Amazon Books Microsoft Unreal 
The Ghost Howls
JULY 13, 2020
And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations.
Robert Scoble
OCTOBER 4, 2019
It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. You can see this in today’s AR products (and despite what Microsoft or Magic Leap call their devices, they really are augmented reality devices that you wear on your face).
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AR Insider
OCTOBER 31, 2019
When you’re “wearing” in Vernor Vinge’s 2006 book Rainbow’s End, contact lenses and computers woven into clothing serve up an assortment of competing realities and overlays. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic).
XR for Business Podcast
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
” So, in our world, Unity — and let’s not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there’s Unreal. And they actually built an Unreal engine-based app to publish news content to go on with their news. Microsoft’s got a great product around it. Paul: Yeah. And what about wearables? Those are cool.
XR for Business Podcast
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
” So, in our world, Unity — and let’s not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there’s Unreal. And they actually built an Unreal engine-based app to publish news content to go on with their news. Microsoft’s got a great product around it. Paul: Yeah. And what about wearables? Those are cool.
XR for Business Podcast
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
So, in our world, Unity -- and let's not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there's Unreal. And they actually built an Unreal engine-based app to publish news content to go on with their news. the books--. Microsoft's got a great product around it. There's these other engines--. Alan: Improbable. Paul: Yeah.
XR for Business Podcast
JANUARY 29, 2020
He’s currently working on a book answering the question he closes with every interview he does, “What is the ultimate potential of VR?” We’ve got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. You could watch movies on it, and you could read books on it.
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