VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

This latest acquisition is another piece in a secretive strategy: over the past few years Snapchat has quietly acquired a couple of other potentially augmented reality-related companies as well as talent. Augmented Reality Gets Its First Smartphone-Powered Headset and a BIG Partnership Between Hollywood-Backed Giants.

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JANUARY 28, 2025

Lately, Meta, like many other XR innovators , has increased its focus on the enterprise space, recognizing a growing demand for virtual, mixed, and augmented reality solutions that enhance training, collaboration and product design. Meta makes it easy to create VR experiences with existing platforms like Unity and Unreal.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Through the master course Content Strategy at the FH Joanneum and the course on Web 3.0 Metaverse is an embodied Internet where you don’t just look at content, you’re inside it and experience it directly via virtual reality”?—?Mark Augmented reality is the extension of our perception of reality with the help of technology.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 27, 2025

Himel explained that the firm’s experimental Orion AR device – first shown at Connect last year –demonstrates “that true augmented reality glasses are going to be available earlier than we had previously thought.” I feel like the potential of AI is pretty huge and were excited to really lean into it.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 17, 2023

More info (iVRy makes PSVR tracking work on PC) More info (IMU is now supported by the tracking) The European Union announces a strategy to lead on virtual worlds and Web 4.0 This strategy will be carried on by providing funds and facilities, fostering collaborations, and issuing policies. Kudos to him.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Thanks to international economic challenges and perceived pressure on Meta’s core business strategies led to broad media scepticism concerning the company’s extended reality (XR) goals. In the memo, Boz noted how Meta faced a more complicated year than expected. Refocused Product Portfolio.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

The second is that “mistaken model of the strategic motivations”, which seems to aim at the fact that Meta has a clear strategy that is not (only) about data mining this time. If I had to bet 1 euro, I would say that Meta aims at a business model based on user-generated content, like Roblox.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

A bizarre strategy, that doesn’t surprise me anymore, though. At the same time, Next Reality has spotted that nReal has slightly changed the name of its company from Hangzhou Tairuo to Shenzhen Tairuo, and has now a new parent company called Beijing Unicorn Technology. I hope for him that this won’t lead the company to the disaster.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

I think this is a very smart pricing strategy, because it more or less replicates the one of HoloLens 2, while undercutting it by $200 in its lowest tier. Unreal Engine 5 has brought two interesting features with its release: Lumen and Nanite. Nano-tech wants to be the Nanite of Unity.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 11, 2023

Additionally, people can develop augmented reality (AR) experiences with the platform’s 3D viewing function. Javier de la Torre, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, CARTO , explained, “Photorealistic 3D Tiles are a really exciting addition to Google Maps Platform.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 19, 2022

A leading general contractor within the Pacific Northwest, Sellen Construction was searching for a new way to help designers, engineers, contractors, and anyone else involved in a construction project collaborate on successful strategies. Microsoft and the Haas Group.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 9, 2023

NVIDIA One of the best-known companies in the graphics landscape, NVIDIA has been heavily investing in its metaverse and XR content creation strategy. Platform developers can import captures into an Unreal project, and begin presenting the digitised object immediately.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 19, 2024

Now, however, countless companies and developers are beginning to embrace this model, including Varjo (with Varjo Teleport ), Unity, and Unreal. Here, we’ll give you a beginner-friendly rundown of what Gaussian splatting is, how it works, and why it’s so beneficial to the future of extended reality development.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

Today, the company has expanded its portfolio of advertising options, to provide organizations with new ways of building immersive, community-driven experiences. With the Meta Ads Manager, companies can build augmented reality effects into their promotional campaigns, to engage and convert their target audience.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The company will also launch “AMBEO Augmented Audio Lab” , an augmented reality experience to play around with spatial AR sound, mixing the real and the virtual sounds and recording the clips that you create. The popular Angry Birds game, but for immersive augmented reality. The MagicVerse. Avatar Chat.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Ambarish Mitra is the CEO and co-Founder of #Blippar one of the first billion dollar “Augmented Reality” Startup from India, being a pioneer, early mover brings its own pro’s & lots of Con’s. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. 1- Ambarish Mitra.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

It is more top-down shooter than it is strategy game. We’re expecting big things from them going forward, not just in VR but in augmented reality too. You know, the guys behind Gears of War, Unreal Tournament, and the Unreal Engine that so many developers use to make their VR projects. Who Is Making It?:

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Now, this genius that has revolutionized cinema has landed in the mixed reality ecosystem , to try to improve it as well. He has joined Rony Abovitz at Magic Leap and now he’s there, trying to build the MagicVerse as the SVP of Creative Strategy of the Florida company.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 26, 2023

In recent years, the extended reality marketplace has evolved drastically. Only a short time ago, most people associated concepts like virtual and augmented reality exclusively with the consumer world. The SDK also supports development with Unreal, Unity, and OpenXR and can be used offline.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Javier Castellar, the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Aechelon – a Varjo client – noted that the Varjo XR-4 series “doesn’t just elevate the simulator experience—it transforms it entirely.”

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In cultural settings like museums and exhibitions, the adoption of augmented reality can transform the way visitors interact with artwork and history. Bingo Wu AR glasses offer immense potential across various B2B applications. Two areas where we see great potential with AR glasses are cultural tourism and education.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Extended Reality evangelist Rori DuBoff from Accenture joins us to advise the businesses of today how not to miss the same boat, and shares strategies on staying ahead of the curve. So Accenture is a very large technology and strategy company with over 400,000 employees worldwide. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Extended Reality evangelist Rori DuBoff from Accenture joins us to advise the businesses of today how not to miss the same boat, and shares strategies on staying ahead of the curve. So Accenture is a very large technology and strategy company with over 400,000 employees worldwide. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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XROM

JUNE 5, 2023

Written by - Eddie Avil I have had the privilege of witnessing the burgeoning extended reality industry from its early stages, I have believed that our current two-dimensional interfaces are becoming obsolete, and that virtual and augmented reality will usher in a three-dimensional interface where the very world around us acts as a screen.

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HaptX

MARCH 6, 2018

Kate Edwards at Konsoll 2015, where she spoke about strategies for game culturalization. The perception is that the average gamer is a 15-year-old boy playing games in his mom’s basement, but the reality is that there are more 30- and 40- something women playing games than teen males playing them.”.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Hosted by the Summit’s President and Founder Nathan Pettyjohn, Virtual and Augmented Reality Association’s (VRARA) Kris Kolo, and many others from the IGS and VRARA teams, the organisation’s latest iteration rallied some of the tech industry’s most prized companies, thought leaders, and experts.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? ” The tools that are popping up are really democratizing virtual and augmented reality creation, and I think that’s what’s really exciting.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? ” The tools that are popping up are really democratizing virtual and augmented reality creation, and I think that’s what’s really exciting.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 11, 2023

One example is providing immersive instructions to help customers assemble and set up a product, replacing tome-like instruction manuals (or those mystifying IKEA instructions) with 3D product demos in virtual reality (VR). Or you can use a tool like Matterport to create a digital twin of your real-world office space.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

When I interviewed Kevin Williams , an expert in the LBVR market, he said that there are also some experiments with location-based augmented reality and he mentioned a Japanese arcade AR game called HADO. Go on reading, I bet you will enjoy this journey into the present and the future of location-based augmented reality entertainment.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

He and Alan explore how EON Reality is addressing this discrepancy. Today we’re speaking with Dan Lejeskar, founder and chairman of EON Reality , a world leader in virtual/augmented reality based knowledge transfer for industry and education. And virtual reality/augmented reality proves to be very efficient there.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

He and Alan explore how EON Reality is addressing this discrepancy. . Today we’re speaking with Dan Lejeskar, founder and chairman of EON Reality , a world leader in virtual/augmented reality based knowledge transfer for industry and education. And virtual reality/augmented reality proves to be very efficient there.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

While virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) applications are just beginning to be used in industry, gamers have been using headsets to enter fully immersive worlds for years. The video game industry is a source of constant innovation, with many of its breakthrough technologies being adopted by the business world.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

John is an award winning 28 year veteran of the digital industry, creating interactive experiences across augmented reality, virtual reality, video games, mobile apps and numerous high volume websites. And that’s one of the really exciting things about augmented reality. John, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 13, 2020

John is an award winning 28 year veteran of the digital industry, creating interactive experiences across augmented reality, virtual reality, video games, mobile apps and numerous high volume websites. And that’s one of the really exciting things about augmented reality. John, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

What is your vision for virtual augmented reality? Was the best virtual reality or a AR experience is what is the best thing that you have done? The tools that are popping up are really democratizing virtual and augmented reality creation, and I think that's what's really exciting. How are you? It's incredible.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

He and Alan explore how EON Reality is addressing this discrepancy. . Today we're speaking with Dan Lejeskar, founder and chairman of EON Reality , a world leader in virtual/augmented reality based knowledge transfer for industry and education. And virtual reality/augmented reality proves to be very efficient there.

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