Tech Trends VR

MAY 21, 2018

The benefits of using immersive technologies as teaching tools have been widely documented and extensively discussed, specially in recent years with the rapid development of Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed reality hardware and applications.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This trend is in large part spurred by hardware manufacturers, who recognize that without “sticky” content that keeps punters coming back and hooks them for longer, they are unlikely to reach consumer adoption critical mass anytime soon. Virtuix is a Texas-based start-up founded in 2013 best known for developing the Omni VR treadmill.

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MARCH 24, 2025

What's happening in that structure on the hill is so ambitious no single hardware provider has been able to make everything work that it needs to do. Still frame Meta glasses video capture in Austin, Texas. And yet, it does work. I entered a building there. The hillside on the TV is covered in homes.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 31, 2021

Some weeks ago, he has bought a Tundra HDK , which is basically a Hardware Development Kit to create your objects that can be tracked by a SteamVR system and has played around with it for a while. TL448K6D-GP-HDK is a General Purpose Hardware Development Kit (HDK) for prototyping SteamVR Tracked Devices. Image by Triad Semiconductor).

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MAY 29, 2024

The Visor demos will be given at Immersed IRL, the company's own event at the Zach Theatre in Austin, Texas on September 19. Immersed is building Visor with Qualcomm, which is providing the XR2+ Gen 2 chipset , headset reference design, and hardware technical expertise. You can sign up to attend here. Visor was announced last year.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We believe this is thanks to the introduction of new hardware—Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S—as well as the launch of several exclusive hit games like Asgard’s Wrath and the continued success of Beat Saber. From our estimates, there is relatively small software sales for the first couple of years, and then a major inflection point in 2019.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The founder of Valve, Gabe Newell (known as “Lord Gaben” to some), recently teased us with the promise that Valve is developing three VR games — and designing new hardware at the same time. NEW CONTROLLERS & NEW GAMES ON HORIZON FOR HTC VIVE AND VALVE. INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Last week, I traveled to the Houston Area Safety Council in Pasadena, Texas, to put Industrial Training International VR’s new crane simulator through its paces. While ITI has been training crane operators, riggers, and signallers for 30 years, the inclusion of VR in their training programs is a recent development.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Immersed covered the cost of my flights from the UK to its event in Texas, which made it possible for me to attend. We are now starting demos, but due to an issue they will be hardware only, not software". What exactly is hardware without software? Immersed claims Visor is the future of remote work. Critics claim it's a scam.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I learned how to build hardware because back in the late ’90s, we weren’t using beautiful inside-out tracking systems. There was a lot of hardware work. You were really there building hardware and using very low frame, low-resolution headsets. Or Unreal if that’s your language. I learned how to do the coding.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 7, 2022

It also designed its VR therapy certification program to include extended reality (XR) software and hardware training for modern therapists desiring to enhance their practices. The service also has more than 30 bespoke activities.

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The AR Show

MAY 3, 2023

Karl spent nearly 20 years at Texas Instruments, and was named a TI Fellow—the youngest in the company’s history. He was also recently the Chief Science Officer at Ravn, a company developing a hardware and software platform to deliver mission-critical intelligence to military and first responders.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Attendees will have access to some of the world’s leading hardware and software, so they can test the new solutions coming to the market, ahead of the rest of the world. March 10-19 th , 2023, Austin, Texas. The conference will be home to a range of talks from market-leading professionals.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 12, 2017

There’s a 100-subject, double-blind, placebo-controlled insomnia study currently underway at the University of Texas but the data already received from the stimulator is beneficial right now because Kortex clones it technologically.

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MAY 11, 2024

VR hardware news was relatively quieter this week. South By Southwest Festival Is Coming To London Next June Hosted in Austin, Texas, since 1987, the South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) - which regularly includes XR exhibitions , is coming to London in June 2025. Catching up on the biggest VR stories? Here's our latest news roundup.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 11, 2023

With the Magic Leap 2 and Microsoft HoloLens 2, ARway can leverage industry-leading hardware to integrate its low and no-code solutions. Using the firm’s geolocation software developer kits (SDKs), Niantic has created numerous sustainability programmes at UT Austin’s Texas Immersive Institute.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 14, 2022

At this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, Fils-Aimé took the opportunity to completely unload on Mark Zuckerberg's social media conglomerate, now known as Meta, while speaking with Emily Chang of Bloomberg. ” It doesn't end there. He also says Facebook Portal , Meta's video calling device, "wasn't a big idea."

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TechCrunch VR

APRIL 3, 2023

As free promotion for hardware startups go, one would be hard pressed to point to something better than a $175 million Spielberg film. “It Early versions of the Austin, Texas hardware startup’s product were on writer Ernest Cline’s radar well before the film’s pre-production began. It was actually Warner Bros.

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Next Reality - News

MAY 5, 2021

II-VI supplies Apple with LiDAR sensors, which are embedded in its iPhone Pro and iPad Pro devices.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Companies like RealWear, Rokid, and other immersive head-mounted display (HMD) hardware have trusted the Imint’s groundbreaking image stabilisation solution. Unveiled at the Augmented Enterprise Summit in Houston, Texas, the company has been demoing the product at the premiere extended reality (XR) event.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Fast forward to 2016 and STRIVR Labs counts the likes of Texas Tech, Arkansas, Stanford, Dallas Cowboys, and Arizona Cardinals, among others, as clients using STRIVR’s VR solutions to enhance training. We try to be smart about what hardware we deploy and where.”. ” Photo courtesy ESPN.

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The AR Show

APRIL 6, 2021

Karl spent nearly 20 years at TI (that’s Texas Instruments), and was named a TI Fellow - the youngest in the company’s history. And these days he’s also the Chief Science Officer at Ravn, a company developing a hardware and software platform to deliver mission-critical intelligence to military and first responders when they need it most.

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The AR Show

MAY 16, 2023

Karl spent nearly 20 years at Texas Instruments, and was named a TI Fellow—the youngest in the company’s history. He was also recently the Chief Science Officer at Ravn, a company developing a hardware and software platform to deliver mission-critical intelligence to military and first responders.

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The AI interactive spirits bottles featuring NFC technology is said to be the first spirits bottle released in the US, and will be available from stores in California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, New Jersey and Georgia.

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The AR Show

MARCH 30, 2021

Karl spent nearly 20 years at TI (that’s Texas Instruments), and was named a TI Fellow - the youngest in the company’s history. And these days he’s also the Chief Science Officer at Ravn, a company developing a hardware and software platform to deliver mission-critical intelligence to military and first responders when they need it most.

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AllThingsVR

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Google buys Eyefluence , a company that specializes in turning eye movements into virtual actions, to boost its VR hardware. The Los Angeles company raised the money from Greenspring Associates, Morgan Stanley, Foundry Group, Industry Ventures, and UTIMCO (the investment arm of the University of Texas).

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The AR Show

MARCH 23, 2021

Karl spent nearly 20 years at TI (that’s Texas Instruments), and was named a TI Fellow - the youngest in the company’s history. And these days he’s also the Chief Science Officer at Ravn, a company developing a hardware and software platform to deliver mission-critical intelligence to military and first responders when they need it most.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Snap and the Corporate Flight from California California’s latest initiative aims to attract investors and jobs amid a massive migration of companies to other states like Texas, Alabama, North Carolina, and others.

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InstaVR

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

We’ve done a case study with the State of Texas on how they’ve used InstaVR to keep their Ambulance Bus drivers prepared despite having little normal access to the buses. So it’s safe to say that VR is the best way to make doctors more comfortable with diagnosing/treating a disease they’ve never seen before. .

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 19, 2024

LG CEO Hints at XR Device in 2025 This week, there have been rumours about LG, a multinational hardware provider, entering the XR device marketplace. At the same time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is required to appear before a Texas court as part of an ongoing case related to the company’s misuse of users’ biometric data.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

One of such companies is Rivet Networks from Texas, and their Killer Networking technology. If you try Killer software and hardware combination once, don’t think you’ll move back to old legacy network ‘controllers’ That’s probably the best compliment you can give to a product.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2024

The news comes as Meta is testing Vision Pro-style features and is launching new XR productivity hardware packages. The company notes how AI enables Microsoft to expand its product portfolio to Quest hardware and other emerging end devices. The development of the volumetric workspace follows Microsoft’s AI updates.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Those lucky enough to get their hands on the latest and greatest virtual reality hardware are split into multiple camps on this debate, but the biggest two of them are: Pro-analog — those who prefer traditional in-game movement methods (like analog sticks) to simulate walking, running, etc. Movement in VR is a hotly-contested subject.

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AIXR

DECEMBER 16, 2022

I’m in the local circus troop in Austin, Texas called ‘Circus Picnic’. In a call to arms, John concludes by stating “come on hardware people, let’s do this together!”. When discussing his background, John opens by saying “When I’m not publishing games for Andromeda, I am a part-time juggler and acrobat.

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VRWorld

JULY 20, 2017

While Glass 2.0 Thus, it isn’t surprising to learn how Intel’s New Technologies Group (NTG) is pushing AR / VR strongly, as they believe it is an ideal place to manufacture low-power chips and sell at premium margin.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The search engine giant launched an AR software platform called Tango back in 2014, but over-reliance on shifting corporate strategies from Texas Instruments and Intel meant that unfortunately, Google still does not have AR devices for the consumer market.

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VRWorld

DECEMBER 15, 2016

At their “New Horizon” event in Austin, Texas, AMD (finally) introduced the first production Zen processor. To make the matters interesting, the company did not show the high end version of the Zen architecture, but rather the entry level 8-core version.

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