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How to Save Money on Business Travel with Virtual Reality

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VR Headsets for Tourism. Meta is also moving into the immersive tourism and live event sector. billion meeting minutes in Microsoft Teams alone in one day. . Companies like High Fidelity and Microsoft are already working on environments that make this possible. . The company has seen a record of 2.7

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Cooperation of Deep Tech SMEs and Global Giants Drive Opportunities in the Metaverse

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Nokia , the Finnish telecom giant, has been focusing on telecommunication infrastructure development after selling its mobile phone business to Microsoft in 2014. These include at least smart retail, tourism, and architecture. LaValle, who was also an early founder and head scientist of Oculus VR.

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VRdirect to Bring Competition in Training and Virtual Tours

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There is also potential in education and virtual tourism. The company also has some big-name partners including Oculus , Microsoft , and Telekom. “All of these enterprise clients are now at the point where they understand that they will need a standardized solution.”. VRdirect Is Crossing the Rhine.

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Spatial Beats: Apple VR, Google Poly & LBVR Hangs On

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Between the $299 Oculus Quest, the death of the movie theater, and the COVID stigma on shared headsets, you’d think we wouldn’t be hearing much about this right now. We are waiting and hoping and praying a white knight swoops in to rescue Poly like Microsoft rescued AltspaceVR in the VR winter of 2018. Not a good sign.

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Top XR Vendors Majoring in Travel for 2022

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With endless flights grounded, tourism put on hold, and opportunities to connect with customers diminished, confidence in the landscape has dwindled. To strengthen connections with an uncertain audience, travel and tourism companies are being forced to explore new technologies as a solution for innovation.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.01): HoloLens 2 may come in September, Oculus may commercialize a multiplayer LBVR solution, HP Reverb is back and much more!

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(Image by Microsoft). According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. HoloLens 2 could be put on sale on September. In any case, we will see.

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8 Insightful XR Travel Case Studies to Read in 2022

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In the last couple of years, we’ve begun to see some examples of what the right technology can do from leading hotel, transportation, and tourism companies. Microsoft and Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe. The tools included VR apps built for Oculus headsets which help to train team members to deal with complex guest situations.