Road to VR

MAY 8, 2018

I had a chance to catch up with Miesnieks back in October 2017 after the Google Pixel 2 announcement to get an update on the state of the AR industry. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST. are working on).

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 4, 2021

More than six years after the release of Windows 10, Microsoft is releasing the next big chapter in its ubiquitous OS on Oct. A recent survey suggests that more than 60% of people aren’t even aware that Windows 11 is coming out, which indicates there probably won’t be a mad rush to upgrade. Read more.

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Voices of VR

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The XR Association is a non-profit 501(c)(6) trade association with members including Facebook/Oculus, Google, Microsoft, Sony, & HTC. They’re focused on general awareness and education,

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 17, 2022

The news of the week is that Meta is poaching talents from all the other companies : in particular, it has been able to “steal” 100 employees from the HoloLens team in Microsoft. Participate in this AR/VR Survey. Here you are the description of the initiative: AR/VR creators, this survey is for you.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Starting with quantitative analysis ARtillery’s recent survey findings can provide more color. Web AR meanwhile lingers at 18 percent of survey responses. As for apps, they perform well in the survey, but we’ll set them aside for now. Microsoft is doing the same with Hololens.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 12, 2022

 A single unified metaverse is more of an idea than a reality, but that’s not stopping tech giants like Meta, Microsoft, and Google from pouring big money into it. Only 48 percent of survey respondents are very confident in their organizations’ ability to curb cyber threats in the metaverse.

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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). A survey of augmented reality. Here is the link. Ronald Azuma.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Google’s got you covered, or rather, your cash: they’ve developed an AR app to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. (Because you’ll probably be waiting a while yet!) That’s just one of the interesting bits of XR news Alan has in store for this week’s news update.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Google’s got you covered, or rather, your cash: they’ve developed an AR app to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. (Because you’ll probably be waiting a while yet!) That’s just one of the interesting bits of XR news Alan has in store for this week’s news update.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

Virtual reality hasn’t caught on with American teens, according to a new survey from Piper Sandler released on Tuesday. Earlier this year , I wrote about how Microsoft and other companies have pulled back on their VR and AR plans. In mid March , Google announced the end of Google Glass Enterprise. million units.

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ARPost

APRIL 11, 2023

Increased Adoption of AR in E-Commerce According to a recent survey, 38% of marketers reported using AR in 2022. Companies like Google, Microsoft, Lenovo, and Vuzix are developing smart glasses to enhance the AR experience. It’s a significant increase from the 23% reported in 2017.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 25, 2019

But then around 2002, things moved slowly towards measured progress, and the rise of tech giants like Google, Facebook, and the web 2.0 Apple , Google , Facebook and Microsoft are all on that list. Speaking of Facebook’s billion lens engagements, Google has matched that figure in visual search activations for Google Lens.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Google's got you covered, or rather, your cash: they've developed an AR app to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. Google's got you covered, or rather, your cash: they've developed an AR app to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. Tired of waiting for the US treasury to put a female face on the $20?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

These are huge numbers for VR: if you look at the most recent SteamVR survey, you get that Oculus headsets are now at 67% of the whole PCVR market. A report from Insider states that Microsoft may have canceled its plans for HoloLens 3. It’s basically a monopoly. But there is also bad news to talk about. Some updates on Meta products.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Google’s got you covered, or rather, your cash: they’ve developed an AR app to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. (Because you’ll probably be waiting a while yet!) That’s just one of the interesting bits of XR news Alan has in store for this week’s news update.

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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

MARCH 27, 2023

The news comes amid a massive wave of layoffs across the tech industry, with Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, and many others launching a second round of job cuts. The developments come after an Enterprise Technology Research survey of over 1,000 IT executives. percent at the same time.

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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. For example, the last time we covered one of their reports it was an industry survey with Perkins Coie.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The result is that many big brands are canceling their presence at CES: Google, Intel, Microsoft, Meta, Lenovo, and many others, have decided not to go , and maybe provide their news virtually. Participate in the survey. Some shower of realisms on the Metaverse. a $100 Amazon Card). If you want to join it, click the link below.

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2020

An MIT study about embracing digital technology reports that 63 percent of surveyed managers said the pace of technological change in their workplaces is too slow, primarily due to a “lack of urgency.” Google Trends indicates a smaller impact for the term “Augmented Reality,” while “Remote Support” shows much stronger relevance.

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Bernard Marr

MARCH 27, 2023

It is behind the rise of companies like Google and Facebook, which match users to products and services using AI and analytics. In the days of newspaper, radio, and television advertising, the data that could be collected was limited to information gleaned from audience and market research surveys.

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ARVR

APRIL 27, 2022

Microsoft recently announced that it will be launching its own enterprise Metaverse in 2022, and users will be able to access business tools like MS Excel and PowerPoint on it (yeey, great news ha!). I hear you sayin’ not so far, HOLD ON! Imagine how this transformation will be disruptive for most of the well-established Web2.0

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Large companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Valve, Epic Games, Roblox as well as smaller startups are working on creating products for the Metaverse as we speak. According to a survey by emarketer.com, nearly 85 million people in the U.S. link] Is the technology even being used yet?

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 29, 2019

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. Let’s take a quick survey: 5G + Bitcoin. Image courtesy Microsoft. I’m not even joking. 5G + Biotech. 5G + Automation.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

New Steam hardware survey highlights that the number of VR headsets has grown again, and now according to Road To VR there are 1.6M Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. Google Glass 2 is now available for direct purchase. This is what Google Daydream is now useful for (look at the answers). Great post. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Microsoft just had its Ignite event and it put AI assistants (Copilots) everywhere: in Visual Studio, in Windows, in Edge, in Dynamics 365, in Office 365… it’s Clippy coming again, stronger and more powerful than ever. A 5-to-10-year planning should be enough (as for Vitillo’s Law Of Technology ).

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AIXR

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Meta SEO With Meta (formerly Facebook) committing to the Metaverse, all eyes are on fellow digital juggernauts such as Google, Bing, and Microsoft to see which – if any – becomes the next to buy into the Metaverse in a big way. Players could also collect and purchase 30 NFTs as they play.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Market analysis firm ARtillery Intelligence has conducted a survey about VR in the US. This move resembles the one that Google had with TiltBrush: instead of killing the program, it is returning it back to the community, and this is for sure a good decision. VR adoption is on the rise, but interest towards VR is not.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2023

A recent survey by @Vuzix highlights that 49% of surgeons are acknowledging the integral role of AR in enhancing efficiency and precision during surgeries. 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 5, 2017

He said that 59 percent of virtual reality developers are using Unity, according to a survey by VisionMobile. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”. Riccitiello said in a press event and in our interview that Unity-based games were installed more than 16 billion times in 2016, up 31 percent from 2015.

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ARVR

MARCH 5, 2021

Furthermore, my involvement is primarily confined to one particular social VR platform, AltspaceVR, owned by Microsoft, making most of my experience the product of a niche within a niche within a niche. Microsoft has been very active in this area for years and their video on the history of flight simulation is a good introduction.

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EnterpriseWear

AUGUST 1, 2018

Ideas on the ground and on board: The airport industry first began toying with wearable technology with the release of the original Google Glass in 2013. Let’s look back: Early trials: Virgin Atlantic ’s 2014 trial at London Heathrow Airport – in collaboration with SITA – included both Google Glass and the Sony SmartWatch 2.

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 28, 2022

It might sound fantastic, but a 2020 Ericsson survey found that 70% of respondents believe we will be able to create VR worlds that our brains can’t distinguish from real worlds by 2030. Companies like Meta (Formerly Facebook) and Microsoft are definitely optimistic about the metaverse.

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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. And I ran a survey just to check.). I’m not so much of a believer in OpenSim as a believer in its potential. The headset reviews caught on.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Survey and Medical Image Visualization. Honestly, they are very very far away from the industrial collaboration apps that Microsoft has released for HoloLens and that industrial customers find a lot useful, but it’s a start. This is for instance something that Microsoft lacks completely. The enterprise apps are: Brainlab.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

I think that, after a year, its specifications don’t sound exceptional anymore and maybe it is better that LG jumps directly to a second generation or that enters the standalone market (as it seems, since there are some rumors about a new revolutionary headset screen developed by Google and LG). Google AR apps.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 2, 2019

Steve: Well, it was a MetaVRse product that I downloaded to my phone some time, in Google Cardboard. We had a nice big bump at the beginning of the year with Microsoft. Microsoft, in January paid us a sum of money so that they could distribute half of our content for free through their store. Let me ask you a quick question.

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