Road to VR

MARCH 12, 2020

Collaborate on the data together in one room with two HoloLenses, or bring in more people from all over the world, wearing a Microsoft Mixed Reality Head-Mounted-Display (HMD). Work on them with others in your organization in real-time, like with a Google Doc. Engage your audience to the max.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 9, 2024

NVIDIA Blackwell Delays Affect Meta and Microsoft XR/GenAI Goals NVIDIA’s highly anticipated Blackwell chipset faces a delay due to design flaws. Furthermore, XR companies like Microsoft and Meta are investing in AI-empowered XR services. Hopefully, the delays with Blackwell will not hinder Meta and Microsoft’s XR objectives.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 20, 2017

Lenovo is clearly hungry to make its mark in VR and AR; the company’s just announced a new AR headset, making it the fourth head-mounted display we’ve seen from it so far this year. daystAR, as the device is called, was revealed at the TechWorld conference this week, though it’s only a concept right now.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. Much like the Microsoft Hololens the user is looking at the real world and the device overlays virtual objects and avatars into your view so they appear to be part of the real world.

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VRScout

AUGUST 17, 2016

Yesterday Intel announced its entry into the virtual reality space with the Project Alloy all-in-one head mounted display. Much like the Microsoft Hololens the user is looking at the real world and the device overlays virtual objects and avatars into your view so they appear to be part of the real world.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Lian Jie Su, Principal Analyst at Omdia , explains where AR glasses providers need to focus their attention to optimise sales: Major technology vendors such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Meta and Qualcomm are looking to bring spatial computing to a range of edge devices, including smartphones, head-mounted displays, AR glasses and robots.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 20, 2017

What the company is doing is a cool idea — offering a wide range of content to a single head-mounted display — but it is also going to be very difficult to pull off. With the SteamVR headset slated for 2018, Mason certainly has a schedule in mind that would provide time to work on it.

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ARVR

JULY 9, 2020

Google launched Google Glass , and Microsoft launched HoloLens , a head-mounted display (Krevelen, 2010)(Jaimini, 2016). 2010s : Companies are investing in the potential of this area like Google with ARCore and Apple with ARKit (Papagiannis, 2017).

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2017

The Facebook team articulated a distinction between lightweight AR, requiring only your smartphone and available today, and ‘full AR,’ requiring a head mounted display, such as AR glasses. Google I/O : May 17-19, 2017. Apple WWDC : June 5-9, 2017.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Rumours of renewed work on Google’s Project Iris augmented reality (AR) smart glasses have surfaced on the internet, according to reports. News of the resurgence comes after the tech giant reportedly ceased work on the massive project in June this year, indefinitely shuttering its head-mounted display (HMD) ambitions.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Now the pivot comes too little, too late: Microsoft is years ahead of its competitors in offering services for big companies (Azure is a fantastic solution in this sense), and Magic Leap is really behind in this. Google ARCore now adds depth detection. More info (Firefox Realities update) More info (Google Chrome 79).

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TechCrunch VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Yet Facebook , Microsoft and others are arguably more important to where the market is today. Apple ARKit, Google ARCore ). Apple is seen by some as critical to the future of augmented reality, despite limited traction for ARKit so far and its absence from smartglasses (again, so far). OS-based (e.g. web-based (e.g.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JANUARY 27, 2023

Following last week’s theme of layoffs across the tech sector, this week continues the unemployment trend as influential groups reassess the space and US Courts aim at Google. Recently, Microsoft entered an extended partnership with OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, to expand the tech solution to business clients.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In the figure below, the patent shows off a Google Glass-style configuration that is “especially well suited to be used with head mounted displays and a camera pointed at the space in front of the user.” ” Apple’s ‘Google Glass-style’ configuration, image courtesy USPTO.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The San Diego, California-based firm has become synonymous with delivering XR solutions capable of untethering head-mounted displays (HMDs) from PC. With it, experts can see what you see to guide professionals with step-by-step work instructions via a micro display similar to Google Glass or Vuzix.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 18, 2023

This makes sense when we consider the number of leading AR tech companies in the US space, from Google to Microsoft. While Europe is also poised for significant growth in the years ahead, the APAC region is expected to deliver the most potential for the AR industry, according to most industry reports. of the market during 2021.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Apple has a number of head mounted display patents, including one which shows a headset that would dock with a mobile device, and another for an augmented reality display. Acquisitions. See Also: 3 Moves Oculus is Borrowing from Apple’s Marketing Playbook.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 30, 2023

This triggered massive layoffs and project closures across companies like Meta, Microsoft, Google, Snap, Salesforce, and many others. As before, Meta is playing the long game, and hopes to compete with major tech rivals like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Snap, and others entering the 3D advertising market.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

Major Firms Enter the XR Market During a launch event at MWC 2024, Samsung showcased a new XR headset developed in collaboration with Google and Qualcomm. Additionally, as Samsung and Google have partnered with Qualcomm, it is reasonable to assume that the device will use the Qualcomm XR2+ Gen 2 Platform, which supports AI-ready wearables.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress 2023 , the new device includes a trove of innovative features such as a “retina-level” electrochromic adaptive display, lighting adjustment, Snapdragon Spaces tethering, and hand tracking, among others.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The same day, iOS developer Steve Troughton-Smith found the StarBoard framework in the official “golden master” of iOS 13; he also pointed out references to “HME,” which many speculated stood for “head-mounted experience.” ” (HMD, or head-mounted display, is a common term for a VR/AR headset.).

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Case in point is Microsoft’s HoloLens, where a development kit will set you back for $3000. Next iteration of Google Android OS will feature Daydream UI and we feel it might be the main feature of upcoming Android. Apple or Google, it doesn’t matter as being platform agnostic is all that counts.”

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2023

Following a decades-long career with the photography giant, he developed the world’s first VR head-mounted display (HMD) firm, Forte Technologies. Compared to Google Glass, Microsoft’s HoloLens 2, and the Magic Leap 1 and 2, Vuzix’s products operated with an eight-hour charge, compared to rivals.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

These include a 40 percent slimmer form factor, improved displays and resolution, and Qualcomm’s cutting-edge Snapdragon XR2+. It has also launched similar projects for enterprise, consumer, and industrial devices with Microsoft. This will incur billions in costs for many companies in the XR space race.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

The last few years, VR has been about putting on a head-mounted display and looking around,” Edwards said. “It And so we agreed that VR still needs patient investors, brand advocates, and passionate platform owners — Oculus and Facebook, Intel, Qualcomm, Apple, Google, and Microsoft — to sustain the investment in VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Right now we’re stuck thinking in terms of head-mounted displays (HMDs), like the Vive or the Oculus. AR and VR viewers: HTC Vive (VR): Oculus Rift (VR): Google Cardboard (and the upcoming Daydream) (VR): Samsung Gear (VR): Playstation VR (VR): Magic Leap (AR): Microsoft Hololens (AR): Meta (AR): Snow Crash (novel).

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GizModo VR

MARCH 19, 2021

There’s no lack of speculation around Apple’s rumored AR headset, but the latest is the most sci-fi of them all. According to reliable Apple analyst Ming-chi Kuo, it’s possible the headset will eschew handheld controllers in favor of eye tracking and iris recognition. Read more.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

The system featured a head-mounted display with head tracking that could be used to explore virtual environments or real remote images from a camera — foreshadowing future breakthroughs in teleoperation. “The Google revealed Glass the same year the first Oculus prototype hit the scene.

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Robert Scoble

JULY 23, 2020

To underscore some of these changes, look at Apple’s patent disclosure of a head-mounted display that includes eye sensors, heart-rate sensors, etc. Early versions are named Apple Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, Facebook Portal. “Hey Google, what is Spatial Computing? ” Google knows already.

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VR Playhouse

JUNE 15, 2017

One day, we will all regularly consume media through head mounted displays, just as we all watch television today. While Sony competed in the home console space with several other companies, such as Sega and later Nintendo and Microsoft, what made the PS2 stand out was its built in DVD player.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 4, 2019

Irena and I are hearing that one of the devices, er, AR/VR head-mounted displays, Apple is considering launching next year could go directly after Oculus Quest and the rest of the VR space. Same with Google. You know all those apps that make it easy to sign on by clicking a Facebook or Google button?

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GizModo VR

JUNE 24, 2022

Apple’s mixed reality headset will “likely be announced” in January 2023, according to reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a state of the VR industry blog posted to Medium , Kuo predicts that Apple’s entry into the space will be a catalyst for the growth of virtual and augmented reality, and dubs the company a… Read more.

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Digitalnauts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Users put on a VR headset or head-mounted display to get a 360-degree view of a space their brain believes to be real, thanks through a psychological mechanism called presence. The most famous example being Microsoft Hololens. . Source: Microsoft “What is Mixed Reality” [link]. VR (VIRTUAL REALITY).

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TechCrunch VR

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Initially established as part of a collaboration with Microsoft back in 2014 when the company first began work on its Hololens, the media giant is spinning out the team as it explores the broader sale of certain assets.

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VeeR VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It was a device that the user sat in-front of while their head was encased on four sides by a screen and they watched any one of five films, which all engaged sight, sound, smell and touch. In 1968, Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull created the first head-mounted display (HMD) system for immersive simulation applications.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

There’s a whole range of services, and GPS is getting better now that it’s being married to computer vision, so you can get highly-localized Google directions – really accurate, down to a couple of feet. Is this a job for Google Glass? Alan: Kind of like heads-up instructions. What did it enable?

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