VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Microsoft debuts their latest mixed reality device at Mobile World Conference 2019. Over these past three and a half years, Microsoft has been listening to their customers, claims HoloLens inventor and Microsoft Technical Fellow Alex Kipman as he took his turn on stage. Microsoft HoloLens 2 / Image Credit: Microsoft.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 19, 2022

To date, Microsoft HoloLens 2 continues to receive rave reviews for its stunning performance and versatility. Microsoft later announced the HoloLens 2 at the 2019 Mobile World Congress (MWC) with several upgrades. Inside Microsoft HoloLens 2. According to Microsoft’s spec sheet, here are its key features: Display.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 15, 2023

To date, Microsoft HoloLens 2 continues to receive rave reviews for its stunning performance and versatility. Microsoft later announced the HoloLens 2 at the 2019 Mobile World Congress (MWC) with several upgrades. Compared to the first version, Microsoft has upgraded the display resolution from 1280×720 to 2048×1080.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2020

patents done by Fairview Research reveals that Facebook has made a significant surge in its year-over-year ranking for patents granted in 2019, something partly owed to its increased number of patents surrounding augmented reality. patents, which in 2019 tallied a total of 989. 2019 Grants. Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Yesterday at Mobile World Congress, Microsoft unveiled HoloLens 2, the company’s next iteration of its enterprise-focused standalone AR headset. Microsoft’s Julia Schwarz demoing on-stage, Image courtesy Microsoft. The short answer: yes. For a split second my attention drew to a slight breeze in the room.

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AUGUST 30, 2019

As reported by Reuters , Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai yesterday, saying that HoloLens 2 will go on sale sometime in September. Image courtesy Microsoft. Check out our in-depth hands-on with HoloLens 2 for more. SEE ALSO OpenXR 1.0

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 23, 2024

We have been waiting for this moment since 2019 and I’m extremely excited to announce that it has finally arrived. In May last year, ARway’s solution appeared on Magic Leap 2 devices – leveraging the headset’s eye tracking, spatial audio, and six degrees of flight (6DoF) for greater interactivity.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It was really interesting to see Microsoft pivot towards enterprise with the HoloLens and I think it was absolutely the right move for them to make Click To Tweet. Alice Bonasio (@alicebonasio) February 2, 2019. For starters, they’re based in Oregon as opposed to Silicon Valley. pic.twitter.com/UMhQbxgH1g.

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OCTOBER 22, 2019

Epic Games today released a new video featuring a demo for HoloLens 2 that aims to show off just what sort of graphics can be achieved on Microsoft’s latest standalone AR headset.

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Tech Trends VR

MARCH 17, 2019

Microsoft’s new piece of kit doesn’t disappoint, but the real excitement of its MWC announcement goes well beyond the hardware. Microsoft is in this for the long haul and will continue cashing in just fine without even touching the consumer market Click To Tweet. That’s the low-hanging fruit as far as Microsoft is concerned.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2020

and look like standard sunglasses; NReal has partnered with 7Invensun and is going to add eye tracking to its cheap AR glasses ; Pimax is going to unveil the price of the Artisan, its new low-price headset with amazing FOV and resolution. The eye-tracked model costs only $900. They are incredibly light (10 grams!)

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2020

Additionally, the group has added new extensions to the standard to support hand-tracking and eye-tracking. The time to embrace OpenXR is now,” said Don Box, Technical Fellow at Microsoft. “In spec and demonstrated working bits at SIGGRAPH 2019, so much progress has happened.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 27, 2020

It is clear that it is not a Quest 2, since it doesn’t feature mind-blowing features like big FOV or eye-tracking or full-fingers controllers, so it is something like a Quest S. Its 1,600 × 1,600 LCD display per-eye, together with eye tracking and 5G make me dream of great experimentations, especially in the enterprise sector.

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VRScout

APRIL 18, 2019

Microsoft HoloLens 2 patent. Regarding inclusivity, on April 4, 2019, the USPTO published a new patent for Sony that was filed in December 2017. The glasses use eye-tracking sensors to gather “gaze information of the user in order to improve the quality of content provided for rendering on the head-mounted display.”.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

The OpenXR API is a core piece behind many XR headsets from vendors such as Acer, ByteDance, Canon, HTC, Magic Leap, Meta, Microsoft, Sony, XREAL, Qualcomm, Valve, and Varjo. The new stereo-foveated rendering improves eye-tracking features, and the feature is widespread – already finding a home on Unity, Unreal, and NVIDIA Omniverse.

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AR Insider

JULY 15, 2021

Instagram-ready) cameras, and possibly eye-tracking too. 2023+: Eye Tracking and beyond. If the first glasses don’t have eye-tracking, expect it to follow within a year or two. With eye-tracking (ET) and a few well-placed sensors , they’ll learn our unconscious reactions to anything we see.

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Road to VR

JULY 31, 2023

Instead, Vision Pro is focusing on eye-tracking and hand-tracking as primary input methods, with support for traditional peripherals like keyboards and mice and gamepads filling in the gaps for work and traditional flatscreen gaming.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Want a recap of what happened in AR in 2019? Read my “ Reality Check ” post which looks back at the 19 trends I highlighted for 2019 and how they actually played out last year. In 2019 we saw just a few connected eyewear options for consumers. These are the 20 AR trends I will be watching and how they may play out this year.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2019

Holo4Labs is a solution developed by Poland-based company Solution4Labs (together with its parent company TenderHut and its partner SoftwareHut) that aims in improving the efficiency of scientific lab workers thanks to Microsoft HoloLens. Holo4Labs aims exactly at solving these and other problems exploiting Microsoft HoloLens.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

This would have happened on May 2019, in the same period when Apple’s senior manager of prototype development Avi Bar-Zeev left the company. A new job listing points out to the fact that Oculus is planning to integrate eye tracking in its next devices. Microsoft has released this week a new video showing how the game will work.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Sony’s commitment to high-quality VR showcased what was possible long before Quest took hold of the market starting in 2019. Microsoft briefly showed interest for Xbox , while Nintendo’s Labo VR efforts barely count. Like its predecessor, PSVR 2 sits in a unique position. Is it actually worth the trade-offs? Let’s have a look.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The devices that will be based on this reference design will have amazing specifications like: 2K x 2K display resolution per each eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously, including the ones for tracking, mixed reality and eye-tracking; High-quality passthrough augmented reality with high resolution and framerate.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 30, 2020

Earlier this month VRFocus caught up with Spatial – which is building a collaborative augmented reality (AR) platform for enterprise use cases – at CES 2020, with the company showcasing its latest version on Microsoft’s HoloLens 2. Spatial featured during the HoloLens 2 launch at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019.

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Road to VR

JUNE 26, 2019

” SEE ALSO Most Windows VR Headsets Have Vanished from the Microsoft Store, Limited Stock Elsewhere. ” There’s still no word on when the eye-tracking accessory will arrive, although the company did show it off this year at CES 2019 in January.

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CraneMorley

MARCH 28, 2019

In our previous installments, we describe Microsofts newest HoloLens 2.0. Along with the newly design headsets, users now have a wider field of view of the screen thanks to the new field of view ratio that the Microsoft team implemented for the HoloLens 2. With the HoloLens 2, Microsoft resolved this issue.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Internet technology giants such as Google, AWS, and Microsoft are also making their own investments into the “Edge” space. Cloud rendering at the edge, combined with 5G, will allow for faster operations in an XR environment, where data can move back and forth between eye tracking and motion tracking tools, headsets, and beacons.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Some claimed it will be wireless, others claimed it will be wireless, with eye-tracking, high resolution, 200° FOV, and other cool stuff… all for $250. This week, I have finally found a review about it on Next Reality, but it claims that it is actually a headset with a quality that was acceptable in 2016 but now in 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

If the rumor is true, probably this is the Del Mar headset , and the Jedi controllers may be like the Oculus Touch but more comfortable and maybe with full finger tracking. Or eye tracking?). SuperData has forecasted an XR market in 2020 that will be similar to the one of 2019, with no actual growth.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Today, at MWC 2019, Alex Kipman went on stage together with Satya Nadella and Julia White to announce the new HoloLens 2. They teased a lot of interesting features and services of the device, and left the remaining technical details to some technical sheets on Microsoft website. Woman wearing a HoloLens2 device (Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Facebook has not done well in the past in guaranteeing user privacy and I’m afraid of what it can do with my data, especially when in the future there will be eye tracking, emotion tracking and such. The rhythm game has just won the 2019 Game Of The Year award at The Games Award on December, 12th.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Well, with this new chip, headsets will: Have a resolution of 3K per eye ; Have up to 7 cameras used simultaneously (12 in total for the device). This is for sure great for giving people awareness of what AR is good at, and Microsoft can be happy about it. The status of location-based virtual reality. More info (Status of LBVR?—?part

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2019

Inside-out tracking— which does away with external sensors in favor of cameras mounted on the headset itself—would make room-scale tracking the default, while simplifying the setup and usage. Eye-tracking is another feature which is up in the air for Rift S. Rift S Expectations.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The magnetical tracking of the Magic Leap One has not had enthusiastic feedbacks, so I wonder how the two-controllers solution will perform. In Q1 2019, Magic Leap will let all developers develop immersive applications using a modified version of Javascript , called Magicscript. MagicScript. Object Recognition. Avatar Chat.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Microsoft today revealed HoloLens 2, a standalone AR headset and successor to the original HoloLens. HoloLens 2 was announced today boasting a field of view that’s purportedly twice as large as the original, along with a sharp 47 pixels per degree resolution, hand-tracking, eye-tracking, and improved comfort.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

The report shows good news, like the fact that the growth rate of VR in 2020 will be 77% more than 2019 , and that the growth should continue in the next 4 years. The report also highlights that one of the regions where VR may grow more in 2019–2023 is Western Europe. Microsoft now sees VR as a high priority for Flight Simulator.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

We started talking with other professionals in the field, and they always kept saying to us “If Microsoft can’t do it, how can you do it?”. High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. All APIs have a plain C version.

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