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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AUGUST 30, 2022

Tender Claws and Google ARCore. As extended reality gaming experiences continue to take the world by storm, leading cloud and technology vendors like Google are offering game creators and developers an easy avenue into the ecosystem. RoboRaid and Microsoft HoloLens.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

Amazon, for instance, wowed the audience with new generative AI-powered Alexa experiences, enhancing our interactions with voice assistants. With dual cameras, edge AI, sensor integration, haptic feedback, voice commands, and a mobile app, GUIDi provides an unparalleled navigation experience for those with visual impairments.

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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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CraneMorley

AUGUST 1, 2023

Google’s Plan How will Google compete with this? Google is also interested in the industrial metaverse, and it has a number of strengths that it can leverage to compete with Microsoft. Cloud infrastructure: Google Cloud is one of the leading cloud computing platforms in the world.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announces important AI and XR news at Google I/O This Google I/O has seen immersive realities back to the menu. But to summarize, the most important XR-related tidbits have been: Google confirmed that is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung to build an XR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2021

Amazon acquires Umbra. Amazon has just acquired the Finnish company Umbra. The management of this digital map of the world is very complicated, and the acquisition of Umbra can be useful exactly for this, representing an important piece of the AR Cloud puzzle for Amazon. More info (Use Google Translate). Some XR fun.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Amazon Sumerian. One of their announcements the other day was this amazing ability to create 3D objects and 3D products, and then have the back end to source and serve them up for programmatic ads on Facebook, on Google. So, the ability to create scents, in addition to haptics and the visuals, (obviously), and then the audio.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Amazon Sumerian. One of their announcements the other day was this amazing ability to create 3D objects and 3D products, and then have the back end to source and serve them up for programmatic ads on Facebook, on Google. I got the chance to use the Ultra Haptics, [which]. 3D on Web is really becoming prevalent as well.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. And then there’s Amazon, they have Sumerian. And people have already been able to do that by turning their torso into an ear, by rewiring, taking audio sounds, transmitting it to a different haptic feedback onto your body.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. And then there’s Amazon, they have Sumerian. And people have already been able to do that by turning their torso into an ear, by rewiring, taking audio sounds, transmitting it to a different haptic feedback onto your body.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Amazon Sumerian. One of their announcements the other day was this amazing ability to create 3D objects and 3D products, and then have the back end to source and serve them up for programmatic ads on Facebook, on Google. So, the ability to create scents, in addition to haptics and the visuals, (obviously), and then the audio.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Or some haptic accessories?). Amazon Glow is a video projector for kids. Amazon has just announced Glow, a product to make people interact and play with children remotely. This way when you grab an object in VR with your controller, the controller gets the shape of that object and can offer you more realistic haptic sensations.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. And then there's Amazon, they have Sumerian. And people have already been able to do that by turning their torso into an ear, by rewiring, taking audio sounds, transmitting it to a different haptic feedback onto your body.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

We had all the indications that this Q4 would have been good again, like the fact that the Meta Quest companion phone app was the first on the iOS store, that 1 Million people had played Batman Arkham Shadow, or that the Quest was the most sold console of 2024 on Amazon. The fact is: we didnt consider Ray-Ban Meta into the equation.

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The result is that many big brands are canceling their presence at CES: Google, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, Lenovo, and many others, have decided not to go , and maybe provide their news virtually. The second one is a device that should be presented at CES: the OWO haptic suit. More info (Lick It Up TV) More info (Owo haptic suit).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

More info Google and Samsung are working on smartglasses According to The Information, Google and Samsung are not only working together on a mixed reality headset but also on a pair of smartglasses (a la Ray-Ban Meta) powered by Gemini AI. I cross my fingers, but I don’t have high hopes. A Creator Platform for next-gen to ‘Socialize.’

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. Now you see peaks of it right now, early variations of it. The experience that I did, I was a medic, it was a military simulation.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy's or you walk into any retailer, they're selling you the Amazon Echo and they're selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. What we're seeing now is that the new technology cycles are going to go to what we consider smart displays. How do you train them to do catastrophical--.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When you walk into a Best Buy’s or you walk into any retailer, they’re selling you the Amazon Echo and they’re selling you the Google Home, where you ask a question, it plays a video. Now you see peaks of it right now, early variations of it. The experience that I did, I was a medic, it was a military simulation.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

We know a little bit about how Google thinks about this. We’re beginning to see glimpses maybe of how– I don’t know if you saw it just last week, Amazon released the Alexa glasses. I remember the first time I tried the Ultra Haptics. There’s a long way to go. Alan: Yeah. Alan: –mindblowing.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

We know a little bit about how Google thinks about this. We’re beginning to see glimpses maybe of how– I don’t know if you saw it just last week, Amazon released the Alexa glasses. I remember the first time I tried the Ultra Haptics. There’s a long way to go. Alan: Yeah. Alan: –mindblowing.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2020

After one month from its official announcement, Facebook has released the Oculus Quest 2, that from the 13th of this month can be purchased online on the Oculus Store or on official resellers (like Amazon) or offline on partner stores (like Best Buy). A new discovery may help in building believable VR haptics for the future.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

We know a little bit about how Google thinks about this. We're beginning to see glimpses maybe of how-- I don't know if you saw it just last week, Amazon released the Alexa glasses. I remember the first time I tried the Ultra Haptics. But listen, there's-- again, it's early days. There's a long way to go. Alan: Yeah.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This time we will talk about haptics in XR with some celebrities in the field like Guido Gioioso from Weart, Ashley Huffman from TitanHaptics, and Joe Michaels from HaptX. The console can also be inserted in a special case (a much improved version of Google Daydream View) to become a VR headset. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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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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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

On Quest you can bring up the browser without minimizing the immersive app, so you could be standing next to a friend in a VR game while you quickly Google something. To legally download movies on Quest you have to sideload the Android phone APKs of Netflix or Amazon Prime Video from your computer. But Google said no, he claimed.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

We plan to go online with it on Amazon or Netflix and present it like that, and then have it be an additional thing that maybe Netflix or Amazon has on their platform in the Oculus or HTC. Maybe Google will produce a 3D TV. In our age of Amazon, that's certainly helpful. No one knows who Meta was. Alan: Yeah.

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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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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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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

But really, just sort of customizable to the point where I can wake up in the morning and have computers help me along my day in the way I want them to, as opposed to having a phone, then I have to pick up the haptic glass, or not having my Sonos talk to my shoe lights or whatever. I really want the whole thing to be the computer.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

But really, just sort of customizable to the point where I can wake up in the morning and have computers help me along my day in the way I want them to, as opposed to having a phone, then I have to pick up the haptic glass, or not having my Sonos talk to my shoe lights or whatever. I really want the whole thing to be the computer.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 25, 2022

(Image by Amazon). Amazon may be working on an XR device. A job listing from Amazon may point to the interest of the company in developing an XR headset. The first one uses touchless haptic devices to provide haptic sensations on the face. More info (Mouth haptics) More info (Phorhum).

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