Arthur Releases Productivity and Display Updates

vrcoin on March 15, 2023

Arthur, an immersive virtual collaboration platform for enterprise, has recently rolled out its first major set of updates since its “Pro” version launched in 2021. The update brings solutions that are helpful in the platform but that VR in general has needed for a long time. To learn more about the platform’s growth in the space and the technology coming of age in the enterprise sector, I met in the platform with Arthur Business Development Consultant Lakshman Lattipally. We also showed off our full-body avatars and explored the platform’s many features both old and new. The Road So Far Arthur was founded in 2016 but became publicly available in 2020. The platform rolled out its first major updates the following year, which is when ARPost first introduced our readers to the platform. At the time, the company was largely presented as a “virtual real estate company” before that language was

VRdirect to Bring Competition in Training and Virtual Tours

vrcoin on July 12, 2021

Most XR companies aren’t afraid of some healthy competition. Hopefully, the virtual tours field can take a little more pressure, as German solution VRdirect plans an impending expansion to the US and UK. We got our hands on a demo and talked to Managing Director Dr. Rolf Illenberger to learn more. Meet VRdirect VRdirect is a platform for authoring and distributing VR content, specifically virtual tours and educational content using physical locations. The platform is essentially composed of Studio, their authoring tool, and distribution/viewing solutions. Depending on what hardware the viewer has access to, content created using the VRdirect Studio is viewed via a mobile app, a web player, or streamed to a VR headset. The company does offer production services, but the whole idea is that the content is easy enough for non-VR specialists in industry to create their own content in-house. “The software itself is supposed to