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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.

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It’s Time To Develop A Consent Framework For Virtual Beings

VRScout

A scan of Sir David Attenborough in a VR app (Image Credit: Microsoft ). Tupac hologram performing at Coachella 2012 (Image Credit: SnoopDoggTV). On Identity and Training Agent Behavior on Personal Data. Basing virtual beings on real people is not a new concept. Image Credit: Leicester College).

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XR Talks: Notes From an AR Legend

AR Insider

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. Interview Only. Entire Program.

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Martial arts in the metaverse

Life at the Feeding Edge

The aim being that if you capture 3D data points of a movement you can recreate that move digitally from any angle and at any speed. Using the old Microsoft Kinect c ontroller then the newer version 2 ( 2012 and 2014 even longer ago than I thought ).

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BISim tells us how XR is relevant for the Army

The Ghost Howls

Military simulations are one of the fields where virtual reality has always been an important technology , even before that VR had its new renaissance in 2012. Do you have any statistical data to prove the effectivity of VR in your field? Does the military personnel also use some XR accessories (e.g.

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Q&A With Matt Bell: How Matterport Started Capturing The Real Estate Market In VR

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Matt Bell founded Matterport after the release of Microsoft Kinect and seeing it’s potential to create 3D environments to give someone that immersive feeling in a space. It sounds like you guys had a pivot somewhere around 2011–2012 when you had that realization. tl;dr — VR wasn’t even around when Matterport was founded.

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Breaking Down Facebook’s XR Road Map

AR Insider

Facebook reportedly buys data from other companies in places it can’t collect. Machine learning algorithms for avatars will use tracking data from our eyes, mouths, and bodies. And that means they’ll collect a ton of user data now, using machine learning to inform more optimized hardware for actual consumers later.