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Xbox Game Studios Has (inadvertently?) Acquired Heaps of VR Development Talent

Road to VR

A year ago, in response to Sony consistently delivering high-quality exclusives for PS4, Microsoft made a commitment to rejuvenating its first-party game development efforts and went on a shopping spree, acquiring a handful of respected studios to bolster its first-party game development talent under the Xbox Game Studios banner.

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These Are The Stocks You Could Buy To Invest In The VR Industry

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

VR investments have broken into the billions of dollars with reports showing as high as $4-5 billion since 2010 and $2 billion in the last 12 months alone. Microsoft – NASDAQ: MSFT – VR operating system, VR platform, VR headset. This list will mostly be made up of publicly traded companies that are confirmed to have a presence in VR.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.11): new Quest is in the works, Magic Leap may pivot to healthcare, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I hope that a future rumor clarifies a bit more what is Facebook’s strategy. (Thanks Alessio Palumbo for the tip!). 3D environment scans are in 2020 what pictures were in 2010. Microsoft presents VROOM, a solution that mixes AR and robotics to let you have a telepresence robot with your AR avatar during meetings.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. The company was later acquired by Google in 2010. As a customer-focused product strategist, he oversees platform strategies that unify the product category for emerging technologies.

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Reaching for the Clouds with 6D.ai’s Matt Miesnieks

XR for Business Podcast

My last company… I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the big see-through touchscreen DJ controller emulator, but we made basically a touchscreen midi controller before there were touch screens in 2010. So Microsoft said, “hey, let’s make it out-of-the-box useful.

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Reaching for the Clouds with 6D.ai’s Matt Miesnieks

XR for Business Podcast

My last company… I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the big see-through touchscreen DJ controller emulator, but we made basically a touchscreen midi controller before there were touch screens in 2010. So Microsoft said, “hey, let’s make it out-of-the-box useful.

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Reaching for the Clouds with 6D.ai’s Matt Miesnieks

XR for Business Podcast

My last company… I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the big see-through touchscreen DJ controller emulator, but we made basically a touchscreen midi controller before there were touch screens in 2010. So Microsoft said, “hey, let’s make it out-of-the-box useful.

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