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Ginza Sony Park, the Japanese tech giant’s Tokyo-based hub for Sony brand promotion, is now playing host to a new Ghostbusters -themed multiplayer experience using a newly revealed Sony AR headset prototype. And yes, they’re shooting proton energy from their hands.
AR has penetrated almost all the industries: automotive, professional services, education and training, retail, architecture, and healthcare. Already, several top-level companies like LG, Apple , and Sony are joining the market of AR hardware producers, dominated so far by Microsoft and MagicLeap.
Sony Electronics Head of Business Development, Thaisa Yamamura, presented the Auggie Award for Best Art or Film. Yamamura also presented the winner with a Sony Spatial Reality Display, a “glasses-free 3D display that will improve their workflow.” This year, the award went to Osso VR for their VR Surgical Training Platform.
Upload reported that Sony showcased PlayStation to some selected partners , but no one could speak about what he/she has seen. More info (GDC roundup 1) More info (GDC roundup 2) More info (GDC roundup 3) More info (Moss to be published on many platforms) More info (Manus Quantum Metagloves) More info (Sony showcasing PSVR).
Firms like Sony, NVIDIA, XREAL, Qualcomm, PIXO VR, and Dimension X showcased the latest in spatial computing innovation , which may alter the future of work and life. MagicLeap is currently working with major enterprise end-users such as Siemens to leverage its highly competitive XR display.
Image by Sony). Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. So, PSVR2 probably won’t launch before 2022 : Sony can afford that also because it has no competition in the console VR space , so there is no need to rush.
On the other side, I’m afraid that for consumers this means also paying more for the VR content they like : if before training a year with FitXR was costing $30, now it will cost $120. On the client side, the system will become compatible with iOS devices, and a MagicLeap client has also been developed. billion valuation.
IGS and the Future of XR Training. Several of the world’s biggest tech giants, including Meta Platforms, Sony, Agora, HTC VIVE, Unity Technologies, Qualcomm, MagicLeap, Lenovo, and many others joined the event.
EX-HEAD OF SONY PLAYSTATION LONDON FORMS CROSS-PLATFORM VR GAME STUDIO. Formed by Dave Ranyard, who was the lead at Sony’s London Studio during PSVR’s creation, it includes a handful of early-days development of the PlayStation VR– back when it was still a code name (Project Morpheus was one of my favorite code names).
According to him, the technology can be used for training and delivering first-hand experiences to learners. This is supported by a 2022 PwC survey , which shows that 42% of business leaders are planning to use the metaverse to provide onboarding and training for their employees.
The Future of MagicLeap After Ross Rosenberg was appointed MagicLeap’s CEO in October 2023, the company has since focused on its enterprise roadmap for 2024; targeting its XR devices towards enterprise and industrial clients. MagicLeap started to understand that these walled gardens are not their future.
It’s been called the AR Cloud by many, the Magicverse by MagicLeap, the Mirrorworld by Wired, the Cyberverse by Huawei, Planet-scale AR by Niantic and Spatial Computing by academics. MagicLeap are the highest-profile, with both a device and a platform, and more recent entrants include Ubiquity6, AIReal and Placenote.
Brian Vogelsang : Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen tremendous adoption of VR for commercial use cases in verticals like health and wellness, training and immersive learning, and others. Other devices from MagicLeap and Microsoft’s HoloLens headsets offer deeper levels of immersion.
Goertek is even working with Sony on the development of new PlayStation headsets. Read up on the latest news here. Latest Vuzix News MagicLeapMagicLeap specializes in the creation of AR and MR solutions, for enterprise users. MagicLeap also recently achieved an IEC 60601 certification for it’s headset.
New devices like the MagicLeap 2 are set to completely disrupt the AR market with cutting-edge technologies for enterprise use cases. Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) and upcoming PSVR 2 are examples of such designs. With today’s modern VR devices, users can: Safely train employees to enter dangerous work environments.
Goertek NReal Lenovo Iristick Vuzix MagicLeap XYZReality Longan Vision Rokid ThirdEye Google Toshiba Epson RealWear Microsoft Lumus TCL RayNeo Goertek Offering a variety of extended reality products for virtual and augmented experiences, Goertek has a range of smart glasses included in its portfolio.
Top VR headset makers have been Sony, Facebook, HTC, Pico, and 3Glasses. NASA has a long story in using VR for training. Training the astronauts for missions in the outer space is crucial to make sure that they won’t make errors while they are outside the spaceships to perform some operations.
. “Lenovo is bringing together Meta Horizon OS with our leadership and innovation in personal computing to accelerate the adoption of new user scenarios in mixed reality like virtual screens, remote presence, content consumption, and immersive training,” Yang explained.
Goertek is even working with Sony on the development of new PlayStation headsets. MagicLeapMagicLeap specializes in the creation of AR and MR solutions for enterprise users. The MagicLeap 2 headset is the most recent solution provided by the company for the AR smart glasses landscape.
Meanwhile, Osso VR has launched its Healthcare XR training service for the Apple Vision Pro. The new application leverages the spatial computing platform to create detailed and clinically accurate training workflows of standard medical procedures.
CES 2023 allows XR firms to express the benefit of enterprise-grade immersive solutions for various vertical markets like healthcare, tourism, training, and education. Aside from the noted immersive solutions, brands like Sony, LG, and MagicLeap had offerings on show. CES 2023: Closing Thoughts.
These glasses would be perfect for controlling, and training, all these new robots. And a variety of other things, from training to surgery. This is why MagicLeap has a new shot at life that I also didn’t see, due to its cord and lack of consumer experiences. What does that mean? My TV can’t travel with you.
More recently, the use of wearable augmented and virtual reality devices by airport and airline technicians to train, perform maintenance, and receive remote support has gained traction. Very recently, Air New Zealand announced a partnership with MagicLeap and Framestore to develop MR content highlighting New Zealand as a travel destination.
First of all, we have some more info on the micro OLED displays: Sony started selling them in Japan, so we have some more specs: they have 4K resolution, 90Hz framerate, a high luminance, and the capability of reproducing a very wide color range. It’s the end of an era.
A decent budget for Microsoft and Facebook… but something impossible for companies like HTC or MagicLeap (do you remember when we all thought that $2.5B They sell it for 3D inspection, but I think it could be great also to scan environments for other uses, like training, or gaming. was a lot of money?).
Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company MagicLeap. In June 2019, MagicLeap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. These solutions have shown an incredible ability to educate, train, and solve real-world problems.
It may also feature eye tracking, that can be very important for some training applications. It is not as perfect as Oculus Insight, it still features movements that are not completely fluid, but for standard enterprise usage (mainly in training applications), it is more than ok. Sony Playstation. Image from Road To VR).
MagicLeap raises other $350M. I honestly don’t even know how to report this piece of news: MagicLeap has raised other money, to be exact $350M, and it seems that a healthcare company is involved. Mozilla has also released Firefox Reality for HoloLens , and it features hands tracking in WebXR experiences.
Meta is Licensing MagicLeap This week, rumours revealed that Meta might acquire MagicLeap licensing rights for upcoming XR hardware. Meta looks to ink a deal with MagicLeap to share intellectual property licencing and contract manufacturing to create AR-based solutions.
Best Collaboration Tool Sony Electronics Head of XR Business Development Thaisa Yamamura was “honored to present” the Auggie Award for Best Collaboration Tool. She also presented the winner with a 15.6in Sony Spatial Reality Display. The award went to Verizon for The Future of Training , an XR upskilling program.
If we talk about XR in general (including so also AR headsets and smartglasses), we have lots of use cases like training, maintenance, remote assistance, psychology, etc… where headsets and glasses are already used every day. The situation is constantly evolving.
It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, MagicLeap, Huawei, and others. Literally everyone in the industry other than MagicLeap and Apple uses Qualcomm’s spatial computing tech stack). Immersion should be the rallying cry.
Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote.
One cannot take trips to their favourite destinations without the physical railways, aeroports, cars, trains, planes, roads, or even shoes to move from point A to point B — the same goes for the Metaverse. It has struck partnerships with Accenture to fully onboard new hires with over 60,000 headsets, leading to rapid upskilling results.
FRL is releasing interesting material for AI training. Facebook Reality Labs , the research center of Facebook, is releasing opensource some tools that it has created to train AI agents in virtual reality. When you have to train an intelligent agent for the real world (e.g. New interesting patents by Sony comes to light.
Let’s say that you’re talking about the training solution that utilizes VR or AR to train sales troops that are on the field, or even to train service or support troops that are on the field remotely. So let’s say this is going to have a lot of applications, for example, in enterprise cases.
Let’s say that you’re talking about the training solution that utilizes VR or AR to train sales troops that are on the field, or even to train service or support troops that are on the field remotely. So let’s say this is going to have a lot of applications, for example, in enterprise cases.
Let's say that you're talking about the training solution that utilizes VR or AR to train sales troops that are on the field, or even to train service or support troops that are on the field remotely. So let's say this is going to have a lot of applications, for example, in enterprise cases.
As usual, Japp (Pimaxs PR) is using his extensive Zen training to calmly answer everyones concern on all possible forums. For instance, Sony is having a keynote on the 6th, and the teaser sentence is Create Infinite Realities. Pimax has also an extensive FAQ about this device and why it has launched it.
Regarding the compatibility of older PS4 titles (including VR ones), Sony has clarified that most of titles will be compatible, but some of them won’t work on Day 1. MagicLeap reveals updates and new enterprise solutions. With various posts on its blog, AR startup MagicLeap has revealed a bunch of new updates.
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