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Microsoft’s Meandering XR Strategy Could Lead to Another Zune Moment

Road to VR

Microsoft released the first-gen Zune in 2006, an MP3 player that looked to compete with Apple’s largely dominant line of iPods. Apple wasn’t the first to make a portable MP3 player, although it was the first to make one everyone wanted. Even with viable hardware on your side, it’s not an easy thing to do.

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Report Predicts AR and VR Headsets Shipments to Approach 100 Million by 2021

Road to VR

Despite Sony being pleasantly surprised by its official PSVR sales figures – with the nearly 1 million units sold since its October 2016 launch – it’s difficult to get a handle on market penetration for VR hardware to date.

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Magic Leap Could be a Great Strategic Acquisition

VRWorld

Since Magic Leap’s inception in 2011, there has been great innovation in the technology sector focused in the virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality (MR) space with Magic Leap trying to create a new hardware interface designs. Google discontinued the interface in January 2015.

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

They come to the show to actually buy software and hardware because they really understand the need and understand what it can do, at least to a certain degree. When you when you think of all of the technologies we have with Hololens and Magic Leap and we have all these amazing technologies for spatial computing.

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Go XR or Go Extinct, with Super Ventures’ Ori Inbar

XR for Business Podcast

They come to the show to actually buy software and hardware because they really understand the need and understand what it can do, at least to a certain degree. When you when you think of all of the technologies we have with Hololens and Magic Leap and we have all these amazing technologies for spatial computing.

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Creating a Dialogue Between Innovators and Educators, with VirtualiTeach’s Steve Bambury

XR for Business Podcast

From 2011, we were one of the first schools in the Middle East to to roll out iPads in the classroom. I ended up doing trials with the Vive Focus and other hardware. I do a lot with Apple technology. From 2011, we were one of the first schools in the Middle East to to roll out iPads in the classroom.

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Creating a Dialogue Between Innovators and Educators, with VirtualiTeach’s Steve Bambury

XR for Business Podcast

From 2011, we were one of the first schools in the Middle East to to roll out iPads in the classroom. I ended up doing trials with the Vive Focus and other hardware. I do a lot with Apple technology. From 2011, we were one of the first schools in the Middle East to to roll out iPads in the classroom.