XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 21, 2022

The devices are set to train, work, collaborate remotely, and enhance classroom interactions for its users across sectors, including education, healthcare, and many others, HTC VIVE explained. HTC VIVE announced on Tuesday it will expand the availability of its VIVE Flow compact VR goggles with a novel Business Edition version.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! Apple Glasses may release in 2021 for $499. Top news of the week.

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ARPost

JANUARY 18, 2023

Companies like the Samsungs and the Apples of the world all believe that glasses will replace the smartphone and we want to make sure that DigiLens components are in those glasses.”. Our official answer is ‘no,’” said Shams. That’s why our partnership with DigiLens is so exciting and important.” .

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. This is something many of us predicted correctly: Apple showed how the Vision Pro can record volumetric videos, but in some contexts, this may feel cringe.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 31, 2024

The firm is set to launch an XR video conferencing solution with HP in 2025 , and recently partnered with Qualcomm and Samsung to power the latter’s upcoming headset. Potential sectors benefiting from their XR technology include healthcare, military training, and office environments. Google does, however, have irons in the fire.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

February 2024 is here, and this month marked the end of a long, long wait for Apple’s Vision Pro. Apple has already sold 200,000 devices in the first week, which is impressive. However, the optics are positive for now in terms of enterprise and consumer XR markets.

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

Companies are beginning to incorporate the technology into solutions across various industries, including healthcare, sports, education, tourism, and the automotive industry. Visual augmented reality became mainstream with Pokemon Go (2016) and Snapchat filters, but its use cases are now moving beyond gaming and entertainment.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 11, 2024

Notably, Deloitte’s Tech Trends report, December 2023, noted how sectors such as healthcare experienced an increase in the adoption of training, simulations, and visualisation technologies, with the space reaching a CAGR of 44 per cent in 2023. Many different immersive service providers meet various needs. per cent, reaching 9.7

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 20, 2024

As popularised by Meta Ray Ban Smart Glasses and the Apple Vision Pro spatial/MR computing headset, interest in VR hardware is moving towards upcoming AR/MR devices. The report indicated that although sales decreased, the average selling price rose by over $1000, partly due to Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (FIT) together with various partners from industry including Apple, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Son y has confirmed the release and official adoption of H.266/Versatile According to Samsung, it should come in 2028. 266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

This week saw Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, Meta, and Sony move to optimize their product offerings and business operations. Shahram Izadi, Vice President of AR at Google , notes how Android ecosystem support will enable developers to collaborate with Samsung and Qualcomm to drive the future of immersive and spatial XR.

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Road to VR

APRIL 8, 2019

AT&T and Magic Leap formed a partnership last year which looked a lot like the one between Cingular (now merged with AT&T) and Apple which led to the launch of iPhone. Samsung’s Gear VR ‘Innovator Edition’ Headset.

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ARVR

AUGUST 28, 2020

These experiences, that you get to virtually feel, hear and see, are not just cool and exciting but they will also help revolutionize industries like healthcare, education and automotive.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 4, 2024

Each firm in the partnership seeks to innovate in XR and volumetric capture use cases for enterprise and industrial environments such as education, healthcare, and engineering. Even Sony, which focuses on providing XR solutions to media groups, also dabbles in providing solutions for other clients in construction and beyond.

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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Earlier this year, Samsung had launched the Portable SSD T7 Touch with such an integrated fingerprint sensor. WD claims that the secure pairing is seamless (a comparison was made with the Apple AirPods pairing scheme). The app-based unlock scheme enables password-less unlocking using key exchange.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This can help train people in high-risk industries like healthcare, manufacturing, and construction. Meta’s MR product looks to compete with other MR products from firms such as Apple, Varjo, HTC Vive, Nreal, Samsung, and Google.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

” He explained that XR had become a thriving industry , transforming verticals such as healthcare, entertainment, education, and gaming. Speaking on the upcoming Apple Reality Pro headset, he explained how Lucky Palmer, Founder, Oculus said Apple’s device was “excellent.”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 15, 2024

This past weekend, Apple debuted its Vision Pro mixed reality headset in the United Kingdom, marking the end of the firm’s international device rollout completion, which started at WWDC 2024 and includes regions such as mainland China, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Canada, France, and Germany. drop compared to the previous year.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Peter Vindevoge, speaking on the entry of Meta Platforms, Apple, and many others, could lead to a trend of greater VR gaming adoption. Renato Andrade, Senior XR Product Designer, Samsung R&D Institute (SIDIA) , posted his thoughts on the changes, gaining him over 20,000 impressions on LinkedIn.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2016

With the proliferation of mobile VR platforms like Google Cardboard and the new Daydream View, as well as Samsung Gear VR and others, Zhou believes that now is the right time for VR to go mainstream. Similar situations happen to many other business sectors such as healthcare, education, real estate, shopping, etc.”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 19, 2020

In case they won’t be able to find an agreement, in 2021 the trial will start with an AR landscape that will probably be very different, with Apple, Samsung and Facebook closer to enter the market with an AR glass of their own. Who knows how this lawsuit can influence the business of both companies.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This week has seen its fair share of tricks and treats ahead of the Halloween season, where companies like Warpin Reality, HTC VIVE, Google, Shopify, and Apple, among others, have offered a powerhouse of insights to XR Today on their latest innovations. Here are the top stories from this week’s news stories.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The Aria framework focuses on how AR environmental data can be applied across various fields, including robotics, healthcare, and automotive industries. Meanwhile, the University of Iowa is using the Aria framework to develop healthcare services for individuals with hearing loss.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

If I was Google and Apple, I would make some sort of Pokémon Go game that took you inside and made you kind of chase these things up and down the walls, and while they 3D map the whole interior space of everywhere. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?].

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

Unlike the Lucasfilm AR headset, which uses a smartphone to power it (like the Google Daydream or the Samsung Gear VR does), the company says this concept is a standalone, self-powered headset. It’s called daystAR, and has no release date or price attached (although it was shown in 4 metallic color options). via The Venture Reality Fund.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

If I was Google and Apple, I would make some sort of Pokémon Go game that took you inside and made you kind of chase these things up and down the walls, and while they 3D map the whole interior space of everywhere. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?].

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple. Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset. This is very interesting, but of course it is not for consumer use , but more for research or healthcare centers. Well, it seems that our hope has died.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

If you look at someone like Apple, they aren’t about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. I think the three-degrees-of-freedom [3Dof] sets — like the Go and the Samsung Gear VR before it — are very well-suited for video viewing, that sort of thing. Carter: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

If you look at someone like Apple, they aren’t about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. I think the three-degrees-of-freedom [3Dof] sets — like the Go and the Samsung Gear VR before it — are very well-suited for video viewing, that sort of thing. Carter: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

If you look at someone like Apple, they aren't about to put their logo on something like the current developer-focused headsets out there. Alan: You've got kind of a divide; entertainment and gaming on one side, and then you've got enterprise applications across medical, healthcare, real estate, retail -- across the whole enterprise.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And I’m particularly excited about all the progress has been made in applying VR and AR technology to difficult problems in healthcare. AR and VR technology is going to leverage AI technology, it’s going to leverage simulation technology that’s being used in a variety of other arenas other than healthcare.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And I'm particularly excited about all the progress has been made in applying VR and AR technology to difficult problems in healthcare. AR and VR technology is going to leverage AI technology, it's going to leverage simulation technology that's being used in a variety of other arenas other than healthcare. Does it save in the long run?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

And I’m particularly excited about all the progress has been made in applying VR and AR technology to difficult problems in healthcare. AR and VR technology is going to leverage AI technology, it’s going to leverage simulation technology that’s being used in a variety of other arenas other than healthcare.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

And VR Days was one of the best conferences that bridged the gap between technology and arts, and also brought together everyone from military to education to healthcare, and also the creatives to drive that innovation. But otherwise we’re using the Samsung Gear VR. One day Apple will come out and say a new feature.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

And VR Days was one of the best conferences that bridged the gap between technology and arts, and also brought together everyone from military to education to healthcare, and also the creatives to drive that innovation. But otherwise we’re using the Samsung Gear VR. One day Apple will come out and say a new feature.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

And VR Days was one of the best conferences that bridged the gap between technology and arts, and also brought together everyone from military to education to healthcare, and also the creatives to drive that innovation. But otherwise we're using the Samsung Gear VR. One day Apple will come out and say a new feature.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

I think people were all moving towards glTF, and then Apple decided, “hey, we got our own file format, USDZ” — how do you manage a hundred different…? We were launching partners of Apple for USDZ and we’re working on it. And I know Samsung’s new Note 10 has 3D capture built into it.

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