AllThingsVR

JUNE 13, 2017

For many in 2016, the hardware that delivers the most immersive experiences was too expensive and the software too shallow for many to justify the purchase just yet. Microsoft aims to hit this growth spurt at just the right time and pick the perfect sweet spot for its VR gear that could leave competitors in the dust. Read more here.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Much like Microsoft’s HoloLens, Daqri’s Smart Glasses are targeting professionals in industries like manufacturing, field services, maintenance and repair, inspections, construction, etc. Access to developer tools: Vos Extension for Unity. image courtesy Daqri. What’s in the box? OTA Updates.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2020

Before the postponement, a litany of companies stepped back from GDC 2020 such as Epic, Microsoft, Unity, Sony, Electronic Arts, Facebook, and Kojima Productions. The city of San Francisco, where GDC was set to take place, also issued a state of emergency only a few days prior.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

I’ve been a big fan of the cute little Samsung Gear 360 camera since its first unveiling in the spring of 2016, and always recommend it to people inquiring about the best consumer-friendly 360 cameras out there. The cost is lower than the 2016 version with a pricetag of $229 and you can record in up to 4K resolution.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. Of course, it will exploit the already awesome Microsoft platform.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2014, 2015 and 2016 The Proto Awards were held to recognize some of the groundbreaking efforts pushing forward the emerging medium of VR content. Apple’s eye-catching ARKit is on the verge of release alongside a series of Microsoft-backed VR headsets.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 17, 2017

In the industry, this type of game is still considered blue-sky thinking—experiences tend to be segmented into AR or VR—but students vying for Full Sail’s Simulation and Visualization bachelor degree, launched in 2016, are encouraged to think big. Already, this blended approach is being embraced by industry players like Microsoft. “We

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

Demonstrated live on-stage during the Unity Vision Summit, you can already try it out for yourself in the Unity 2017 beta. The flying saucer shape of 2016 has been, somewhat regrettably, replaced with an all-seeing eye design for the x6 (6 cameras) and the x24 (you guessed it– 24 cameras).

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Back in 2016, designer and filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda released Hyper-Reality, a concept film that imagined an augmented reality future where physical and virtual realities have merged, resulting in a "city saturated in media." You know, that film came out in 2016," he said. "I I started making it in 2013.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

There’s no doubt that the announcements made on this conference might be the clearest direction where VR/MR/AR are heading as an industry, as it will happen after Microsoft Windows 10 Mixed Reality launches, as well as seeing the first sales results of next generation Oculus Rift headset. Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, 20th Century Fox.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 has officially begun shipping to pre-order customers at the cost of $3,500. So, what exactly can users expect from this anticipated follow-up to the original 2016 device? If you’re a developer working on your own, Microsoft offers the HoloLens 2 Development Edition. Image Credit: Microsoft.

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Road to VR

MAY 27, 2016

— Andy Durdin (@adurdin) May 24, 2016. Microsoft Research’s Kate Crawford sees that discussions that jump straight to ‘SkyNet’ can make practical, nuanced discussions difficult. .” @tinysubversions Skynet is the Hitler of AI discussion.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

I have developed a Unity program where the controllers left a trail behind them… and when I drew stuff behind me, I then noticed that the trail was more or less like what I tried to draw with my hands. If this gets fixed, I can say that the tracking will become as the one by Microsoft.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

First, HTC delays the Vive until April 2016, with plans to show an updated developer kit at CES in January. At the end of the month, Oculus officially delays the release of Touch controllers until the last half of 2016. January 2016. February 2016. March 2016. April 2016.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

And until I would say 2016 around, not that much happened. But in 2016 we just thought, "Nah, come on, we can do it better." So I'm assuming you're streaming this down from the cloud, using probably Unity or something= Florian: Yeah. You can simply integrate the stylus as it is in every other Unity application.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

And until I would say 2016 around, not that much happened. But in 2016 we just thought, "Nah, come on, we can do it better." So I'm assuming you're streaming this down from the cloud, using probably Unity or something=. So we've found out in-- also in early 2016 that the biggest issues are performance we solves with ISAR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

Microsoft too had to lose $10B to let Xbox enter the gaming console market and compete with PlayStation. Investors are pouring money into the XR market like in 2015–2016 when there was the hype for VR, and many XR companies got investments just because investors wanted to put some fiches on the technology. Image by Microsoft).

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 28, 2020

A system that took much of what had been achieved with mobileVR in 2016 and packaged it into a reliable and compelling solution for the education sector, becoming a world leader deserving much more recognition.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Instead, he has concentrated his journalistic efforts on a stereotypical dystopia of avatars and social media white elephants from a caricatured Meta, Microsoft AltSpaceVR, and Decentraland. Yes, the media has documented failures among the consumer-facing metaverse, which includes Meta, JP Morgan, Decentraland, Microsoft, and others.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

In the fall of 2016, Microsoft announced a partnership with a handful of hardware manufacturers to make developer headsets implementing the inside-out tracking technology seen on the HoloLens. LOTS OF BIG UNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS AT GDC. HIGH-END VIRTUAL REALITY JUST GOT MORE AFFORDABLE. VALVE’S R&D IN EYE-TRACKING TO INCREASE.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And this case with VR, starting in 2016, everybody thought it would be games again. And now, to this day, I think it remains Microsoft’s best pivot ever. Alan: Have you been to the Microsoft campus? It’s not your drab, beige Windows building, or Microsoft Word. There are three storey gray buildings.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And this case with VR, starting in 2016, everybody thought it would be games again. And now, to this day, I think it remains Microsoft’s best pivot ever. Alan: Have you been to the Microsoft campus? It’s not your drab, beige Windows building, or Microsoft Word. There are three storey gray buildings.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. Paul, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. Paul, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

John Riccitiello -- the CEO of Unity -- was one of the first to point out that there was going to be this great sort of gold rush of people who were going to overhype VR and its potential, and then we're going to see this gap of a disappointment where the early reality didn't match up with the hype and a lot of people were going to bail on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. To learn more about Torch, you can visit torch.app.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

The Metaverse Standards Forum has already gathered many important players of the XR sector like Unity, Unreal Engine, Meta, Microsoft, Lamina 1, NVIDIA, and even other relevant companies like IKEA and Adobe. Some others, like Niantic, will probably join soon. Others, like Apple, will probably never join and develop their own standards.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And this case with VR, starting in 2016, everybody thought it would be games again. And now, to this day, I think it remains Microsoft’s best pivot ever. Alan: Have you been to the Microsoft campus? It’s not your drab, beige Windows building, or Microsoft Word. There are three storey gray buildings.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Marc: I used to run the Majenta division of Autodesk, so I was building the legacy -- not real time -- tools for visualization in the film and TV industry, and I joined Epic in 2016. And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. At the time, for me it was like, "Oh my God, they're going to make it."

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Marc: I used to run the Majenta division of Autodesk, so I was building the legacy -- not real time -- tools for visualization in the film and TV industry, and I joined Epic in 2016. And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. At the time, for me it was like, "Oh my God, they're going to make it."

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 25, 2017

In 2016, the world-class graphics cards manufacturer Nvidia developed Nvidia Ansel, a screenshot software for taking in-game screenshots, most notably 360 panoramas, even if your games aren't in VR. The game was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on 19 May 2015, and received critical acclaim.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Marc: I used to run the Majenta division of Autodesk, so I was building the legacy -- not real time -- tools for visualization in the film and TV industry, and I joined Epic in 2016. And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. At the time, for me it was like, "Oh my God, they're going to make it."

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 2, 2019

It’s a simple SDK that integrates with Unity as a content creator, or you can drag and drop product placement within your experience. And with our plugin integrated with Unity, they were able to place ads alongside the track, by basically planting billboards that are part of the scenery. Get ads that work for VR and AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 2, 2019

It’s a simple SDK that integrates with Unity as a content creator, or you can drag and drop product placement within your experience. And with our plugin integrated with Unity, they were able to place ads alongside the track, by basically planting billboards that are part of the scenery. Get ads that work for VR and AR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

After many years of waiting, and even a second iteration of the device scrapped away, Microsoft is finally going to announce the next generation of HoloLens. On stage, there will be Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft), Alex Kipman (the inventor of Kinect and HoloLens) and Julia White (Corporate Vice President). The time has come.

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