VRScout

JULY 12, 2021

In terms of compatibility, the platform is cross-compatible with nearly every major VR & AR device, including the HTC Vive, Oculus Quest 2, Microsoft HoloLens 2, as well as AR-enabled iOS and Android devices; it’s never been easier to take your friends’ money! For more information visit here.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Microsoft Maquette is a brand new VR tool from Microsoft which is all about prototyping spatial designs. Maquette appeared quite suddenly this week, apparently without any official announcement from Microsoft; it seems to have been picked up by MSPoweruser after being spotted by twitter user WalkingCat.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 27, 2024

Google Project Starline finally looks like it’s going to be rolling out to workplaces worldwide, potentially transforming the way we meet and collaborate in the future of work. Microsoft has its Mesh solution, and Immersive Spaces on Teams, designed to pull people into powerful virtual experiences during meetings.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Googles AndroidXR Provides Developer Passthrough Access Recent news from the AndroidXR camp highlights a significant development advantage that some believe positions the new operating system ahead of the veteran firm Meta. The shark tank is growing, and leaders will emerge.

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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. In particular, AR places 3D models into real situations and adds contextual information to a camera display or headphones. Sponsored content. Sponsored by Softeq. Gyroscopes and accelerometers also help with this.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 8, 2018

We need to ask ourselves not only what computers can do, but what they should do,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in his opening keynote at Build. Microsoft sees the “intelligent cloud” as the backbone of this revolution. Microsoft want to enable developers to reach customers in a multi-sense, multi-device way Click To Tweet.

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MAY 11, 2017

In a keynote today Microsoft is revealing a long-awaited missing piece of its Windows mixed reality platform – motion controllers. According to Microsoft, the controllers would be shown on stage at its keynote but wouldn’t be available for hands-on demos at its Build developer conference this week.

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VRScout

JANUARY 22, 2022

“Big tech companies, rather than smartphone manufacturers, are leading XR devices because they have the necessary content and platforms,” said Kim Gwang-soo, an analyst at eBest Investment and Securities, adding, “Google has an operating system Android, Microsoft has Xbox and Sony has PlayStation. respectively.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Zany demographic information. To understand how confusing their responses are, one other piece of demographic information is required: Gen Z is typically the most supportive and least skeptical about the metaverse. Sixty-one percent of respondents trust Microsoft, 58% trust Google, 57% trust Apple, and 36% trust Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Even if these should be holidays, my will to inform you is not in vacation, so here you are my roundup of the best AR/VR news for this week. Microsoft Flight Simulator releases VR patch. Asobo and Microsoft have worked hard for this and on 22nd, the VR patch has been released. Google lets now everyone contribute to StreetView.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Image courtesy Google. Smartglasses are to glasses as smartwatches are to watches—that is, they’re a wearable device capable of presenting useful information to the user. Much like a smartwatch, that information could be a text message, your heart rate, the name of an incoming phone call, turn-by-turn directions, etc.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

And finally, we have several improvements to Oculus Quest casting, including the ability to live stream gameplay directly to Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge web browsers via oculus.com/casting. For more information on today’s update visit here. Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 21, 2020

With the power to bring digital information to you in real time, augmented reality is showing great potential. HoloLens 2 AR glasses (Image by Microsoft). Augmented reality glasses are eyewear that have the technology to merge what you see in the real world with virtual information. What Are AR Glasses? FORM Swimming Goggles.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Smartglasses are a wearable device separate from augmented reality, and are generally defined by their ability to present useful information to the user, often in the form of a small floating screen or heads-up display (HUD). Think Google Glass or Vuzix Blade—not Microsoft HoloLens or Magic Leap 1.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 9, 2022

Similar to Meta, Microsoft has made some significant investments into the XR landscape in the last couple of years. Microsoft Teams now has its own Mesh integration, so companies can pull one of the world’s favourite collaboration apps directly into the MR space.

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AR Insider

MAY 4, 2021

That includes Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Snap and others. Starting with Google, it acquired Fitbit to accelerate its lingering WearOS platform by having its own hardware. When it failed to market the Fire Phone last decade, it lost a consumer touchpoint and ceded years of pole position to Google and Apple.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 21, 2018

Google harnesses the power of photos and street view to deliver simplified VR development for teachers and students. At its annual I/O Developer Conference in Mountain View, California Google announced the launch of Tour Creator , a new tool that easily allows anyone to create interactive content in Virtual Reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Sounded good.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2020

On the other side, this is massive for Apple, that mixing the data of Apple Maps together with all these point clouds detected by the rear cameras when in use, will be able to create an AR Cloud ecosystem probably even before Facebook, Microsoft, and Google. Let’s see if Facebook will be a worthier opponent than Google.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 18, 2024

percent mostly off the strength of Metas performance, according to the latest information from global market data provider. Ubrani points to Google as a potential competitor for the number one spot: Glasses combined with Artificial intelligence and a heads-up display can provide a powerful experience for both consumers and enterprises.

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Upload VR

MAY 30, 2024

Magic Leap has entered a "multi-faceted, strategic technology partnership" with Google. The companies say the partnership will combine Magic Leap's "leadership in optics and manufacturing" with Google's "technology platforms". Google was an initial investor in Magic Leap, leading a $542 million funding round back in 2014.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Google isn’t as acquisitive for AR cloud endeavors (“ Internet of Places “), which build from existing Google Images and Street View data. Once the device recognizes where it is or what it’s looking at, it can overlay things like navigation ( Live View ) or informational overlays ( Google Lens ).

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AR Insider

MARCH 16, 2021

Technically, things won’t be clicked but they’ll be activated and viewed as AR graphics or informational overlays come to life. Just as Google began indexing the web 20 years ago, the next evolution could be for someone to index the physical world in potentially more valuable ways. The AR Location Wars, Part I: Google.

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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2021

Explore their website, LinkedIn page, past projects, and any other publically available information to get a sense of their business culture. Don’t simply rely on text editors such as Microsoft Office or Google Docs to do the job – make your CV as readable as possible. Attach your portfolio pieces. Network in your spare time.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Google, Sony, Oculus, Samsung, Acer and HTC have combined their efforts in order to create a healthy and equal industry for virtual reality hardware and software to develop and expand. Industry standards and the sharing of valuable information could lead to an increase in compatibility between different VR hardware as well software.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Unlike augmented reality, which shows the user digital information that’s presented as if exists in reality itself (think Microsoft HoloLens, Nreal Light, Magic Leap 1) , smartglasses typically present actionable information to the user via a small screen that functions as a heads-up display (HUD).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership. Qualcomm and Microsoft have announced a partnership to push together the next-generation lightweight AR glasses. Further, the announcement reveals plans to integrate Microsoft Mesh—the company’s multi-user XR foundation—with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces XR development tools. Road To VR.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The use of augmented reality within the healthcare sector has already been making headlines this year, with doctors using Microsoft HoloLens headsets to help care for COVID-19 patients. Google maps) and markerless AR, allowing estate agents to advertise properties in a unique way. Healthcare.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Many of the speakers came from familiar companies within the space, including Deutsche Telekom, Google, Lenovo, PTC, PwC, and Qualcomm. In addition to speakers, attendees could exchange information, chat and video call one another, and visit exhibitor booths. Increased Support for Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 5, 2018

Called Vuzix Blade, the smartglasses are more of a heads-up display akin to Google Glass than a positionally-tracked AR headset like Microsoft Hololens or the upcoming Magic Leap One , although the Blade’s styling certainly comes closer to ‘normal’ than many we’ve seen before.

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AR Insider

JULY 22, 2021

I’ll do some simple math based on public information. It’s likely that Sony and Microsoft start to actually make money on the massive quantities of identical hardware by mid-cycle. Avi Bar-Zeev is a design and technology leader with a background that includes Microsoft, Apple, Google Earth, Second Life, and Disney.

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AR Insider

MAY 28, 2021

Like Google’s Cloud Anchors and Microsoft’s Spatial Anchors — these let multiple users experience positionally-tracked lenses together from different vantage points. In other words, insights from lens-based try-ons can inform brand marketing strategies or decisions about product pipelines and logistics.

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Mashable VR

MAY 27, 2022

Google Street View offers up a window to the world in all its bizarre , intimate , and often raw glory. Specifically, you can ask Google to permanently blur your house out — leaving only a smeared suggestion of a building in its place. Google pulled the images down. Go to Google Maps and enter your home address 2.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Google’s investment for a 7.7% Google-Jio joint venture to develop an Android-based platform for an affordable 5G phone. In the book The Final Hours of Half-Life: Alyx, available on Steam , it is possible to discover much interesting information about Alyx. Not a great evolution from Microsoft. A very interesting read.

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ARPost

MAY 3, 2021

Augmented reality tools that allow you to work on data, visualize information, and collaborate from multiple locations are already here. At its core, it helps us make sense of the situation at hand (humans process visual information faster) and take better decisions. What information (such as QR codes or labels) will the device read?

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ARPost

APRIL 22, 2022

The XRA is an industry organization founded by Google , HTC VIVE , Microsoft , Oculus , and Sony Interactive Entertainment. There are categories of personally identifiable information that are protected by federal law within certain kinds of interactions, but for the most part, data is left unprotected. Learn More, Do More.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

However, while rivals like Google , Microsoft and Sony are already well on their immersive way, Apple remains silent on what its immersive projects may be. The patent is for a “wearable information system having at least one camera.” The patent is for a “wearable information system having at least one camera.”

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