Road to VR

APRIL 10, 2019

Microsoft won a decisive $480 million defense contract with the U.S. Under Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy said he expects a more slimmed-down version of the headset based on HoloLens 2 to materialize as soon as 2022 and 2023, and maintains the Army will begin “fielding it to thousands and thousands of soldiers across the force.”

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 25, 2021

the simulator fans that want a headset with super-high resolution), no competitor could survive against a headset that is comfortable, affordable, has a great library of content, and has full body tracking and full RGB passthrough. Its resolution is impressive, for clarity that fans of simulator games would love.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Lenovo, the world’s largest PC manufacturer by unit sales, concluded its Tech World 2022 event on Tuesday, where it rallied several key executives and major partner firms to explore its latest updates. Lenovo Reveals ThinkReality VRX at IGS Europe 2022.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Moreover, in November 2022, BMW unveiled an MR real-time driving experience to showcase its M2 car. The firm achieved its vehicle simulation showcase using advanced MR headsets from project partner Varjo. Moreover, firms like Raythink are accelerating AR adoption for drivers.

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ARVR

JANUARY 21, 2022

Let’s take a look at some of the augmented reality trends driving innovation in 2022. This past year, Google introduced a few new features for ARCore such as recording and playback APIs. Trend #2: Powering Indoor and Outdoor Navigation In 2022, AR navigation has become more fluid and achievable than ever before.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 31, 2022

During 2022 it was hard to move without bumping into the term “metaverse.” While Meta focuses on creating virtual reality environments, companies like Microsoft and Nvidia are developing metaverse environments for collaborating and working on digital projects.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Heading into Gamescom 2023, I suspected that this year might be about on par with 2022 in terms of VR content on offer. With Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro on the horizon, developers that have invested the better part of a decade honing their expertise were left to promote themselves at Europe's largest gaming event last month.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 2022, the Immerse Global Summit featured speakers from some of the world’s best-known brands, including Amazon, Meta, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and Unity, and demonstrations of some of the most exciting metaverse technologies. Unity shared how digital twins were helping its customers unlock new levels of innovation.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

Arrives in 2022, with glasses to follow sometime before 2025). When I worked at Microsoft I got in trouble with the lawyers over patents so they made me sleep with a lawyer (true story, that was my punishment). You could do some sick simulations and distortions of the real world. New 3D experiences for inside cars. Disclaimer.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

According to Youtuber Sadly It’s Bradley, Project Cambria should come half of this year (Q2 2022) and have MiniLED screens and pancake lenses. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. Cooking Simulator VR is the best VR game of 2021 on SteamVR. But there is more!

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

If we have to keep hearing about the metaverse in 2022 and beyond, we should all be honest about one thing: So many of these fancy metaverse demos are just worse versions of IRL activities. It circulated around Twitter and Reddit again in early February 2022. Microsoft, too, has some fancy hologram stuff in the works.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

But it is anyway great news and makes us hope for a great 2022 for the whole XR ecosystem. The headset is expected for Q4 2022 , with no preorders available. CES 2022 is going to be less cool than expected. Some months ago, it was announced that CES 2022 would have had a physical edition again. This is great.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR. Billion ad spend by 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

PSVR 2 is probably coming in 2022 and with a slow transition. So, PSVR2 probably won’t launch before 2022 : Sony can afford that also because it has no competition in the console VR space , so there is no need to rush. Image by Megadodo Simulation Games). Top news of the week. Image by Sony). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This move resembles the one that Google had with TiltBrush: instead of killing the program, it is returning it back to the community, and this is for sure a good decision. Watch a Quest 2 getting watercooled. Last Call has been released. Last Call / Release) More info (Star Wars: Tales From The Galaxy Edge?—?Last

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

I think that from the results of this battle, which will happen most probably in 2022, we will understand the trends that will drive the VR gaming market in all the upcoming years. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2020

The story goes on telling that Apple VR headset had realistic visuals and sound, it was super-cool and probably we’ll see a release date of 2022/2023. Content is the king, and Facebook knows it needs great content of its own to fight Microsoft, Sony, and the other big brands for the domination of the VR sector. News worth a mention.

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Robert Scoble

JUNE 1, 2019

We have already seen some devices like Google Glass that gave us a taste of how they would improve the world, even while introducing new problems, deepest amongst them was that they didn’t provide enough benefit to offset the real social costs of wearing a computing device and the weight that a computer put on our face.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Today, GigXR (extended reality), a firm designing immersive healthcare training solutions, announced the availability of the Insight Series, an integrated selection of holographic, hyper-realistic, real-time 3D (RT3D) models that simulate organs.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’d say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. Enterprise will account for the majority of those through at least 2022. A friend of mine, James, he went in a virtual reality crane training simulator, spent an hour in it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’d say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. Enterprise will account for the majority of those through at least 2022. A friend of mine, James, he went in a virtual reality crane training simulator, spent an hour in it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 19, 2019

I'd say that through at least 2022, the enterprise will account for the majority of augmented and mixed reality headsets like Hololens and Magic Leap. Enterprise will account for the majority of those through at least 2022. A friend of mine, James, he went in a virtual reality crane training simulator, spent an hour in it.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Platforms : PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Mac, Windows, Google Stadia 3. harnesses simulated physics to create a surprisingly endearing journey full of teamwork, betrayal, and costume changes. Platforms : PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows 9. Platforms : PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows 21.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2022

NVIDIA delivered a speech on Tuesday at the SIGGRAPH 2022, revealing a fresh lineup of metaverse solutions to audiences, including virtual world-building, digital twin, and avatar platforms. Kent Bye VoicesOfVR (@kentbye) August 9, 2022. The tool would also simulate muscle movements and lifelike hair textures.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2023

In 2022, demand for Generative AI solutions skyrocketed as companies began to experiment with the use of algorithms to create all kinds of new content, from simulations and videos to audio, code, text, and images. As such, Google has gone all-in on AI research, educational resources, APIs, and open-source tools.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device. According to Korean media, Samsung Electronics is working with Microsoft on a new augmented/mixed reality project “involving HoloLens”. The engine is able to build and simulate cities automatically by just having some parameters provided by the developers.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

But it seems that Meta is also working on other broader options, and we will know about them in 2022. Considering that Quest supports multitasking for 2D apps, this is great to use the Quest as a tool to work: you could have Slack in one Window, and Google Doc in another, and work on a document together with your team.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Google Ends the Daydream. The key message to come out of Google I/O this year was that the company largely abandoned its plans to push forward the development of headsets and content for VR effectively retiring the Daydream and focusing on Augmented Reality features for the Google Lens instead. Immersive Masterpiece.

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