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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

GE USES AR TO TALK TO MACHINES IN MICROSOFT PARTNERSHIP. Using human-computer interfaces, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, employees are communicating and interacting with machines via the Microsoft Hololens augmented reality device. and is continuing to lead the enterprise space with augmented reality.

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

When you’re “wearing” in Vernor Vinge’s 2006 book Rainbow’s End, contact lenses and computers woven into clothing serve up an assortment of competing realities and overlays. AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture.

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Sony Just Invested $250 Million in Epic Games, Here’s What it Could Mean for VR and Beyond

Road to VR

Unifying under a single game engine would mean less replication of game engine R&D as much as developer training and experience. Mega-game publisher Electronic Arts pulled a similar move when it acquired DICE, the studio behind Battlefield , back in 2006. EA’s Game Engine Case Study.

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Combining the Best of AR and VR with Varjo’s XR-1, featuring Niko Eiden

XR for Business Podcast

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.

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Combining the Best of AR and VR with Varjo’s XR-1, featuring Niko Eiden

XR for Business Podcast

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.

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Combining the Best of AR and VR with Varjo's XR-1, featuring Niko Eiden

XR for Business Podcast

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. But it's not just the pilot training.

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Metaverse! Transformational Challenges Ahead…

ARVR

With Accenture recently purchasing 60,000 Oculus 2 devices for training, sales of the Oculus are looking good, Outside of Oculus, and new software platforms such as Meta, a number of AR glasses have also been released into the market recently. Microsoft has done well in the mixed reality space as it relates to enterprise adoption.