Author: XR Today
Meta Connect is approaching. Mark Zuckerberg’s company is generating excitement, with audiences anticipating significant announcements during the September 28th event, which continues to captivate mainstream audiences year after year.To explore the upcoming Connect 2024 event and some of the announcements that may follow, XR Today spoke with Frank Furnari, the CEO and Founder of ARuVR.ARuVR is an enterprise platform that enables immersive training content creation and distribution at scale, to create and manage bespoke workplace services without writing a single line of code.Furnari noted that while the ARuVR platform is hardware agnostic, the firm does “a lot of work with…
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HTC has launched its no-code metaverse builder VIVERSE Create, which allows users to create and share interactive multiplayer worlds.In fact, the tool suite lets creators share their worlds with anyone and any device, including VR headset, mobile, PC, or Mac, without the need for a gaming machine.The Taiwanese technology corporation HTC explained in a related press release that the solutions cross-platform that this is made possible due to its “no install” feature.Andranik Aslanyan, Head of Growth, HTC VIVERSE, believes that VIVERSE Create will help people to realise the potential of the metaverse:“Gone are the days of keeping your creations locked…
This week, unity, a leading XR and RT3D content creation engine, unveiled a new partnership with 3D content streaming experts Vagon. The partnership will leverage Vagon’s AR/VR/MR streaming advancements to boost accessibility for XR immersive experiences and applications, covering a broad range of end devices.To access a high-quality and sophisticated XR experience, a headset must comply with, at times, high-end technical requirements to operate optimally.However, a commonplace solution for leveraging high-facility experiences is PC streaming, whereby processing power is offloaded on a secondary computing device, wirelessly streaming the 3D content to a headset. A typical example is Airlink for the…
The big news is coming: towards the end of the month, leading headset vendors will debut new headsets at various stages. This comes just in time as Connect rolls in late September, with the XR industry enterprise and beyond leveraging the mainstream companies’ event to bring eyes to their solution.Despite being a consumer-based product, Meta’s Quest lineup is still the most popular brand in the XR headset space, and any real big news will make others in the market take note.The market is somewhat muted at the moment, however, as firms prepare for some big news. Hold tight, as some…
This week, telecoms giant Reliance Jio announced that it partnered with Meta to debut the Horizon OS platform on a new Jio-brand XR device, moving the Quest-based framework to a third-party VR headset.The move comes after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reintroduced the Horizon platform as an open service for promoting VR content creation on third-party headsets outside the Quest ecosystem.The partnership focuses on bringing the Horizon service to a new Jio VR headset. The news comes just a year after Jio debuted its VR headset, JioDive, to accompany its smart glasses product.At the 2023 Indian Mobile Congress (IMC), Jio unveiled…
GenAI is undoubtedly one of the most significant potentials in recent technology history. Unlike other technology promises, which quickly follow hype cycle expectations with a fairly prominent drop-off, genAI appears to be bucking this trend.GenAI is proving its massive cost and time-saving benefits, which are truly workplace agnostic and ready for many industries. On the other hand, XR has struggled to regain its momentum—which one could argue genAI took.However, as the genAI hype train rolls on, as does its success, becoming an essential investment for firms such as NVIDIA, Meta, and HTC VIVE, firms that recognize not only the paradigm-shifting…
Connect is around the corner. While not the biggest event of the year, it generally draws more mainstream attention to XR in spaces than more niche but larger overall events like MWC, AWE, and CES.With the broader audience that comes with Connect, expect new product announcements from firms looking to join the moment, such as HTC VIVE, which is also readying a new product.Already, the stage is being set for a busy two months ahead as event season returns.Meta’s Year-on-Year Revenue DropsMeta has released its Q2 2024 earnings call, providing essential insights into the company’s operations ahead of Connect 2024.…
Apple WWDC is next week! The 2024 edition of the event will look to showcase Apple’s latest innovations. A part of this will be Vision Pro, the firm’s first XR device.Apple has already shaken the XR industry somewhat with its limited release. However, with rumours circling that the device may receive a broader distribution model, Apple may provide another immersive industry shake-up.Ahead of next week’s event, the industry is building to see what is in store and how best to leverage current tech trends to get ahead of the ever-emerging marketplace.Meta Connect 2024 Event Dates RevealedNotably, just a week before…
The Metaverse… Post-COVID, the Metaverse was the leading technology trend. With worklife entering the home and remote working becoming mainstream due to the global lockdown, international virtual meeting platforms gained a unique and fruitful period of interest and investment.As conventional remote communication and meetings saw a mighty boom of interest, forward-thinking solution providers and businesses were ready to experiment with the new stage of digital communication. From consumer-focused experiences to enterprise support, the Metaverse platform became a central focus.The post-COVID period saw leading firms like Nike and Lenovo experiment with virtual shared environments to enhance various outcomes. However, with the…