VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

When asked about why he focuses more on AR, Vermeulen says , “I don’t want to completely escape reality, I don’t want to be in a complete virtual world. I just want to augment my world.”. “Most people don’t want to escape or be blinded from the world for a long period of time.”.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

One of the largest industry events in North America, the Vancouver-based conference will spotlight how tech giants and startups are creating new ways to visualize and interact with virtual worlds. Speakers from goliaths like Amazon, Ford, and IKEA will rub shoulders with Vancouver up-and-comers including Motive.io

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

To give a bit of context, voice-based assistants have been around for over 60 years, but it wasn’t until recently that they picked up popular use with the introduction of smart home devices such as Google Home, and Amazon Echo. “It’s It’s a very different way for people to interact with technology and data.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

It is becoming always more difficult for a new company entering the field: the key hardware suppliers of displays and other components are all being bought by Meta, Apple, Snap, Google, and other big players. Many great XR games are controlled by Meta.

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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 Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2022

NVIDIA delivered a speech on Tuesday at the SIGGRAPH 2022, revealing a fresh lineup of metaverse solutions to audiences, including virtual world-building, digital twin, and avatar platforms. Covers neural graphics advancements, digital twins, & virtual humans: [link]. Kent Bye VoicesOfVR (@kentbye) August 9, 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

It is one of those places where people look for 3D models , alongside other marketplaces like the Unity Asset Store, Google Poly or Turbosquid. I managed to interview its CEO, Dalia Lasaite, and talk with her about the 3D models market trends and the relationship between the 3D modeling ecosystem and the virtual reality ecosystem.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

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.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

What virtual avatars, creatures, information layers or interactive components are here. The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes. What room are you in, what objects or other people are around you.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. It allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds, and then teleport to other virtual worlds. Help OpenSim by shopping on Amazon. Logicamp recovers after malware attack.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In Neal Stephenson’s book called Snow Crash, as the world crumbles around them, people flee into a virtual world called the ‘metaverse’. With tech giants such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon and others betting big money on it, every company needs to get a move on and decide how they are going to use the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Back in the time, there were already some virtual worlds having interoperability between them, there has already been written a document about avatar rights, and there were already big concerns about privacy. The previous one went great on Amazon, and I’m sure this will be a great read, too. Learn more. Les Mills BodyCombat.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 22, 2022

“It is a massively scaled and interoperable network of real-time, rendered, 3D virtual worlds that can be experienced synchronously and persistently by an effectively unlimited number of users, each with an individual sense of presence.”. Matthew Ball , Author, formerly Amazon AMZN -2.9%. Eric Schmidt , Google.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Blogger Tom Ffiske, that writes on Virtual Perceptions, has decided to write a very good book about AR and VR technologies and it is becoming pretty popular on Amazon. Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games. With a surprise move, Facebook has acquired Sanzaru Games, the company behind the best VR game of 2019, Asgard’s Wrath.

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Bernard Marr

MAY 19, 2023

If you think about it, most of the sites we use today are owned by major corporations (like Meta, Google, and Amazon) and – to some extent – are controlled by government regulations. And many of the virtual worlds that will ultimately form part of the metaverse (places like the Decentraland virtual world) are built on blockchain.

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 16, 2017

Kitely was in second place with 1,520 new registered users followed by InWorldz with 1,048, Emilac with 801 and Virtual Brasil with 412. Adreans-World grid lost 218 registered users. OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. Virtual Worlds Grid : 935 regions.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

It’s important to remember that every VR device fits one of three categories: mobile (meaning it uses the user’s smartphone to produce its virtual world), tethered (meaning the device must be hooked up to a PC or console) or more recently, “all-in-one” (meaning the computing hardware is built into the headset itself). Google Cardboard.

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XROM

MAY 1, 2023

VR cardboard headsets, such as the dis continued Google Cardboard as well as scores of unbranded cardboard VR headsets available on #amazon as well as #flipkart offer a low-cost and easy-to-use alternative for those looking to experience basic VR content. However, they lack the advanced features of the more expensive headsets.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Just like it sounds, it’s AI that can create, from words and images to videos, music, computer applications, and even entire virtual worlds. What makes generative AI different and special is that it puts the power of machine intelligence in the hands of just about anyone.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 17, 2017

For those who are new readers, OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. It allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds, and then teleport to other virtual worlds. Virtual Worlds Grid : 1,015 regions.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

AI is now being used to create virtual worlds, or “metaverses”, that are populated by digital avatars and objects that can be manipulated in real-time. One of the most significant impacts of AI on the metaverse will be increased realism for users interacting within these virtual worlds. Stay tuned!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

The industrial metaverse is the next evolution of digital transformation, describing the concept of full-physical-fidelity, real-time, immersive digital twins and industrial virtual worlds that are perfectly synchronized and obey the laws of physics. Each will have a digital counterpart.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Last October, Mozilla announced that it had decided to discontinue the Hubs Cloud hosting service, which ran on AWS (Amazon Web Services). HOUSEKEEPING NOTICE: Today is the first of twelve successive Mondays which I am taking as research days from my full-time paying job as an academic librarian at the University of Manitoba.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 18, 2024

The press release announcing Blackwell includes endorsements from Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Dell CEO Michael Dell, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison, and Tesla and xAI CEO Elon Musk.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. Is this a job for Google Glass? So convergence is beginning, right?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Charlie Fink is a Forbes columnist and an author of two AR-enabled books – Charlie Fink’s Metaverse: A Guide to VR and AR, and Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted with Data. Charlie was EVP and COO of VR Pioneer Virtual World Entertainment. Is this a job for Google Glass? So convergence is beginning, right?

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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). Some of the largest Internet companies that exist (e.g.,

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Bernard Marr

MARCH 11, 2024

More Realistic Virtual Try-On Features Until now, virtual try-on features have been fairly rudimentary – for example, picking from a small list of body shapes to see what a particular garment might look like on the customer. However, generative AI brings a new level of realism to such features.

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Bernard Marr

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The Quest Pro , on the other hand, is aimed at productivity use for professionals who want to get involved with building the virtual worlds that will make up the metaverse. It also integrates with Google and Amazon Echo devices meaning it can be fully voice-controlled.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

An Amazon ad appearing on the streaming platform Peacock shows the Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S and the caption: “Meta Quest, starting at $299.99”. Regarding the actual release date, we have also a rumor: someone spotted on the Australian Amazon page an entry about the Quest 3S and the availability date being October, 16.

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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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Apart from the hardware, Somnium is moving well also on the software side: the graphics of the virtual world is improving over time, and soon will be released the first game built on top of Somnium. a $100 Amazon Card). Everything they have announced is realistic , and it gives the company the impression of being reliable.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Alan: Being able to create a digital version of the real world. If I was Google and Apple, I would make some sort of Pokémon Go game that took you inside and made you kind of chase these things up and down the walls, and while they 3D map the whole interior space of everywhere. And so how do you get people there?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I have also noticed that actually there is still something AR-related in the hype cycle, and it is the AR cloud , the system to create a complete worldwide mapping between the real and the virtual world. Considering that companies like 6d.ai mesh reconstruction of an environment from multiple cell phones.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Alan: Being able to create a digital version of the real world. If I was Google and Apple, I would make some sort of Pokémon Go game that took you inside and made you kind of chase these things up and down the walls, and while they 3D map the whole interior space of everywhere. And so how do you get people there?

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. In various scenarios, AR acts as a virtual tourist guide.

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