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Acer & HP Windows Mixed Reality Headset Dev Kits Now Available for Pre-order Starting at $300

Road to VR

Today Microsoft announced that developers in the US and Canada can now pre-order the Acer ($299) and HP ($329) Mixed Reality headsets from the Microsoft Store. You can now pre-order Acer ($299) and HP ($329 ) headsets directly from the Microsoft Store. Delivery of the headsets is scheduled for August 2017.

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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. The HoloLens incorporates several patent-protected Microsoft inventions, including Kipman’s motion sensors initially brought to market for the Xbox Kinect video game controller. billion in 2016.

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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. VR, for example, allowed some of our customers to focus on pilot training to start to train flying in formations which was not possible with previously used displaying hardware (i.e., Otakar Nieder (Image by BISim).

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Sony Santa Monica Studio Prototyped A God of War VR Demo For PSVR

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

For Microsoft it’s the Halo and Gears of War games. “So this is 2009, 2010,” Marks said. All major console manufacturers have flagship first-party characters that define their systems and audience. For Nintendo it’s always been the colorful cast of the Mario, Donkey Kong, and Zelda franchises.

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Minimum Specs for Microsoft’s Windows 10 AR/VR Interface Are Impressively Low

Road to VR

In a compatibility test application from recent Windows 10 test builds, Microsoft has revealed some minimum specs for Windows Holographic, the Windows 10 interface and platform for VR and AR devices which will include inexpensive headsets from big manufacturers. SEE ALSO Microsoft Says New Surface Studio is VR Ready(ish).

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The Future Of Computing: Supercloud And Sky Computing

Bernard Marr

In the simplest terms, it involves providing computer storage, processing power, and applications via the internet, so users don't need to worry about buying, installing, and maintaining hardware and software themselves. Stoika and Shenker were early proponents of the cloud computing paradigm, writing about it as early as 2009.

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Upcoming changes to monthly stats report

Hypergrid Business

I’ve been doing the stats report every month — without a break — since mid-2009. I don’t want to live in a metaverse owned by Microsoft or Facebook. And I was anxious to start using using this hardware to explore OpenSim. Today, most of my readers come for the virtual reality hardware reviews.