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APRIL 11, 2023

Better AR Hardware Options Better AR hardware options, caused by innovations in mobile technology, such as LiDAR and ToF (depth sensing hardware). Companies like Google, Microsoft, Lenovo, and Vuzix are developing smart glasses to enhance the AR experience. For example, it’s popular among furniture stores like EQ3.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

But did you know that before there was Pokémon GO , Niantic launched a sci-fi-based AR game called Ingress Prime that used OpenStreetMap and Google Maps to create a citywide geocaching game of capture the flag? LinkBuds have an odd donut shape that creates an incredible audio experience without shutting out the real world.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

This week, Xiaomi actual unveiled the real hardware that should make that vision become real: dubbed Mijia AR Glasses , these glasses have a nice set of features. There is only one big problem: the form factor is terrible , they look super-dork, even worse than Google Glasses. An internal 1,020mAh battery.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

The nature of AR technology gives us the ability to experience and create exciting new opportunities, dramatically impacting the way we interact and communicate with one another, giving birth to new applications and hardware. The electronics that do this will enable us to interact intuitively with virtual objects. Infotainment Trends.

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ARPost

MARCH 3, 2022

A lot of people don’t understand the difference between 360-degree video and virtual reality – and in some cases, the difference can be pretty subtle. It would be handy if hardware provided a line in the sand, but this isn’t the case – both kinds of experiences can be viewed in either VR headsets or flat displays.

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JULY 26, 2017

Earlier this year HTC became an official partner with Google in producing a Daydream-based standalone VR headset under the Vive brand. It looks like it will access HTC’s storefront, called Viveport, to get to virtual worlds rather than Google Play. Where Are My Hands?

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ARPost

DECEMBER 16, 2022

There are a number of great virtual world platforms out there – and a smaller number of those are dedicated to enterprise use. Mytaverse is an enterprise-only platform with special tools for digital twins and virtual assets, and I got the world tour. What’s the holdup?

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

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. It’s literally who you are in the virtual world and is thus very important.

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Building the Metaverse

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This article is a guide to the companies building the generative artificial intelligence technology that will lead to these virtual worlds ( games, simulations, metaverse applications). Creators Supported by Generative AI Game development provides a view into how virtual worlds will be supported by generative AI.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Constantly seeking the rush of engaging with new material, consumers aren’t gripped by their hardware – phones, TVs, or laptops – but are drawn in by unique, well-crafted content. . Now, the hardware cycle is drawing to a close. Making hardware is incredibly hard, expensive, and time consuming,” continues Fink.

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Road to VR

APRIL 18, 2017

Well over two years since the first Gear VR headset was launched (but just a few months after Google’s Daydream VR headset launched) Samsung is launching a motion controller for Gear VR which adds a new layer of interactivity and brings the headset’s input scheme in line with Daydream.

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VRScout

APRIL 1, 2017

Google is probably the most prominent April Fools’ Day pranksters out there. Thanks to some helpful Google workers, you’ll now get an experience that includes smell, taste, and even touch. VR production studio, REWIND, has moved into hardware design with the introduction of their new MonoLens. Haptic Helpers.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

HoloLens or Magic Leap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint. And while I love assembling hardware, personally, I also think. There is not even an assembly kit like with Google Cardboards. You must buy yourself the various components.

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ARPost

JULY 7, 2023

That is, until you remember that the metaverse isn’t just a collection of virtual worlds – it also means augmenting the physical world. Digital Twins as a User Interface “If you have a virtual representation of a thing, you can run software on that representation as though it was running on the thing itself. “You

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Google Daydream. Google’s Daydream headset works in conjunction with ‘Daydream ready’ Android phones (like the Pixel ) and apps to create a high-end mobile VR experience that rivals Samsung’s Gear VR. SEE ALSO Google Daydream Review: Casual VR Closes the Gap. Find a Daydream Demo Location.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

There’s no intent associated with taking a picture, there’s no media service launched, and there’s not even “camera” listed as a hardware capability of the device. All these references to Oculus Horizon make me think… I’m not sure they’re about the virtual world, though.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

Meta is well-known for having performed some key acquisitions related to hardware, but also to software (e.g. It is becoming always more difficult for a new company entering the field: the key hardware suppliers of displays and other components are all being bought by Meta, Apple, Snap, Google, and other big players.

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JULY 17, 2017

VR and AR headsets are heading to market from Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others that have a wide range of capabilities. Just last week we learned about Facebook’s plan for a $200 headset that occupies the low end of the market while Google continues work on a six degrees of freedom standalone headset.

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

In 2016, hardware makers dominate the VR market. Sony is followed by Facebook (the Oculus platform) and Google (Day Dream, Card Board, Tilt Brush, etc.); But it is normal to see hardware makers emerge first: Hardware vendors had to ship their kits to developers. Here are some of our findings: 1.

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2017

Nexus Interactive Arts, an immersive media division of VFX production studio Nexus Studios , have used Apple’s ARKit working on an iPhone 7 in an experiment that creates basic inside-out positional tracking and pass-through AR for a Google Cardboard headset. 2 – Minecraft in AR. 1 – Real-time Mixed Reality with Vive.

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APRIL 22, 2017

I’ve shown Google Daydream a lot of tough love over the past six months. The search engine giant’s promise of a vast, expansive mobile VR ecosystem where plenty of phones could be paired with an exciting new headset and intuitive new way to interact with virtual worlds, seemed too good to be true.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

In short, I saw a series of well-designed spaces equipped with some of the best virtual reality hardware and software available. A lot of thought clearly went into the design of this first flagship IMAX location, and it is equipped with hardware which should exceed or at least rival the setups early adopters have at home.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

This is a period with many tech announcements: we had Meta telling about its Horizon OS, yesterday OpenAI unveiled the new GPT-4o, and today Google will hopefully unveil its Android XR operating system. He also said that other OEMs are going to launch headsets with AVP-matching hardware for $1500 this year. What a time to be alive!

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

These companies make components and enterprise hardware that’s usually a cut above available consumer models. I got to get my hands on some of their hardware at last year’s expo and left feeling enlightened. DigiLens , Vuzix , and Lenovo will also be on the AWE Expo floor. Trying them out can be a glimpse into the future.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

Project Alloy from Intel is a prototype VR headset with important new features from one of the world’s most influential tech companies, and we’ve just tried the first hands-on demo of the hardware at CES. Unlike the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, no outside hardware, sensors, or cameras are needed.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Project Alloy stands alone among the current lineup of technologies available because it isn’t tethered to a desktop computer like HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, nor does it use a smartphone like Google Cardboard, Gear VR or Google Daydream. Later a prerecorded video showed a woman in a small virtual world complete with a pet dog.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Project Alloy stands alone among the current lineup of technologies available because it isn’t tethered to a desktop computer like HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, nor does it use a smartphone like Google Cardboard, Gear VR or Google Daydream. Later a prerecorded video showed a woman in a small virtual world complete with a pet dog.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

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’s a very different way for people to interact with technology and data.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 25, 2019

I can say that this week we had no disruptive news about XR hardware or software , and most news that I’ve read on the most popular VR magazines have been about content, mostly games. Google releases an opensource library for hand tracking. Google has released opensource a library for tracking your hands on a mobile device.

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JULY 24, 2017

Facebook and Oculus are insistent that 2017 is all about content; we won’t see any new hardware released in the remaining five months of the year. Since then standalone VR has moved even closer to reality; Google is releasing a line of WorldSense devices with partners like HTC Vive later this year.

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MARCH 6, 2017

Dinosaur kicking for $300 is certainly funny, but it’s also a great example of a broad effort by developers and hardware manufacturers to make virtual worlds more responsive to human behavior. The purple lines represent what caught my eye in that virtual world over that length of time.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

They’ve also worked with companies like Dell, Alienware, Google, HP, and Samsung. Design Partners and Logitech have a longstanding strategic relationship when it comes to design and innovation, having created some of the world’s best-loved gaming, productivity, and creativity tools together,” said Ó Conaire.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

According to The Verge, the top executives from Facebook are working on a rebrand of the company, most probably to create a parent company that owns all the various businesses controlled by Facebook … something similar to what Google made when it created Alphabet. Snap and Google Partner to Bring “Quick Tap to Snap” to Pixel 6.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Today, we are taking the spatial computing industry to yet another level as we announce the availability of the full 6DoF developer kit for the Vive Wave open ecosystem, and a host of new 6DoF content and technologies to more easily bring users into fully immersive virtual worlds. Really fantastic. Hands tracking for Vive Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to the report, there is internal confusion at Microsoft about how to work in the XR sector : some are favorable to building hardware, while others (including the CEO Nadella) are more interested in building platforms and services (like Azure, or Microsoft Mesh). Learn more (OpenBrush reaching v1.0)

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JANUARY 25, 2023

What about Meta, Google and Apple? Google has scaled back its VR ambitions a couple of years ago, ending support for its Daydream platform in 2020. Overall, global sales of virtual and augmented reality headsets shrank 12 percent in 2022, according to research from CCS Insights , from 11 million units sold in 2021 to 9.6

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 12, 2024

It is always a matter of money and I think this case makes no exception, especially because Meta subsidizes hardware costs with the Store sales. Meta is most probably banning cloud services because they offer a backdoor to access another store where people can play games without giving Meta the 30% cut that it gets from the Store.

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