Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2018

Move over Samsung AR Emoji , because Apple looks to have gotten the cutesy Pixar-vibe down pat. Samsung AR Emoji – Image courtesy Samsung Central. Apple is also integrating Animoji, as well as Memoji, onto FaceTime group chat, which is cool if that’s what you’re into. SEE ALSO Apple Unveils ARKit 2.0,

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 14, 2023

This week, reports emerged claiming that Chinese news publication Gyro Technology leaked the design specifications of Samsung’s upcoming MR headset. According to the leaks, Samsung’s MR device will cost roughly between $1000-$2000. Samsung’s Q2 net profits fell by 84.5 percent from last year to $1.4

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Catching up with VR director and two-time Oculus Launch Pad recipient Kiira Benzing. Her first VR creation, Cardboard City , earned an award at the Samsung Gear Indie Milk VR contest in 2016. I wanted to work with all types of wearable technology. But that wasn’t her first rodeo by a long shot. Image Credit: Double Eye.

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VRScout

AUGUST 15, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: Mindshow, updated Samsung Gear VR, Samsung 360 camera release date, GoPro, HTC, mobile tracking innovation from Chinese developer Deepoon, Microsoft Hololens, investment wrapup, and more! THE SAMSUNG GEAR VR GETS A FACELIFT AND GOPRO DOUBLES DOWN ON 360. on August 19th.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Facebook is now rolling out Messenger on Oculus Quest and Quest 2 headsets, and trust me, I’m cringing too. Read more.

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TechCrunch VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Alongside, the Messenger update, Facebook also shared that with the new update, they will be rolling out what they call App Lab, essentially a TestFlight-like feature to allow Quest users to download content outside of the curated Oculus Store. The Oculus Quest’s unofficial app store gets backing from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

While wearable technologies, including wearable XR, didn’t exactly “blow up” this year, the technology did further entrench itself in enterprise—the number of companies in the evaluation stage rose significantly, several large deployments made headlines, and solution providers continued to partner and expand their products to more platforms.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 25, 2024

Recently, a big piece of news in the XR industry was the announcement that Samsung would enter the XR device marketplace. According to recent reports, the upcoming Samsung headset will have a microOLED display, eight tracking cameras, a ToF sensor, voice commands, eye tracking, and hand tracking features.

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VRWorld

JULY 1, 2018

Now Oculus, the company that re-kindled the VR revolution, has come up with something in between called the Oculus Go. The Oculus Go headset is a lot like a smartphone-powered solution – sans the smartphone, of course. Even with its shortcomings, the Oculus Go is a headset that offers its users something new to explore.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

This won’t be the year of AR : exactly as I said for virtual reality, let’s not hype the technology and think that this is the year when mainstream adoption of wearable AR glasses is going to happen. while we have seen the complicated life of Oculus hands-on booths at Best Buy.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

WebVR has gained plenty of attention recently, with Facebook’s Oculus and Samsung Gear VR both adding WebVR support in the last few months. With these first steps, Google joins Samsung and Oculus in offering VR web browsing. That’s because WebVR has multiple benefits for consumers and developers alike.

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VRWorld

APRIL 7, 2017

While Samsung always had a clear plan that Google and its Android are just some of operating systems the company ships their products with, the company never disabled features that come with Android… until now. At the moment, compared to Google’s Daydream, Samsung’s Gear VR is more rounded and polished.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Facebook s very own CEO, Mark Zuckerberg introduced a new $199 headset, Oculus G o, and permanently cut the price for the flagship Rift to $399 as he talked up VR’s potential. In January, Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey said that even at the initial $599 price tag, the Rift headset didn’t offer Oculus a profit.

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VRWorld

AUGUST 15, 2016

One of most widely used VR HMDs (Head Mounted Device) on the market is GearVR, a love child of collaboration between Facebook i.e. Oculus and Samsung. Not to be outdone by swathes of competition – such as Chinese Baofeng Mojiong – Samsung is updating its GearVR with a third generation product.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Furthermore, Meta has struck several joint ventures with companies like Lenovo, Samsung, and Xiaomi for the company’s Oculus Rift S, Gear VR, and Oculus Go, respectively. Media reports suggest that Meta’s budget-friendly headset, codenamed Ventura, will be released in 2024, The Verge leaked in March.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

This work led him to develop a patent pending technology for non-invasive facial expression monitoring using wearable technology. The team has also been working closely as an approved content provider for Oculus (Rift), Valve (Vive), Samsung (Gear VR) and Fove, plus building release VR demos for Autodesk, AMD and The Foundry.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

In fact, Apple’s patents in this field tell us that the company has been thinking about immersive wearables for a long time; patents filed at least as far back as 2007 show a device that looks much like the VR headsets we see today. See Also: 3 Moves Oculus is Borrowing from Apple’s Marketing Playbook. Acquisitions.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

An odyssey is an epic journey, and Samsung’s Odyssey VR headset seems to be the latest upcoming step in theirs. Unlike the Samsung Gear VR , a headset co-developed with Oculus, the Odyssey VR headset seems to be an actual standalone VR headset for usage with PC. Let’s tackle a few of these.

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Infinityleap

MAY 11, 2016

Earlier last week, Oculus announced a handful of new changes to Gear VR , its mobile headset for Samsung phones, along with one big new Facebook feature created with virtual reality (VR) in mind: the arrival of 360-degree photo capability in Facebook’s News Feed. The Oculus Experience. ” (Photo credit: Oculus).

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 30, 2020

Other investors include Expa, Lerer Hippeau, Leaders Fund, Samsung NEXT and Andy Hertzfeld (of Macintosh fame). It’s not disclosing valuation at this stage, Anand Agarawala, the CEO who co-founded the company with Jinha Lee (CPO), said in an interview.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

A new OS for wearable, on face, computers. Samsung has started putting UWB chips into their devices but they don’t have the M1 chip sitting next to these things, so Samsung is way behind and, really, who will buy an entire house full of stuff from Samsung? A new OS arrives for on-face wearables.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 20, 2024

The report notes that the forecasted uptick hinges on various market leaders, including Google, Sony, Apple, Samsung Electronics, Microsoft, HTC, Oculus, Magic Leap, Blippar, and Upskill. The development of XR for enterprises and consumers is notably rising in the US and EU.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This week in XR hasn’t had any explosive news, but it was interesting nonetheless: in particular we had cool info on AR glasses, with some news from Kura, Lynx, and Samsung. Samsung AR glasses concept has been leaked. Popular Twitter leaker WalkingCat has leaked two trailer videos about two AR glasses by Samsung.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Several technology giants are making huge investments, most notably Facebook’s $2 billion acquisition of Oculus VR. Samsung, working closely with Oculus VR, has also produced virtual reality devices for use with its flagship smartphones.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

The new VR game experiences will be accessible via an upcoming TNT VR app that will be downloadable via the Oculus and Google Play stores. On the hardware side, the app will support both Samsung GearVR and Google Daydream headsets. “We are committed to bringing the most innovative and immersive experiences possible for our fans.”.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 9, 2017

” Madefire already has VR apps for the Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR, but Magic Leap advisor Andy Lanning has revealed a couple of key differences at the con. The Magic Leap version will apparently feature spatial sound and comics will appear much crisper and more readable on it.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

This experience brings people, via an Oculus Rift headset, to the birthplace of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc in New Zealand. A “virtual vineyard” wine tasting experience was created by Fourth Reality, using two Samsung GearVR’s that transport you to a beautiful sunny vineyard.

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VRWorld

JUNE 3, 2016

Microsoft decided to take a calculated risk and leave the Virtual Reality market to Facebook (through Oculus and Samsung) and HTC with their dedicated headsets Gear VR, Rift and Vive.

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VRWorld

JANUARY 23, 2018

Oculus has reduced the price of the Rift headset to $399, matching that of the PlayStation VR, and this allowed it to ship 210,000 units of the product in the third quarter of 2017. “ VR in business can be applied to many industries, such as manufacturing, healthcare and education ,” Canalys Analyst Jason Low said.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. The advantage that something like a Magic Leap or even an Oculus Quest has is that it’s tracking you with cameras. We’ve also started putting them in every wearable we made. You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. The advantage that something like a Magic Leap or even an Oculus Quest has is that it’s tracking you with cameras. We’ve also started putting them in every wearable we made. You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Even if you put aside its decidedly bug-eyed appearance, the leaked HTC Vive Flow is a baffling headset. By all accounts, it’s supposed to be a standalone consumer VR device that’s made for activities like meditating and streaming media. It also will allegedly come with its own take on the metaverse. In a somewhat… Read more.

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VRGuy

APRIL 30, 2016

Or does it embed processing inside the headset Wide field of view vs. Narrow FOV This generates a total of 2 x 3 x 2 = 12 options as follows Configuration Example and typical use 1: VR, PC-powered, Wide-field Examples: Oculus, HTC Vive, Sensics dSight, OSVR HDK.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You've done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. The advantage that something like a Magic Leap or even an Oculus Quest has is that it's tracking you with cameras. We've also started putting them in every wearable we made. The three wearables are the three most recent wearables we came out with.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 16, 2021

We already knew Sony’s next-gen VR headset for the PS5 is on the way, but recent reports may have revealed additional details about the next PSVR’s specs and launch date. Read more.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

With powerful devices like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, as well as more mainstream products such as Samsung’s GearVR or Google’s Daydream View – we are being transplanted into other worlds and fool our senses into getting lost in them. Things are changing now, and believable worlds are becoming virtually real.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

What is the only wearable that people is keeping on their face all day? There is another reason that will make medium-big studios happy: from now on, there won’t be any revenue share with Epic until $1M of revenues of your game, a limit that raises to $5M if your game is published on Oculus Store. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0.

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