Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

And while the VR space is slowly beginning to amass a collection of quality titles (wave shooters be damned), consumers are still hungry for great content that will whisk them away to memorable virtual worlds. The survey will take 5 to 10 minutes to complete and at the end you’ll be entered to win a $150 Amazon gift card.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

The HTC VIVE (yes, they now capitalize all the letters in VIVE) is getting itself in front of millions of new online shoppers perusing the virtual aisles of Amazon. HTC has announced that the virtual reality system can now be purchased from Amazon.com in the United States and is priced at $799.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

Everyone can create his online meeting spaces; It lets you customize your avatars; It lets you import in your virtual world whatever you want : Youtube videos, web pages, 3D models from Sketchfab, etc… If it is online, you can import it in Hubs. Not just your room, but your custom Hubs infrastructure.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Venice VR virtual world, designed by VRrOOm within VRChat, will be the Venice VR Expanded hub—a virtual version of Venice. Users on Quest can visit these worlds, too. Ball is a former Amazon strategy executive turned investor. It’s available to anyone with a VRChat account.

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2022

Brands like Amazon have already begun investing in the industrial metaverse. Virtual Factory: A Reality or a Digital Imagery Concept? They have created a test model as an experiment to monitor manufacturing processes and operate machines in a virtual setup using VR headsets.

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AR Insider

MAY 31, 2021

The lower-cost locomotion option, Cybershoes , is now on Amazon for $349. Together with cyberchair and cybercarpet (included), Cybershoes allows gamers to walk and run in virtual reality. Users wear overshoes with ball bearings in the soles and run on a hard plastic dish. The player is held in place by a rigid harness.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2022

The reason why I think that this news is super-important is two-sided: On one side, it means that a platform with 50M of daily users is coming into virtual reality. Engage is one of the most appreciated virtual reality professional social ecosystems, and it is used a lot for enterprise meetings and presentations and for university lessons.

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Hypergrid Business

MAY 29, 2024

Kitely, a leading OpenSim grid, has announced a significant upgrade to its virtual world hosting service, doubling the performance of all Kitely regions without increasing prices. The company has achieved this by adopting the latest Amazon server technology, the M7i generation , while maintaining its existing pricing structure.

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Road to VR

JUNE 25, 2018

This generous contribution by Vive is helping bring a virtual world of adventure and learning to communities across California. Amazon Odyssey. Berlin Wall: The Virtual Reality Experience. COSM Worlds within Worlds. ” In California alone, HTC has donated 100 Vive headsets to public libraries.

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VRScout

JULY 5, 2018

This generous contribution by Vive is helping bring a virtual world of adventure and learning to communities across California,” adds Greg Lucas, a California State librarian. “ Matryx functionality may also have an opportunity to be featured on the HTC Exodus, a blockchain-powered smartphone.”.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Wondering what Amazon’s videogame development engine, Lumberyard, can do for VR? Lumberyard might not be the most prominent engine in the industry right now, but Amazon is trying to build momentum, especially on the VR side. Tagged with: Amazon , development , lumberyard. The company has some new examples for you today.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The book subtitle is “From Snow Crash & Second Life to a virtual world worth fighting for” : I mention it because it exactly describes what is the theme behind the book. In case you want to read the book, too, you can find it on Amazon: [link] (the link is without affiliation, so you can trust the honesty of my review).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Engage Link wants to take the best of both worlds, and let you meet in VR professional people from your field while you stay at home. This is thanks to an always-on virtual world you can navigate whenever you want. They lack some human component, like all social media connections.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There are a number of great virtual world platforms out there – and a smaller number of those are dedicated to enterprise use. Mytaverse is an enterprise-only platform with special tools for digital twins and virtual assets, and I got the world tour.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 7, 2019

“The tools and environments that make up Vive Reality System aim to make spatial computing accessible to everyone, wherever their journey into immersive worlds takes them. .” The most important one has been the one with Mozilla and Amazon for a better use of the Web 3.0 inside HTC headsets.

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 11, 2017

Amazon is going all out today with deals on virtual reality products, running the whole gamut of headset options, computers, and accessories. For extra bang for your buck, make your purchase through the Amazon Smile program for OSgrid , and half a percent will be donated to OpenSim’s biggest non-profit grid and testing ground.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2022

Many journalists wrote bad things about Meta’s M-word efforts: they said that Meta invested $10B just to have this cringy virtual world. The Chorus headphones for Quest 2 are currently available for pre-order from Amazon and Logitech for $100 with a release date planned for September 2nd. More info (Logitech Chorus?—?Road

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VRScout

MAY 23, 2018

Now, with a new a dawn in parcel transportation just beyond the horizon (see Amazon Prime Air ), engineers and developers have begun doubling-down on their efforts to develop more efficient autonomous quadcopters.

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AR Insider

MARCH 8, 2021

The Omni One is an omni-directional treadmill which lets users walk and run inside games and virtual worlds in VR. The BT-40 and BT-40s glasses are now available to pre-order and will be available on Amazon in Q2 for $579 and $999 respectively. Psychic VR Lab raises $8.5M to grow Web-XR platform, STYLY.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Among others, Wong will be joined on the panel by Zilliqa Head of Metaverse and NFTs Sandra Helou representing the Metapolis virtual world. Other big companies include HTC Vive , HaptX , Niantic , and Amazon. ARPost readers may remember Helou from when she took the time to talk with us earlier this year.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

(Answer: probably just the possibility of the same community visiting different worlds together may be enough) Is monetization beneficial to virtual worlds? Answer: if people go to a platform just to make money, that platform is not going to succeed) Are today’s virtual worlds so different from Second Life?

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

“Kitely has been up since March 2011 and has never suffered asset server or inventory loss,” he said, pointing to the grid’s cloud-based system using Amazon S3 and CloudFront services. About OSgrid Founded in 2007, OSgrid is one of the oldest and largest OpenSim virtual worlds.

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GizModo VR

MAY 20, 2022

Amazon’s head of devices took a swipe at Meta on Thursday, saying the company is working on enhancing a virtual world that will entice people to neglect the real world. Read more.

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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. Infotainment Trends.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 16, 2017

Surprisingly, it’s not new tracking systems or peripherals, but what we do with our voices and how virtual worlds react to them. Marks explained that he was interested in the voice control automation systems that were currently populating homes, like Amazon’s Echo platform.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Amazon has recently introduced several new features for shoppers to find products from their mobile devices using augmented reality (AR) shopping technologies. Now, the new Find on Amazon function allows people to take photos. Users can ‘share’ the photo with the Amazon Shopping app to locate the item in its marketplace.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 13, 2017

Mallinson spoke about ‘natural language understanding’, which he compared to voice operated platforms like Apple’s Siri, Amazon Echo. Building on that, the company’s also interested in affecting the virtual world around you with gaze tracking.

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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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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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

If you want to read all his insights, you can buy his book on Amazon, which has very positive reviews. More info (Matthew Ball on TIME) More info (Matthew Ball on The Verge) More info (Matthew Ball on Insider) More info (Matthew Ball on New World Notes). about our identities) that will shared between the various platforms. Learn more.

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VRScout

JANUARY 5, 2021

Instead of relying on artificial locomotion, this Indiana Jones-style puzzler has you navigating the virtual world by moving throughout your real-world environment. Last month we learned that a VR release of the popular open-world survival game Green Hell is currently in the works.

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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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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

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But things on the consumers’ side may not be going as well: according to some data scrapped from Amazon, the Quest 2 outsold the Quest 3 by a factor of 3:1 in the last 30 days. This shows that the sales were good among us VR techies… I myself have stopped using the Quest 2 and almost always use the Quest 3 now. THREE TO ONE.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Rather than a complete shutdown, Vega positioned this move as a strategic pivot, stating the business would continue under a new virtual world platform based on O3DE technology. Discovery Grid’s transition marks one of the first major moves by an established virtual world from OpenSimulator to the newer O3DE platform.

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ARVR

JUNE 3, 2022

Project uses AR to bring attention to at-risk communities in the Amazon Rainforest. Last week, social impact DAO MONOGRAMA , in tandem with SuperWorld , launched a groundbreaking NFT art event to commemorate and celebrate the indigenous Pater Surui and Cinta Larga communities of the Amazon Rainforest.

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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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