XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

What is Microsoft Mesh , and what can it do to transform the future of immersive collaboration? For some time now, Microsoft Mesh has promised companies an opportunity to build unique mixed and extended reality experiences for the future of work. So, what is Microsoft Mesh exactly, and what can it do? for attendees.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here are some of the VR vendors making waves in the industry as of 2024: RealWear Meta Apple Goertek Pimax Pico HP HTC Vive Samsung Varjo Lenovo Valve Index Vrgineers RealWear Exploring various aspects of the immersive technology landscape, RealWear produces sensors, apps, and hardware for the XR space.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The technology’s similarity to pre-existing systems enables the easy integration of XR within a range of business environments, such as construction and healthcare, helping drive the adoption of immersive solutions and devices. The Unity integration also enables the OEP to integrate other related solutions into the product.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This month could just prove that immersive business solutions will start seeing greater media hype in the next few months leading into 2024, CES, and beyond. As 2024 continues to build up as perhaps another foundational year for XR, November is seeing major organisations unveil the last major updates of the year.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Will 2024 be the year for the industrial Metaverse? This time last year, Meta promised that the Metaverse would launch immersive remote communication into the mainstream. At the start of 2023, many Metaverse vendors promoted how immersive worlds could completely change how the world works and lives. Is the Metaverse dead?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2024

However, the Vision Pro is more than just a headset for immersive entertainment. However, it’s worth noting that “compatible” apps won’t necessarily provide the same intuitive and immersive experience as solutions built for the Apple Vision Pro. Just don’t expect a very “immersive” experience.”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 26, 2023

This month, Microsoft will deploy an upgraded version of its dormant HoloLens 2 headset for US Army soldiers. Microsoft’s US Army contract sees the firm deploy 20 custom “Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS)” HoloLens 2 MR headsets for field testing. Microsoft IVAS: What’s New? The IVAS version 1.2

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 2, 2024

a frontline AR work solution that displays immersive instructional assets. John Mathieu, the Managing Director of Taqtile Europe, added: Our HoloLens customers will significantly benefit through our ongoing support of the Azure platform and the Microsoft Azure Private 5G Core implementation. Today, Taqtile introduced Manifest 3.0,

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. I’ll try to summarize all of that, especially for what concerns the announcements related to our XR space.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Major firms like Microsoft, Valve, and Apple are continuing to build immersive product portfolios leading towards the dawn of 2024. The initial patent states that Microsoft plans to create a “display device [that] includes a display substrate and a backplane substrate.”

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 2, 2024

a frontline AR work solution that displays immersive instructional assets. John Mathieu, the Managing Director of Taqtile Europe, added: Our HoloLens customers will significantly benefit through our ongoing support of the Azure platform and the Microsoft Azure Private 5G Core implementation. Today, Taqtile introduced Manifest 3.0,

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 24, 2024

This week, AR instructional solutions provider Taqtile announced official support for Microsoft’s Unity-based Mixed Reality Toolkit 3 (MRTK3) in a move to broaden the usability of its Manifest application ready for a “growing number” of OpenXR devices in 2024.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 22, 2023

Recently Microsoft noted how MR represents the “ eyes and ears ” of AI. Following a mainstream steer away from the Metaverse by some towards genAI – the latter may be gaining the most focus currently – but roadmaps are already in place by firms such as Microsoft to develop the industrial Metaverse by 2024.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The firm’s first XR headset is due soon, and with it comes a spatial computing ambition that draws similarities and differences to Lenovo, Microsoft, Meta, HTC VIVE, and other XR headset vendors. To lead the immersive space race, Apple is smartly and gradually integrating spatial computing features into the iOS ecosystem.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

Costing roughly $3499 and debuting in early 2024, the Vision Pro is promising to bring spatial computing and AR workspaces to the mainstream. An infinite digital canvas is how Apple sees its immersive product. Windows represents the 2D user interface, enabling users to navigate and access 3D immersive applications.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Earlier this year, Apple debuted its Vision Pro XR headset to provide an immersive productivity tool to act as a technology leap forward following the firm’s Mac laptop and desktop portfolio. Leading developers like Maxo and Unity are already using Object Capture to unlock entirely new ways of creating 3D content.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 12, 2024

Here, I’ll introduce you to some of the best Apple Vision Pro apps available, whether you’re looking to relax after work or invest in immersive collaboration. My favorite options so far are the Zoom app for the Vision Pro , with integrated spatial video, and 3D object sharing, and the Microsoft Teams app. It makes sense.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Moreover, Microsoft is resparking its stake in an Industrial Metaverse, with plans to debut products in 2024. More recently, with the rise of enterprise-grade immersive software, RT3D engine service providers are promoting expanded use cases outside gaming. XR can assist in mental and physical therapy procedures.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

A report this week shows how these changes have been quite important: The first version of the “Project Nazare” glasses will be still released in 2024 as originally planned, but it will be targeted only at developers (a bit like today’s Snap Spectacles). Only the second edition in 2026 will be actually released to the market.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 31, 2023

AWE 2023 achieved this by inviting an esteemed lineup of XR firms, thought leaders, and end users, uniting the immersive technology industry at the event’s Vienna, Austria location. Sahni also highlighted how new workplace applications are coming to Quest 3, including Microsoft Mesh, Windows 365, and Adobe High Five.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Innovators in this landscape promise a future where interacting with computers and digital content will feel natural, intuitive, and fully immersive. Some spatial computing solutions are designed specifically for enterprise environments and immersive collaboration. However, there are many different use cases for spatial computing.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

We’re already seeing aspects of spatial computing emerge in everything from collaborative platforms like Microsoft Teams to smartphones. Foremost cloud leaders like AWS and Microsoft offer access to spatial computing solutions, such as Amazon Sumerian, for 3D scene creation. With a projected value of $544.6

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We’re already seeing aspects of spatial computing emerge in everything from collaborative platforms like Microsoft Teams to smartphones. Foremost cloud leaders like AWS and Microsoft offer access to spatial computing solutions, such as Amazon Sumerian, for 3D scene creation. With a projected value of $544.6

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

To explore the growing AR smartglasses market, XR Today gathered four leading industry minds representing AR hardware and software providers providing immersive solutions to a diverse range of end-users. In 2024, we expect better device utilization and a faster time to deploy from pilot to global scale.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

If OpenAI wanted to slow down to have time to understand the consequences of this new type of AI, Microsoft would already ready be to hire all the talents of OpenAI and carry on AI developments by itself. Now Microsoft is discontinuing them , putting another nail in the coffin of the HoloLens. Thanks to Davy Demeyer for the tip!)

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JULY 11, 2022

As the XR landscape continues to grow, accelerating towards an expected value of $300 billion by 2024, immersive technology is evolving at an amazing rate. Increasingly, vendors and innovators are searching for new and improved ways to immerse users in unique experiences, using powerful and disruptive technology.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

For years, Microsoft Mesh for Teams has promised companies an opportunity to create richer, more immersive collaborative experiences. Since then, however, access to Microsoft Mesh for Teams has remained relatively limited until now. Here’s your guide to using Microsoft Mesh for Teams.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

Without HDR, you are conscious that you are seeing the world through a screen, while with actual HDR, you can feel the proper lighting of a scene, and it immediately becomes real and immersive. This is my biggest takeaway from these tests. Useless news. Upload VR) More info (Tim Cook says to Stay Tuned?—?The

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

For me this is not a fortunate sentence: this is what Alex Kipman said about the HoloLens, a few weeks before the whole Microsoft Mixed Reality division was disbanded and he was fired from the company. Meta is reported to launch a devkit of AR glasses, codenamed Orion, in 2024.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

The product is still being built, and the expected release date is 2024. Google is also hiring high-profile people for it, like Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, and Paul Greco, the previous CTO of Magic Leap. Image by Microsoft). Microsoft is acquiring Activision Blizzard for $68.7B.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Room 2024, West Hall. Impulse Gear is currently working on Farpoint , one of our most anticipated PSVR games and the first to use the PlayStation Aim controller, a gun-shaped peripheral that makes for incredibly immersive experiences. Liz Mercuri (Unity). Wednesday, March 1st, 2:00pm – 3:00pm. Room 2009, West Hall.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Then what I do is I turn Unity off, I can turn the game off and I let them sit there for a second, they’re like “this is great, it’s great” but by the way the game isn’t actually running right now… that’s just the last image that went up to the headset …and people’s minds that know this technology explode.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2024

Big vendor news this week, Admist start-ups and fresh ideas; this week, big names like Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Apple took the headlines due to each firm’s optimisation of its XR product portfolio. Meta has not yet confirmed 8K streaming on its Quest portfolio. However, the company is constantly developing new XR devices.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Following my article on the Tundra SteamVR HDK published by Skarredghost earlier this year, I embarked on the development of a new motion controller by launching start-up Immersion Mechanics. The name was of course inspired by “The Unity Cube” application (Image by Rob Cole). Image provided by Rob Cole). The Guncube.

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