AR Insider

JANUARY 29, 2020

Among tech’s big five — Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook — all but Facebook have crossed the mark. Apple was first, followed by Microsoft and Amazon (which has since dipped below the mark). Software has easier capital requirements and unit economics. ” in Hanneman-speak.

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Bernard Marr

MARCH 27, 2023

Often these business models are used in combination – for example, a software provider might make a “freemium” version available, supported by advertising revenue, while also offering a premium, ad-free service to those that are willing to pay. It also covers more specialized platforms like eBay, Uber, or AirB’n’B.

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Bernard Marr

APRIL 17, 2023

In the simplest terms, it involves providing computer storage, processing power, and applications via the internet, so users don't need to worry about buying, installing, and maintaining hardware and software themselves. This can make it difficult if, for example, we want to shift applications or data from one cloud to another.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 19, 2023

Virtual reality combines hardware and software to immerse users in digital environments for numerous use cases, including learning, entertainment, therapy, and others. Blending VR and AI in the New World For example, the travel, tourism, and healthcare sectors have leveraged AI virtual assistants to guide people in virtual environments.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 21, 2018

Walmart’s recent acquisition of VR software company Spatialand is another indicator of VR deployment as a retail solution in the future, as is their use of HoloLens for helping better manage their warehouse logistics. “There is high consumer interest in using VR for making purchase decisions while shopping online or in-store. billion 2022.

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Bernard Marr

JULY 29, 2024

From Windows to the iPhone , it’s hard to find a software platform that hasn’t scrambled to hastily add natural language capabilities. Even tech giants like Google or Amazon, I would argue, have found themselves caught off-guard. Let’s go back to the example of the internet. There are some positive examples out there.

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

These have evolved rapidly thanks to the emergence of online giants like Amazon and Google, digitally-native niche players like AirB’n’B, Expedia and Netflix, and heavy investment by established industry leaders such as Walmart and Tesco. It has also fundamentally affected many traditional business models.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 21, 2020

We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments. But our standards of precision are higher, and you deserve better.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

At the event, AWS collaborated with Proto Holograms to showcase a new system powered by Amazon Bedrock. The new features include support for a location-based software suite that enables multi-user location-based experiences, such as those found in arcades, museums, galleries, and cultural institutions.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Big names such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google are rapidly developing the technology, making it accessible to many industries. Apple’s ARKit and Google’s ARCore are Software Development Kits (SDKs) that standardized the development tools and regulated mobile AR creation. Apple and Google played big roles in this.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A slew of big names have begun announcing metaverse projects, like Facebook which went so far as to rename its parent company Meta , Niantic (the makers of Pokémon Go) , Amazon, Roblox, Unity Software and Microsoft. In addition, content creators and car manufacturers may receive Ride as partner royalties, says Wollny.

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

Examples of Augmented Reality in Action. For example, an AR-enabled voice assistant in your ear can point you in the right direction and remind you about an upcoming business meeting. For example, in 2019, Amazon extended Alexa features to pair with headphones and earbuds. Headphones With AI-Based Noise Cancellation.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2024

The recently released report noted how “Meta employees see the Quest and its software ecosystem emerging as a primary alternative to Apple in the space, filling the role played by Google’s Android in smartphones.” It’s a perfect fit. We will see as well more events that crossover. Not just focus on XR stuff.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The damn coronavirus continues to impact all our lives: the fact that many countries are applying restrictions on flights to and from Italy is, for example, creating various nuisances to my job. Image by Microsoft). Coronavirus impacts headsets production and kills F8 and GDC. iPhone 12 may feature a special connection for AR glasses.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

So I’m coming from — let’s just round it down, let’s call it 15 years — in the enterprise space selling software and services and automation, things like that. And really what we do now is we connect enterprise users, AR hardware manufacturers and AR software providers, the problem solvers. Lance: Sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

So I’m coming from — let’s just round it down, let’s call it 15 years — in the enterprise space selling software and services and automation, things like that. And really what we do now is we connect enterprise users, AR hardware manufacturers and AR software providers, the problem solvers. Lance: Sure.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Pokemon Go is the best example for an augmented reality game. Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market. Pokemon Go is a popular example that uses location-based AR. It can be readily recognized by the software with very little processing overhead. Unlike VR, it does not require any HMD devices.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

So I'm coming from -- let's just round it down, let's call it 15 years -- in the enterprise space selling software and services and automation, things like that. And really what we do now is we connect enterprise users, AR hardware manufacturers and AR software providers, the problem solvers. And training is a good example.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. Sounded good.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

For example, Fortnite is built by them. A game engine is a piece of software, it does a lot of things in real time. That's the software on which you can build a game like Fortnite, or you can build a car configurator. So where this lower layer of software comes as a bunch of tools. Marc: Well, that's a pretty broad topic.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

For example, Fortnite is built by them. A game engine is a piece of software, it does a lot of things in real time. That's the software on which you can build a game like Fortnite, or you can build a car configurator. So where this lower layer of software comes as a bunch of tools. Marc: Well, that's a pretty broad topic.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

So if, for example, look at GPS in a phone, right, there would be no Uber, no Seamless. The combustion engine is an example of convergence. And a lot of companies – anybody who’s got vehicle-based businesses, machine businesses – there was a fantastic example, up South by Southwest. What did it enable?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

So if, for example, look at GPS in a phone, right, there would be no Uber, no Seamless. The combustion engine is an example of convergence. And a lot of companies – anybody who’s got vehicle-based businesses, machine businesses – there was a fantastic example, up South by Southwest. What did it enable?

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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. Check out the example below of Mica , Magic Leap’s intelligent agent. I call them the “Incarnations”.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

For example, Fortnite is built by them. A game engine is a piece of software, it does a lot of things in real time. That's the software on which you can build a game like Fortnite, or you can build a car configurator. So where this lower layer of software comes as a bunch of tools. Marc: Well, that's a pretty broad topic.

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CraneMorley

AUGUST 1, 2023

Microsoft’s Plan Microsoft’s new industrial metaverse plan is to focus on the areas that matter most to its customers, such as: Remote collaboration: The industrial metaverse can be used to enable remote collaboration between engineers, technicians, and other workers, regardless of their location.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

Just to make you understand how much money this could mean, my reader Sir Gamedev has sent me a link where one of the previous Xbox executives has revealed that the initial undercost sales of the first Xbox units cost Microsoft between $5B and $7B. was a lot of money?). Some reviews of VR hardware.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 18, 2024

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang on Monday introduced that technology — the company’s new Blackwell computing platform — as he outlined the major advances that increased computing power can deliver for everything from software to services, robotics to medical technology and more. How do we build software in the future?

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Building the Metaverse

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Web1 was the original World Wide Web, built upon open-source (such as Linux), permissionless development (such as PC software) and open standards (HTML/HTTP). Amazon, Netflix, Google) were built on this ecosystem, or benefitted from expanding into it (Microsoft, Apple). The most prolific examples are Facebook/Meta ?—?the

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

While the first version was an all-in-one with diffractive waveguides like Microsoft HoloLens, the new one is an all-in-two light device that connects to your smartphone and uses birdbath optics. I’m very curious to see how it will be successful because I think that if it will succeed, many other virtual worlds will copy VRChat’s example.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

The same day of the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Hewlett-Packard has announced its new virtual reality headset, the Reverb G2 , made in collaboration with Microsoft and Valve. Valve could provide some audio-visual improvements, while Microsoft its WMR platform, with inside-out tracking of controllers. HP announces the Reverb G2.

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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

But, like other large tech companies that originally made their mark in the world with software, the market for Oracle has grown beyond just companies needing software and SPARC boxes. For example, Oracle expects their A100 instances to be the cheapest on the market at $3.05

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 2, 2024

We’ve already seen examples of companies leveraging Nvidia’s tools for supercomputing use cases. AMD also said it plans on growing its momentum with other AI software and hardware partners. Many cloud service providers like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google Cloud have already developed AI processors that work with Nvidia chips.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. For example, Lumberyard from Amazon is released for creating games and VR experiences, while both Unity and Epic reveal in-VR tools to speed up the development process.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2020

The headset’s ease-of-use, solid game library, and reasonable price has pushed it to become Oculus’ best rated headset on Amazon thus far. While Microsoft and its other VR partners seem to have largely abandoned the Windows VR platform, HP surprised us in 2019 with the launch of Reverb, its second VR headset.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. It’s exactly the same use case as the IKEA couch example, but it’s a different industry, and the ROI is much, much faster. firm investing in AR solutions.

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