AR Insider

JANUARY 27, 2021

It let you essentially fly around a city, sort of like Google Earth but in three dimensions. In fairness, Google Earth offers 3D features. In fairness, Google Earth offers 3D features. And Google Earth VR , lets users fly around cities in strikingly immersive ways. Geospatially Sound.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple Vision Pro 2 may come in 2026 The rumors about the Apple Vision Pro 2 continue.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 16, 2024

However, to achieve a low-latency connection, users must purchase the 60G Airlink product for $299, which ensures improved streaming capabilities. Apple only debuted the Vision Pro in US markets – with more regions to come – with a productivity and workplace-focused approach. On the other hand, users can connect via WiFi.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2024

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) is over, and while Vision Pro was a big focus with the announcement of its visionOS 2 update , it’s pretty clear Apple’s first mixed reality headset isn’t in a hurry to feature-match other XR headsets at this point, let alone Meta Quest 3.

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MARCH 14, 2025

The exception was that on visionOS 2, Apple is gives enterprise companies raw access to Vision Pro's passthrough cameras for non-public internal apps, but this requires a special licence from Apple and is restricted to "in a business setting only". Meta software engineer Roberto Coviello's QuestCameraKit samples.

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JUNE 25, 2024

Play For Dream's latest headset is a blatant Apple Vision Pro clone but with a Quest Pro style rear battery. But unlike the cheap Chinese knockoff we tried at CES in January, this new headset actually has the specs (though likely not the software) to rival Apple. Meta is now working on a "way out in the future" successor instead.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

We are now at the level that we are super happy with the latency and deployments.”. While almost all non-Apple mobile devices run Android, it is also the backbone of many XR headsets.). For example, Magic Leap has had a partnership with Google Cloud for the past year now. Parents and Partners. Your Forecast: Cloudy.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

It's a more premium option for higher-priced headsets, including those designed to take on Apple Vision Pro. It inherits all the advantages of the base XR2 Gen 2 architecture, including the hardware acceleration for camera passthrough that is said to reduce end-to-end latency to around 12 milliseconds.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2021

Basically, it is an open and distributed platform to provide the AR Cloud (which is, in turn, a distributed, shared, and persistent augmented reality), that opposes itself to the private AR Clouds that companies like Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Niantic are building. And the first one, highlighted by Julia, is that it is accessible.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

Regarding big brands, I expect Apple and Facebook still to wait a bit before releasing something, while Magic Leap will have to make its move to come out from the quicksands. As for the big names, I expect that Facebook, Apple, and the others will still wait : reports talk about these companies releasing their headsets from 2021 on.

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MARCH 20, 2024

While Apple Vision Pro validated much of what Meta (formerly Facebook) did in VR over the last decade, the headset also echoes work under Google's umbrella at Job Simulator development studio Owlchemy Labs. When we first tried the Apple Vision Pro, we were like, 'yes!' With Apple, you can use Swift UI.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

New Chinese Headset Is An Apple Vision Pro & Quest Pro Crossover This Chinese company’s latest headset is a blatant Apple Vision Pro clone but with a Quest Pro style rear battery, powered by Qualcomm’s XR2+ Gen 2 chipset. Play For Dream MR doesn't run Horizon OS , or even Pico OS or Google's upcoming Android XR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Notably, a big market shifting factor is Apple’s entry, Shen noted: I think having Apple come in has really validated everything that we’ve invested in, in our hardware, our platform, our infrastructure, and we’ve seen a lot more interest in this space and even this show (MDC 2024).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Not only is Meta’s Connect event coming up quickly, but Apple and Microsoft are also working towards establishing XR productivity tools. In the wake of MR headsets and software coming soon, Google and Samsung quickly reacted – internally – in a bid to create a competing device with an apparent lack of direction.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2019

Latency-free 5G broadband networks, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies will converge in the next five years to change the world as we know it. Wikipedia, Google, Yelp, selfies, other forms of social media. Your new book Convergence is now out. Tell us about it and make us fall in love with it!

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JUNE 17, 2024

AirPlay Mirroring to Apple Vision Pro with visionOS 2 dramatically expands the headset's capabilities, and new features better integrate your iPad, Mac, keyboard and controllers too. In the case of Gear VR and the cardboard boxes shipped by the likes of Nintendo , Google , and the New York Times , you could (and still can!)

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AUGUST 21, 2024

David Heaney wrote his review of the Apple Vision Pro from inside the headset. There's a loss in quality in the compression pathway, but the path offers a nice amount of space for multiple windows with text size in Google Chrome increased to 200 percent for this writing. We've written some of our articles from VR. Have a cat or dog?

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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. Both Azure Spatial Anchors and Google Cloud Anchors are leveraging existing strengths in mapping towards the AR Cloud. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.

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ARPost

APRIL 29, 2021

AR remote collaboration with IoT devices as well as low-latency calling in less-than-ideal locations and conditions are only likely to improve as the company is one of the most active groups in exploring 5G. Currently in version 2.2, The platform is also integrated with popular cloud services and workflow applications. Holo4Labs and Holo4Med.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 6, 2025

However, its worth noting that since then, weve seen a lot of development in the MR space, with the likes of the Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3. You do get color passthrough which means the passthrough experience is closer to that of the Quest 3 than the Quest 3 but there is a bit of latency.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

As latency over a few milliseconds can disrupt the immersive nature of good VR and create nausea, the dependability of consumer-level wi-fi is brought into question. Another key to Apple’s larger plans might have just been revealed: the dual camera in the iPhone 7. Also, how will the HTC Vive run wirelessly? to the headset?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Apple Maps are going AR. iOS 15 finally brings AR navigation instructions to Apple Maps , in a way similar to the one that Google is already offering. Even if Apple has not released its glasses yet, it is building a strong AR ecosystem that will be very valuable when its hardware will be out.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This ensures it can deliver exceptional computing power for low-latency graphics rendering. Already, Meta’s biggest challengers, such as Google and Apple, seem to experimenting with their own AR specs. This puck features dual processors, including one that Meta designed within Reality Labs.

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ARVR

JULY 9, 2020

Google launched Google Glass , and Microsoft launched HoloLens , a head-mounted display (Krevelen, 2010)(Jaimini, 2016). 2010s : Companies are investing in the potential of this area like Google with ARCore and Apple with ARKit (Papagiannis, 2017). Evolution of Augmented Reality (Craig, 2013) by fernanda rodríguez.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 6, 2019

VR just passed the thorough of disillusionment and is here to stay thanks to investments in the AR/VR market by Facebook, Google and Apple. Image Credit: TripAdvisor, Zero Latency Madrid. Zero Latency was the first to provide such experience. Since 2015 there are 200 000 customers played these games. .

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 1, 2022

It will also enable users to acquire information about their environment using technologies such as Google Glass or Meta Platform’s Project Aria. It requires a 5G capable infrastructure to increase network capacity and decrease network congestion and latency. The infrastructure layer. Closing thoughts.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Bijoy asked me to name the operating system as Google hasn't yet, and when I did he pointed to it as a successor to the Qualcomm tools he indicated they were using for my demo. "We don't anticipate using this perception stack long term," Bijoy said. 0:00 / 2:47 1×

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

The XR visual processing pipeline is both compute intensive and latency sensitive. We’re looking at you, Google Glass. Besides Google Glass, there have been plenty of venture backed companies promising to make consumer grade Augmented Reality come to life, only to realize the scale of the problem is larger than originally anticipated.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Beyond Niantic, tech giants like Apple , Snap , Meta , Qualcomm and AMD are investing heavily to own a piece of this opportunity. The latter could involve navigation and local discovery, which are use cases Google has already developed with its Lens and Live View. Use cases include everything from gaming and entertainment to utilities.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Here’s what you actually need to know: 5G offers faster download and upload speeds, more bandwidth, lower latency, and enough throughput to support a household of people trying to connect to the… Read more. There’s more to 5G than overblown marketing hype and some really weird (and in some cases, dangerous ) conspiracy theories.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

But having seen Google taking a similar route, releasing a faceplate to add 6DOF controller tracking for Mirage Solo , I think that both companies realized that the hardware solution was a better solution at the moment. This is just a personal speculation of mine and there is not an official statement of HTC about it.

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Full Dive Gaming

MAY 25, 2022

We were sent to Zero Latency VR and brought friends who had never been there to experience full motion VR! Every Friday we release FULL PODCASTS on all Your Favorite major platforms: Spotify, Apple, Google. Every Friday we release FULL PODCASTS on all Your Favorite major platforms: Spotify, Apple, Google.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Google, Apple, and other map programmes offer this functionality to users. Smart glass manufacturers and solution providers like Vuzix, Google, Nreal, RealWear, Lenovo, Magic Leap, and others offer full-spectrum devices capable of agile use cases. How Does AR Work? Lenses and Waveguides.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Zhou said this technology is the first to stream and play near-zero latency 360-degree VR videos in 4K to 8K resolution over regular Wi-Fi and LTE for mobile – and eventually tethered VR headsets. “As The former Google senior research scientist partnered with former TangoMe marketing manager Elaine Lu to co-found Visbit in 2015.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

These have appeared across Google’s ARCore, Niantic’s Lightship AR developer kit (ARDK), Snap Lens, Meta’s Reality system, and Apple’s ARKit platforms, namely for smartphones. Augmented reality (AR) solutions have grown in popularity over the last few years, utilising mostly consumer-facing smartphone platforms.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Apple’s Vision Pro triggered new discourse on the future of virutal, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR). Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. Apple is adept at proposing something you didn’t think you needed.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

It also hosts a Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1 processor for offloading processing power, streamlining app functionality for low-latency connectivity between the two devices. Additionally, Apple followed suit by redirecting efforts to their long-awaited, premium-tier MR headset and subsequent mid-range consumer MR device.

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