Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It was really interesting to see Microsoft pivot towards enterprise with the HoloLens and I think it was absolutely the right move for them to make Click To Tweet. And while Portland is by no means a backwater, it’s still not a major tech or immersive content hub like LA or San Francisco either.

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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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VRScout

JANUARY 23, 2019

Lyft drivers would access this information through an AR headset, such as a Microsoft HoloLens, Google Glass, or Magic Leap, which would place the digital content directly in the view of the Lyft driver, or through an AR enabled smartphone. You could also use your own smartphone or any type of wearable AR device to find them yourself.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

Are you attending XRDC’s AR and VR conference in San Francisco on October 14-15? XRDC is an AR and VR conference that will be held in San Francisco’s Fort Mason Festival Pavilion on October 14-15. Do you follow all the latest tech trends? The XRDC AR/VR Healthcare Report is out now and is a must-read.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for This is why Tim Sweeney, talking about the metaverse, rants about how we should avoid having again companies like Google and Apple that may decide the destiny of the others thanks to the immense power they have. Other news. Learn more. Learn more.

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VRScout

AUGUST 10, 2018

In May 2017, Owlchemy Labs was acquired by Google. After scoring a partnership with Microsoft, they’ve talked at length about relocating to San Francisco. After attending VR Austin’s May and July meetups at the Google Fiber space downtown—and working in the space—I can safely say there’s truth to it.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

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

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VR Game Critic

MAY 23, 2016

When Google introduced its Google Glass smart glasses four years ago, it turned to Glass-sporting sky divers buzzing a San Francisco convention center, Glass-adorned models at a glitzy fashion show and a Twitter campaign to notify early "Glass Explorers" of their luck in snagging a pair.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

All the big tech players — Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon — are in the game as well. Google was the first major technology company to release a head-worn computer when it introduced Google Glass in 2013. Google’s approach was significantly lighter and simpler than what’s come since.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 14, 2019

Apple took us on a surreal walk through San Francisco, looking at digital art on an iPhone . San Francisco looks different through an iPhone XS Max — it’s still a city, but now there are floating balls of fabric, speech bubbles, and words popping out from the trees and buildings. You can read the original piece here. .

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

Watch YouTube in VR with your friends, Google pours resources into shared social VR experiences, upcoming standalone headsets will be wireless, the Snapchat vs. Facebook continues, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: WATCH YOUTUBE IN VR… WITH YOUR FRIENDS! WEIRD OR AWESOME?

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

VR is being used to correct conditions like amblyopia (sometimes called “lazy eye”) by San Francisco-based company Vivid Vision; instead of a childhood-scarring eyepatch or invasive surgery, virtual reality is the prescribed treatment. The round was from SRI Capital, which is a seed stage venture fund in Philadelphia. …and more.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

To make matters murkier, there’s also the recently-announced partnership between Google and HTC Vive to create new standalone mobile headsets for all Google Daydream-ready Android phones. Air New Zealand is one airlines provider that is testing how the Microsoft Hololens can help improve in-flight customer service.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 9, 2016

The legendary programmer and founder of Epic Games sat down with me after his keynote address at the VRX conference in San Francisco and, as conversations with Sweeney usually do, the topic quickly turned to the issue of open platforms. “There’s an ethic that needs to develop in the VR industry. .”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 4, 2017

Game-streaming service OnLive has come and gone, and Microsoft over-hyped the effect its Azure platform would have on Xbox One games, but that’s not stopping one company from using the cloud to unlock the power of its tools. Gaming and the fabled power of the cloud has had a checkered history.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 9, 2016

San Francisco-based Occipital is one of the many companies that wants to bring inside-out tracking to mobile VR, but its means of doing so stands apart from others. He says that the company is working towards the future in which the capabilities of devices like Microsoft’s system are available in mobile-based kits.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

I tried a Microsoft prototype VR headset at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco and got the first public look at the company’s vision for mixed reality beyond Hololens. I also found features in Microsoft’s gear I instantly wished were included in my Rift and Vive back at home. I’ll get straight to the point.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 5, 2017

I interviewed both John Riccitiello, CEO of San Francisco-based Unity, and Tim Sweeney, CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based based Epic Games, this week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”. More people build an Apple with Unity than anyone else.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Just like last year, they will run essentially concurrently again in and around the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase. What to Expect from Microsoft. Robo Recall.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

Google and Sony both have intellectual property around waveguide designs similar in nature. Grayson has been a speaker on augmented reality and smartglasses at SXSW, Microsoft Cambridge, New York Fashion Week, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and most recently at MIT Media Lab. Near-eye Optics Basics.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In April, we opened the doors to the first Upload Collective in San Francisco, a hub for VR and AR startups, development, co-working, education, meetups and even live broadcasting. With over 40 member companies in San Francisco, The Upload Collective has quickly grown both in size and in scope. November 2015. March 2016.

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The AR Show

JULY 30, 2019

Mike Boland is the Founder & Chief Analyst of ARtillery Intelligence, Editor of AR Insider, Lead Analyst of Street Fight, and the President of the San Francisco chapter of the VR/AR Association. That becomes clear in this conversation too. Here we explore the markets and market forecasts for mobile AR and smartglasses.

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Peter Graham

JULY 25, 2019

Yesterday saw the launch of the first Virtual Beings Summit in San Francisco, a conference aimed at those interested in the idea of digital humans. As part of the event, the organisers announced the launch of the Virtual Beings Grants, an initiative designed to help fund creators with interesting ideas for a virtual being.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). It’s not often you get both Oculus and Valve together days, let alone Google and Samsung, with bonus helpings of Epic Games, Owlchemy Labs, and Sensics. Stefan Walker (Google), Luca Prasso (Google). Alex Lee (Google). Experiments in Social VR.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2023

With our smart glasses, they can get an expert from New York City, San Francisco, or [Baltimore-based] Johns Hopkins to join the theatre experience. 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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 19, 2017

I attended the Experiential Technology Conference (XTech) in San Francisco this week to hear talks about creating virtual experiences that truly immerse you in another world. Macknick’s talk made an impression on Noah Falstein, chief game designer at Google. “I It showed me that virtual reality has only scratched the surface.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 26, 2017

Then consider their platforms, made by Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. Then look at the names of the best sellers: Job Simulator , Tilt Brush , Google Earth, Raw Data , Land’s End , Onward , etc. Chris Orris directs Oxygen Public Relations’ San Francisco office. Notice anything about them? Tagged with: recession.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

The conference takes place on December 7th and 8th in San Francisco Marriott Marquis. It is surprising not to see major players from Amazon, Facebook, Google or Valve. From the announced speakers, heaviest hitters are without any doubt Rikard Steiber, Ted Schilowitz and Tony Parisi.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Plus, Hypergrid Business is indexed by Google News — we had to go through a whole approval process. I don’t want to live in a metaverse owned by Microsoft or Facebook. We’re currently getting more than a quarter million page views a month, which is good for increasing the value of those links.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop — a 3D physics multi-touch desktop — to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop — a 3D physics multi-touch desktop — to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

We'll be talking about making an AR video with Will.i.am, creating art with Intel, and delivering on the promise of VR and AR with the San Francisco 49ers, San Jose Sharks, YouTube, and more. He's kind of like the Spike Lee of San Francisco, is what a lot of people say, but he works mainly in documentary.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. And I actually had the opportunity to DJ at the Microsoft Build conference in — I want to say 2015 or 2016 — in the Wave, which was incredible. So it’s more like AR on a Google map. You can learn more about the GFR Fund by visiting gfrfund.com.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. And I actually had the opportunity to DJ at the Microsoft Build conference in — I want to say 2015 or 2016 — in the Wave, which was incredible. So it’s more like AR on a Google map. You can learn more about the GFR Fund by visiting gfrfund.com.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Anand Agarawala sold his previous startup, BumpTop -- a 3D physics multi-touch desktop -- to Google, and also demoed this in a TED Talk. Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. It was around 2015, the first Hololens had come out.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

To get some insight into those numbers, I moderated a panel on investing in virtual reality and augmented reality at Greenlight Insights’ recent Virtual Reality Strategy conference in San Francisco. Toby Zhang: I’m a partner with Youku Global Media Fund and CRCM in San Francisco. It focuses on media, AR/VR, and A.I.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Teppei is currently leading the GFR Fund in San Francisco. And I actually had the opportunity to DJ at the Microsoft Build conference in — I want to say 2015 or 2016 — in the Wave, which was incredible. So it’s more like AR on a Google map. You can learn more about the GFR Fund by visiting gfrfund.com.

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