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The XR Week Peek (2022.11.07): PSVR 2 will cost $549, HoloLens are probably dead, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The collaboration between Microsoft and Samsung is now over. Some months ago, some important magazines leaked that Microsoft might have abandoned the HoloLens project. According to a new leak, Microsoft scrapped the plans for a HoloLens 3, and also the collaboration with Samsung has been brought to an end. Learn more.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.24): Apple opens applications for Vision Pro devkits, Meta may stop the production of Quest Pro, and more!

The Ghost Howls

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. 1 billion of this money is planned in Germany, with €500 million for a new Technology Campus in Erlangen.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.19): HTC launches Vive Flow, Magic Leap 2 announced, and more!

The Ghost Howls

HTC advertises it as a headset for relaxation and productivity because it wants to position it as a different product than a gaming machine like Oculus Quest 2. When Microsoft won a $22B dollars contract with the US Army to develop a special version of HoloLens that could increase the “lethality” of troops, the news made strides worldwide.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

And a lot of companies – anybody who’s got vehicle-based businesses, machine businesses – there was a fantastic example, up South by Southwest. Charlie: So you’ve got a company like Visualix out of Germany that is specifically looking at geo-location in warehouses; micro geo-location. Alan: Got it.

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Convergence, Enterprise AR, and Mapping the Inside World with Charlie Fink

XR for Business Podcast

And a lot of companies – anybody who’s got vehicle-based businesses, machine businesses – there was a fantastic example, up South by Southwest. Charlie: So you’ve got a company like Visualix out of Germany that is specifically looking at geo-location in warehouses; micro geo-location. Alan: Got it.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Microsoft ships HoloLens 2, nReal gets ready to do the same with its glasses. After a long wait, finally Microsoft is shipping its HoloLens 2 headset. Image from Amazon). Machines can now see through walls. A very interesting research project employs machine learning and radio waves to make machines see through walls.

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Letting Workers Qualify Themselves in AR, with AR Expert’s Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger

XR for Business Podcast

I have Dr. Björn Schwerdtfeger from Germany. And among other things, his company, AR Experts, is advising about a third of Germany’s most important production companies, and is shaping their augmented reality roadmaps. You can learn more about them at ar-experts.de. At least in Germany, we face a problem.

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