AR Insider

JANUARY 27, 2021

I n 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. It let you essentially fly around a city, sort of like Google Earth but in three dimensions. In fairness, Google Earth offers 3D features. And Google Earth VR , lets users fly around cities in strikingly immersive ways. Force Multiplier.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Samsung's first standalone headset is coming in 2025, running Google's new Android XR operating system and powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset. I went hands-on with an early headset developer kit showcasing Google's software and Samsung's hardware. Beyond this, Samsung isn't yet sharing specifications.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Meta has already added certain website shortcuts to the store, presented as if apps, such as Peacock , Wordle , and Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Meta says the feature offers "high resolution and low latency." But now you can choose any website yourself. It should also be useful for standalone demos at trade shows.

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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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Road to VR

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Tis the season of 5G, the next-gen mobile data technology which promises to boost bandwidth and reduce latency. You can Google “5G” along with any other hot technology in the same query and you can find someone telling you that somehow and at some point 5G is going to revolutionize that thing. What Does 5G Mean For You.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 24, 2017

According to the company, the seed investment comes from the Europe-based IIDF venture capital fund and will be used to accelerate the release of its “anti-latency tracker” which goes by the name ALT. A startup named Antilatency with a positional tracking solution that recently impressed us has raised $2.1

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

We are now at the level that we are super happy with the latency and deployments.”. For example, Magic Leap has had a partnership with Google Cloud for the past year now. In a recent funding announcement , Varjo announced the most recent development in their cloud services. Parents and Partners. Your Forecast: Cloudy.

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MAY 18, 2017

Before my demo at Google I/O, Google’s head of VR Clay Bavor outlined a series of caveats and expectations for what I was about to experience. The demo, according to Google, would reset after each journalist so the hardware would see the room fresh each time after each person donned the headset. WorldSense.

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Road to VR

MARCH 4, 2019

Nvidia has GeForce Now, Sony has PlayStation Now, and both Google & Microsoft have their own future cloud gaming projects in the work too. and Intel, was delivering a total latency between 4 – 6 ms through their mock-up 5G network. Image courtesy Ericsson. thinks will fit into a real-world use case.

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APRIL 25, 2017

VR headsets are designed to block out light and envelop our field of view as completely as possible with high quality, low latency visuals. Microsoft’s HoloLens, for example, can place virtual screens on physical walls that stay where you leave them as you walk around your living room or turn your head.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Traditionally, leading tech vendors have invested in distributed network infrastructure, but many of them (such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft) are adapting to a new paradigm to support localized, persistent, collaborative, shared, multiuser interactions. The AR cloud is much more rich and complex than a simple database.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

But I would wait to rejoice from it: VR requires a very short motion-to-photon latency, and as of today no cloud rendering service can offer such low latency in every possible location of the user. The “metaverse” was not a key topic inside “Microsoft Build”. A new report talks about harassment at Microsoft’s Mixed Reality team.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

There is not only the problem of the timezone but also the unknown of the internet connection and the inability of reaching Western websites like Google. While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. So here I’m using the Pico 4 whenever possible.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. Google is hiring waveguide developers for AR. Protocol’s journalist Janko Roettgers has spotted that now Google is hiring many figures in the waveguide field.

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ARPost

APRIL 29, 2021

AR remote collaboration with IoT devices as well as low-latency calling in less-than-ideal locations and conditions are only likely to improve as the company is one of the most active groups in exploring 5G. TechSee and Vuzix (and Microsoft). Incidentally, Vuzix also supports Teams, Microsoft’s remote conferencing platform.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I think perhaps a very fixed way of describing these time steps allows for developers to have a bit more flexibility in dealing with latency issues and making sure videos stay in sync.” An Oxford University researcher, who chose to remain anonymous, told the BBC that, “Presence is very, very easy to break.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2019

Like Google Cardboard before it, the Labo VR Kit for Switch is effectively a drop-in holder for the console, with lenses which each see one half of the screen for a stereoscopic view. “We wanted to design an experience that encourages both virtual and real-world interactions among players through passing around Toy-Con creations.”.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Viveport is improving a lot, and now HTC is also launching the Vive XR Suite , which will be distributed thanks to the support of a strong network of partners like HP, NVIDIA, Baidu (the Chinese Google), and Accenture. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes. Both Azure Spatial Anchors and Google Cloud Anchors are leveraging existing strengths in mapping towards the AR Cloud. Insane, yet companies are mapping it already.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In 2006, I attended a launch event in San Francisco for Microsoft Virtual Earth 3D. It let you essentially fly around a city, sort of like Google Earth but in three dimensions. In fairness, Google Earth offers 3D features. And Google Earth VR , lets users fly around cities in strikingly immersive ways.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

It seems that his first tests were so-so, but after a new firmware beta update, the system became quite accurate, and apart from some latency problems, it was able to track his body very well. The purpose of the group is of course the one of fighting the duopoly of Apple Maps/Google Maps.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 21, 2024

There's a loss in quality in the compression pathway, but the path offers a nice amount of space for multiple windows with text size in Google Chrome increased to 200 percent for this writing. If you've ever felt a little too tethered to Google, Apple, or Microsoft, you've got an unexpected team-up to think about here.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 1, 2022

Over the last two years, metaverse technologies have matured due to investments from firms such as Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Epic Games, and many others. It will also enable users to acquire information about their environment using technologies such as Google Glass or Meta Platform’s Project Aria. The infrastructure layer.

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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). Evolution of Augmented Reality (Craig, 2013) by fernanda rodríguez.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Analysis of this evolving market shows companies are rapidly becoming more focused on Edge Computing as a way of keeping IoT devices connected, improving network security, and reducing latency in digital content streams. Internet technology giants such as Google, AWS, and Microsoft are also making their own investments into the “Edge” space.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

This is not NASA’s first foray into mixed reality – they also have a partnership with the Microsoft Hololens for support on the ISS as well. As latency over a few milliseconds can disrupt the immersive nature of good VR and create nausea, the dependability of consumer-level wi-fi is brought into question.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Not only is Meta’s Connect event coming up quickly, but Apple and Microsoft are also working towards establishing XR productivity tools. In the wake of MR headsets and software coming soon, Google and Samsung quickly reacted – internally – in a bid to create a competing device with an apparent lack of direction.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2021

iOS 15 finally brings AR navigation instructions to Apple Maps , in a way similar to the one that Google is already offering. Microsoft is going to release a database of synthetic faces. Microsoft is going to release soon FaceSynthetics, a big database of 100,000 synthetic faces, free to use for academic and research purposes.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

JANUARY 31, 2024

The event sees leading XR firms such as Meta, Google, and Magic Leap actively participating in many of the event’s esteemed keynotes and exhibition spaces. Yesterday, Google and Mojo Vision representatives introduced the event, kicking off the monumental event with an opening keynote. VR|MR 2024 There are many vendors at SPIE.AR|VR|MR

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 30, 2020

” He also pointed out the development over at Amazon, where last month the company announced AWS Wavelength for ultra-low latency 5G computing at the edge, something that will have a direct impact on using and building the next generation of AR and VR headgear. “The industry is firing up 5G and that will also be a big push.”

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 23, 2022

Before entering the UK consumer market, Nreal and Microsoft collaborated on a study, spearheaded by University of Bristol researchers, for a healthcare product based on Nreal technology. The product is also available in European, Asian, and North American markets, following a brief legal battle with Epic Games.

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Anand Tech

MARCH 21, 2024

In particular, Ultra Ethernet introduces the UEC Transport (UET) for higher network utilization and lower tail latency to speed up RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) operation over Ethernet. The consortium's founding members include AMD, Arista, Broadcom, Cisco, Eviden (an Atos Business), HPE, Intel, Meta, and Microsoft.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 6, 2023

With Qualcomm’s industry-leading Snapdragon Spaces platform , Xiaomi can also develop programmes on OpenXR and Microsoft’s MRTK toolkit. It also hosts a Snapdragon XR2 Gen 1 processor for offloading processing power, streamlining app functionality for low-latency connectivity between the two devices.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

After that, I headed for China to pursue my dream and headed marketing and strategy for the release of the Microsoft A.I. But perhaps we will come back to it since there are many innovations appearing in AR such as those seen in the new Google Pixel 3. product Cortana in China. What does PanguVR do?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The New York Times distributes more than 1 million Google Cardboard phone VR viewers to subscribers with the launch of The Displaced , a 360-degree video project focusing on children driven from their homes by war. Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

The XR visual processing pipeline is both compute intensive and latency sensitive. We’re looking at you, Google Glass. Besides Google Glass, there have been plenty of venture backed companies promising to make consumer grade Augmented Reality come to life, only to realize the scale of the problem is larger than originally anticipated.

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Anand Tech

JUNE 2, 2023

Image Courtesy Tom's Hardware On the other hand, there is the Multi-Ranked Buffered DIMM (MR DIMM) technology which seems to be supported by AMD, Google, Microsoft, JEDEC, and Intel (at least based on information from ADATA). Image Courtesy Tom's Hardware ADATA displayed a CXL 1.1-compliant S form factor and a PCIe 5.0

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