The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Google’s investment for a 7.7% Google-Jio joint venture to develop an Android-based platform for an affordable 5G phone. Read about Google experiments with AR and wearables. A very interesting article on CNET highlights some of the experiments that Google has made with 1D glasses, smart tattoos and other cool stuff.

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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. The IPD mechanism, the camera positions, the overall shape of the controllers, are heavily inspired by the latest headset by Facebook. Google is hiring waveguide developers for AR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 7, 2020

The Pico G2 4K Enterprise is packaged quite well: nothing special or mindblowing, but an ordered box with the headset, the controller and the accessories inside. On the right, you can see the 3 buttons that let you interact with the headset even if you don’t have the controller. Controller. Top view of the controller.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2023

What surprised me in the features list is the presence of a heart rate sensor , which is not exactly clear how it is installed on the device (is it in the handles of the controllers? … but it sounds very good for fitness and healthcare applications. The biggest pro I have found with it has been the controller tracking.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 3, 2023

Additionally, significant technology and extended reality (XR) firms like Google and AT&T have provided Magic Leap funding since the company’s debut in 2010. The company’s partners include healthcare, manufacturing, and entertainment firms. Bluetooth connectivity for headphones, keyboards, and controllers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 28, 2025

Although countless other companies are working on developing robust app markets for headsets (Google even announced its own Android XR system in 2024), Meta still has the most variety to offer. The Horizon marketplace offers access to a huge range of intuitive tools for productivity, product design (CAD development), and collaboration.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Despite the colossal failure of its first pair of smart glasses back in 2014, Google’s latest wearable device, the Glass Enterprise Edition 2 , marks a significant turning point for the XR industry. Google’s smart glasses are lightweight, dust and water-resistant. Google Glass Pricing. Glass Enterprise Edition 2 Design.

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ARPost

APRIL 28, 2022

XR experts believe the education and healthcare industries are leaders in the use of immersive technologies. For example, Google Expeditions allows you to visit the Louvre with a tour, wander on the Moon or fly to Mars. The programs create a digital controlled environment that recreates standard life situations.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Line of Sight Among enterprises deploying AR in this way is GE Healthcare. So how did GE Healthcare apply AR to solve these challenges? Using Google Glass and Upskill’s Skylight AR software, it connects to and integrates with warehouse software systems to provide dynamic line-of-sight vision-picking instructions.

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ARPost

MAY 18, 2022

First, the software allows the clinician complete control over the experience, and second, the hardware allows quantifying outcomes. The company’s VR fitness platform, VZfit , allows users to race through the real world via Google Street View. Tend to Mind and Body With VZfit. Mental Health Is for All of Us.

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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. This has led Google to slash jobs across its operations in recent months.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 8, 2018

With customers in control, privacy is preserved Click To Tweet. McQuire points to the fact that this follows similar moves made by Amazon Web Services over the past 12 months, and sees it as a clear statement of intent at gaining developer mindshare against Google ahead of its own developer event, Google I/O which also happens this week.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 31, 2017

Smith has been using an HTC Vive for the project though, instead of the kit’s position-tracked controllers, he can be seen on News 4 Jax using a Leap Motion sensor for hand-tracking. VR is finding plenty of use as a healthcare tool with similar applications. This allows him to more realistically handle the virtual tumor.

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ARVR

MAY 13, 2021

BigQuery from Google Cloud has many powerful features that allow users to view their data in real-time, providing continual up-to-date information to help guide business decisions. It integrates seamlessly with the Google Cloud AI platform and other tools like Data Studio. The device uses Google’s Cloud Healthcare API.

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ARVR

JANUARY 21, 2022

This past year, Google introduced a few new features for ARCore such as recording and playback APIs. Trend #3: Healthcare and Augmented Reality According to Deloitte Research, augmented reality and AI will transform the traditional healthcare business model by offering AR/MR-enabled hands-free solutions and IA-based diagnostic tools.

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VRScout

AUGUST 24, 2016

After 2017, AR revenues will surge ahead, hitting critical mass in healthcare delivery and product design and management-related use cases. Many consumers have yet to even experience more accessible VR headsets like Google Cardboard or Gear VR — leaving quite a bit of head room for growth.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Google was the first major technology company to release a head-worn computer when it introduced Google Glass in 2013. Google’s approach was significantly lighter and simpler than what’s come since.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL, SNE, and NVDA According to the latest report from Statista , the global augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) markets are rapidly growing and are forecast to reach a total of $72.8 How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are Revolutionizing Healthcare Facebook, Inc. (FB)

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VRScout

MARCH 14, 2017

Other spotlights include VR content creation and management systems, education, healthcare, and journalism perhaps most important– enterprise. DeMiroz paints a bright picture: we should expect all-in-one mobile headsets with full positional tracking and gesture control glory… soon. DREAMSCAPE IMMERSIVE RAISES $11.36M SERIES A.

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VeeR VR

MAY 2, 2018

Virtual reality is changing many industries around the world, and healthcare is one of the biggest adopters of VR encompassing surgery planning, phobia treatment, pain relief, robotic surgery, skills training, etc. VR allows healthcare professionals to learn new skills as well as refreshing existing ones in a safe environment.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

In early 2024, Inkang Song, the Vice President and Head of Samsung Electronics’ Technology Strategy Team, also explained that Samsung, Google, and Qualcomm collaborate to create high-quality XR experiences for Galaxy users. Throughout this year we’ve been steadily improving stability and quality control.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash of 1992, the internet has been superseded by the Metaverse, a multi-person shared virtual reality with both human-controlled avatars and system “daemons”. Both Azure Spatial Anchors and Google Cloud Anchors are leveraging existing strengths in mapping towards the AR Cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He’s going to kill Apple and Google Maps in 2 years , at least in places where he has a lot of cars” All these cars have 8 camera, Lidar, AI chips, and they are connected to the cloud. They control all their ecosystem : software, hardware, chips. “He has one million cars collecting data of the world.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 28, 2016

We also discuss the future of integrating biometric feedback like heart rate variability as a control input for VR experiences. Google Earth VR also uses a lot of dynamic light changes throughout their pre-recorded animation sequences to provide a sense of progress and a feeling of a beginning, middle, and end to an individual scene.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

Instead of using keyboards and buttons to control processes, we use gestures, eye movement, and voice commands detected by sensors. You’d have to use a separate mouse or controller instead. Think of how headset trackers and cameras allow you to interact with digital content without controllers. Is Spatial Computing just VR?

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ARVR

MARCH 9, 2022

As for Virtual Reality (VR), it’s a complete immersion into a virtual world, shutting off the physical world entirely through special VR devices like HTC Vive, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Rift. Virtual Reality is used for entertainment purposes like games and in more serious fields, like healthcare. How Does This Work?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

Options like the Rokid Glass 2 glasses come with a high-resolution display, voice control interface, and lightweight design for portability, as week as a 9-axis sensor. Latest ThirdEye News Google Google was one of the first companies to introduce the world to smart glasses technology, with the “Glass” headset.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 17, 2019

cubes, prisms, etc…) or just free form drawings, where you 3D paint the air with your controllers. With shapes and free-hand forms, you can create objects and environments , a bit like in modeling tools a la Google Blocks. I see some real potential here for use in healthcare environments.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Historically dedicated to making XR glasses for the Healthcare niche, the Californian startup has decided to release general-purpose AR glasses that are very similar to the Nreal Light. The first is tethered to a proprietary controller with dual 6DoF cameras and a forward-facing 20MP RGB Camera. More info (Use Google Translate).

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

While the ability of VR to provide valuable, realistic experiences without introducing real-world risks has found many fans across various industries (from healthcare to real estate), the most popular types of virtual reality content remain video games, movies and television. Google Cardboard. from Google. Google Daydream View.

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ARVR

APRIL 9, 2021

Augmented Reality ( AR ) has moved beyond movies and gaming and encompasses new fields of industry like manufacturing and healthcare. Just recently Weather Channel drove a virtual car through the studio to show how vehicles lose control on snowy or icy roads. ARCore is a Google SDK. What is AR? What is ARKit? ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Options like the Moverio BT-45CS focus on the industrial landscape with a ruggedized design, 8MP centralized camera and intelligent control system. Google Google was one of the first companies to introduce the world to smart glasses technology with the “Glass” headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 4, 2023

Goertek NReal Lenovo Iristick Vuzix Magic Leap XYZReality Longan Vision Rokid ThirdEye Google Toshiba Epson RealWear Microsoft Lumus TCL RayNeo Goertek Offering a variety of extended reality products for virtual and augmented experiences, Goertek has a range of smart glasses included in its portfolio.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

It was cool that I didn’t have to use a touch controller. As soon as we get touch controls, we want finger detection. And so we agreed that VR still needs patient investors, brand advocates, and passionate platform owners — Oculus and Facebook, Intel, Qualcomm, Apple, Google, and Microsoft — to sustain the investment in VR.

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ARVR

MAY 10, 2021

Continuously evolving to serve not only its original purpose as a state-of-the-art game engine, today it gives creators across industries the freedom and control to deliver cutting-edge content, interactive experiences, and immersive virtual worlds.?—? at Google scale.?—?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Industries like healthcare, engineering, and manufacturing are already taking advantage of MR. Notably, major automotive firms like BMW, Kia Motors, and Aston Martin are exploring the MR landscape to reap its benefits. This technology can have a massive influence on the way that multiple sectors work.

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NVidia VR

MARCH 18, 2024

The press release announcing Blackwell includes endorsements from Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Dell CEO Michael Dell, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison, and Tesla and xAI CEO Elon Musk.

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