VRScout

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Google has announced a $1.1 billion cooperation agreement under which certain HTC employees – many of whom are already working with Google to develop Pixel smartphones – will join Google. Separately, Google will receive a non-exclusive license for HTC intellectual property (IP). Google VR & HTC.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Google) AI models to generate 3D scenes start to surface This week we had the announcement of two AI models dedicated to the generation of 3D worlds. These glasses should be built in partnership with Google and Qualcomm and have a similar form factor to the successful Ray-Ban Meta glasses.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 15, 2025

VR Hardware Advancements For years now, major VR vendors have been fine-tuning and improving their headsets, focusing on making VR innovations for enterprises. Growth in Software Ecosystems As the future of VR continues to focus more heavily on the enterprise market, demand for robust software ecosystems is growing.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 23, 2025

So no demos beyond those early, closed door hands-ons allowed last month.Check out the video below, courtesy of The Verge : Drawing design and software cues from Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro, the device features a rigid strap, eye-tracking, pancake lenses, and ergonomic design, which wethought was pretty close to Quest Pro in terms of comfort.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2022

Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, has left the company to take on the role of Director of XR Engineering at the recently formed Google Labs. Now Kress is back at Mountain View working on Google’s next AR headset.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In the first part , I dealt with investing possibilities in hardware that will take us to the metaverse. This implies an enormous variety of software that will be used for its construction and for its application in our lives. Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL) for Servers. Ericsson (Nasdaq: ERIC) for 5G.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Samsung’s 2023 Unpacked event was all about the company’s Galaxy S23 hardware, although at the end of its hour-long presentation the South Korean tech giant announced it was working with Qualcomm and Google to develop an XR device. Samsung was one of the first truly massive tech companies to develop VR hardware.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Note: Samsung and Google aren’t yet sharing any key details for this headset like resolution, weight, field-of-view, or price. And then on the software side, if I had told you “please make an OS that mashes together Horizon OS and VisionOS,” and you came back to me with Android XR, I’d say you nailed the assignment.

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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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Next Reality AR

MARCH 9, 2020

The company has now adapted its software for operation within the hardware framework of Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2, which it will sell bundled with the Envision app as "Envision Glasses." Don't Miss: Google Glass Resurfaces as a Tool to.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 27, 2021

Google announced it has stopped active development on Tilt Brush (2016), the company’s VR paint app. Even before Google discontinued its home-spun Daydream platform in 2019, it was fairly apparent that the company’s interest in developing both VR hardware and software had substantially waned.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In May 2024, the Google I/O event revealed a few interesting insights into the tech giants future product roadmap. The company mainly highlighted AI, introducing new versions of Google Gemini, tools for building AI assistants, and more. With Project Astra, Google introduced its vision for the future of smart assistants.

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

But AR/VR solutions are not limited to Google Glass, mobile apps for trying on shoes or accessories, and AR-based games. At the same time, personal voice assistants developed by tech giants — Alexa from Amazon, Siri from Apple, and Google Assistant — are standing at the forefront of the audio augmented reality market.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2018

Google is allegedly developing a standalone augmented reality headset that aims to offer users a tethereless AR experience, German tech publication WinFuture reports. Google A65 is reportedly a collaboration between Google and the Taiwanese contract manufacturer Quanta, who built Google devices in the past, including the Pixel C Tablet.

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Road to VR

APRIL 27, 2023

First unveiled at CES 2022 early last year, Canon has now taken its first step into consumer VR software with Kokomo , its fledgling social VR platform. The Japanese optics and imaging giant announced that early access to its Kokomo social collaboration software for Quest 2 is now available in beta in the US and Canada.

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AR Insider

JUNE 5, 2023

Buried in Google's recent AR software news was notable nugget: ARCore is now compatible with 1.4 What does this mean for Google's AR play as it retreats from hardware and doubles down on software? billion devices. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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AR Insider

MARCH 11, 2020

After examining Amazon and Microsoft , it’s time to zero in on Google. For Google that of course means search. Several Google moves over the past decade had that same underlying goal. Meanwhile, Google’s AR play is visual search , which similarly traces back to the goal of driving search volume.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2024

Two OEMs are already onboard: Lenovo and ASUS are already working on devices whose software will be built on top of the Meta Horizon ecosystem. Meta risked being squeezed again between the two giants Apple and Google , ready to bring their domination directly from the phones to the XR headsets.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 14, 2025

Thats because countless organizations are beginning to discover the benefits of VR hardware for workplace use cases. Pico, Varjo, HTC VIVE, and even Meta are all experimenting with premium and affordable VR headsets for business use, as well as intuitive device management software. So, how do you pick the right solution for your needs?

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

There are relatively few 2D Android apps available on the Quest Store, which seems odd since the Quest hardware runs a modified version of Android. According to Meta CTO Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, Google simply isn’t interested in bringing the full Play Store of apps to Quest. We’ve asked them.

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Road to VR

APRIL 25, 2024

This puts Meta in an entirely new position as a platform holder, as it now seems the company is trying to beat Google at its own game. Apple vs. Google. Google: Keep on Daydreaming After having abandoned its ill-fated standalone XR platform Daydream in 2019, Google took a giant step back from VR that it never quite recovered from.

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Next Reality AR

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Last December, Google unceremoniously killed off Google Glass Explorer Edition with a final software update, leaving the Glass Enterprise Edition 2 as the only remaining AR wearable from Google.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2019

Google seems to be taking somewhat of a step back from VR, as Variety reports the company will be shutting down its Jump program for good next month. Google posted an updated Jump FAQ recently regarding the shutdown of the VR video service, outlining that Jump will officially go offline on June 28th, 2019.

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Road to VR

MAY 7, 2018

Google announced Seurat at last year’s I/O developer conference, showing a brief glimpse into the new rendering technology designed to reduce the complexity of ultra high-quality CGI assets so they can run in real-time on mobile processors. Developer studio Seismic Games used the rendering tech to bring a scene of 46.6

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

XR hardware is on the move. But, software is important too. The bigger your XR needs are, the larger your software needs are. So, more and more XR providers are providing cloud services in addition to their hardware and platform offerings. This allows devices to become smaller while running more robust software.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

In that way, Google is well-positioned because the spatial web will need to be parsed and indexed, similar to what Google has done for 20 years on the 2D web. Is Google Building an ‘Internet of Places?’ And my belief is that this is going to reward very tightly integrated software and hardware.

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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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VRScout

JULY 25, 2017

Upskill, an augmented reality software training company, has cited seeing on average a 32% improvement in the workforc e of their clients. Several companies including MergeVR, Curiscope, zSpace, Google Expeditions , QuiverVision and others couple these teacher resources with physical hardware or tactile tools to further engage learning. #3

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Road to VR

APRIL 22, 2024

Today the company says it’s formally branding the Quest operating system as Meta Horizon OS, and with it, plans to allow third-parties to make new headsets that run the software stack. The company has already confirmed that Asus and Lenovo are building new headsets for Meta Horizon OS. Will the same thing happen with XR headsets?

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Road to VR

MARCH 4, 2024

A report from The Information last week alleged Meta and Google held talks in effort to bring Android XR to Quest. Google abandoned Daydream after less than 2 years, while Meta grew Oculus (now Quest) to tens of millions scale,” explains Heaney. million apps built for iPhone in addition to 1,000+ visionOS native apps.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It is its Reality Labs division, the same one working on XR headsets, that is developing the hardware and the software for these AI-powered robots that can handle everyday household tasks. As you can see, competition is pushing all the big brands like Meta, Apple, and Google, to improve their products as best and as fast as they can.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The advantage there of course is a built-in hardware installed base. This consists of consumer and enterprise spending, which are further subdivided into hardware and software. Zeroing in on revenue, consumer AR software spending will grow from almost $1.2 billion last year to just over $21 billion in 2024. Zeroing In.

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VRScout

MAY 15, 2023

Google’s Project Starline is back and looking better than ever. It was back in 2021 that we first learned about Project Starline, an ambitious technology project from Google aimed at improving remote teleconferencing through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and light field display technology. appeared first on VRScout.

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ARPost

JANUARY 21, 2022

We’re talking, of course, about Google Glass. Google Glasses were the first arguably-AR glasses on the consumer market, coming out in 2013. After all, it was a Google product and a lot of people expected the world. Google Glass retired to the enterprise sector and much of the public gave up on AR glasses.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 13, 2025

Despite a lack of foundation directly in the XR market, Samsung’s interest in AR/VR/MR hardware caught the interest of many market observers. Another is Samsung’s broader Galaxy ecosystem, which provides that foundational layer without Samsung having a dedicated XR hardware solution yet.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2021

Tech giants such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft have invested heavily into AR, VR and MR to speed up mass adoption through both hardware and software solutions.” ” “ XR Casino has first mover’s advantage in providing XR SaaS solutions to online, traditional casinos and sports betting companies.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

billion in 2019, with many billions more being invested in R&D by the likes of Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and many more. See Also: New Guidelines for Developers: XR Software Should Be Accessible for Users With Disabilities. Venture capital investment in augmented reality and virtual reality hit $4.1

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