ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

At the same time, personal voice assistants developed by tech giants — Alexa from Amazon, Siri from Apple, and Google Assistant — are standing at the forefront of the audio augmented reality market. For example, in 2019, Amazon extended Alexa features to pair with headphones and earbuds. Top 3 Types of AR-Enabled Hearables.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. This means that most probably Meta should allow these and other apps which are now locked.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2024

When Apple announced the arrival of the Vision Pro , it also introduced users to a range of developer tools to encourage them to build their spatial apps. Apple Vision Pro Apps: The Apple Apps During WWDC 2023, Apple’s debut of the Apple Vision Pro drew much attention to the existing Apple tools that would work on the headset.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 29, 2023

People seeking visas, passport renewals, and updated country info can use cross-platform tools to receive key information and documents for their travels. This also applies to companies like IKEA and Amazon, where customers can superimpose virtual furniture, electronics, and clothing stocks in physical locations.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Looking at the chart of the sales on Amazon US, it is possible to see that the headset had five times the peak sales volume during the 2024 holiday season as it did in 2023. Microsoft will still provide the Azure cloud, but all the hardware and software should be provided by Luckeys startup. This is impressive.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

If you want to start playing around with these tools, of course, you need a Mac , and if you are a Windows guy like me, you are SOL (S**t Out of Luck). Thanks to Hexa, Amazon can so show the 3D model of the items it is selling , and also provide virtual try-on features.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Moreover, crucial tools for all XR end-users are emerging alongside the enterprise market to help users learn how to use and develop content for immersive devices. It has to do at least one of those things to transform from a novelty tech into a strategic tool that drives business value.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

All social companies are now competing on who can offer the best tools to create them: the one having the lead is currently Snapchat (that has been the first startup believing in augmentations), which has already implemented full-body filters, and location-based filters, where you can augment certain landmarks of various cities. Sounded good.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 21, 2018

Retail and marketing companies have realized that virtual reality technology can be an effective tool to further assist consumers with the purchase process and provide them with the ability to visualize and personalize the products more realistically,” says Khin Sandi Lynn, Industry Analyst at ABI Research.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 16, 2022

Meta is refocusing on its upcoming XR headset, Project Cambria, and the Portal device, rebranding it as a work-from-home tool. Introducing New @metaportal Productivity Tools: Duet Display and Companion App [link] pic.twitter.com/QSQCaAuZSN. The Duet Display application acts to broaden the Portal device as an adaptive workplace tool.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2022

Novel machine learning-backed tools to streamline graphic workflows. The tool would also simulate muscle movements and lifelike hair textures. Numerous companies such as Adobe, Dell, Epic Games, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services trialled the Omniverse at the event.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. In 2017, Apple released software called ARKit, which includes tools for software makers to determine how far away an object or wall is, if the phone is moving, or identify limbs in a human body, among other functions.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 20, 2023

Amazon will reduce its workforce by 9,000 staff over the next few weeks across numerous products, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Chief Executive Andy Jassy announced in a staff memo on Monday. Causes and Effects of New Layoffs The news comes after the company winds down its COVID-19 hires, where staff numbers topped 1.6

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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. All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools ?—?Pre-release Pre-release versions of beta tools such as Reality Composer, Create ML, Apple Configurator, etc… ?—?Engineering

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 19, 2023

People seeking visas, passport renewals, and updated country info can use cross-platform tools to receive key information and documents for their travels. This also applies to companies like IKEA and Amazon, where customers can superimpose virtual furniture, electronics, and clothing stocks in physical locations.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A report from Insider states that Microsoft may have canceled its plans for HoloLens 3. There is instead a rumored partnership with Samsung , where Samsung would actually build a new XR device and Microsoft offer the platform on top of which the headset may run. Some updates on Meta products. Learn more. Les Mills BodyCombat.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Speakers from goliaths like Amazon, Ford, and IKEA will rub shoulders with Vancouver up-and-comers including Motive.io and LNG Studios , each showcasing programs that put hardware like HTC Vive or Microsoft HoloLens through their paces. The VR/AR Global Summit is poised to bring together apps from different corners of the sector.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

However, with 2024 shaping up to be a monumental year for XR, with Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon, and Apple all putting major stakes and investments into the space, what companies do today could greatly influence the future of work. The firm is rolling out the features starting in early December this year for free.

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ARPost

JANUARY 29, 2020

Many major tech organizations such as Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are currently working on different types of smart glasses or headsets which are more affordable and widely available to consumers, which will eventually change how we view and interact with the world around us.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The End of the Windows Mixed Reality In its latest Windows 11 24H2 update , Microsoft is removing some support frameworks for its MR hardware and software portfolio. The update sees Windows Mixed Reality added to the “Deprecated Features” list, which congregates features that Microsoft is no longer working on.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Why Facebook and Amazon have joined the race to bring computing to your face. — Facebook and Amazon each discussed computer glasses at launch events this week. — Amazon’s approach is to get a lightweight product out now, while Facebook is promising advanced technology in a few years. Microsoft (enterprise) 4.

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AR Insider

MARCH 16, 2021

The latter powers Google’s Live View AR navigation tool. If Google is the spatial web’s knowledge layer, Facebook could be its social layer , Microsoft the enterprise productivity layer , and Amazon the commerce layer. That includes a vast image database for object recognition and geo-specific place data from Street View.

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Road to VR

MARCH 10, 2020

Image courtesy Microsoft. Most USB cables are a bit short to work with a VR headset, but they can be combined with an extender; we have had success with these options on Amazon: Anker 10ft USB 3.0 VR Headsets Compatible with Half-Life: Alyx. CableCreation USB 3.0 active extender. Half-Life: Alyx Minimum Specifications.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 14, 2020

The story is similar for Amazon , Microsoft and Bose (kind of), and the 800-pound gorilla in wearables, Apple. Earlier in this series, we examined Google’s ambitions to create more direct user touchpoints (literally) that drive revenue-generating search by voice, visual and text. Fully Actualized.

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ARPost

MARCH 24, 2020

However, one application of this technology – autonomous vehicles – requires neither of those tools. Amazon has a system, Microsoft has a system, Magic Leap has a system. When many casual users think of extended reality, they think about big glasses and funny controllers. Spatial Computing: Locations as Inputs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Since mid-2023, firms like Microsoft and Meta moved towards the wordage following the decline of faith towards the initial Metaverse wave towards the start of the year. More recently, at Ignite, Microsoft introduced the first updates to its 2024 roadmap, including avatar, immersive space, and AR guidance solutions.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

A worker wearing HoloLens 2 (Image by Microsoft). Thanks to Snapchat and Instagram, and its new tools to create filters, like Spark AR, we’re seeing an explosion of the production of this kind of content, that are a new way for people to express their creativity. This shows how the technology is just slowly improving.

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ARPost

MAY 3, 2021

Augmented reality tools that allow you to work on data, visualize information, and collaborate from multiple locations are already here. Microsoft has taken the lead in this space with its HoloLens smart glasses, but Facebook isn’t far behind. In the post-pandemic world, advances in AR become more significant and practical.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We’re already seeing aspects of spatial computing emerge in everything from collaborative platforms like Microsoft Teams to smartphones. Even the cameras and processors in these innovative tools are becoming smaller and more powerful. We’ve already seen the impact of evolving hand and eye-tracking tools in the market.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Moreover, Stettmeier noted that Lenovo is taking an enterprise-first approach to developing XR solutions, meaning you cannot purchase the device via conventional means such as Amazon, instead, going through professional channels – “because we want to make this an enterprise story,” Steinmeier said.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 3, 2018

In my review of Amazon Sumerian I said multiple times that in other game engines, like Unity, it is not possible to create a WebVR experience. You can create WebVR experiences using the tool that you already know, without learning anything new. Well, just some days after that article, I’ve been proved wrong. I want it!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We’re already seeing aspects of spatial computing emerge in everything from collaborative platforms like Microsoft Teams to smartphones. Even the cameras and processors in these innovative tools are becoming smaller and more powerful. We’ve already seen the impact of evolving hand and eye-tracking tools in the market.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The news of the week is that Meta is poaching talents from all the other companies : in particular, it has been able to “steal” 100 employees from the HoloLens team in Microsoft. Which tools and platforms are you using to build mind-bending creations? The most bullish of them is, of course, Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

That’s why we rejoiced when Apple launched its headset: while Google and Microsoft can discard new technologies pretty easily, Apple is slower at deciding to take a step, but when it makes it, it commits to it. It was a sort of color picker tool of Photoshop but in real life. This is a huge sign of commitment towards mixed reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Players can use the novel tools to buy and sell in-game content and identify metadata, ownership, and other key details for immersive content. ” Rival firm Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard to expand its portfolio of solutions in a historic $68 billion deal.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 30, 2020

You can already use Valve’s tools to create custom maps for the game. 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. If you’re interested in these devices, have a look at Amazon and Oculus websites.

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2019

However, the newly-released Moverio application is only compatible with Moverio smartglasses, which are available through Amazon and Best Buy. Laroue said Epson’s biggest competitor in this space is not another AR company, but rather tools like Skype and FaceTime.

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