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Microsoft to Cut Back Staff for US Army’s IVAS Headset amid Layoffs

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Bloomberg reported the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant will slash 10,000 jobs and several hardware projects. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a Wednesday memo that the firm would initiate “changes to our hardware portfolio.” ” This will include the IVAS system, the sources said, speaking on anonymity.

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Alex Kipman Nominated for Inventor’s Award

Tech Trends VR

Kipman started his professional career at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, right after graduating from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2001. The firm projects that, driven by next-generation mobile augmented-reality hardware, the market will reach EUR 85 billion by 2021. billion in 2016.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.05.17): HTC announces Vive Pro 2 and Vive Focus 3, PSVR 2 to feature eye tracking, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Oculus Quest 2 has disappeared from all Amazon EU websites. Kudos to Shachar Weis for discovering this: he told me about this news, and I have verified that it has disappeared completely from Amazon Italy and Amazon France, while some Redditors confirmed that the same holds for Amazon UK.