UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 5, 2017

Many of the biggest companies on the planet, from Samsung and HTC, to Facebook, Amazon, and Google, and even all the way to Ford, Mercedez, and countless startups, all gather in the desert at the start of the year to unveil the latest and greatest advancements in consumer electronics.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

In early 2024, Inkang Song, the Vice President and Head of Samsung Electronics’ Technology Strategy Team, also explained that Samsung, Google, and Qualcomm collaborate to create high-quality XR experiences for Galaxy users. and has 100 local dimming zones per eye, allowing for contrast and blacks that approach micro-OLED quality.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Furthermore, the showcase of such a device by Meta has surely created some anxiety in its competitors : Apple, Google, etc… may act cool on the outside, but for sure on the inside are trying to get information about Orion, and are working hard to build something better than that. That’s why I’m very cautious about it.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

If Microsoft will improve the WMR ecosystem with at least 4 tracking cameras, this can be an headset to look at with much attention. GTC digital is online, NVIDIA shows cheap eye tracking. This is intriguing because a system made by only LEDs is very very cheap, and could help the widespread of eye tracking in XR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

New leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt have revealed that probably the headset will be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. This headset should feature pancake lenses, mixed reality capabilities, and micro-LED displays by Raxium , a startup owned by Google. Hope you enjoy!

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2024

If you recall, Zuckerberg specifically got Meta into XR because he wanted to free his company from the grip of Apple and Google (the prevailing gatekeepers of the smartphone era). The headset has some wholly unique capabilities not seen on other consumer VR headsets, like eye-tracking, head-haptics, and adaptive triggers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Sorry if you have to use Google Translate, but the article is of course all in Chinese The most relevant piece of news for us in the West are all about Nreal: The Nreal Light is finally arriving in Europe and the US in Q2 2021; The Chinese company has also showcased an enterprise version of the headset.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Keep an eye on it. Google is doing it again. It is not clear what is the destiny of the VR 180 format, especially because Google declined to comment on the topic. There are other nice 180 3D cameras out there. It seems that Google lately is destroying all the VR projects it started….

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. A big wave of negative comments, memes, threatens of class actions, people canceling their orders of Oculus headsets, people explaining why this is so bad for us all has started.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 11, 2023

Multiple tech giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple , and others have trimmed their expenses due to recession woes and slower-than-expected sales. This has included the Meta Quest Pro, hand and eye tracking, and a Meta Quest Gaming Showcase in the spring this year.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

When it's gone, Meta will no longer offer a headset with eye tracking or face tracking. New Amazon Prime Video App With Downloads Amazon launched an all-new Prime Video Quest app that supports passthrough and downloads. However, the lack of Google Play Services will make it challenging for some apps to be ported.

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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 - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

Major Firms Enter the XR Market During a launch event at MWC 2024, Samsung showcased a new XR headset developed in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm. Additionally, as Samsung and Google have partnered with Qualcomm, it is reasonable to assume that the device will use the Qualcomm XR2+ Gen 2 Platform, which supports AI-ready wearables.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Well, with this new chip, headsets will: Have a resolution of 3K per eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously (12 in total for the device). The Quest has dominated the searches on Google and it has gone sold out quite soon, and people that really wanted to buy it had to buy it from some online resellers that offered it at higher prices.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

For instance, headsets like the new Apple Vision Pro allow users to interact more effectively using eye-tracking sensors with a scalable content interface. Google: Google and its parent company, Alphabet, are highly invested in spatial computing. Google has even invested heavily in the XR spatial elements in the past.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 2, 2023

This is due to several “false starts” with Google Glass , Microsoft HoloLens2, and Magic Leap, although the companies remain potential customers. With DeepOptics, Lumus integrated eye-tracking with transparent, liquid crystal displays that “rotate the molecules in real-time.”

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

When you first put it on you’re told to hold the top button, and you feel (and see a visualization of) the lenses moving horizontally to align with your eyes. The eye tracking cameras sense the positions of your pupils and tiny piezoelectric actuators move the lenses into place. And I mean fully. This basic idea isn’t new.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2018

The company plans for the future to use eye tracking plus some opto-mechanic device to move this high-resolution area so that to follow your eyes. Currently, the microdisplay output is fixed in the center of the display and this means that you can exploit the magical high-res area only if you look straight in front of you.

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EON Reality

JUNE 18, 2019

The breakfast tech panel discussed everything from eye-tracking in VR and biosensor or haptic inputs to predictive analytics within AR applications. — the EON Reality team also had the privilege of chairing a panel that included Ed Andersen, KPMG’s Head of Development in Manchester.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

For example, XR firms like NeuroSync have incorporated their eye-tracking PRO-SYNC solution to monitor gaze, pupil measurements, and other metrics. Motorcyclists can use them to receive real-time directions via Google Maps rival What3Words to reach their destinations safely.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass? Charlie: Yeah it’s Google Glass. Google put in 500 million dollars.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass? Charlie: Yeah it’s Google Glass. Google put in 500 million dollars.

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VRWorld

APRIL 30, 2017

“ HTC Vive ecosystem expands with eye tracking. link] 7invensun-eye-tracker-for- vive/. “A Chinese startup known as 7invensun (pronounced seven-in-ven-sun) is announcing it will be releasing a new eye tracking module for the Vive next month. link] a-hire/.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A piece of very interesting news about this headset, which has been reported by few people, is that the Chinese company 7Invensun has already developed an eye-tracking module for it, making Vive Flow even more interesting for enterprise uses. Amazon Glow is a video projector for kids. Other relevant news. Image by Magic Leap).

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Bernard Marr

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The headset is expected to be an evolution, rather than a revolution, of the current Quest, lacking technology such as eye-tracking, which is expected to be present in the next generation of higher-end headsets. It also integrates with Google and Amazon Echo devices meaning it can be fully voice-controlled.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2022

Because of ongoing Covid lockdowns in China, Pimax were unsure if the controllers would ship with batteries (held at another warehouse location), so advised me to purchase them on Amazon and provided a link. Google searches are very revealing. Pimax headset listed on Amazon (Image by Amazon, provided by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed. Image from Amazon).

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I think there’s an inherent risk of collecting eye tracking data, and positional head tracking data, and more data about individuals. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?].

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

French startup Lynx announced some months ago a quite interesting headset featuring pass-through augmented reality , hands tracking, eye tracking, and an innovative lens design. Amazon Lumberyard becomes opensource. Amazon has launched some years ago its 3D engine called Lumberyard, derived from Crytek’s Cryengine.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I think there’s an inherent risk of collecting eye tracking data, and positional head tracking data, and more data about individuals. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?].

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 27, 2020

Millions of us now own some sort of room-based voice device such as Google Home or Amazon Echo and the global voice and speech recognition market size is estimated to reach USD 31.82 Millions of us now own some sort of room-based voice device such as Google Home or Amazon Echo Click To Tweet. billion by 2025.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. We tested things with eye tracking for a variety of reasons. So you can actually use Amazon, Alexa to help you with stuff. We tested wristbands. And-- Alan: It really is.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. We tested things with eye tracking for a variety of reasons. So you can actually use Amazon, Alexa to help you with stuff. We tested wristbands. Alan: It really is.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

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