Road to VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Patent number 9,560,273 , entitled Wearable information system having at least one camera, details a wearable device with a “display attached to his head in front of his eyes” that can use either an onboard SoC or in a wirelessly connected smartphone.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This week has seen its fair share of tricks and treats ahead of the Halloween season, where companies like Warpin Reality, HTC VIVE, Google, Shopify, and Apple, among others, have offered a powerhouse of insights to XR Today on their latest innovations. This has led Google to slash jobs across its operations in recent months.

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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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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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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

In fact, Apple’s patents in this field tell us that the company has been thinking about immersive wearables for a long time; patents filed at least as far back as 2007 show a device that looks much like the VR headsets we see today. Well, you better get there too.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

With all the phone and watch and TV and game and chip and other chip news coming out of Apple’s big event, it was easy to forget the company’s longest-running background process: an augmented-reality wearable. ” (HMD, or head-mounted display, is a common term for a VR/AR headset.).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

The system creates everything in the user’s environment, which may be exhibited inside a blank room via head-mounted displays (HMDs) or other equipment that helps users feel they are physically inside the virtual world. The second sort of VR headset contains uses your phone and utilizes its display as its own.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 1, 2017

Announcements today include innovations in entertainment, gaming and cinema, smart wearables, sensing toys, robotics and consumer electronics, cloud, enterprise and business technologies, human-computer interaction solutions, automotive, and high-performance APIs. www.massless.io www.deepoptics.com. www.kodakpixpro.com.

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Robert Scoble

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Qualcomm’s head of its augmented reality efforts (Qualcomm makes the inside of Meta’s VR headset), Hugo Swart, tells people my latest “The Infinite Retina” is a must read. I had the first video of a Google self-driving car on YouTube. Siri was launched in my son’s bedroom. That was the first AI app.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

MediaTek is a key challenger to companies like Qualcomm, Intel, Apple, Google, and others, with the latter two also branching out with their own chipsets such as the M2 and Tensor G3, respectively. Meta and MediaTek: Chip(sets) off the Old Block?

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

It was no other than Google that delivered the first “million unit VR headset” By launching Cardboard VR application and the headset made out of… cardboard, Google set the stage for massive adoption of VR among developers, and the company isn’t stopping anytime soon. The difference between $75 million and $1.34

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

Additionally, the head-mounted display leverages its onboard AON camera for gestures and feature control. Both companies and Microsoft, Google, Snap, Amazon, and many other US tech firms launched a massive wave of workforce layoffs in recent months to streamline operations.

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VRWorld

JULY 19, 2017

Beijing-based research organization recently released a study named “Experiment Report on the Impact of Long-Term Use of Virtual Reality (VR) Head-Mounted Displays on the Vision of Pre-teen Users” (PDF download). Study Results.

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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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VRWorld

OCTOBER 9, 2017

So far, Magic Leap have secured over $6 billion (USD) in funding, much of it coming from big names such as Google, Alibaba and Qualcomm. A recent leak of a patent application showed a device that could be the Magic Leap headset, though Magic Leap were quick to deny that its product resembled the patent.

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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. Viral new solutions include Snap’s new AR glasses prototype and Google Glass Explorer Edition. . VR (VIRTUAL REALITY).

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

And as I got into the book and editing the work of my collaborators, it was clear everyone was talking about the same thing, which is this world of ubiquitous, wearable computing. Is this a job for Google Glass? Alan: Kind of like heads-up instructions. Charlie: Yeah it’s Google Glass. What did it enable?

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

And as I got into the book and editing the work of my collaborators, it was clear everyone was talking about the same thing, which is this world of ubiquitous, wearable computing. Is this a job for Google Glass? Alan: Kind of like heads-up instructions. Charlie: Yeah it’s Google Glass. What did it enable?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Kaitlyn: [chuckles] Alan: So I want to talk about something that keeps coming up in conversations, and one of the things that we've identified at MetaVRse is that the wearables VS 2D screen. There are far less wearables. Thinking about like the Google Cardboard, couple of dollars. Allan: It's relatively small still.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Alan: So I want to talk about something that keeps coming up in conversations, and one of the things that we've identified at MetaVRse is that the wearables VS 2D screen. There are far less wearables. And I would say that the proof of concepts we're doing are still experimenting in the area of head-mounted displays.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Alan: So I want to talk about something that keeps coming up in conversations, and one of the things that we've identified at MetaVRse is that the wearables VS 2D screen. There are far less wearables. And I would say that the proof of concepts we're doing are still experimenting in the area of head-mounted displays.

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Bernard Marr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

I recently spoke to David Jiang, who, after spending time at Harvard and with Google, where he was one of the first people in the world to experience Google Glass , has now co-founded high-tech, immersive glasses startup called Viture.

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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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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. Much of that work was built atop decades of military research into heads-up display (HUD) units for aircraft.

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