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AI enabled Ray-Ban Meta glasses

Tuesday, October 22, 2024
By Austin Harris

The AI enabled Ray-Ban Meta glasses are enhancing their features with new AI capabilities, allowing users to remember details, translate languages in real time, and send messages hands-free. Partnerships with Audible and iHeart expand audio options, ...

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visionOS 2 Apple Vision Pro now available

Monday, October 21, 2024
By Richard Harris

visionOS 2 Apple Vision Pro has been released by Apple. It is a major update for Apple Vision Pro, enhancing the experience with new spatial photo capabilities, intuitive hand gestures, and productivity tools. The update also improves popular apps an...

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Apple Immersive Video series premiere on Apple Vision Pro

Friday, July 26, 2024
By Richard Harris

Apple Vision Pro users can now enjoy an array of new immersive content with the Apple Immersive Video series premiere. The series and films, captured in Apple Immersive Video, offer breathtaking 3D experiences in 8K with 180-degree views and Spatial ...

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Apple Vision Pro now available in other parts of the world

Thursday, July 25, 2024
By Freeman Lightner

The Apple Vision Pro is now available in Europe, Asia, and other parts of the world. AI integration includes notification prioritization, new writing tools, an OpenAI chatbot, and Siri. Despite an uncertain consumer start, Apple targets the enterpris...

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Redditors mixed reactions on Apple Vision Pro

Friday, June 23, 2023
By Richard Harris

The Apple Vision Pro headset has sparked mixed reactions on Reddit over the high price, low battery life, and limitations of the headset. GlobalData revealed that Redditors argued it might be used more for work than gaming, and concerns about it lead...

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visionOS SDK and what devs should know

Thursday, June 22, 2023
By Freeman Lightner

The visionOS SDK, Xcode 15 beta 2, Reality Composer Pro, Simulator, and developer tools are now available through the Apple Developer Program, and next month Apple is hosting in-person developer labs so devs can get hands-on experience with the Visio...

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Vision Pro headset and visionOS from Apple

Monday, June 12, 2023
By Richard Harris

Apple officially revealed that the Vision Pro headset and visionOS will be available in early 2024. visionOS is Apple's first-ever spatial operating system and the Vision Pro headset will bring mixed reality experiences to users, transforming the way...

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ByteDance offering pay to Meta VR developers

Monday, April 24, 2023
By Brittany Hainzinger

ByteDance, the parent of TikTok is offering to pay Meta VR developers from 15k-25k per title, to bring more apps to its Pico headsets. Pico / ByteDance saw a gigantic marketplace opportunity, as well as Apple, which plans to release a device at some ...

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VR sports app Gym Class secures $8M in funding

Thursday, August 11, 2022
By Brittany Hainzinger

Gym Class, the VR digital sports app has announced that they have landed $8M in funding, and plan to launch the game on the Meta Quest Store in the fall of 2022. The Gym Class founders have teamed up to build a social experience through digital sport...

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Future VR optics from Meta

Tuesday, June 28, 2022
By Freeman Lightner

Sam Dale, Technology Analyst from IDTechEx analyzes the future VR Optics from Meta including the prototype VR headsets and components, compact optics, the Holocake Lens, how the vergence-accommodation conflict will be solved with varifocal lenses, an...

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VR metaverse solution for the enterprise market

Monday, April 18, 2022
By Freeman Lightner

Remio has raised $4.5M to expand its VR metaverse solution for the enterprise market. The seed round funding will help transform workspaces for leading enterprise businesses including Google, Netflix, Hubspot, Fidelity, Twilio, Trello, Nextdoor and m...

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Open source Mixed Reality (MR) application for Microsoft HoloLens

Tuesday, September 3, 2019
By Freeman Lightner

Feel Physics releases a new open-source mixed reality (MR) app for science education to make learning science fun and contribute to improving the quality of science education worldwide....

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VR gaming with computer vision assisted audio coming

Thursday, March 21, 2019
By Richard Harris

The world’s first computer vision assisted, spatial audio system could help virtual reality gaming ‘level up,’ claim experts from the University of Surrey’s Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP)....

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Scarygirl Mission Maybee comes to Zero Latency's FreeRoam VR

Monday, March 18, 2019
By Richard Harris

Scarygirl Mission Maybee's imaginative free-roam VR gameplay is the first third-party content to hit Zero Latency’s next-generation platform, which is being developed in collaboration with Microsoft, HP, and Intel....

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Mesmerizing Titanic virtual reality game coming to PlayStation

Wednesday, December 26, 2018
By Richard Harris

Titanic VR is a gripping educational game that delivers gameplay that's historically accurate to the experience of the Titanic disaster. Players also get the opportunity to explore the shipwreck on the sea floor as well....

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Transforming industries with photoenabled apps

Monday, December 24, 2018
By Jindou Lee

Though often thought of as consumer technologies, the potential applications of AR and VR in professional settings are diverse. VR is already being used to help train surgeons and pilots, provide virtual tours of listed homes, and create virtual walk...

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RelayCars 8 lets you shop for cars in virtual reality

Tuesday, November 20, 2018
By Austin Harris

RelayCars 8 features the new RelayCars Garage, an immersive showroom which allows car shoppers and car dealers to select, save and compare a personally curated selection of vehicles....

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Overstock executive named cochair of VRARA Retail Committee

Friday, January 12, 2018
By Austin Harris

Augmented Reality app by Overstock.com sees their SVP of Software Engineering named chairman of the VRAR Association....

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National Air and Space Museum releases VR Hangar App

Friday, December 22, 2017
By Austin Harris

Mobile VR app released by Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum to bring their displays to everyone in a whole new way....

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Mountain Dew taps Immersv for 360 video ads

Monday, November 27, 2017
By Richard Harris

Mobile 360 degree and VR ads by Immersiv are going to be used to market Mountain Dew's new #GotHandles campaign....

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