Road to VR

MAY 5, 2022

Google is undoubtedly gearing up to release XR headsets of some type in the future, which may compete with devices from Apple, Meta, Microsoft and Snap. In 2020, Google acquired North, a Canada-based company known for creating unobtrusive prescription-compatible smartglasses—a sight more stylish than Google Glass.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

percent of downloads), Great Britain (5 percent of downloads) and Canada (2.6 So the game’s first-week performance and download rankings are good leading indicators but not yet “apples to apples” comparisons. Header Image Credit: Microsoft, Mojang. It’s availability so far includes the U.S.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 29, 2024

These glasses have outperformed the sales of Ray-Ban’s first-generation smart glasses, ‘Ray-Ban Stories’ This potential deal could grant Meta more control over EssilorLuxottica’s smart glasses division and strengthen its position in the competitive market against tech giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Virtual reality is being used to test Apple’s self-driving vehicle. According to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday, Apple will be able to continue to keeping their secretive plans to develop self-driving software behind closed doors thanks to virtual reality. For a full list of Apple’s VR plans, we listed out 10 of them back in February.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 8, 2020

Microsoft used projection mapping to bring its NYC flagship windows to life, causing crowds to stop and watch. Selfridges and Apple are great examples of retailers who have combined AR with art to create large-scale in-store installations. Source: Nexus Studios / Scape.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2021

If I had known people could like it, I would have not made it in 5 minutes with Microsoft Word, lol. It is very interesting that because of this recall, Facebook shared some data about how many facemasks were affected : it says 4M in the United States, around 170K in Canada. In Japan, the number is around 80K.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 20, 2021

Italy, Canada, and China together to create an amazing video about these VR glasses! We all wonder who can be the Facebook competitor, and we often talk about Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, but we usually forgot about Huawei. I strongly advise you to watch it here below. The importance of Huawei.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Also, this is the first of what I suspect will be many blogposts about the Apple Vision Pro spatial computing headset, which I am eager to get my hands on as soon as I can! Accordingly, I have created a new blogpost category, called Apple Vision Pro. I have a second blog post on that project, which I hope to publish very soon.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Is Apple partnering with Valve on AR? A report by DigiTimes claims that Apple is partnering with Valve for the production of its AR glasses. The news would be incredible: Apple is a company that knows how to create something usable and cool to see, while Valve has a long expertise in experimenting with AR and VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. As we know, some of the big guys -- including Apple -- are really not far from market. Daniel: [laughs] One of my crazy ideas.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. As we know, some of the big guys -- including Apple -- are really not far from market. Daniel: [laughs] One of my crazy ideas.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Today’s guest is a great friend of mine, Anne-Marie Enns, the executive producer of the VR/AR Global Summit, coming to Vancouver, Canada, October 31st to November 2nd. There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire. There are a lot of different headsets going on.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Today’s guest is a great friend of mine, Anne-Marie Enns, the executive producer of the VR/AR Global Summit, coming to Vancouver, Canada, October 31st to November 2nd. There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire. There are a lot of different headsets going on.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. As we know, some of the big guys -- including Apple -- are really not far from market. Daniel: [laughs] One of my crazy ideas.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Today’s guest is a great friend of mine, Anne-Marie Enns, the executive producer of the VR/AR Global Summit, coming to Vancouver, Canada, October 31st to November 2nd. There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire. There are a lot of different headsets going on.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

You've got Microsoft -- who's invested billions of dollars in Hololens 2 -- and they're even struggling with some color banding issues. It doesn't have front facing cameras -- I don't know, maybe Gen 2 does -- but it's not trying to world map your whole view, it's just-- it's like having an Apple Watch in a more convenient place.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

You've got Microsoft -- who's invested billions of dollars in Hololens 2 -- and they're even struggling with some color banding issues. It doesn't have front facing cameras -- I don't know, maybe Gen 2 does -- but it's not trying to world map your whole view, it's just-- it's like having an Apple Watch in a more convenient place.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

You've got Microsoft -- who's invested billions of dollars in Hololens 2 -- and they're even struggling with some color banding issues. It doesn't have front facing cameras -- I don't know, maybe Gen 2 does -- but it's not trying to world map your whole view, it's just-- it's like having an Apple Watch in a more convenient place.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 28, 2019

” Because that’s the one way you’re going in to make sure this thing — like any system, like, look at how Slack and Microsoft Teams have been pushing that the last three or four years — it takes time for these things to get through. I used my old man as an example; he’s brilliant with his iPad.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 28, 2019

” Because that’s the one way you’re going in to make sure this thing — like any system, like, look at how Slack and Microsoft Teams have been pushing that the last three or four years — it takes time for these things to get through. I used my old man as an example; he’s brilliant with his iPad.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 28, 2019

Because that's the one way you're going in to make sure this thing -- like any system, like, look at how Slack and Microsoft Teams have been pushing that the last three or four years -- it takes time for these things to get through. I used my old man as an example; he's brilliant with his iPad. He's brilliant with his iPad.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 5, 2023

Apple’s upcoming smart glasses (or MR headset) may be around the corner. Now, with CoPilot taking shape thanks to a partnership with Microsoft, OpenAI and other firms are helping to define the future of work with AI. Moreover, ChatGPT still sits at the top of technology headlines.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Or at least, sort of : the experience is still in beta (so this is officially an open beta stage) and it will be accessible without an invite only in the US and in Canada. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. Apple is entering the XR field, and Facebook is currently dominating the VR market.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. Or in Canada, USDZed. As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. You have Apple, with ARKit. And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. Or in Canada, USDZed.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. Or in Canada, USDZed. As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. You have Apple, with ARKit. And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. Or in Canada, USDZed.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. Or in Canada, USDZed. As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. You have Apple, with ARKit. And then of course, Apple came along and created USDZ. Or in Canada, USDZed.

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