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Microsoft’s Meandering XR Strategy Could Lead to Another Zune Moment

Road to VR

At least from the outside, it appears Microsoft isn’t actively competing for a seat at the XR table, which is fairly odd coming from a company that pioneered enterprise AR while simultaneously wrangling some of its top OEM partners to make a fleet of PC VR headsets for consumers in 2017. If Microsoft goes in half-cocked, maybe.

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Report Predicts AR and VR Headsets Shipments to Approach 100 Million by 2021

Road to VR

Samsung confirmed at CES in January that its Oculus engineered Samsung Gear VR headset had passed an install base figure of 5 Million and more recently Google affirmed that it had shipped over 10 Million Cardboard viewers. SEE ALSO What VR Headset Makers (not analysts) Have Actually Said About Sales Expectations.

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Intel to Buy Imagination Technologies or AMD’s RTG?

VRWorld

First Intel – Nvidia deal happened in 2000, when Intel gave the best offer to Microsoft and won the deal for the first Xbox console. Imagination Technologies tried to sell themselves to Apple, who owns 8.5% The NVIDIA – Intel Deal. The AMD – Intel Deal. Acquiring the company could happen for approximately $1.0-1.5

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Visit the Ancient Rome in VR with Rome Reborn

The Ghost Howls

I gave a presentation of the first idea of a videodisc of the “ Plastico ” at a private conference held at Apple Computer in 1986 (my talk was published in 1998 here ). Things started to change in 2011, when the economic recovery reached the point where donors were willing to step forward once again. Where is that?

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

If I was Google and Apple, I would make some sort of Pokémon Go game that took you inside and made you kind of chase these things up and down the walls, and while they 3D map the whole interior space of everywhere. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?].

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

If I was Google and Apple, I would make some sort of Pokémon Go game that took you inside and made you kind of chase these things up and down the walls, and while they 3D map the whole interior space of everywhere. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?].

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