Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Khronos Group , the consortium behind the OpenXR project which aims to standardize the way applications communicate with AR and VR headsets, just added Microsoft to its ranks. Among its count of members, the OpenXR working group consisted of nearly every major player in the industry except Microsoft until now.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2025

Today SteamVR is still the gold standard for what concerns PCVR tracking and many enthusiasts have Lighthouses installed in their rooms to play VR games on their Valve Index, HTC Vive, or Pimax Crystal Light. Some people are even convinced that long-term, controller tracking will be niche, and hand tracking will be dominant everywhere in XR.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 26, 2018

If 2016 was the birth of modern VR/AR technology, than 2018 was its elementary school graduation. Major hardware releases, vast improvements to software, and various other integral advancements have quietly solidified VR & AR as viable, long-term technological platforms for years to come. LOCATION-BASED VR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These augmented reality devices are manufactured by Chinese company Realmax and are characterized by a very wide field of view. While many other AR glasses (like Nreal Light or HoloLens 2 ) have a Field Of View in the 50° ballpark, RealMax glasses have always had ones above 100° , for a more immersive augmented experience.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2021

Yes, it’s 200 weeks (around 4 years) that I try to inform the community every week about the best AR/VR news, at first just by e-mail, and then also on a special column on my website. Image by HTC Vive). HTC new products may be the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3. Welcome to my 200TH ROUNDUP! Other relevant news.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Microsoft Maquette is a brand new VR tool from Microsoft which is all about prototyping spatial designs. Maquette appeared quite suddenly this week, apparently without any official announcement from Microsoft; it seems to have been picked up by MSPoweruser after being spotted by twitter user WalkingCat.

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Road to VR

MAY 31, 2017

Today at Computex 2017, the annual IT expo held in Taipei, Taiwan, Microsoft revealed more from their line-up of affordable Windows ‘Mixed Reality’ headsets, including Asus’ headset and an updated design from Dell. Microsoft says the headset is designed by the same team that creates their premium XPS and Alienware PCs.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

According to the Taiwan Stock Exchange, HTC will halt trading of its stock as of September 21st, pending an unknown announcement from the company, reports Bloomberg. Following several years of financial difficulty, the future of HTC seems less clear than it’s ever been. SEE ALSO HTC Vive Gets Major Price Cut, Now $600.

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

AR and VR are two of the most promising technologies of the modern era. While AR and VR have been around for decades, it wasn’t until recently that they offered a quality experience without being too limited by technological constraints or not being portable enough for widespread use. They are: 1. billion by 2024.

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ARPost

JANUARY 30, 2023

Games are the largest use case for consumer VR and AR. While VR and AR remain a comparatively small segment of the games industry, the industry is taking notice as VR hardware in particular improves. The GDC ’s State of the Game Industry Report for this year is by no means dedicated to VR and AR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. HTC is going to launch its headset on May, 11th. HTC is keeping rising the hype for its new upcoming headset. Google is hiring waveguide developers for AR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 18, 2024

This month, Qualcomm has been showcasing its technologies at Augmented Enterprise Summit (AES) 2024, along with other XR companies like Meta, XREAL, HTC, VIVE, and RealWear. Featured technologies at AES 2024 include digital twins, haptics, avatars, blockchain, wearables, VR headsets, AR smart glasses, and more.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

OpenXR, a widely supported initiative which aims to streamline AR/VR development across headsets and platforms, has reached its 1.0 It’s a major milestone, according to Khronos Group which has overseen development of the standard by a consortium of many of the biggest names in the AR/VR sector. release today. The post OpenXR 1.0

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Kura promises to deliver lightweight AR glasses with astonishing features like 150° FOV, 8K resolution per eye, and outdoor use thanks to some breakthrough innovations they are working on. They could make AR enter a new immersive phase that leads towards mainstream adoption. It’s like 2 years (!!) What is Kura’s story?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 2, 2024

With the broader audience that comes with Connect, expect new product announcements from firms looking to join the moment, such as HTC VIVE, which is also readying a new product. ” First Look at Microsoft Co-pilot AR Smart Glasses? Already, the stage is being set for a busy two months ahead as event season returns.

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ARPost

MAY 30, 2020

The VR/AR Global Summit, organized by VR/AR Association (VRARA), is taking place from June 1 through June 3. One defining characteristic of the VR/AR Global Summit is that it does see itself more as a summit than as a trade show. Events are broken down by subject into either Education, Medical, Simulation, or Training.

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MAY 11, 2017

In a keynote today Microsoft is revealing a long-awaited missing piece of its Windows mixed reality platform – motion controllers. According to Microsoft, the controllers would be shown on stage at its keynote but wouldn’t be available for hands-on demos at its Build developer conference this week.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Microsoft is rescuing the beloved VR social network. The Silicon Valley social VR startup that has taken us on a roller coaster ride of emotions over the past months has big news—AltspaceVR has been acquired by Microsoft. Microsoft’s lineup of VR headsets. You can expect to see us in there tonight.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

Like every year, during this event we have seen some important AR news, but not that many, since the event was more focused on mobile phones than immersive technologies. Frontal view of the device (Image by Microsoft). The biggest news of the MWC for what concerns XR has been for sure the announcement of the HoloLens 2 by Microsoft.

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2023

At least from the outside, it appears Microsoft isn’t actively competing for a seat at the XR table, which is fairly odd coming from a company that pioneered enterprise AR while simultaneously wrangling some of its top OEM partners to make a fleet of PC VR headsets for consumers in 2017. If Microsoft goes in half-cocked, maybe.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2017

We’re all waiting for the day when you can put on a singular, tether-free headset and experience all the ‘R’s that VR/AR/MR have to offer—and NormalVR , a “small but focused” group of passionate immersive media creators just gave us a peek into what’s possible when you mash it all together.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 21, 2022

HTC VIVE announced on Tuesday it will expand the availability of its VIVE Flow compact VR goggles with a novel Business Edition version. 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.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

That trend has been keenly anticipated by the VR/AR Global Summit. One of the largest industry events in North America, the Vancouver-based conference will spotlight how tech giants and startups are creating new ways to visualize and interact with virtual worlds. It’s personally one of my favorite aspects of this industry.”.

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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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Road to VR

MARCH 18, 2018

GDC is here once again, all next week we’ll have boots on the ground bringing you the latest VR/AR news. Held annually in San Francisco, Game Developers Conference has undeniably been a focal point for VR the industry, and as augmented reality continues to heat up, we expect it to be increasingly important for AR as well.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, AR Advertising Deep Dive, Part I: The Landscape. Prominent sectors include industrial AR , social , gaming , and shopping. But existing alongside all of them is AR advertising. But existing alongside all of them is AR advertising. billion by 2024.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For instance, Meta stated that it doesn’t want our future AR to be cluttered with ads like in the short movie Hyperreality. More info Quest 3 will pair with Windows 11 PCs next month Meta and Microsoft announced that the automatic pairing of Quest 3 headsets with Windows 11 PCs is coming in preview access in December.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

2021 is going to be an interesting year for AR. This won’t be the year of AR : exactly as I said for virtual reality, let’s not hype the technology and think that this is the year when mainstream adoption of wearable AR glasses is going to happen. Can this count as AR having become mainstream?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Another week, another roundup of amazing AR/VR news! but I have found some time anyway to read all the news I found about AR and VR and create this summary just for you! Not reading it would be a pity, so go on…. Facebook may be partnering with Luxottica to create consumer AR glasses. Top news of the week. Image by Ray-Ban).

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

I had a chance to walk the showroom floor of VRLA 2017 with Root where he took me on a guided tour through the history of VRLA, his thoughts on AR, using VR for film production, the future of privacy in AR/VR, as well as why he is interested in seeing where eSports in VR is headed. VR/AR expert and futurist Charlie Fink.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2020

Valve just took a big step in prepping Steam game developers for the full arrival of OpenXR, the new industry-wide open standard for AR and VR headsets. OpenXR is all about reducing—if not entirely eliminating—fractures within the market by letting developers build AR/VR content for a much wider gamut of headsets. version of OpenXR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In the AEC environment, XR solutions are quickly becoming a critical part of the modern workflow. AR and MR solutions can make it easier to show projects to clients, giving them an insight into what a finished result might look like. Additionally, Microsoft Mesh also integrates with Microsoft Teams for collaboration.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. image courtesy VR First. image courtesy VR First.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Figmin XR: Created For AR Headsets Now At Home In Mixed Reality On VR Headsets Davalos ended his career in game development when he received the original HoloLens headset from Microsoft. Believing AR headsets are the future, he poured himself into building the Figmin XR sandbox for creativity.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. I’ll try to summarize all of that, especially for what concerns the announcements related to our XR space.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

In the case of VR, we all remember the competition between HTC and Oculus in 2016, with HTC clearly winning the market until Oculus used Facebook’s money to slash the price of the Rift around 2017. Let me show you what are some of them. AR glasses. No one can compete now. Me and my Nreal Light glasses.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 27, 2021

I n 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. But that’s a non-starter for anyone outside of the few million people that own VR hardware (much less the compatible HTC and Oculus hardware). There are also AR-related efforts to capture spatial maps of various locales.

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