The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. That’s why even Microsoft took Epic’s stances : Microsoft uses UE4 to develop some products also for Apple devices, and this decision hurts also its business.

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EnterpriseWear

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Read on for a recap of the major developments that took place in 2018: Enterprises that made the news for using wearables: In 2018, major retailers got more serious about XR in hopes of competing with Amazon and improving the shopping experience. Interesting research: A number of reports and studies circulated in 2018.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

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). I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio. Just get Amazon’s latest iPhone app.

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Robert Scoble

JANUARY 11, 2022

Go back and really study how things work without bringing your biases to the table and then come up with new products and services that help you do that task better. Apple even built a fake home to study these different contexts in the home. In Silicon Valley we like to think about “first principles.” ” Why?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

Today, to provide an insight into the opportunities for XR in the gaming landscape, we’re going to be looking at some of the most impressive case studies from the last few years. RoboRaid and Microsoft HoloLens. Tender Claws and Google ARCore.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 20, 2019

It makes its own hardware so its customers can “dive through” massive amounts of data much easier than trying to see the same data in older tools like Microsoft Excel, or charts. The kind of data businesses are generating now just requires new approaches. Think about dwell times in retail stores.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

More info (Best Black Friday deals) More info (Cyber Monday VR deals) More info (Sales on Oculus Quest games) More info (Other sales on Oculus Quest games) More info (Rift S discounted on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon? affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Sometimes VR without a headset can be cool too More info (U2 concert in the dome / 1) More info (U2 concert in the dome / 2) More info (U2 concert in the dome / 3) Microsoft launches Mesh For Enterprise In Beta After many years of working on it, finally, Microsoft has finally released a preview of Microsoft Mesh dedicated to the enterprise sector.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Chinese people study English in high school, but then they have little occasion to use it, so most of the time they lose the ability to understand it clearly. If you can not, buy them in your country, with Amazon or eBay. I don’t think that people at Microsoft are crying because of this.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

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. This could be The Unity Cube 2.0.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

On Amazon Marketplace, you can find two instances: one is Hubs Personal , that gives you a single server for personal use, and the other one is Hubs Enterprise , giving you a full architecture that you can use for more professional purposes. Azure is one of the best cloud providers (Image by Microsoft).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

He has a very interesting working story, having worked for great companies like Microsoft and Fast Company. We all know that this thought has not aged well, and that Microsoft has failed completely entering the phone market, with billions of loss because of that. Amazon and Tesla could be two outsider of the XR ecosystem instead.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The new VR headset enhances everything from resolution and field of view to tracking and input ; It will connect to PS5 with a single cord to simplify setup and improve ease-of-use while enabling a high-fidelity visual experience; It will feature controllers carefully studied for VR. Microsoft Ignite will be in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 7, 2021

Just to make you understand how much money this could mean, my reader Sir Gamedev has sent me a link where one of the previous Xbox executives has revealed that the initial undercost sales of the first Xbox units cost Microsoft between $5B and $7B. was a lot of money?). Some reviews of VR hardware. News worth a mention.

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VRScout

AUGUST 26, 2017

Students from Georgia Tech are working with Microsoft and Walmart to increase efficiency in warehouses using Mixed Reality. Much has been made of the use of robots to increase efficiency in warehouses —with web retailers such as Amazon announcing significant investment in that area.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2017

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies – CEO Dirk Ahlborn debuts their VR experience for the station and boarding and their AR collaboration tool Beem on the Microsoft HoloLens. The Tick: Amazon is bringing a virtual reality escape room to Comic-Con for their upcoming original series. Power Rangers VR – Case Study.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Amazon Prime has a series coming up called Good Omens, which is about angels and devils among us in the days before the apocalypse. Charlie: Yeah it’s it’s a series on Amazon. But I think the companies that Microsoft included in the survey were those large companies that have innovation offices. Alan: Amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

Amazon Prime has a series coming up called Good Omens, which is about angels and devils among us in the days before the apocalypse. Charlie: Yeah it’s it’s a series on Amazon. But I think the companies that Microsoft included in the survey were those large companies that have innovation offices. Alan: Amazing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!” ” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. You and I’ve been studying this s**t for years and it’s complicated, because every day a new headset comes out and every day a new platform comes out.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We’ve got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, “We want that!” ” Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. You and I’ve been studying this s**t for years and it’s complicated, because every day a new headset comes out and every day a new platform comes out.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 3, 2020

Alan: We've got to call out Microsoft on making videos that people will go, "We want that!". Lance: It was Microsoft, SAP did one in 2014. You and I've been studying this s**t for years and it's complicated, because every day a new headset comes out and every day a new platform comes out. Lance: That's a great place to start.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2023

Sam&Max: This Time Is Virtual is another amazing game on the Quest (Image by Happy Giant) The Quest Pro tried to change this trend: Meta launched it as a device specifically for professionals, and launched it together with a partnership with Microsoft, for instance. Then we don’t know how the market will react to it.

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Anand Tech

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

While the market for cloud computing hosting is still relatively young even by rapid tech industry standards, it’s a market that’s quickly come to be dominated by a handful of players – particularly Microsoft (Azure), Amazon (AWS), and Google.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

8th Wall recently partnered with Amazon Sumerian on a WebAR ad experience where, with just a click of a banner ad, an AR experience placed a 3D Spiderman into your space for you to interact with directly in your mobile browser. It becomes even more necessary in a world beyond the website with AR and VR.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 19, 2020

I got to configure a-- it was like a quiet room or almost like a study room for open office furniture. Some of the groups that sit in this working group, folks like Amazon and Wayfair and Shopify, and they're receiving a lot of models from the 3D community every single day. Alan: So I got a chance to try one of the samples. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 19, 2020

I got to configure a-- it was like a quiet room or almost like a study room for open office furniture. Some of the groups that sit in this working group, folks like Amazon and Wayfair and Shopify, and they're receiving a lot of models from the 3D community every single day. Alan: So I got a chance to try one of the samples. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Alan: So with that, what is one of the best use cases or case studies of virtual, augmented, or mixed reality that you’ve seen to date? Matt: The other one — this sort of thing is the stuff that isn’t obvious to people — but the other big one that I think is a big deal is the Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Alan: So with that, what is one of the best use cases or case studies of virtual, augmented, or mixed reality that you’ve seen to date? Matt: The other one — this sort of thing is the stuff that isn’t obvious to people — but the other big one that I think is a big deal is the Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 19, 2020

I got to configure a-- it was like a quiet room or almost like a study room for open office furniture. Some of the groups that sit in this working group, folks like Amazon and Wayfair and Shopify, and they're receiving a lot of models from the 3D community every single day. Alan: So I got a chance to try one of the samples. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Alan: So with that, what is one of the best use cases or case studies of virtual, augmented, or mixed reality that you’ve seen to date? Matt: The other one — this sort of thing is the stuff that isn’t obvious to people — but the other big one that I think is a big deal is the Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

You know how federal agencies and corporations (Google, Facebook, Amazon, et al) can surveil you with impunity and track your habits? The study intends to “map out the key players in VR content creation and technology development…develop projections of VR opportunities, and increase the overall understanding of the VR ecosystem.”

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VRGames

MAY 3, 2022

On a mission to pick up scientists studying an anomaly near Jupiter, a sudden rupture nearby sends you and their station crashing onto an unknown alien world.|. The game takes place in the Amazon rainforest.|. Microsoft Flight Simulator|PCVR||. |[War Blinking away won’t be an option.|. Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown|PSVR||.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

We've been approached by some of the bigger headset manufacturers -- Microsoft, Hololens and Magic Leap -- to build exclusively for them. The distribution needs to be standardized, so that when I push one app, it can be used in Microsoft; it can be used in HTC VIVE; it can be used with an Oculus."

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

We've been approached by some of the bigger headset manufacturers -- Microsoft, Hololens and Magic Leap -- to build exclusively for them. The distribution needs to be standardized, so that when I push one app, it can be used in Microsoft; it can be used in HTC VIVE; it can be used with an Oculus."

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 24, 2019

I mean, they actually reported to us -- they they were studying it -- some of the merchants buy us, their sales doubled. It's four times the size of Amazon. And they said, Parsons gave it to them through Microsoft, but no one ever showed them anything. So, it's a great way for public spaces to be reunified and revitalized.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

Björn: It was actually quite funny, while still studying at the university, computer science, and then somewhere else, augmented reality which popped up. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. Microsoft tries to be the leader of market, but they’re not shipping. 120 million people.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 17, 2020

Björn: It was actually quite funny, while still studying at the university, computer science, and then somewhere else, augmented reality which popped up. I can ask Google questions now; Voice, Amazon, Alexa, and Google Voice. Microsoft tries to be the leader of market, but they’re not shipping. 120 million people.

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