Tech Trends VR

JUNE 5, 2020

The inclination of big firms like Tesla, Apple, and Facebook towards Spatial Computing. Companies like Tesla, Apple, and Facebook are investing heavily in it because of its capability to completely change how we access, organize, and use information. The book also introduces what this all means culturally, both pro and con.

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Upload VR

JUNE 6, 2023

We went hands on with Apple Vision Pro at Apple Park in California during WWDC23 and were blown away by the best headset demo ever made. Personas are what Apple calls human scans performed by the Vision Pro headset that are locked to the scanned individual to prevent others from wearing them.

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Upload VR

MAY 30, 2024

The first immersive experience resulting from Apple and Disney's partnership in spatial computing arrives today in What If. The hour-long experience is free for a limited time and a must-see for Apple Vision Pro owners. is the experience every Apple Vision Pro owner needs to see. on the visionOS App Store.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2022

After graduating from the University of Southern California in Computer Sciences, he joined Oculus VR out of his passion for virtual reality. The same goes for Valve, Apple, and Sony, whose established presence here would allow them to cut into the high-end section of the market without much difficulty.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In October, Micro Center will be selling XREAL products in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia. This seemingly aims to steal the holiday season from competitors Meta and Apple.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Next year, Apple will debut the Vision Pro following years of hype, and Microsoft will also start rolling out its industrial Metaverse services. Snap Earns $20m Grant The state of California has granted Snap Inc. $20 The XR market may be experiencing a quiet before the storm. 2024 is ramping up to be a pivotal year for the industry.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 6, 2022

This year's Apple WWDC didn't give us the AR/VR announcement we'd hoped for, but it was still an experience. Shoutout to Apple Daddy First and foremost, we have to pay tribute to the man who carried this event on his back, because most of it was actually pretty boring. Credit: Apple. Credit: Apple. Credit: Apple.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 11, 2022

That’s the needle Apple CEO Tim Cook is seemingly trying to thread, anyway. Americans are currently at the whim of whatever (if any) privacy laws exist in their states, like the California Consumer Privacy Act. Cook emphasized Apple’s existing commitment to privacy protections in his letter.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 13, 2024

Simple stereoscopic 3D photos and videos like Apple's spatial video only offer limited parallax of a view of a scene presented in a rectangle in front of you, and immersive 180° or 360° content like Apple Immersive Video does the same in a hemisphere or sphere. Gracia is now available on Quest's App Lab. What Is Gracia?

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ARVR

JUNE 30, 2020

California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 In response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal and GDPR, California lawmakers enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, which provides consumers greater control over how their personal information is collected, stored, and sold.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2023

The San Francisco, California-based firm demoed its Mobile Dock solution at the event; the immersive wearable allows users to stream media and gaming content to their device on a 120-inch virtual screen. In the early 1980s, Steve Jobs and the Apple team were working on a design for a pocket computer, which is essentially the smartphone now.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Firms such as Apple, Meta Platforms, Rokid Air, Xiaomi, and Brilliant Labs have released versions of their smart glass products. For example, patents from Apple revealed AR smart glasses capable of complementing the Cupertino-based tech giant’s upcoming Vision Pro mixed reality (MR) headset.

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Upload VR

MARCH 27, 2024

Kids who weren't born when he made that decision can now wear , with parental controls, a $500 wireless all-in-one headset with markerless inside-out tracking, precise 6DoF controllers, hand tracking, and mixed reality. It is 2024 now, and Apple just did two things to make Zuckerberg's case for empire-building genius much stronger.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

A Bluetooth-enabled controller is what sets the Daydream HMD apart from other current smartphone-powered VR headsets (the Samsung Gear VR is really the only true competitor in this quality tier, distinctly above a Cardboard-style headset). Although not as robust as the HTC Vive controllers, the wand-like controller is easy to use… and fun.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

At an event in San Jose, California, Facebook introduced its plan for augmented reality glasses, where users will be able to pull up a visual display on top of what’s actually in front of them. Microsoft won the PC era and now has a tablet business, while Apple and Google have the dominant mobile operating systems. Apple (ecosystem) 2.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

More than 4,000 people attended the event at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, and more than 3 million worldwide watched the keynote via Facebook Live. The recently launched new Samsung Gear VR with controller was also briefly mentioned as an affordable alternative to the more cost-intensive Rift set-up.

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Anand Tech

MAY 25, 2022

This level of detail and control allows each part of the workstation to work as one, delivering unrivalled performance and reliability. The unique liquid cooling loop in every workstation is controlled and monitored by a controller built by Comino, which uses numerous sensors to keep track of the system’s health and performance.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

From Rift to Apple Watch to Snap Spectacles, the trend is toward wearable computing. In the 1970’s scientists at the University of California popularized the term “brain-computer interface” or BCI , referring to a hardware and software system that uses brainwaves to control devices.

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 7, 2019

“Doing it in the physical environment is too hard, but we can build a virtual world that’s completely under control.” To venture through rct’s immersive worlds, users wear a virtual reality headset and control their simulated self via voice. Image: rct studio. The startup appears suitable to undertake the task.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 18, 2024

Named for David Harold Blackwell — a University of California, Berkeley mathematician specializing in game theory and statistics, and the first Black scholar inducted into the National Academy of Sciences — the new architecture succeeds the NVIDIA Hopper architecture, launched two years ago.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Image by Apple). Apple has not announced any glasses at WWDC. Every year, we have the same ritual: we wait for an event by Apple, hoping to hear some news about an upcoming XR device, then nothing happens in this sense, we are disappointed and so we hope for a new reveal next year. Top news of the week. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 4, 2023

Hello everyone from Sunnyvale, California! I need to rush out this newsletter episode because otherwise tomorrow Apple launches its headset and no one will read my articles: everyone will be too busy reading “The top 5 features of the Apple headset” or “The 7 reasons why the Apple headset can revolutionize peeling potatoes”.

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Robert Scoble

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Here is our first analysis (located at: [url]) on why we should all be paying attention to what is happening in humanoid robots and consumer electronics, which include autonomous vehicles that are now arriving to people’s garages and, soon, Augmented Reality devices from Apple and others. The robot brings other robots.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2023

A conversation could be coming to your home in the next five years and it is probably as unavoidable as those previous ones: Are you on a Meta Quest or do you have Apple Vision? But, right now, Apple just showed up to VR in a very big way and validated almost all the most forward - thinking work at its fastest-moving competitor.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Yim has also been featured in Apple's first TV show, "Planet of the Apps," and won two LA Auto Show award design challenges back to back, with his partners at Honda Advanced Design. That's why a lot of design studios are actually in California because of--. Alan: Nice weather, all the time. Jason: Yeah, nice weather all the time.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Yim has also been featured in Apple’s first TV show, “Planet of the Apps,” and won two LA Auto Show award design challenges back to back, with his partners at Honda Advanced Design. That’s why a lot of design studios are actually in California because of– Alan: Nice weather, all the time.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Hello everyone from San Jose, California! Apple may unveil RealityOS at WWDC. At the upcoming WWDC, Apple may unveil its operating system for XR glasses, dubbed RealityOS. Most probably, it won’t also unveil the glasses, but it may just talk about upcoming features for Apple XR developers. or no reason?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

A brain-controlled keyboard that should have worked without having any kind of sensors installed into the brain, so that to be completely non-invasive. Or of a hybrid AR/VR headset like the Lynx or like the rumored Apple visor? Long story short, nothing worked as they expected. I guess only time will tell us….

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Yim has also been featured in Apple’s first TV show, “Planet of the Apps,” and won two LA Auto Show award design challenges back to back, with his partners at Honda Advanced Design. That’s why a lot of design studios are actually in California because of– Alan: Nice weather, all the time.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2019

I gave a presentation of the first idea of a videodisc of the “ Plastico ” at a private conference held at Apple Computer in 1986 (my talk was published in 1998 here ). By the summer of 2018, we were ready to unveil our work to the general public through the stores of Apple, Microsoft, Oculus, and Vive. Where is that?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Kura is a little startup in California that is working on a pair of lightweight AR glasses. Internal iOS 13 code seems to point at Apple AR glasses. It is not a secret that Apple is working on a pair of AR glasses (even if someone still thinks that the project has been abandoned). (Image by Kura). Who knows.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Facebook is investing billions for hardware creation, and it is going to move 4,000 employes working on AR hardware in a new venue just built in California. It seems that Mark is still working on that vision, so that in the end, Facebook will be able to do on its devices whatever it wants, without compromises and without control.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This article was written in a head-mounted display in a bus driving across California from Los Angeles to San Jose. While Apple's decision to focus on micro-OLED displays offers you true darkness as a backdrop for the work you do in VR, the headset has also been priced out of reach for most people for the same reason.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

The Cosmos faceplate features a new pattern… and apart from the aesthetics, the crux is that it is now possible to see that the headset now features even 6 tracking cameras for positional and controllers’ tracking: two on the front, two on the sides, one on the top of the Faceplate, one on the bottom of the faceplate. Image by Upload VR).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Today's guest is Kevin Kunze , an award-winning interactive filmmaker based out of Berkeley, California. Is it just like a pop-up gaze control or.? Kevin: Yeah, I mean, maybe it could be gaze controlled if we want to go through like YouTube or something like that or if it's-- you have the finger control, you can just click on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Anecdotally, the name refers to-- it was actually the name of a remote keynote presentation that myself and my friend Luke Reece delivered in 2013, I believe, to the University of Southern California from here in Dubai using the Nearpod platform. I do a lot with Apple technology. I mean, I was a distinguished educator.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Anecdotally, the name refers to-- it was actually the name of a remote keynote presentation that myself and my friend Luke Reece delivered in 2013, I believe, to the University of Southern California from here in Dubai using the Nearpod platform. I do a lot with Apple technology. I mean, I was a distinguished educator.

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