TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 23, 2022

Now, in a spot of perfect timing, a startup out of Talinn, Estonia, called Ready Player Me — which has built a popular platform for creating dynamic, animated avatars to use across virtual worlds built and operated by others — is announcing $56 million in funding to grow its business.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

There is no official confirmation on this, and I hope to be wrong because having to use earphones would be a big hit to its comfort Release date and price : of course the release date (will it come before or after an Apple headset?) Apple headset is rumored to be announced this year. and price (will it be affordable for PS5 users?)

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 25, 2024

So, is Moohan ready to compete with the likes of the Meta Quest 3, or even leave the Apple Vision Pro in the dust? At a glance, the Samsung headset looks similar to a mix between the Meta Quest 3 and the Apple Vision Pro. Apple discovered that strategy doesnt pan out when it launched the Vision Pro too. What is Project Moohan?

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 25, 2023

Last Friday , AltspaceVR announced that will be shutting down its virtual environment in March. AltspaceVR was a consumer-focused immersive space that could be accessed either via the desktop or through a virtual reality headset. What about Meta, Google and Apple? (Image by Maria Korolov via Midjourney.) million in 2022.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 12, 2025

For instance, GE Healthcare transformed radiography training with VR, offering healthcare professionals a virtual environment where they could interact with three-dimensional scanners, and access real-time support from an AI assistant.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

AR Apps to Increasingly Leverage AI Tech To create more immersive virtual environments, AR applications must be able to collect a wealth of information about the user’s surroundings. The Park Playground’s Vindevogel adds that virtual reality will increasingly grow to become a part of our daily lives. “

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ARPost

JULY 11, 2023

As if our smartphones weren’t already incredible enough, startup company AR-Generation is using them to bridge the gap between the real and virtual worlds. They developed their technology to perform accurate measurements so it could be helpful in self-driving cars and virtual shopping for eyeglass frames.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 6, 2023

With the new feature, people can remember their physical spaces more easily while entering and interacting with virtual environments. This ultimately allowed Meta to showcase its MR passthrough for ‘untethered’ virtual experiences blending people’s physical and virtual worlds.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Otherwise known as a “ mixed reality ” or “extended reality” headset, VR/AR headsets combine augmented and virtual reality. For instance, the Apple Vision Pro headset will feature a mixed reality dial on the top of the device. First, smart glasses typically focus on bringing digital content and data into the real world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Increasingly, software creators and device manufacturers like Apple, Meta, and Varjo are focusing their attention on the enterprise. Today, alongside intuitive VR headsets, custom made for business users, we’re also seeing an increase in mixed reality systems, like the Apple Vision Pro , and smart glasses.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 8, 2024

We’ve seen evidence of this with the Meta Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro. Additionally, more companies are beginning to invest in advanced spatial computing techniques to alter how we interact with immersive environments. They also create a more natural experience when interacting with documents and other users in a virtual space.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Let me tell you what Facebook's metaverse is right now: it's a few tools for meetings in virtual environments. It's games and experiences on Facebook's Oculus virtual reality platform. It's a pair of not-very-good smart glasses. It's a failed digital currency project.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 4, 2022

Games-as-platforms” solutions where users can create their own content, build sub-games, and add to virtual worlds (like Roblox) are going increasingly common. Multi-player social gaming experiences in Fortnite and similar environments are opening the door to new explorations of what gaming in the metaverse might look like.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 22, 2022

It is a massively scaled and interoperable network of real-time, rendered, 3D virtual worlds that can be experienced synchronously and persistently by an effectively unlimited number of users, each with an individual sense of presence.”. Matthew Ball , Author, formerly Amazon AMZN -2.9%.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2022

Even in 2007, when Apple announced the first iPhone, Steve Jobs was keen to get rid of the stylus for touchscreen management, arguing separate controllers and devices make using technology more cumbersome. Gaze allows us to look around in an environment enhanced by AR, MR, or VR, and determine which virtual objects to interact with.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 19, 2024

It enables 3D reconstruction and rendering in virtual environments. Unfortunately, NeRFs are difficult to train and limited in enabling navigation in virtual worlds. Adobe, Apple, Google, and Meta are incorporating the technique into their enterprise apps. Since then, development in the field has continued.

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Bernard Marr

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

At the moment, we don't have clear laws on what's acceptable and unacceptable in virtual environments or even which jurisdictions they come under. If I’m physically at home in England, but I’m exploring a virtual metaverse environment hosted by a Chinese provider, will I be subject to English laws or Chinese?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 30, 2023

For instance, the Apple Vision Pro allows users to interact with apps and technologies using innate actions like gestures and eye movement. Spatial computing concepts allow us to interact with computers and virtual worlds using our natural actions, from raising a hand to looking at a certain point on a screen.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

Another aspect of the tool is to allow the creation of custom experiences and adjusting of the virtual environment using a library of virtual objects and virtual locations — it comes with 1,200 3D objects by default, and also allows users to build and customize new objects and features. Image courtesy MeetingRoom.).

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you could do that in VR and can have that similar behavior that a human has inside the virtual environment, that really is cost saving for companies like Volkswagen. And that you do with force feedback, so the resistance on your fingers in a virtual environment. Now, these are not fashionable gloves.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you could do that in VR and can have that similar behavior that a human has inside the virtual environment, that really is cost saving for companies like Volkswagen. And that you do with force feedback, so the resistance on your fingers in a virtual environment. Now, these are not fashionable gloves.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you could do that in VR and can have that similar behavior that a human has inside the virtual environment, that really is cost saving for companies like Volkswagen. And that you do with force feedback, so the resistance on your fingers in a virtual environment. Now, these are not fashionable gloves.

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VRWorld

APRIL 11, 2017

PowerDVD 17 adds support for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets to bring virtual reality content front and center for users, along with groundbreaking innovations in 360 video playback. ” Furthermore, TrueTheater HDR technology is bringing GPU-accelerated video conversion that emulates HDR video on standard non-HDR video.

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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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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Now, as we head into 2023, the conversation has shifted to Apple CEO Tim Cook’s concerns that it might not take off because it’s too complicated and other commentators suggesting it’s too weird to gain mainstream traction. Metaverse has undoubtedly been one of the most talked-about concepts of the year. Is It All Hype?

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Eight year ago, when I first launched Hypergrid Business , virtual worlds offered a unique set of compelling features. There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. At that time, virtual worlds were the only visible path to an interconnected metaverse of virtual environments.

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ARPost

MAY 19, 2023

Mindfulness can exist in the virtual world. Mindway is a VR app that promotes mindfulness – both in virtual worlds of unearthly peace and through lessons that you can carry with you when you put the headset down. Reach high up to grab an apple from a tree during a stretch.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Unless Apple kills it, of course… Productivity ecosystem. video editors) use Apple computers, and for sure Apple will launch its device with a lot of functionalities for prosumers and professionals … so it has established partnerships to announce a similar type of content before Apple itself, to beat it in time.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2016

On the display, Dade is able to fly through the low poly virtual environment of the Gibson. Combining headset, hack trackers, and omnidirectional treadmill, Belford uses his Virtuality rig as a gaming escape. Assumed to be a neural data transfer, all that Hall must do is lay flat on a table and he is immersed. The Cell (2000).

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ARVR

AUGUST 12, 2021

Enterprise AR: 7 real-world use cases for 2021 I have been in a VR headset for thousands of hours and I’ve never experienced anything like an embodied Internet that I’m inside of. In virtual worlds, Gravity can be altered?—?turned They exist like pictures in your mind, or like dreams?—?except None of that is the Metaverse.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 18, 2024

Following last year, which saw the XR space experience a down-tick from a major 2022, 2024 is now looking to be a more busy year with major computing firms, most notably Apple, entering the XR device market and potentially spurring another wave of AR/VR/MR investment and adoption. Will the Apple Vision Pro Dominate in 2024?

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Their audiences are digital natives and are keen to do business with companies that share their understanding and enthusiasm for virtual worlds and gaming-style environments. Transferring this money into the real world involves exchanging it for real currencies, which are paid into a bank account. It’s all about image.

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Bernard Marr

MARCH 7, 2023

If you’ve only taken a passing interest it could mean anything to you from virtual reality, to pretend worlds, to cartoon avatars and online gaming. In fact Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that the fact people don’t really understand it might stop the metaverse from taking off entirely. Take digital twins, for example.

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Another is creating people and characters to populate the worlds – from customer service chatbots to realistic characters in entertainment-oriented experiences that will talk to you as if they are human.

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