Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

AR headset distribution is much more dramatic, as students are mainly developing on Microsoft HoloLens (43%), with Google Glass, Vuzix AR headsets, Epson Moverio, Meta AR Dev Kits making up the rest of the pie chart. Carleton University, Canada. Vancouver Film School, Canada. Academy of Art San Francisco, USA.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The founders received a Microsoft mixed reality headset and are currently enrolled in the WXR Mentorship Program beta. Each female founder has been paired with complementary women leaders from companies such as Google, Magic Leap, Norwest Venture Partners, and Warner Bros., 8 She-EOs in a virtual pool.

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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2019

Lyft drivers would access this information through an AR headset, such as a Microsoft HoloLens, Google Glass, or Magic Leap, which would place the digital content directly in the view of the Lyft driver, or through an AR enabled smartphone. You could also use your own smartphone or any type of wearable AR device to find them yourself.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 29, 2016

With over one million active monthly users of the Samsung GearVR, millions of Google Cardboard units and high-end Oculus Rift and HTC Vive pre-orders, Smithson believes that brands that are early to develop unique and engaging content for VR and will have a huge advantage over their competition.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 30, 2017

The two day conference was packed with simultaneous, back-to-back presentations and workshops from industry leaders such as Microsoft, Google, AMD, The VOID, IMAX, Two Bit Circus, Secret Location, Globacore, Quantum Capture, The Canadian Film Centre, and many more. It’s Different in Canada.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

It was announcements and product launches galore with news coming from key players like Oculus, Sony, Microsoft and Google dominating the headlines almost every week. and Canada. October was such an important month for the virtual reality and augmented reality industry. So what’s next? and many places worldwide.

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VRScout

JUNE 19, 2016

Starting on June 24th, PlayStation will offer PSVR demos at about 300 Best Buy and GameStop locations across the US and Canada. Not to be outdone, Microsoft finally confirmed that the not-so-secret Project Scorpio (an excellent codename decision) is bringing high fidelity VR to Xbox. Want to do a demo?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

MRTK, not to be confused with VRTK, is the official SDK to develop for Microsoft HoloLens and HoloLens 2. Google releases an opensource library for hand tracking. Google has released opensource a library for tracking your hands on a mobile device. Someone made Google Lens work in VR. has been released.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2022

Numerous companies such as Adobe, Dell, Epic Games, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services trialled the Omniverse at the event. SIGGRAPH 2022 took place 8 – 11 August and wrapped up its world-class event on Thursday in Vancouver, Canada. Over 90 exhibitors across 16 countries.

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Bernard Marr

APRIL 7, 2023

Tools like Salesforce’s Net Zero Cloud, SustainLife, and Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability can help companies visualize and understand their missteps so they can spot opportunities for improvement. For example, Montreal, Canada has a number of data centers that run on hydroelectricity. Follow Google’s “4M” best practices.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This device is not yet available in Canada, and we still don’t know when it will go on sale here.) Yesterday, Google announced that their generative AI tool, called Google Bard, had been renamed to Gemini, and was now finally available in Canada ( The Globe and Mail newspaper provides some background on why there was a delay ).

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Mashable VR

APRIL 29, 2022

The technology's origin story isn't well-documented, but it's believed to have emerged at Microsoft in the mid-1990s. One Google search can actually tell you a lot — a good VPN won't have made headlines for security bungles or customer data leaks. Bonus points if that policy's been verified by a third party audit.) Jurisdiction.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Today’s guest is a great friend of mine, Anne-Marie Enns, the executive producer of the VR/AR Global Summit, coming to Vancouver, Canada, October 31st to November 2nd. There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire. There are a lot of different headsets going on.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Today’s guest is a great friend of mine, Anne-Marie Enns, the executive producer of the VR/AR Global Summit, coming to Vancouver, Canada, October 31st to November 2nd. There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire. There are a lot of different headsets going on.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Today’s guest is a great friend of mine, Anne-Marie Enns, the executive producer of the VR/AR Global Summit, coming to Vancouver, Canada, October 31st to November 2nd. There’s Telus, Facebook, Siemens, Raytheon, Viacom, Microsoft, Lenovo, Niantic, Canadian Tire. There are a lot of different headsets going on.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

Or in Canada, USDZed. As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. Alan: Well, I think we’re we’re already in that position where we’ve got Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Walmart. Or in Canada, USDZed. You have Apple, with ARKit.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

Or in Canada, USDZed. As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. Alan: Well, I think we’re we’re already in that position where we’ve got Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Walmart. Or in Canada, USDZed. You have Apple, with ARKit.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 31, 2020

Or in Canada, USDZed. As I go to these different developer conferences, I go to Facebook F8, or Microsoft Build, or Google IO. Alan: Well, I think we're we're already in that position where we've got Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Walmart. Or in Canada, USDZed. So you have all these different 3D file formats.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. Microsoft with their Hololens 2, they’ve actually moved their Hololens from the devices division of the company to Azure, which is their cloud computing. A lot of companies focusing on it. Really simple.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. Microsoft with their Hololens 2, they’ve actually moved their Hololens from the devices division of the company to Azure, which is their cloud computing. A lot of companies focusing on it. Really simple.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2. But the other thing about health care -- and I'm sure you're aware of this, and in Canada, it's. A lot of companies focusing on it. A lot of companies picking up on it. You're going to see a lot more of that. Really simple.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. You've got Microsoft -- who's invested billions of dollars in Hololens 2 -- and they're even struggling with some color banding issues. Stefan: Color is just-- it's so hard.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. You've got Microsoft -- who's invested billions of dollars in Hololens 2 -- and they're even struggling with some color banding issues. Stefan: Color is just-- it's so hard.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 28, 2019

” Because that’s the one way you’re going in to make sure this thing — like any system, like, look at how Slack and Microsoft Teams have been pushing that the last three or four years — it takes time for these things to get through. Or can you grab PowerPoint or Google slides? Or can I grab PDFs?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 28, 2019

” Because that’s the one way you’re going in to make sure this thing — like any system, like, look at how Slack and Microsoft Teams have been pushing that the last three or four years — it takes time for these things to get through. Or can you grab PowerPoint or Google slides? Or can I grab PDFs?

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

But one of the things that they were really passionate about was controlling heads-up displays like Google Glass, which had just come out at the time. You've got Microsoft -- who's invested billions of dollars in Hololens 2 -- and they're even struggling with some color banding issues. Stefan: Color is just-- it's so hard.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 28, 2019

Because that's the one way you're going in to make sure this thing -- like any system, like, look at how Slack and Microsoft Teams have been pushing that the last three or four years -- it takes time for these things to get through. Or can you grab PowerPoint or Google slides? I bought him an iPhone for the last 10 years for Christmas.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Who owns the Index will have the game for free (and for the occasion, the Index has been distributed to more countries, like Canada). Google announces The Relightables. Google has just invented a new system to shoot volumetric videos of avatars. Half-Life: Alyx will feature 15 hours of gameplay and it will be moddable.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

In proof, Canada Film Centre (CFC) Chief Digital Officer Ana Serrano gave an incredibly lucid breakdown of how minding historical precedents in the present moment will be key to helping us create a positive virtual reality future. In case that doesn’t mean a whole lot to you, here’s why it should. Augmented, Mixed, & Blended.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Or at least, sort of : the experience is still in beta (so this is officially an open beta stage) and it will be accessible without an invite only in the US and in Canada. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. More info (Realwear Navigator 500) More info (WebEx on Google Glass 2).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

HP has fixed many of the visual problems of the headse t, and Microsoft has just released a patch on Windows 10 that aims at solving many visual issues of all WMR headsets (like Chromatic aberration). But honestly, I expected a bit more … it’s a bit weird that Microsoft hasn’t solved its biggest pain point yet.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This week, the technology sector was overtaken by Microsoft Ignite 2024. The yearly event showcases the latest Microsoft updates, including the broad number of partners working within its product portfolio. These features were first introduced in the US, Canada, and Australia.

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