AR Insider

APRIL 8, 2020

Like in our ongoing “ follow the money ” exercise, they’re each building wearables strategies that support or future-proof core businesses where tens of billions in annual revenues are at stake. After examining Amazon , Microsoft , and Google , it’s time to zero in on Bose. Hardware Blitz.

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Wearables Exercises Hardware AR 355

AR Insider

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Picking up where we left off last week in examining Apple’s hearables strategy, what’s Google’s counterpoint? With Apple out of the way, we’ll now tackle Google (and Bose next week). How is audio AR aligned with Google’s master plan to be the “knowledge layer” for the spatial web?

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Road to VR

APRIL 22, 2024

Meta tells Road to VR that it will indeed continue building its own hardware, even as third-party Horizon OS headsets come to market. But won’t that mean Meta will be competing with its own hardware partners? With that news came two big questions: Will Meta continue making its own Quest headsets?

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 21, 2020

A fter launching in 2017, Google’s ARCore has been relatively quiet. Google reports this week that ARCore has surpassed one billion installs. This refers to the Google Play Services for AR app in Google’s Play Store. That’s just a thought exercise of course. Google lives on the web after all.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Facebook wants to be the social layer to the spatial web, while Amazon wants to be the commerce layer and Apple envisions a hardware-centric multi-device play. Where does Google fit in all of this? That includes its “search what you see” Google Lens , and Live View 3D navigation. Level-Setting.

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Google Data AR Exercises 322

Road to VR

MARCH 8, 2017

In a reverse engineering exercise, two students at Utah State University have hacked positional tracking onto a Gear VR headset using SteamVR Tracking technology. Since Valve opened SteamVR technology to third parties for free , it has become easier to create tracked peripherals and other hardware.

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ARPost

MAY 18, 2022

We kind of thought about a mashup of futuristic exercises and a mid-century style gym.”. Modeled after a physical gym for your body, the Mind Gym is composed of over 60 different mental exercises, arranged from warm-ups, to “special equipment,” to cool-downs. Tend to Mind and Body With VZfit. It’s when I get my best ideas.”.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Commodity players will follow as is often the case; and the ensuing hardware penetration will be the first step to audio AR. Bose is already there with Bose AR, while Google has developed live language translation apps and Apple will enter a bit later, as it often does. That’s all well-aligned with Google’s core search business.

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AR Insider

JULY 1, 2021

The latest such exercise zeroes in on mobile AR revenues. Drilling down, our latest Behind the Numbers installment looks specifically at the mobile AR hardware base. Compared to the uphill battle that AR glasses face , mobile AR — though challenged in its own ways — has an easier climb due to ubiquitous hardware.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So predicting AR’s trajectory becomes an exercise in “ following the money.” ” For Google, investments in AR are to drive search (visual search, mapping). For Apple, AR’s job is to sell more hardware. Google will be the knowledge layer , just like its web index serves that purpose on the 2D web.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

Join a yoga session with your team, meditate in space or just relax with easy breathing exercises. What’s exciting about HeadOffice.Space is that it is interoperable, flexible, and accessible across multiple platforms, with Mac, iOS, Android, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Quest support currently in development.

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VRScout

JUNE 17, 2017

VirZOOM is back with a more affordable option for exercising in virtual reality. The $100 device is compatible with most mainstream headsets including the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PSVR, with support for mobile VR options such as Samsung’s Gear VR and Google DayDream on the way.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 23, 2020

Visual search is Google’s main flavor of AR. It’s one way Google wants to future proof its core search business. A more visual front end — via Google Lens and Live View navigation — builds on mobile hardware, computer vision, looming 5G connectivity and gen-Z camera affinity. Visual UGC. Cloud Anchors.

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2019

Whether you need to spice up your presentation, make a training exercise or simulation come to life, or enhance a game – modern VR creation tools allow you to dive into the world of VR development, minus the years of specialized schooling. The Varwin software interface is based on Google’s Blockly visual language.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 21, 2020

We’ve generally stated “tens of billions” for the collective investment scale of the big five — Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments. But our standards of precision are higher, and you deserve better.

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Head Mounted Display Exercises AR Trends 255

AR Insider

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Like in our ongoing “ follow the money ” exercise, they’re each building wearables strategies that support or future-proof core businesses where tens of billions in annual revenues are at stake. Vertical integration isn’t new for Microsoft as its been moving in this direction with Surface laptops and other hardware.

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VRScout

APRIL 2, 2018

This includes everything from an AR app that assists with hardware issues and provides technical references to VR training exercises for those suffering from a social anxiety disorder. “We discover the next generation of talent when we engage them in leading edge projects in real time, building the technologies of tomorrow.”

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Do you know Google Spotlight Stories? It is a small R&D lab on creative projects hosted by Google that is focused on creating original VR storytelling experiences. The 16 experiences developed so far by the Google Spotlight Stories team. Back To The Moon is the first virtual reality doodle of Google’s history.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

How do astronauts exercise in space? To give a bit of context, voice-based assistants have been around for over 60 years, but it wasn’t until recently that they picked up popular use with the introduction of smart home devices such as Google Home, and Amazon Echo. “It’s It was a trust exercise.

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AR Insider

JULY 16, 2021

They are willing to pay for content, just like they were willing to pay for prototype unproven hardware and generally, they have higher purchasing power than the average person.”. across Google’s display ad network. The above ad revenue exercise is also framed in today’s ad market standards. VR Advertising Cons.

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Trends Exercises AR Unity 385

AR Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2020

But they fall short in advanced campaign analytics when compared to web AR, where you can utilize tools like Google Analytics to track performance. ARtillery Intelligence recently performed this exercise including compatible hardware bases and active users (see below). Web AR may have another advantage: platform reach.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Major hardware releases, vast improvements to software, and various other integral advancements have quietly solidified VR & AR as viable, long-term technological platforms for years to come. As hardware continues to become more affordable, there’s no doubt VR & AR will be a force to be reckoned with in the coming years.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Google’s ARCore technology was used for the augmented reality overlays, the Google Cloud Vision AI API for object detection, as well as early access to some of Google’s cutting-edge Human Sensing Technology that could detect emotional expressions of the participants. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Picking up where we left off with Apple’s and Google’s respective hearables strategies, how does Bose compare? With Apple and Google out of the way, we’ll now tackle Bose. How is audio AR aligned with its plan to future proof its leading position in high-end audio hardware? Hardware Blitz. Already There.

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Road to VR

APRIL 10, 2019

Army late last year to bring the company’s AR hardware platform to the battlefield. We might not know what [the battlefield] looks like, but we can predict and take Google images and implement that into the IVAS. Microsoft won a decisive $480 million defense contract with the U.S. It’s a huge boost to rehearsal.”.

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Upload VR

APRIL 22, 2024

Quest will remain only as the hardware brand for Meta's first-party headsets. A headset "designed for exercise that's extra-light with sweat-wicking materials". Google Tried To Get Meta To Switch To Its XR OS Google reportedly asked Meta to partner and “contribute to” its upcoming XR operating system, but Meta said no.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 14, 2020

Like in our ongoing “ follow the money ” exercise, they’re each building wearables strategies that support or future-proof core businesses where tens of billions in annual revenues are at stake. Spectacles represent a long-term investment in augmented reality hardware.

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AR Insider

JUNE 30, 2021

They are willing to pay for content, just like they were willing to pay for prototype unproven hardware and generally, they have higher purchasing power than the average person.”. across Google’s display ad network. The above ad revenue exercise is also framed in today’s ad marketplace terms.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 24, 2020

AR Insider’s ongoing coverage of The AR Show episodes is an exercise in deconstructing and synthesizing the musings of spatial computing’s top minds. This “ follow the money ” exercise is a key AR confidence signal. Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Snap and Qualcomm are all making significant investments.”

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AR Insider

JANUARY 29, 2020

Among tech’s big five — Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook — all but Facebook have crossed the mark. Some of it depends on business models, with companies like Apple faced with inherent challenges of hardware. For example, Google is developing visual search as an alternate front-end modality to boost query volume.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Nothing against exercise or even filling up some of my precious house space with a large and expensive stationary bike. That monthly fee brings streaming fitness classes, social features, and progress tracking to whichever Peloton brand of hardware you're using. (A That oversight has always bothered me.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Langzou VR in education, VR Waibao in collaboration tools) and other on hardware (e.g. The document is divided into nine parts: I will report them here, as a small summary of mine, together with the full text translated with Google Translate (so, RIP English), if you want to read it. 7invensun for eye tracking addons). Introduction.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

This is an exercise in choosing the right lessons and, as always, timing. Boland and McDowall run through each of these players — Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft — to compare and contrast their AR ambitions. Though it’s not always the case, past behavior can indicate future outcomes.

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Wearables AR Apple Exercises 205

ARVR

JULY 6, 2022

The latest such exercise zeroes in on mobile AR revenues. Drilling down, our latest Behind the Numbers installment looks specifically at the mobile AR hardware base. has an easier climb due to “zero-cost” hardware (the device you already own). Google Lens) operates on 2.8 How many devices are AR-compatible?

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Cats and VR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

They foresee that gaming, a notoriously sedentary behavior, can be harnessed with VR technology to get people to exercise. YUR’s patent-pending calorie tracking software is installed directly on headsets with no additional hardware required. Navigating players into a healthy lifestyle, while having fun.

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AR Insider

JUNE 23, 2020

Like in our ongoing “ follow the money ” exercise, they’re each building wearables strategies that support or future-proof core businesses where tens of billions in annual revenues are at stake. Tech giants show signs of recognizing this, and are developing various flavors of wearables.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 29, 2019

You can Google “5G” along with any other hot technology in the same query and you can find someone telling you that somehow and at some point 5G is going to revolutionize that thing. I just did this exercise and saw 10ms of latency to a server in my city and 35ms to a server that’s three states over.

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