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

Road to VR

At least from the outside, it appears Microsoft isn’t actively competing for a seat at the XR table, which is fairly odd coming from a company that pioneered enterprise AR while simultaneously wrangling some of its top OEM partners to make a fleet of PC VR headsets for consumers in 2017. If Microsoft goes in half-cocked, maybe.

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The AR Space Race, Part VIII: Startups

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Apple signals interest in location-relevant AR through its geo-anchors and Project Gobi. These are a few utilitarian, commerce, and social angles. How else will geospatial AR materialize? What are its active ingredients, including 5G and the AR cloud ? continuing here with AR Startups. Foursquare.

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Scope AR Secures $9.7M Series A to Develop AR Training & Remote Assistance Tools

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Scope AR , the enterprise-focused AR studio, today announced it has successfully closed a $9.7 million Series A funding round to further develop it cross-platform AR work training and on-site instruction tools. ” SEE ALSO OpenXR Standard Ratified, Microsoft, Oculus, & Others to Release First Implementations.

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The AR Space Race, Part VIII: Startups

ARVR

Apple signals interest in location-relevant AR through its geo-anchors and Project Gobi. These are a few utilitarian, commerce, and social angles. How else will geospatial AR materialize? What are its active ingredients, including 5G and the AR cloud ? continuing here with AR Startups. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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

Road to VR

“2016 marked an important step for the AR and VR headset market with product finally arriving in end users’ hands and on their heads,” noted Ramon Llamas, research manager with IDC’s Augmented and Virtual Reality team. billion in 2021. Meanwhile, VR headsets grow from $2.1 billion in 2016 to $18.6

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Best Uses of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in Video Games

ARVR

We are eagerly waiting to see what the scheduled release of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X later this year will do to AR/VR gaming! While we wait, we compiled a list of the most exciting video games that feature different use cases of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) as key plot devices.

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Oculus CTO John Carmack Talks Immersive Technology On The Joe Rogan Podcast

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The industry legend gives his thoughts on VR, AR, location-based entertainment, and more. Topics ranged from the Oculus Quest and the future of location-based entertainment to AR headsets, artificial intelligence, and the potential behind Elon Musk’s Neuralink.