VRScout

JUNE 10, 2017

Apple and Google beat the billionaire social media magnate to creating the smartphone — the dominant platform underpinning the Facebook network. Companies like Google and Apple have done that instead. Microsoft has invested aggressively in the technology: it unveiled its HoloLens AR headset two years ago.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 17, 2020

But it also includes Disney, Google Earth, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple. He first got the attention of Microsoft when blogging about the detriments of 3D immersive universes like Second Life. Secretly working on something similar, Microsoft brought him in to help.

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Bernard Marr

JANUARY 29, 2024

Project Gutenberg – the oldest digital library of ebooks, established in 1971 – collaborated with Microsoft to turn 5,000 books into free audiobooks, all narrated by AI-generated (but human-sounding) voices using text-to-speech technology. You can access them through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts.

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AR Insider

JULY 15, 2021

From 2016 to 2019, I helped Apple figure out whatever it might be doing by prototyping experiences and technologies from the future. A few months before Apple, I was invited to Facebook to interview for a position leading Facebook’s new AR program. I worked at Microsoft from 2008-2012. your) social content, on-demand.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Since you founded Sketchfab in 2012, there has been a very big shift in 3D modeling and graphics regarding the emergence of VR. Microsoft Hololens. Apple is going to release something around that — Windows just released a phone with native 3D capture. How has your mission changed over time? by Virtual Studio. on Sketchfab.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Vuforia, a free to use development kit which supports many devices including Tango phones, EasyAR, ARKit for Apple devices; and ARCore from Google, Oculus and OpenVR, are also popular options these days. Edx.org is an online learning destination founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The first Oculus Rift prototype reignited the conversation when it arrived in 2012. In 2016, Microsoft began shipping a developer edition of its mixed reality HoloLens system, priced at $3,000. Image Credits: Apple Magic Leap is far from alone in those struggles.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

But if I take it very short, it started really in volume 2012-ish. So it took like from 2007 to 2012. And in 2011-2012 we did about 10 to 12,000 high-res images a year, and I would say maybe 1,500 of them were 3D. Then in 2012, the IKEA catalog app had AR in it. Martin: That story has been told a few times. Martin: Okay.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

But if I take it very short, it started really in volume 2012-ish. So it took like from 2007 to 2012. And in 2011-2012 we did about 10 to 12,000 high-res images a year, and I would say maybe 1,500 of them were 3D. Then in 2012, the IKEA catalog app had AR in it. Martin: That story has been told a few times. Martin: Okay.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Microsoft Hololens is a key player in the MR market. ARKit  — ARKit is one of the powerful AR SDK released by Apple on 2017 to build AR solutions using iOS devices. It released a development framework utilizing image recognition and tracking, and geolocation technologies in 2012.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

But if I take it very short, it started really in volume 2012-ish. So it took like from 2007 to 2012. And in 2011-2012 we did about 10 to 12,000 high-res images a year, and I would say maybe 1,500 of them were 3D. Then in 2012, the IKEA catalog app had AR in it. Martin: That story has been told a few times. Martin: Okay.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

So standardizing the 3D models that everybody uses; There’s OBJ, there’s glTF, there’s FDX, there’s now USDZ with Apple. We finally got WebAR working, and then Apple shut down the cameras, and I was like, “what?” The first Oculus was… out in, what, early 2012? Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 12, 2019

So standardizing the 3D models that everybody uses; There’s OBJ, there’s glTF, there’s FDX, there’s now USDZ with Apple. We finally got WebAR working, and then Apple shut down the cameras, and I was like, “what?” The first Oculus was… out in, what, early 2012? Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I do a lot with Apple technology. I'm a Microsoft master trainer, so I do a lot of work with Microsoft technology. So in 2012, when I was doing a lot of work with iPads in the classroom. I mean, I was a distinguished educator. So I needed something that was kind of broader to encompass all of those things.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I do a lot with Apple technology. I'm a Microsoft master trainer, so I do a lot of work with Microsoft technology. So in 2012, when I was doing a lot of work with iPads in the classroom. I mean, I was a distinguished educator. So I needed something that was kind of broader to encompass all of those things.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

I do a lot with Apple technology. I'm a Microsoft master trainer, so I do a lot of work with Microsoft technology. So in 2012, when I was doing a lot of work with iPads in the classroom. I mean, I was a distinguished educator. So I needed something that was kind of broader to encompass all of those things.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 29, 2019

in 2012, and 3.0 I gave a presentation of the first idea of a videodisc of the “ Plastico ” at a private conference held at Apple Computer in 1986 (my talk was published in 1998 here ). By the summer of 2018, we were ready to unveil our work to the general public through the stores of Apple, Microsoft, Oculus, and Vive.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

ZeniMax alleged that Carmack made a breakthrough in VR technology in March 2012, when he was still at id Software and before he met Luckey. There was a novelty to that story that gave the company the same authenticity that made people fall in love Apple, Microsoft, and even Facebook.”. Above: John Carmack, CTO of Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even the big players like Sony, Apple, and Microsoft have substantially reduced their production estimates for 2022, whilst processor manufacturers talk of delays into 2024. It wasn’t even possible to buy another Tundra HDK, and months later they are still showing out of stock. Image provided by Rob Cole). Image by Rob Cole).

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