AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2021

This is now only possible wearing a backpack PC and VR headset in special locations like Sandbox VR, Zero Latency, and Dreamscape. The fund’s top five holdings are Nvidia (8.93%), Microsoft (4.91%), Roblox (4.85%), Tencent, majority shareholder of Epic Games (4.80%) and Unity (3.99%). Speaking of Nvidia….

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 24, 2023

The update also includes Unity integration, APIs for server optimization, and low-latency connections. The updates also integrate third-party tools from solution providers like Microsoft Azure, Siemans, and Unity to elevate workflows.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Microsoft announces Mesh, an XR collaboration platform. Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. But since Microsoft owns one of those studios (and using it costs around $100K/day if I remember well!), You are all fantastic! Here you are my flower for you!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Technologies such as noise suppression are commonly used on platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and others. This leads to a concise, clear audio output, complete with noise reduction, echo and reverberation removal, and low latency audio. These would include spatial audio, broadcast video latency enhancements, and others.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft ramps up distribution of HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Microsoft is working to improve the distribution of its latest devices: HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Other relevant news. HoloLens 2 availability has been expanded to 15 new regions : Italy (YESSS!)

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The problem is not the headset, but the controllers, that maybe to spare battery are emitting very low IR light, that can’t be detected very well outside, where the Sun emits too many IR rays; A Redditor has published a super cool guide on how to obtain the most from your router to have very low latency on Virtual Desktop.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. First of all, the Web3 VR platform has announced version 3.0 which is releasing this autumn with a massive update in which basically everything will be improved.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. On the technological side, it seems all is set to start using cloud rendering, but the big problem of the latency from the nearest server remains; VRSS (Variable Rate SuperSampling) v2 has been announced.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Microsoft Magic Leap Varjo HP Acer Samsung ASUS Dell Biel AjnaXR FYR Medical ESight Canon IrisVision VRgineers Zappar Lynx Valve Microsoft Microsoft has been increasing its focus on the extended reality landscape in recent years, with the production of solutions such as Microsoft Mesh, and a metaverse environment for Microsoft Teams.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JULY 26, 2023

Doing so will also provide greater interoperability with additional platforms such as Unity and Xcode, among others. He said, “If they can perfect their new R1 chip running, reach zero-latency, and controllerless interfacing working in real-time, this changes the game. “Now we need to see the stuff working,” he said.

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XROM

OCTOBER 15, 2023

In Microsoft Mesh, the immersive content you create is experienced by users on a desktop PC or in VR. The toolkit supports Unity so you can build environments in a familiar way and leverage existing scenes and assets to build experiences in Mesh. It also works without a server deployment, making it simple to get started.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. I have to warn you that the quality of the tethered connection is not the same as Quest Link (there is more latency and more blur), but it’s ok enough to work. So here I’m using the Pico 4 whenever possible.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Microsoft Microsoft has been increasing its focus on the extended reality landscape in recent years by producing solutions such as Microsoft Mesh and a metaverse environment for Microsoft Teams. The device includes two active Bluetooth controllers and access to development platforms such as Unity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

This aligns it with the prices for competing solutions like the Apple Vision Pro and Microsoft HoloLens 2. Unique passthrough capabilities: With dual, low-latency 20-megapixel cameras, the XR-4 headsets can create photorealistic mixed-reality experiences.

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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. The latency is really a lot less perceivable.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. The M2 delivers unparalleled standalone processing performance, while the new R1 chip is specialized to process input from the cameras, sensors, and microphones to enable what looked like high fidelity, low latency passthrough for a real-time sense of presence.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Using assisted reality smart glasses, the wearer of the device can connect with colleagues via video conferencing applications such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, where experts on the other end of the line see what the worker sees (point of view) as s/he observes a specific scenario in a factory, for example.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

But I would wait to rejoice from it: VR requires a very short motion-to-photon latency, and as of today no cloud rendering service can offer such low latency in every possible location of the user. The “metaverse” was not a key topic inside “Microsoft Build”. Snap shares lose -30% of its stock value.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). Of course, Microsoft and Amazon are observing the situation: in my opinion, Microsoft will wait a bit , considering its focus on AR enterprise with HoloLens, while Amazon could improve its already existing offering of glasses connected with Alexa. Sounded good.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Firms such as Virbela, Meta Platforms, ENGAGEXR, Spatial, Arthur, NVIDIA Omniverse, Microsoft, Pico Interactive, Varjo, HTC VIVE, and UPWorlds are all working to build these platforms. These firms have teamed up with Epic Games and Unity — two of the world’s largest gaming engines. Telecoms are key to achieving such goals.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

So Microsoft, as you know, we support ARKit- and ARCore-enabled devices. Microsoft launched their Azure Spatial Anchors, we could support Azure Spatial Anchors as well, and take their augmented reality to the next level. So there is gonna be– the latency problems are not gonna be this dramatic anymore. Yes, exactly.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

So Microsoft, as you know, we support ARKit- and ARCore-enabled devices. Microsoft launched their Azure Spatial Anchors, we could support Azure Spatial Anchors as well, and take their augmented reality to the next level. So there is gonna be– the latency problems are not gonna be this dramatic anymore. Yes, exactly.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. For example, Lumberyard from Amazon is released for creating games and VR experiences, while both Unity and Epic reveal in-VR tools to speed up the development process.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 2, 2019

And things like Microsoft introducing-- or announcing the world of Minecraft and augmented reality, meaning anywhere in the world, you can start building Minecraft blocks and it will stay there, positionally tracked, so the next person that comes along and-- basically what you're doing is that level, but made for industry and enterprise.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

The XR visual processing pipeline is both compute intensive and latency sensitive. It takes plenty of time, trial and working on game engines such as Unity & Unreal to get close to the fidelity that consumers have come to demand from even the most rudimentary smartphone apps. The smaller the M2P, the more immersive your experience.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He’s formerly held top product leadership positions at Microsoft and Nokia. At Nokia, Niko led a product program team in 2006-2007, and together with researchers from Nokia Research Center, his team developed the basis for the optical technology that later became the Microsoft Hololens. Today we have Niko Eiden, CEO of Varjo.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He’s formerly held top product leadership positions at Microsoft and Nokia. At Nokia, Niko led a product program team in 2006-2007, and together with researchers from Nokia Research Center, his team developed the basis for the optical technology that later became the Microsoft Hololens. Today we have Niko Eiden, CEO of Varjo.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months. Tools like that, like Chalk, and I think Microsoft has their version of it as well on Hololens and other things. Very quick.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months. Tools like that, like Chalk, and I think Microsoft has their version of it as well on Hololens and other things. Very quick.

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Machine Learning Education Apple Technology 78

XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He's formerly held top product leadership positions at Microsoft and Nokia. At Nokia, Niko led a product program team in 2006-2007, and together with researchers from Nokia Research Center, his team developed the basis for the optical technology that later became the Microsoft Hololens. Today we have Niko Eiden, CEO of Varjo.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Twelve months ago I put a prediction on LinkedIn saying that I thought -- based on some of the things that we're seeing coming out of Unity -- that Unity was going to go public within the next 12 months. Tools like that, like Chalk, and I think Microsoft has their version of it as well on Hololens and other things. Very quick.

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Machine Learning Education Apple Technology 60

XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. And the way you do this -- and we have not created a uniform idea -- but on our systems, you can log in with a Microsoft account, or log in with a Sony account, log in with a Nintendo account, and you can see your friends on Fortnite.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. And the way you do this -- and we have not created a uniform idea -- but on our systems, you can log in with a Microsoft account, or log in with a Sony account, log in with a Nintendo account, and you can see your friends on Fortnite.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

It’s like yep yep, it’s got six milliseconds latency. required on the host system) Supports applications running up to 60 fps Stereo speakers Microphone 85 grams total weight of glasses Bluetooth Low Energy for low latency connectivity. gen 2 connectivity (USB 3.0 And here is the link to buy them.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Motion-to-Photon latency is touted at 15ms whilst the refresh rate is either 90hz or 120hz. You can take very long flights in Microsoft Flight Simulator or some very long driving sessions when racing “24 Heures du Mans”.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Together with connection reliability, the Client updates included much improved inside-out tracking, local dimming, lighthouse mode, audio latency adjustment, bug fixes, and other important features. Arguably the most important update, and something long awaited by the non-Beta community, was the activation of eye tracking.

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