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DECEMBER 21, 2018

The company showed off their prototype at the Interservice/ Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) earlier this month, alongside partner OptiTrack which provided motion tracking tags to track all moving parts of the M2, allowing users to operate the weapon just like the real thing. Army with AR Headsets.

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MARCH 30, 2017

Microsoft today revealed it hired Liz Hamren from Oculus to head up marketing for mixed reality as the company begins to build out its efforts beyond HoloLens into a broad range of devices including VR headsets. Hamren was the chief marketing officer at Oculus and joins Microsoft as corporate vice president of mixed reality marketing.

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JUNE 6, 2017

Microsoft just deflated our hopes for a VR blowout at its Xbox E3 press conference this Sunday, but left us with a big tease of what’s to come at the same time. Microsoft previously confirmed that Scorpio would be getting mixed reality support in 2018, but we still expected to hear about its plans at this year’s show.

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MAY 11, 2017

The hardware of the headsets themselves likely won’t change between when these systems start shipping to developers and when they are marketed toward consumers in a push planned for the holidays this year, according to Microsoft. Tagged with: acer , hp , windows 10 Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Microsoft’s VR headsets, made in partnership with major companies, remain shrouded in mystery at the moment, but select developers will start getting a peak behind the curtain later this month. We’ll next see the headsets at the company’s Build developer conference in May, and after that we’d expect to hear more at E3.

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MAY 14, 2017

Microsoft revealed a lot this week at its annual Build developer conference. But to get a better sense of how the company wants to tie all its various apps, platforms, products, services, and devices together, look no further than the newly unveiled Microsoft Fluent Design System. Microsoft is treading lightly here.

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MAY 11, 2017

In a keynote today Microsoft is revealing a long-awaited missing piece of its Windows mixed reality platform – motion controllers. According to Microsoft, the controllers would be shown on stage at its keynote but wouldn’t be available for hands-on demos at its Build developer conference this week.

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JUNE 30, 2017

The VRTO Virtual & Augmented Reality World Conference & Expo just wrapped up Monday night in Toronto. By the end of the conference, 5 themes on what will guild the VR industry forward, became glaringly clear. We need to nurture this culture which is even more apparent when industry leaders converge into conferences like VRTO.

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MARCH 29, 2017

Back in October Microsoft unveiled a bold new vision for its Windows 10 operating system named the Creator’s Update, and mixed reality technology played a big part in it. Microsoft’s Project Scorpio, an upgraded version of its Xbox One, will be getting support for MR content in 2018.

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APRIL 27, 2017

At a demo for an internal prototype Microsoft VR headset at the Game Developers Conference in late February, we reported that the headset’s biggest innovation, the inside-out tracking, worked well — albeit we tested it with a very short cord. The demo was set inside a building called the “cliffhouse.”

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JUNE 12, 2017

Microsoft held a big debut for its refreshed Xbox One console, the Xbox One X , at E3 yesterday, but there was one piece of the puzzle missing: VR support. Head of Xbox Phil Spencer addressed that question in an interview with the BBC following yesterday’s conference. Tagged with: e3 Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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APRIL 4, 2023

Apple’s mixed reality (MR) headset is set to delay again amid its upcoming Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) from 5 to 9 June, a series of tweets has found this week. Like Google and Microsoft, who have not developed XR devices for consumer markets, there will be less hardware to integrate into a future metaverse.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Microsoft, Google and Apple all have their own approaches to augmented reality and virtual reality, but the race for the face is particularly critical to Facebook and Amazon, because they have yet to establish computing gateways. Microsoft (enterprise) 4. Facebook has moved up in our view, while Google and Microsoft have stepped down.

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MARCH 24, 2023

Major cooperations are building upon 2022’s technology innovations to provide reliable XR SAAS platforms, giving developers space to leverage immersive solutions across the workplace. The updates also integrate third-party tools from solution providers like Microsoft Azure, Siemans, and Unity to elevate workflows.

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MARCH 1, 2017

I tried a Microsoft prototype VR headset at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco and got the first public look at the company’s vision for mixed reality beyond Hololens. I was among a handful of journalists invited to see the internal Microsoft prototype, though I was told photos or videos for my demo would not be allowed.

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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!), It is not an app, but a tool to build apps.

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MARCH 4, 2017

Game-streaming service OnLive has come and gone, and Microsoft over-hyped the effect its Azure platform would have on Xbox One games, but that’s not stopping one company from using the cloud to unlock the power of its tools. Scores of developers are already using SpatialOS to experiment and to build future products.

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DECEMBER 9, 2016

The legendary programmer and founder of Epic Games sat down with me after his keynote address at the VRX conference in San Francisco and, as conversations with Sweeney usually do, the topic quickly turned to the issue of open platforms. The question is if they’ll build it into a walled garden like Apple or keep it open.

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MARCH 15, 2021

Apple already made hardware, so it already had the infrastructure to build it and just added XR people on top of this infrastracture, while Facebook could not). Read about Microsoft’s Ignite conference. GTC21 conference starts on April 12–16. Gorilla Tag and its side effects Funny link. But it is impressive anyway.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

The event is organized by The Virtual Reality Foundation, which is composed of many of the same people behind the Virtual Reality Los Angeles conference and startup Mindshow. Apple’s eye-catching ARKit is on the verge of release alongside a series of Microsoft-backed VR headsets. You can find past winners at www.protoawards.com.

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JUNE 19, 2017

Microsoft didn’t even mention VR at all during the reveal of the Xbox One X even though executives have suggested the system will still support it. Once I got my bearings with the glove, which I was wearing while mimicking the action of holding a helicopter’s control stick, I flew closer to the ground and between buildings.

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MARCH 4, 2017

It was Microsoft that led me onto this. We’ve written about this before ; it’s almost as if Oculus is the Apple of VR and Valve is the Microsoft. As it turns out the Microsoft of VR might be, well, Microsoft. The Build developer conference is in May, and that’s where I expect to find out a lot more.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The Oculus product roadmap as shown at last year’s F8 conference. The most notable of these being Microsoft’s HoloLens and the Meta 2. Tagged with: ar , development , hiring , incubation , job , lead , oculus , redmond , research , team , washington. ” Read the Full Job Description. .”

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The Oculus product roadmap as shown at last year’s F8 conference. The most notable of these being Microsoft’s HoloLens and the Meta 2. Tagged with: ar , development , hiring , incubation , job , lead , oculus , redmond , research , team , washington. ” Read the Full Job Description. .”

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JULY 26, 2023

Citing informal social media polls ahead of the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2023), Latta stated that many had resorted to “clickbait,” rather than trialling the headset. It is not sure what they are building in their garage,” he said. “Everyone was even waiting till Apple announced something.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

On the one hand we have platform wars , where Vive, Play Station, Oculus and Microsoft compete for the users. The next milestone in building a better European VR ecosystem, one that connects many great hotspots spread around the continent with the businesses in need of VR and AR, is VR@Cebit 2017. Tagged with: hackvention.

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MARCH 5, 2017

based Epic Games, this week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. More people build an Apple with Unity than anyone else. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”. Tagged with: John Riccitiello , Tim Sweeney , unity , Unreal. Both are stellar companies that started out in very different ways.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In aviation and aerospace, Lockheed Martin ’s space division received attention for its use of MR headsets and software by Scope AR to build spacecraft faster, as did Bell Helicopter for using HTC Vive to drastically accelerate the helicopter design process. Hardware announcements: Head-worn.

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JUNE 13, 2023

Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. Aneesh Kulkarni : I think Apple wants you to build for their ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

We had at the same time the Game Developer Conference (the GDC) and the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) by NVIDIA, so we had lots of announcements about 3D technology in general and also about XR. Furthermore, Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint, will be connected with Omniverse Project Mellon has been unveiled.

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JUNE 2, 2017

The 2017 edition of the event officially takes place from June 13th – 15th, with three days of press conferences preceding it. It’s here that titans like Sony, Microsoft and others do their best to wow us with new announcements on both the software and hardware front. It would be a huge missed opportunity for Microsoft.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Microsoft’s Windows 10 ‘Fall Creators Update’ is available for download today, making the operating system compatible with its line of Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets, which coincidentally are arriving on doorsteps and store shelves starting today too. Image courtesy Microsoft. Front hinged display.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

Of course, we shouldn’t ignore Microsoft’s role in the mixed reality industry. Oculus partnered with Microsoft to bundle the Xbox One controller with every Rift, allowing the company to hit the market more quickly with the headset while the Oculus Touch controllers were finished. Pressure Mounting.

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

Speaking at the Games for Change 2017 conference, Magic Leap “Chief Gaming Wizard” Graeme Devine offered some insight into the types of AR experiences the company has been building internally, and offers up what he believes will be the format of AR content which will “define a generation.”

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JULY 12, 2016

We may still be in the early days of this New Reality Renaissance, but you’d never guess it walking around VRTO (Virtual and Augmented Reality Toronto World Conference & Expo). So to kick off the conference, the Torontonian delivered a keynote explaining his ideas and presenting this code. This was no accident. The FIVARS pavilion.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

But, in the early days of this industry, it is the developer conferences, the places where creators come together to share knowledge and reveal breakthroughs, that are the really exciting events to cover. There’s no better time of the year to do that than at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). Room 3001, West Hall.

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So one of the first activities that people will learn to perform is LOTO, so learning how to Lock Out and Tag Out a piece of equipment. Add in the remote aspect to that, then I think you'd have the future of virtual conference training, if you would, that web-based virtual training.

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