ARPost

MARCH 12, 2021

Many leading technology companies such as Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Google are investing billions into developing these technologies. It took place from the 1980s (when these were initially introduced into the markets) to 2015 (when they were finally fully adopted). I am not the only one who has identified this trend.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

recently teased an update to their project that aims to replicate the official Microsoft version of Minecraft for HoloLens, the company’s $3000 AR headset, and put it on mobile devices capable of running Google’s ARCore and Apple’s ARKit. Now, with the release of Google ARCore and Apple ARKit, Speak Geek?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Following this period of Metaverse criticism, firms such as Apple avoided the terminology for their own MR device, and Meta barely referred to its Horizon service during Connect 2023. Meta uses the industrial Metaverse framework that Microsoft revealed slowly across H2 2023. But how did Microsoft get to this point?

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VRScout

DECEMBER 4, 2017

They became one of the first teams to join Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Partner Program. Our public release of this application is just the beginning of showcasing next-generation collaboration scenarios, something we expect to be a major focus for Microsoft HoloLens and Windows Mixed Reality applications in the years to come.”.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 29, 2020

Among tech’s big five — Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook — all but Facebook have crossed the mark. Apple was first, followed by Microsoft and Amazon (which has since dipped below the mark). Altogether the big five now account for more than 17 percent of the S&P 500, up from 11 percent in 2015.

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AllThingsVR

JULY 5, 2016

AR/VR M&A Timeline: Facebook, GoPro, HP, Apple Begin To Grab Startups In the wake of Facebook’s high-profile acquisition of Oculus VR, corporates from HP to GoPro are snapping up augmented reality and virtual reality startups. App maker Blippar operates in the mobile AR-game space and acquired visual search developer Layar in 2014.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 26, 2016

At the annual Surface event, this time dubbed as the Windows 10 event, Microsoft showed us its new, really good looking and innovative devices, as well as software tidbits that we are really happy to see. We have covered that announcement in the separate story: Microsoft Windows VR Headsets Coming in April 2017.

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TechCrunch VR

JUNE 30, 2021

When former Art Director Zac Duff started teaching a game development course online in 2015, he faced the same challenges that teachers around the globe have become all too familiar with after a pandemic-induced lockdown. “Right at the center of it is knowledge transfer. ” Image Credits: JigSpace. .

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Yesterday Apple held a keynote presentation to update the world on their latest products. It’s too early for Apple to jump into the AR/VR game. That much was made clear on stage at the company’s latest keynote where they revealed the iPhone 7 and the Apple Watch Series 2. Acquisitions.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Google , Intel, Facebook and Microsoft have all either already begun or announced significant VR initiatives in the past 12-24 months. One name is notably absent from that list: Apple. Despite the occasional patent or acquisition , Apple has yet to make any concrete statement concerning its commitment to VR.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Credit: Alex Perry / Mashable / Microsoft. If the keyboard your desktop or laptop came with has a Windows key on the lower left and an “Enter” key instead of a “Return” key, chances are you’re using Microsoft’s iconic Windows OS. Apple's method is the easiest. Windows 11's start menu.

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ARPost

MARCH 12, 2021

Many leading technology companies such as Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Google are investing billions into developing these technologies. It took place from the 1980s (when these were initially introduced into the markets) to 2015 (when they were finally fully adopted). I am not the only one who has identified this trend.

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ARVR

JULY 9, 2020

Google launched Google Glass , and Microsoft launched HoloLens , a head-mounted display (Krevelen, 2010)(Jaimini, 2016). 2010s : Companies are investing in the potential of this area like Google with ARCore and Apple with ARKit (Papagiannis, 2017). The FLARToolKit software was announced for free use, ported by the Adobe Flash platform.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2017

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. It should also be pointed out that, as is the case for every market researcher, predictions can easily be wide of the mark.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Microsoft product lineup surprised everyone today, but the biggest surprise was planned for VR fans. Not only are these devices cheaper than the Oculus Rift and Vive, but Microsoft says they’re better too. Following that, presentation continued with several features using Microsoft HoloLens. Stay tuned. Stay tuned.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 28, 2017

This interview was conducted a few weeks before Apple announced ARKit on June 5th and then Google ditched the Tango brand and depth-sensor hardware requirement for their phone-based AR on August 29th when they launched ARCore.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 30, 2024

Apple, Apple, Apple. The impact of Apple’s headset is predicted by some in the XR industry to bring new eyes and fresh investments towards broader enterprise and consumer AR/VR/MR companies – already, it appears XR firms are taking note of the potential spatial computing trend of 2024.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Apple’s event took place on Thursday, October 27th, 2016. We were on the live stream to see the first new hardware presented and were left wondering is the spirit of Apple, company which sparked a lot of emotions from the second return of Steve Jobs to his untimely departure. That’s expecting a little much from Apple.

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Upload VR

JULY 10, 2023

At Microsoft in the 90s he co-developed Windows NT, the workstation OS which became the technology foundation of all Windows versions from XP onwards. Bavor led Google's AR/VR efforts from 2015, as well as Google's wider Labs department from November 2021, until March of this year. Mark Lucovsky is a veteran operating systems engineer.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Even at the low side of 100,000 units, that’s in the neighborhood of how many Oculus Rift DK2s were shipped globally , which at the time of launch in 2015 cost nearly one-sixth of the price of ML One. SEE ALSO Apple AR Headset FOV, Codename, and Stereoscopic Rendering Mode Reportedly Found in iOS 13.1.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 5, 2017

Sadly, we don’t know which company is really in the stronger position because their data comparisons are apples and oranges. Riccitiello said in a press event and in our interview that Unity-based games were installed more than 16 billion times in 2016, up 31 percent from 2015. More people build an Apple with Unity than anyone else.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2014, 2015 and 2016 The Proto Awards were held to recognize some of the groundbreaking efforts pushing forward the emerging medium of VR content. Apple’s eye-catching ARKit is on the verge of release alongside a series of Microsoft-backed VR headsets.

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VRWorld

OCTOBER 4, 2017

over the 2015–2020 forecast period in any sector other than digital reality. Apple has also something to say. Scott Montgomerie, cofounder and CEO of Scope AR, an enterprise AR developer, said that what’s most important for AR hardware will likely be the iPhone X, Apple’s highest-end device.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Devine has been part of the digital games industry for more than 30 years, starting at Virgin Games in the ‘80s with stints at id Software, Ensemble Studios, Microsoft and Apple where he worked on a variety of projects from 7th Guest to Quake to Halo Wars.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Examples include everything from the Lenovo ThinkReality A3 system, to the Vuzix Blade, and Microsoft Hololens 2. We’re still waiting to see a set of MR or AR glasses released by Apple, and the company recently announced it would be pushing its development back to around 2025.

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VRWorld

JULY 19, 2017

The SDK supports Microsoft HoloLens and Universal Windows Platform (UWP), which will represent the default form for Windows Mixed Reality , Windows 10 Creator’s Edition applications. The company has also added new features to their software to interface with the Microsoft HoloLens on the Universal Windows Platform (UWP).

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AR Insider

APRIL 15, 2020

Why is Apple Buying NextVR. Two such companies apparently found ports in the storm last week: NextVR reportedly is being acquired by Apple, and 6D.ai Apple and NextVR. The obvious question is: what does NextVR have that could be worth $100m to Apple? Find out more or contact us to participate here. by Devon Copley.

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VRWorld

APRIL 14, 2017

This processor is two years old, and since the sequence was 16-core in 2011, and 260-core in 2015, we wonder if the 2017 or 2018 will see 390-core, 520-core, or 650-core design… we might even see a thousand-core plus design in a few years time. Add in Apple’s domestic CPUs and GPUs. Remember, this is a CPU, not a GPU.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

Streaming services Netflix and Hulu have been in the VR space for a while (Netflix announced their app for Gear VR all the way back in the fall of 2015), and Sony-owned Crackle is attempting to catch up. APPLE HIRES AUGMENTED REALITY EXPERT FROM NASA. THE STREAMING SERVICES BATTLE IT OUT IN VR: CRACKLE ANNOUNCES THEIR PLANS.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 25, 2022

TL;DR: As of June 25, you can get a refurbished Apple MacBook Air with Microsoft Office Lifetime License Bundle for just $476, when it would normally cost $1,348 — that's savings of 64%. Here’s a new-to-you MacBook Air that comes with a lifetime license to Microsoft Office for Mac — all for just $476 (reg.

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ARVR

JANUARY 29, 2021

© Apple, Inc. While Apple fans have long been waiting for Apple to launch its own augmented and virtual reality ( AR/VR ) wearables, and despite many competitors already presenting market-ready AR glasses and VR headsets , there are still more questions than answers around what Apple’s AR/VR first product will look like.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Let’s see how Apple and Google will answer. According to GamesIndustry.biz, Sony is closing its Manchester-based game studio, that it opened in 2015 to produce ‘AAA’ PSVR exclusives. I’m also adding a bonus video that shows you that you can use Microsoft Maquette to create immersive movie storyboards in an easy way. Great post.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

Microsoft too had to lose $10B to let Xbox enter the gaming console market and compete with PlayStation. It’s a good moment for VR: thanks to the strong sales of the Oculus Quest 2 and the rumors of Apple entering the space soon, there is much more confidence in the future of immersive technologies. Image by Microsoft).

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Mashable VR

APRIL 15, 2022

For instance, this refurbished MacBook Air and lifetime license to Microsoft Office for Mac bundled together will only cost you $476. The refurbished MacBook Air hails from 2015, so it's not exactly the latest and greatest model on the shelves, but it’s still a workhorse. Credit: Apple. Prices subject to change.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Is this a hint of Apple’s future plans for VR and AR? The rumored iPhone 7 Plus with a dual-lens camera system finally made its debut at Apple’s September product presentation Wednesday. iPhone 7 Plus depth sensing demo during Wednesday’s Apple keynote presentation.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

A collaboration with Valve, the product was introduced as a demo under the “SteamVR hardware system” banner at 2015’s GDC show. 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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AUGUST 1, 2018

EasyJet and British Airways followed with Apple Watch apps allowing travelers to receive real-time flight updates and board their planes with just a flick of the wrist. That year, SITA worked with Helsinki Airport to explore visualizing airport operations with the Microsoft HoloLens.

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