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Microsoft Files Patent For VR Mat With Haptic Feedback And Pressure Sensors

VRScout

Could Microsoft’s high-tech floormat be the future of at-home 4D entertainment? According to a patent filed by Microsoft to the United States Patent & Trademark Office earlier this week, the company has been experimenting with the idea of a unique VR floor mat device designed to enhance users immersion.

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AR 101?—?A brief summary (Part 1)

ARVR

Augmented Reality Trends (Part 2) Brief history Some important AR facts: 60s : Engineer Ivan Sutherland, created the SketchPad project, a system based on what is now known as computer graphics, and created a see-through to present 3D graphics (Krevelen, 2010)(Jaimini, 2016). 2000s : First outdoor mobile AR game ARQuake. ISSN 1029–242X.

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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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Augmented World Expo Asia 2023 Announces Agenda

XROM

Singapore VR/AR conference announces speakers from Meta, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, 3M, IMDA, HTC, among others. Global technology giants on the agenda include Meta, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, Lenovo, and Qualcomm. Begun in 2010, Augmented World Expo has become the top global conference for everything XR.

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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. billion in 2016.

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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. Most people know Xu due to his dispute with American virtual reality company Magic Leap. The company was later acquired by Google in 2010. However, in June 2020, a U.S.

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How science fiction precedes science fact and what it means for the metaverse

Hypergrid Business

I wrote my own ViFi novel, MetaWars , in 2010 after the Icelandic ash cloud grounded flights across Europe. Anyone who spends their days working from home, on what feels like non-stop Zoom meetings or Microsoft Teams sessions, is living a type of virtual reality. Still from 2018 film Ready Player One.