XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Advancements in Hardware and Wearables Spatial computing solutions rely on a combination of intuitive hardware and powerful software. This includes the development of more comfortable, lightweight, and powerful wearable headsets, like the impeding Apple Vision Pro. It’s not just wearable hardware that’s evolving, either.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

GDC (Game Developers Conference) March 20-24, San Francisco The Game Developers Conference is definitely a worthwhile event to attend for content creators and entertainment brands, but anyone with a love of XR can get involved.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 31, 2025

A great example comes from Amazons EU customer fulfillment team. Amazon even worked with Virti to create ultra-immersive simulations to improve manager confidence and streamline onboarding experiences for fresh staff members. It currently uses HTC technologies to train managers and drive improved customer interactions.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 5, 2024

The Rokid AR Lite kit is the latest “spatial computing suite” to emerge from one of the world’s leading augmented reality wearable companies. This gave users access to a portal entertainment platform. Similarly, the new version allows users to experiment with a broad entertainment and app library.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Many of these have emerged in the last decade, or limited in the last two, also thanks to the contribution of the so-called e-tailers, Amazon in the first place. In practice, players like Amazon and Netflix have overturned the Pareto principle. These trend include: ?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Just 6 hours after they were released on Amazon, they claimed the number one “bestseller” spot for the global marketplace’s Smart Glasses category. In the US, you can find them listed on Amazon and available through supermarkets like Walmart. So, what exactly can these innovative smart glasses do?

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Amazon, hoping to replicate the success of its Echo device , is poised to extend its eyes and ears into every part of your life with the launch of new voice-controlled and camera-equipped Alexa devices designed for bedrooms, living rooms and even your car.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 18, 2024

Finally, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is lending its hand by providing additional cloud-based streaming abilities to the XREAL device, which the vendors note gives Beam Pro developers with a range of flexible and accessible AR tools. The cloud-based streaming service leverages RTX GPU to secure high-quality XR visual rendering.

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Bernard Marr

JULY 1, 2024

Recommendation and search engines help us find information and products more effectively, and entertainment services like Netflix or Spotify serve up content that they think we will like, saving us the time it takes to browse and choose. If we choose to take a more active approach, there’s a lot more it can do, too.

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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. Virtual humans are getting more and more real. Check out the example below of Mica , Magic Leap’s intelligent agent.

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Mashable VR

MAY 6, 2022

Amazon Amazon is turning out some Prime Day -worthy deals on its devices this week, including up to 41% off Kindles , a handful of Echo Dot smart plug bundles , and some first-ever discounts on the new Echo Show 15 and Amazon Glow. Credit: Amazon. Amazon Mother's Day Sale. Save up to 50% on select devices.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

A new OS for wearable, on face, computers. I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. Just get Amazon’s latest iPhone app. Using the new Siri you will be able to ask “how much are 20 of these on Amazon?” Disclaimer.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 2022, the Immerse Global Summit featured speakers from some of the world’s best-known brands, including Amazon, Meta, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and Unity, and demonstrations of some of the most exciting metaverse technologies. Unity shared how digital twins were helping its customers unlock new levels of innovation.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 11, 2023

.” Speaking further on the Varjo-NVIDIA collaboration, he concluded: “The combination of Varjo’s human-eye resolution hardware with the Omniverse platform’s ray-tracing capabilities and next-generation GPUs is a game-changer for mixed reality developers in design, engineering, entertainment, and virtual collaboration.”

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 19, 2023

Meanwhile, XR brands worldwide are striving to establish themselves as leads in entertainment, collaboration, and wearables via events, product launches, and rebranding. However, an increased marketplace awareness leads to some great partnerships that solidify a handful of immersive firms in their enterprise presence.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 9, 2025

PICO is making the Motion Tracker Waist Version available for purchase online via Amazon starting at 49.99 / 39.99. The update gives panoramic screen workspaces greater flexibility over the distance and position of a virtual window application; this boosts multitasking efficiency for work, entertainment, or creative projects, PICO says.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 16, 2023

Furthermore, Amazon Germany listings display an “Xreal Air Adapter”, which could be a successor to Nreal’s Apple Adapter, which the firm released last year, selling out in 24 hours ! Nreal’s Federal Communications Commission patent request appears to be a successor to the Nreal Streaming Box.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 29, 2023

The set will cost potential customers $489 USD for a back-to-school promotional sale and a separate, standalone sale on Amazon. Furthermore, Rokid will launch the system as a bundle, which includes the AR smart glasses and Google-certified Rokid Station Android TV device.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JUNE 2, 2023

He also explained how the XR industry is now a thriving industry, transforming verticals such as healthcare, entertainment, education, and gaming. Inbar noted that the XR industry no longer relies on buzzwords, as the technology space has become part of many people’s daily lives.

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Bernard Marr

JANUARY 4, 2023

Everybody in the world of consumer and entertainment technology has their eyes set on Las Vegas, where CES 2023 is set to open its doors in early January. Wearable technology is also set to be big news – particularly anything to do with health and fitness.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 27, 2023

At the same time, more and more of the data we consume will come in the form of streamed data – movies and music from Netflix and Spotify, video data from Zoom or Teams calls, and new forms of streamed entertainment such as cloud gaming. Amazon has pledged to achieve zero emissions by 2040, and Microsoft aims to beat this by ten years.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2024

The industry is booming thanks to a broader range of companies taking charge and experimenting in the space, such as Disney, Amazon, Google, Samsung, LG, and countless others, meanwhile bringing support for enterprise, consumer, and other use cases.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

And part of what we did is we started really looking at our industry, motion picture, media, entertainment, and just in fact, communication, our communication methods. And the reality is, when we were kids or when we were much younger, our choices for media, for entertainment, for communication was very limited. That is ridiculous.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. And as I got into the book and editing the work of my collaborators, it was clear everyone was talking about the same thing, which is this world of ubiquitous, wearable computing. Charlie: Yeah it’s it’s a series on Amazon. And it’s a comedy.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. And as I got into the book and editing the work of my collaborators, it was clear everyone was talking about the same thing, which is this world of ubiquitous, wearable computing. Charlie: Yeah it’s it’s a series on Amazon. And it’s a comedy.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

And part of what we did is we started really looking at our industry, motion picture, media, entertainment, and just in fact, communication, our communication methods. And the reality is, when we were kids or when we were much younger, our choices for media, for entertainment, for communication was very limited. That is ridiculous.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

And part of what we did is we started really looking at our industry, motion picture, media, entertainment, and just in fact, communication, our communication methods. And the reality is, when we were kids or when we were much younger, our choices for media, for entertainment, for communication was very limited. That is ridiculous.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Are we finally getting closer to affordable, good-looking AR wearables? It offers content such as AR enhanced golf training by Oncore Golf, Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Let’s face it, humans are vain and fickle creatures, so the fact that most HMDs look dorky as heck doesn’t really help with the whole mass market adoption issue.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

And so I think the use is going to really increase once wearables support AR with our app, which should come sometime next year. I think both are great, but AR is going to be an even better fit for us, especially once wearables support AR straight from the embedded player. And we have much more objects than places.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

And so I think the use is going to really increase once wearables support AR with our app, which should come sometime next year. I think both are great, but AR is going to be an even better fit for us, especially once wearables support AR straight from the embedded player. And we have much more objects than places.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

And so I think the use is going to really increase once wearables support AR with our app, which should come sometime next year. I think both are great, but AR is going to be an even better fit for us, especially once wearables support AR straight from the embedded player. And we have much more objects than places.

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VRScout

JANUARY 24, 2019

Are we finally getting closer to affordable, good-looking AR wearables? They are also working with Amazon to finish the broader integration of Alexa and expect to complete certification soon. Alexa BETA is currently available for developers.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

In the end, what you see is that people go into a racing game to be entertained; people go into a showroom to buy a car. I’ll mention a bunch more: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Qualcomm, Intel, Unity — you’re looking at these massive companies now, and they’re all betting big on VR and AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

In the end, what you see is that people go into a racing game to be entertained; people go into a showroom to buy a car. I’ll mention a bunch more: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Qualcomm, Intel, Unity — you’re looking at these massive companies now, and they’re all betting big on VR and AR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Meta lays off people working on its custom chips An unconfirmed rumor unveiled that Meta is laying off people working on its “custom silicon for wearables team”, that is the team working on Meta’s custom chips. Sony’s entertainment assets have huge potential in the metaverse area.” Wait, what???

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

It has made significant contributions in various verticals such as entertainment, education, retail etc. Amazon Sumerian   — Amazon Sumerian enables users to create and run virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and 3D applications quickly without requiring any specialized programming expertise.

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