Upload VR

JANUARY 22, 2025

Google is acquiring "some of" HTC Vive's engineering team to "accelerate the development of the Android XR platform". As an interesting parallel: in late 2017 Google acquired some of HTC's mobile devices engineering team, and leveraged these engineers to vastly improve the hardware of its Pixel phones.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Google today announced the first Daydream-ready smartphone(s), Pixel and Pixel XL. Brian Rakowski, VP Product Management at Google, showed off Pixel’s hardware on stage boasting a Snapdragon 821, AMOLED capacitive touchscreen on both phones, 5-inch for Pixel and 5.5-inch inch for Pixel XL. inch for Pixel XL.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I’m sorry about that, but it’s still a miracle I’ve managed to write it… Top news of the week (Leaked image from Samsung video) Samsung is back to XR with Google and Qualcomm The big news of the week is that Samsung is back to XR. This is huge because we know that Samsung is able to always deliver good hardware.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Hands-On With Samsungs Android XR Headset, Shipping In 2025 Samsungs Android XR headset is launching in 2025, and we went hands on. UploadVR Ian Hamilton If you missed the news, Samsung finally revealed its standalone headset today, and Google revealed the Android XR platform that it will run.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

According to the Korean outlet JoongAng (which we all read every day), Samsung headset is codenamed “Infinite” and will be announced at a Samsung Unpacked event happening in the second half of 2024. The new course of Spatial is trying to become a platform for social games, a bit a la Roblox. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Google is diving head-first back into the world of extended reality and this time, the company is going big. While it might not be ready to show off any physical products just yet, Google has officially laid out its vision for a brand-new unified Android XR ecosystem. Nor is the company simply investing in a new mixed reality headset.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Today marks the launch of Google’s high-end Android VR platform, Daydream , a major step beyond Cardboard and a serious competitor to Gear VR. ‘Daydream’ isn’t a single product, it’s Google’s umbrella ecosystem for high-end mobile VR, under which falls Daydream ready phones, headsets, and apps.

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MAY 18, 2016

Today Google announced the next major step in bringing virtual reality to Android. Google’s VR chief Clay Bavor said on stage at Google I/O 2016 today that major phone manufacturers are creating Daydream Ready Android phones to power the company’s high quality mobile VR experiences. Stay tuned.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Of course, Valve has not confirmed anything of that, and will keep operating with its usual slow pace until it releases a polished product. The specifications on paper look nice, and for sure the one between Google and Samsung looks like a strong partnership.

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DECEMBER 25, 2024

Weve been eagerly awaiting some genuine news about Samsungs impending XR headset for months now ever since the company announced its partnership with Google and Qualcomm. Plus, we now know that the system is going to be powered by Googles brand-new Android XR platform in fact, its the first MR headset designed with Android XR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The white light of the real world was visible out the bottom of Daydream View both for myself and a couple family members who tried the new $80 mobile VR headset from Google. Google says the fit was designed to “work for a majority of faces.” Google Photos VR. Google Photos got big wows from my family in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Samsung XR headset may have been delayed The new rumor in town is that Samsung has delayed its upcoming headset that it is building in partnership with Google and Qualcomm. The report in particular talks about “design and displays” as areas where the review process will take place.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

As I said a few months ago , we are in the middle of a paradigm change: the cycle that started with the Quest is arriving at an end, and a new cycle driven by new technologies (mixed reality headsets) and new players (Apple, Google) is starting. Google and Samsung Prototype of the Samsung XR headset.

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VRScout

JULY 30, 2018

Already a dominant application on the HTC Vive, PlayStation VR and Google Daydream platforms, Google’s immensely popular YouTube VR experience is now available on the Samsung Gear VR. Of course all these fancy features are useless without quality content. YouTube VR is available for free via the Oculus Store.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

This comes alongside an alleged partnership with Samsung that would see the development of a wholly new consumer AR device that is rumored to tether to a Samsung smartphone. If true, it would represent a significant change of course for the HoloLens product line.

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JULY 27, 2017

Google Daydream, the company’s mobile VR platform, is compatible with a number of flagship smartphones from various manufacturers. Note: Google advertises the View as the only available Daydream headset at this time. Google Pixel and Pixel XL. image courtesy Google. image courtesy Google. ZTE Axon 7.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. Especially Apple and Google, which are the dominant players in the smartphone industry, are both launching headsets this year.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2025

Me being very classy with my suit and the Ray-Ban Meta glasses There were some private rooms by Google and Samsung at CES and surely they were demoing Android XR to close partners. The only official image about Project Moohan (Image by Google) I also had a quick hands-on with the TCL RayNeo X3 Pro. So they already have a need.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2018

When in 2015 I had my first Samsung Gear VR, I was amazed: finally, I could enjoy high-quality tether-less virtual reality. Today, thanks to the fellow VR community member Eloi Gerard , I’ve found an article on lowyat.net that confirms that Samsung is not that enthusiast about Gear VR and that has probably different future plans.

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Road to VR

MAY 26, 2016

Google’s ambitious Daydream VR platform for Android hinges on a combination of hardware and software to enable a high quality VR experience. At I/O 2016 last week, Google’s VR chief Clay Bavor introduced the ‘ Daydream ‘ Android VR platform. First is of course the sensor package in the phone.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The first Daydream headset’s price may have been revealed just ahead of today’s Made By Google conference, and it looks like it could literally give Samsung a run for its money. The site also suggests that Google’s Daydream headset could actually be made by HTC.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2023

I have great memories of those times (there was a lot of hope), but of course, it couldn’t last forever, because technology can’t live off devkits. Google joined forces with Samsung (and Qualcomm) to release a new headset soon. Google also owns popular services like the G-doc suite or Gmail.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

With this digital edition, of course, we had nothing of this, and the CES was just a bunch of video announcements. It is a perfect recreation of visual reality, and of course, it solves all the issues that current AR/VR headsets may have (like the vergence-accommodation problem). Of course I guess all of this has come for a price.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 4, 2016

I’ve been an iPhone owner since the first generation, but over the last few years I’ve purchased Samsung phones for VR too. Google is releasing Pixel alongside the Daydream View reference VR headset that will offer experiences to compete with Samsung’s Gear VR. ” Not the same with Google Pixel.

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VRScout

MARCH 29, 2017

One of Samsung’s biggest annual events, Samsung Unpacked , took place earlier today in NYC where live attendees and online spectators saw the debut of Samsung’s latest mobile effort, the Galaxy S8 and S8+. Now Samsung is introducing their own motion control solution to accompany their already-popular Gear VR headset.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Before Oculus can have its three days of fun later this week, Google will be getting its time in the spotlight at its own Made By Google press conference in San Francisco tomorrow. Namely, it’s time to learn a lot more about Google Daydream. What Hardware Is Google Making For Daydream? What Will Be The Killer App?

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

Former Friends – Samsung. Samsung was perhaps Oculus’ first major ally. The companies co-developed the mobile Gear VR headset, which would be manufactured and sold by Samsung but run the Oculus platform for VR software distribution. SEE ALSO How Google's Latest VR Moves Are a Major Blow to Oculus' Mobile Strategy.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

You can of course always build your own, but you’d be hard pressed to reach that low of a price point without your own prior components. Select Samsung flagship phones work with Gear VR, which you can find regularly on Amazon for $87, or in a special Best Buy Black Friday bundle that comes with a Samsung Gear 360 camera for $200.

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ARPost

AUGUST 25, 2020

Especially with a host of low-cost VR devices such as the Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear headset, it’s already speculated that marketers will take advantage of this new messaging channel. See Also: Training for the Future: AR Marketing Course at Brock University in Canada.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

The VR Olympics is being delivered exclusively through the NBC Sports VR app on Samsung Gear VR, Google Daydream, Windows, Android and iOS devices. Before VR, athletes would prepare in with what is called Inspection Day, a day where race organizers set up a course exactly how the course would be during the actual race.

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JANUARY 1, 2017

The first bit to point out, of course, is that 90% of startups in any industry fail. With notable exceptions, these are often companies producing cheap replicas of existing mobile hardware like Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear without any additional, unique features. But leaving that aside, a bit of background. million).

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JUNE 28, 2021

Google and Samsung recently announced they were teaming up to create a new smartwatch platform, but we haven’t seen what those watches will look like—until now. Samsung just previewed the unified Wear OS, with its own unique twist, of course. Read more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 14, 2024

Industry analysts, XR enthusiasts, and technology fans have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of a new Samsung XR headset for some time now. We first discussed the possibility of an impending new headset at the beginning of 2022 , when Samsung hinted at a reignited focus on extended reality during the Mobile World Conference (MWC) event.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

As a tech guy, of course, I’m all in for retro compatibility, and I would still love to sometimes attach my Oculus DK2 to my laptop and remember the good old times playing Tuscany. We don’t have much information about them, but Samsung trademarked the name “Samsung Glasses” some time ago, so this may be a possible name.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Google drops support for Daydream. With a communication that has surprised no one, Google has dropped support for the Daydream platform, which won’t be supported in the upcoming Android 11. Phones stopped to be compatible with Daydream , and Google never released a new viewer after the second version of the Daydream View.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Icosa Foundation, the company that revived the discontinued TiltBrush as Open Brush, has given the same treatment to Google Blocks, the low-poly creation tool that Google abandoned a few years ago. The project is now called Open Blocks and has been built upon the codebase that Google released when it discontinued Blocks.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

Inside, the content has no special arrangement : there is just the headset, plus a little box that contains some accessories: an instructions book, the charger, USB-C cable, earphones, a marvelously useless warranty & safety little book and of course the controller. The front side of the Lenovo Mirage Solo.

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