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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ARPost

JUNE 15, 2021

It’s been a busy past few months for all of us and their team is definitely no exception. Involvement with the IAB’s Augmented Reality Board means that 8th Wall will be working closely with other member organizations including Facebook, Google, and Verizon Media. Experts agree: it’s been too long since ARPost talked to 8th Wall.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 15, 2021

Starting with the broader definition of aggregation theory, you may know the term. This is the case with Facebook’s social graph, Google Search, Apple hardware, and Amazon’s “everything store” Demand First. Facebook (and Google to a lesser degree) has moved in this direction over time. Spatial Implications.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It was really interesting to see Microsoft pivot towards enterprise with the HoloLens and I think it was absolutely the right move for them to make Click To Tweet. For starters, they’re based in Oregon as opposed to Silicon Valley.

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VRScout

MARCH 12, 2018

“We will definitely be there.” Apple CEO Tim Cook said last year that “AR will change everything” and make the iPhone “even more essential,” while Microsoft has been revamping its computing around VR and AR, or what it calls “mixed reality.”

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ARPost

JUNE 4, 2020

Brands like Bosch, Nreal, 0glasses, and Am Glass by Pacific Future joined Magic Leap, Vuzix, Microsoft HoloLens, and Epson Moverio this year, delivering a new way to experience 2D and 3D content and features. Handhelds will not disappear, but now we’ll definitely have new devices competing for the same space – smartglasses.

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VRScout

APRIL 8, 2018

Seattle, or Portland, because you’re going up against giants like Google or Microsoft. The burn of a company – how much it’s spending on rent, electricity, and potential talent – is definitely much less than in the Bay Area,” Emrich said. The other is to find talent for our portfolio of 21 companies. When a company receives U.S.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Even at the price of $100, the Deluxe Audio Strap is definitely worth it to improve the Vive’s less-than-awesome comfort factor. a Deluxe Audio Strap, Google Tilt Brush , a redemption code for  Fallout 4 VR ($60 value), and a free trial to Viveport Subscription. Check out our review here. photo courtesy HTC.

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ARPost

MAY 16, 2023

Bar-Zeev has worked in XR since 1992 including co-founding Google Earth, serving as a consultant for Linden Labs, a principal architect for Microsoft, advisor for Tilt Five and Croquet, and president of the XR Guild. While other companies are likely to step up, this is definitely a company to watch right now.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

For Google , it’s all about search, and boosting query volume with more user touchpoints. And for Microsoft , it’s enterprise productivity. Continuing with the “layer” analogy, Google wants to be the information layer for the spatial web. Last but definitely not least is Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. More info (Camera Path and Google Drive backup) More info (Sketchfab exporting).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Every week I share with you the very rare articles that say something interesting about the metaverse, and this week I want to propose two posts by the smart PhD Kim Nevelsteen that talk about the definitions of “the metaverse” according to science and what XR experts think about it. Some XR experiences have won Emmy Awards.

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ARPost

APRIL 29, 2021

There are two premium price tiers with additional affordances, but there is also a free model with an easy sign-in using a Microsoft, Google, or Apple account or with a private email. TechSee and Vuzix (and Microsoft). Incidentally, Vuzix also supports Teams, Microsoft’s remote conferencing platform. Microsoft Mesh.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The leading producers of VR headsets like Sony, Oculus, Google, HTC, and Samsung, mainly focus on creating cost-effective devices. Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft are expected to reduce the prices for their game products in the coming years. With respect to VR racing games, the players can experience ample flexibilities in movements.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Given the unimpressive adoption of Google Glass and everything that has come since, should we assume AR glasses need another couple of decades before becoming good enough for broad adoption? What is clear is that the attempts to date have fallen short. Not one has achieved meaningful success, and several don’t even qualify as “glasses”.

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Tech Trends VR

AUGUST 8, 2018

There are plenty of players like Microsoft HoloLens and DAQRI which consistently deliver not only cool demos, but real use-cases for holographic Mixed Reality Click To Tweet. Considering how much flack Microsoft gets for its FOV, it seems unfair to cut Magic Leap any slack on that. Content is definitely king. We shall see.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 26, 2024

Most users didn’t have to wait very long to see new features on their headsets, but if you’re feeling impatient, this feature is definitely worth using. Plus, if you have a Mac computer, you’ll need a Chromium browser, such as Microsoft Edge, Opera, or Google Chrome (Safari won’t work).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2023

Not the guy that can rock the stage, but definitely someone that can provide interesting insights. One of the first video demos shown on stage was about using Google Maps on the phone, and have augmentations showing you the 3D reconstruction of the places you are looking at in AR. Which has been great!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Gartner has been very kind with me and has also provided a very long statement about the AR Cloud, extracted from its paper: Definition: The augmented reality (AR) cloud is the underlying, persistent, digital content layer mapped to objects and locations in the physical world. Considering that companies like 6d.ai

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 15, 2023

With major technology firms like Meta, Google, and Microsoft investing millions into the emerging space, enterprise end-users are already feeling the innovative presence of genAI – and there is more to come. Generative AI is here to stay. We love working with VirtualSpeech.

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ARVR

JULY 9, 2020

Definition, Basic features, Problems and Challenges by fernanda rodríguez. In this article, you will find: AR definition, Basic features, and AR problems and challenges. Google launched Google Glass , and Microsoft launched HoloLens , a head-mounted display (Krevelen, 2010)(Jaimini, 2016). Augmented Reality?—?Definition,

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, is working on improving its accuracy — and the billions just invested by Microsoft will definitely help. I can definitely see the potential here for creating simple scripts, especially if I need to tweak those scripts a lot.

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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. She then replied, “No dear, we’ll definitely have more. VR will definitely be at the top of those lists for this year and for years to come. So what’s next?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Or better, I can imagine who can be the names and they are all the big monoliths: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon , etc… Only companies of this size could afford selling a good headset under cost and at the same time attract enough developers to publish VR games on their own new stores. PlayStation believes in VR.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. It let you essentially fly around a city, sort of like Google Earth but in three dimensions. In fairness, Google Earth offers 3D features. And Google Earth VR , lets users fly around cities in strikingly immersive ways.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

This is definitely a good idea. It’s interesting to underline how Somnium is building a whole VR ecosystem around it : It already invested in Lynx and VRgineers, two companies making VR headsets; in Hypervision, which makes wide-FOV lenses; and now in Sansar, who is another social VR platform.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. More info (New features of OpenXR) More info (OpenXR in Unity) More info (OpenXR in Microsoft products). More info (Using Google Translate). Will it be this year?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Microsoft just had its Ignite event and it put AI assistants (Copilots) everywhere: in Visual Studio, in Windows, in Edge, in Dynamics 365, in Office 365… it’s Clippy coming again, stronger and more powerful than ever. A 5-to-10-year planning should be enough (as for Vitillo’s Law Of Technology ).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 17, 2016

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2022

I’ve personally met and had a chat with people from Unity and Epic Games, Roblox, The Sandbox, HTC Vive, Microsoft, Rec Room. Maud Clavier and I wanted to finish our stay by going to a Tex Mex restaurant, so we looked on Google Maps, found what looked like a good place, and called a Lyft to get there.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 23, 2019

You know, it’s not a company like Google… obviously, there are tech companies that are really familiar with the individualization, the analytics… I’m sure they’d get value from our product as well…. Microsoft has always been a company for which usability has been a challenge… UX is not what they’re really good at.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 15, 2017

CES saw the reveal of the ASUS ZenFone AR, which should be the first phone to put both Google’s depth-sensing Tango augmented reality technology into the same device as the Daydream virtual reality platform. The AR functionality was shown live on stage at CES by Google’s Johnny Lee, who heads up the Tango team.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 10, 2016

HARDWARE: Oculus Touch controllers are FINALLY coming, and they sure feel smooth and intuitive (you won’t have to break your immersion with that silly bundled Microsoft Xbox controller anymore). Daydream is Google’s entire-pipeline solution, from hardware to software to content, and the first Daydream-ready hardware is here.

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ARVR

APRIL 27, 2022

I won’t go into the details of the metaverse definition as this new word has been popping up everywhere for the last couple of months. Microsoft recently announced that it will be launching its own enterprise Metaverse in 2022, and users will be able to access business tools like MS Excel and PowerPoint on it (yeey, great news ha!).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Legal protections for biometrics depend on privacy regulator definitions, such as Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The organisation also hosts some of the world’s biggest tech companies, including Meta Platforms, HTC VIVE, Accenture, Google, Microsoft and many others.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2018

Brought to us by immersive and interactive design studio Cutmod, VR Massage is a trip, out-of-body experience which involves a VR headset, a Microsoft Kinect camera and a real-life massage therapist. Clients can also manage their ads, monetization and impressions via a simple & easy UI.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Today’s XR wearables are becoming increasingly more advanced, producing high-definition visuals and audio at a phenomenal speed, to make digital interactions feel more realistic, organic, and impressive. Internet technology giants such as Google, AWS, and Microsoft are also making their own investments into the “Edge” space.

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