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

Road to VR

It had a compelling reason to exist, which is why Microsoft directly competed against iPod Touch over the course of three device generations before eventually giving up the goat in 2011 and discontinuing the third-gen Zune. Three years later it released HoloLens 2, which directly competes today against Magic Leap Two.

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

Road to VR

” 2016 saw the arrival of 3 major consumer virtual reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. IDC themselves predicted in 2011 that by 2015, Microsoft’s then new (and now dead) Windows Phone platform would overtake Apple’s IOS as in the mobile phone market.

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2016’s Record Breaking VR/AR Venture Funding Totals $1.8 Billion

Road to VR

Both median deal size and total number of deals in 2016 outpaced those in 2015, with a 58% increase in average deal size and 30% more deals, according to year-end analysis from Greenlight Insights of individual deals back to 2011. “In Encouragingly, there is a growing list of notable investors committed to the space.

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DreamGlass is an interesting Augmented Reality glass that costs only $399

The Ghost Howls

HTC has understood that too, and that’s why its latest flagship phone can be a controller for the Vive Focus. HTC: 10, U11. But for developers that have not the money to buy a HoloLens or a Magic Leap (when it will come out, maybe in 3018), Dreamglass can be an interesting opportunity. on the screen). Connectivity.

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Retraining for a Post-Retirement World with VRVoice’s Bob Fine

XR for Business Podcast

In 2011, Bob launched the only printed magazine covering social media, The Social Media Monthly. One of the stats that came out of my conversation with the president of HTC, Alvin Wang Graylin; they did a quick study with some students, and they saw a six times increase in the concentration levels of those students. Alan: Absolutely.

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Retraining for a Post-Retirement World with VRVoice’s Bob Fine

XR for Business Podcast

In 2011, Bob launched the only printed magazine covering social media, The Social Media Monthly. One of the stats that came out of my conversation with the president of HTC, Alvin Wang Graylin; they did a quick study with some students, and they saw a six times increase in the concentration levels of those students. Alan: Absolutely.

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Retraining for a Post-Retirement World with VRVoice's Bob Fine

XR for Business Podcast

In 2011, Bob launched the only printed magazine covering social media, The Social Media Monthly. As I'm thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE -- first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now -- and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, "well, this is ready for prime time."