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The Xbox Series X Review: Ushering In The Next Generation of Game Consoles

Anand Tech

We can state that the Xbox Series X, and its less-powerful sibling, the Series S, are the next generation consoles from Microsoft. Just three years ago, Microsoft launched the Xbox One X, the most powerful console in the market, but also with full compatibility with all Xbox One games and accessories.

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Halo's Trailer Bring Master Chief's Sci-fi Odyssey to Live Action

GizModo VR

Since the original Halo released in 2001, Microsoft has been trying for a long time to get Bungie and 343 Industries’ sci-fi shooter into live action beyond excellent commercials and webseries tie-ins. After several aborted attempts at making a movie, Halo is now finally a TV show for Paramount+ (with some speed bumps … Read more.

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BISim tells us how XR is relevant for the Army

The Ghost Howls

I joined BISim in 2009 after seven years of working in engineering positions in video games companies. We use the latest game-based technology and a large, experienced in-house team of engineers to develop high-fidelity, cost-effective training, and simulation software products and components for defense applications. .

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Alex Kipman Nominated for Inventor’s Award

Tech Trends VR

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

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Daqri is working with Blackley, who was originally a theoretical physicist before he started making games, and his team of physicists at Heat Engine in Southern California to explore applications of optics and holography in something that Daqri calls Software Defined Light. I wrote a book about the making of the Xbox).

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Facebook steps into cloud gaming — and another feud with Apple

TechCrunch VR

Facebook will soon be the latest tech giant to enter the world of cloud gaming. Their approach is different than what Microsoft or Google has built but Facebook highlights a shared central challenge: dealing with Apple. Why cloud stream mobile games that your device is already capable of running locally? Image via Facebook.

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A Brief History of VR

VeeR VR

Atari founded a lab for virtual reality research in 1982, but it closed down two short years later due to the North American video game crash of 1983. In 1991, Sega released Sega VR headsets for arcade games and the Mega Drive console. 2017 is also the year that Microsoft entered the VR industry. .