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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. Kipman started his professional career at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, right after graduating from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2001. A host of promising new applications are being developed.

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Xbox Cofounder Seamus Blackley Takes R&D Post at AR Firm Daqri

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A recent scientific breakthrough from Daqri, SDL uses software and phase modulator to control the speed of light and re-create 3D point-cloud imagery. Blackley was one of the renegades at Microsoft who created the original Xbox game console, launched in 2001. (I Daqri was founded by Mullins in 2010.

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A Brief History of VR

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In 2001, SAS Cube created the first PC based cubic room that then led to the development of Virtools VR pack, a library pack add-on. 2017 is also the year that Microsoft entered the VR industry. . VR Development 2000- Present. .