's expansion from computers to mobile devices, and Amazon's venture into cloud computing with AWS stand out as pivots that paid off handsomely. I mean, our government's not good at it with a budget.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

It will also be a defensive move against Apple. Apple could announce its headset. Apple could announce its headset. Concept render of the upcoming Apple headset (Image by Antonio DeRosa). And there is still the possibility that Apple cancels the project, something that wouldn’t be new to it.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2024

China Me visiting Noah Zerkin’s office in Shenzhen, China, to try the North Star headset Quest is blocked in China because the Chinese Government is not a big fan of Meta. You can purchase it on the Meta website or on authorized resellers like Amazon. Still, there are ways to buy the headset there (e.g. from resellers on Taobao).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 25, 2023

The news comes as the US Government cracks down on Big Tech companies such as Meta Platforms, Amazon, and Apple, among others. Other firms such as Amazon, Meta Platforms, and Microsoft have ordered redundancies across their workforces at 18,000, 11,000, and 12,000, respectively.

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