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Microsoft to Cut Back Staff for US Army’s IVAS Headset amid Layoffs

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Microsoft has reportedly planned to reduce the number of employees working on its US Army mixed reality (MR) headset. Bloomberg reported the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant will slash 10,000 jobs and several hardware projects. ” This will include the IVAS system, the sources said, speaking on anonymity.

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Power and Responsibility: Highlights from Microsoft Build

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“We need to ask ourselves not only what computers can do, but what they should do,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in his opening keynote at Build. The most profound technologies are those that disappear. Microsoft sees the “intelligent cloud” as the backbone of this revolution.

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Alex Kipman Nominated for Inventor’s Award

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The Brazilian-born inventor gets recognition for his groundbreaking work with the Microsoft Hololens. His ideas are enhancing the real world with digital information that helps people achieve higher levels of efficiency, and creating new opportunities in fields such as engineering, communications, and healthcare.”. billion in 2016.

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The Knight Foundation launches $750,000 initiative for immersive technology for the arts

TechCrunch VR

Through a partnership with Microsoft the foundation is offering a share of a $750,00 pool of cash and the option of technical support from Microsoft, including mentoring in mixed-reality technologies and access to the company’s suite of mixed reality technologies. . Exploring the Gallery Through Voice – Alley Interactive.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.05.17): HTC announces Vive Pro 2 and Vive Focus 3, PSVR 2 to feature eye tracking, and more!

The Ghost Howls

But before leaving you to the best pieces of AR/VR news of the week, let me tease you that in the upcoming days I will publish an article I’m sure you will all love… it’s a hands-on preview on… you’ll discover it! It has created tools to improve geolocation, multiplayer, and also to deliver more realistic AR experiences (e.g.

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Top 10 Articles

VRWorld

” Sky is the limit but AR is now here, NASA sightings in Apple. While other major tech companies like Google , Facebook and Microsoft have raced into the VR/AR markets, Apple has been biding its time.” “Our faces are regarded to be the most expressive part of our body. link] a-hire/.

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XR Technologies in Service of the Human Experience, with Voices of VR Podcast’s Kent Bye – Part 2

XR for Business Podcast

In this half, the two VR podcast hosts discuss the ethics of XR, building a strong economic ecosystem for emerging technologies, the AR Cloud, and more. And I published a podcast with the managing director of Open AR Cloud, and one of the other founding members. And then he went to go start the HITLab in Washington. Kent: Yeah.