Road to VR

MAY 6, 2021

Microsoft’s Mixed Reality capture stage | Image courtesy Microsoft. Researchers in recent years have shown compelling results using machine learning approaches to reconstruct volumetric video from traditional video footage. The resulting datasets are also massive compared to traditional or even stereoscopic video.

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VRScout

MARCH 20, 2021

Similar to the Apple Watch or Fitbit, TapID is worn around the users wrist. Unlike current smartwatches such as the Apple Watch and Fitbit, the TapID system is composed of two identicle devices worn on both wrists simultaneously. Each device features two accelerometer sensors built into the flexible strap.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The Apple Vision Pro finally debuted for US customers last week. Apple CEO Tim Cook recently noted that the Apple Vision Pro “is the most advanced consumer electronics device ever created,” US customers can grab a 256GB model for $3,499. But, there are many workplace options available for customers today.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

The Quest 2 is a great gaming machine offered at a ridiculous price, and it has totally crushed the competition. Render of the possible upcoming Apple device (Image by Antonio DeRosa). Apple is proposing itself to be the next competitor of Meta. But it has a problem: it doesn’t really know how the Apple device will be.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 8, 2024

Innovators like Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and Varjo have revolutionized the space, showing how flexible, versatile, and powerful mixed reality can be. Solutions like the Meta Quest 3 and Apple Vision Pro allow users to choose exactly what type of immersion they want for each use case.

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The AR Show

JANUARY 16, 2024

Previously Michael spent nearly a decade working with the Microsoft Hololens team. He was a Principle Engineering Lead at Microsoft for a couple of years, left to be the founding partner of Object theTheory, where he and his team worked with enterprises to leverage AR and VR technologies, often in combination with IoT and AI/Machine Learning.

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Road to VR

JUNE 9, 2017

Augmented Reality has played a huge role at the developer conferences for Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Google, which is a great sign that the industry is moving towards spatially-aware computing. I also compare and contrast the recent AR announcements from Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook in my wrap-up.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The tech industry is looking to replace the smartphone — and everybody is waiting to see what Apple comes up with. I n 2007, Apple unveiled the iPhone. Apple didn’t invent the smartphone — companies like Palm and Blackberry had been selling them for years. But Apple’s not the only company working on these products.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 15, 2024

However, it is early days, and the world is learning about this technology as it emerges. Moreover, Microsoft and Meta speak highly of AI’s ability to boost XR solutions. ” Roseth explained: That overlap of AI and XR is super important, but a lot of that is already integrated with machine learning tools. .”

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Anand Tech

JANUARY 24, 2024

MLCommons, the consortium behind the MLPerf family of machine learning benchmarks, is announcing this morning that the organization will be developing a new desktop AI benchmarking suite under the MLPerf banner. The list includes not only Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA, but Arm, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Dell, and others.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This year was a busy one for the XR industry; following a lull in faith towards the start of the year, groups such as the OEP, Microsoft, and Meta worked to bring new life to the sector via substantial workplace XR solutions. The firm named the OEP’s digital twin one of the next “big things” in XR technology in 2023.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The story is similar for Amazon , Microsoft and Bose (kind of), and the 800-pound gorilla in wearables, Apple. Lastly, Facebook has its eye on an AR glasses future, including explicit proclamations (the anti-Apple approach) that it’s developing them. Orbiting Initiatives. Social Experiment.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2019

To illustrate, readers will learn how VR helps kids and people with special needs learn to use an MRI machine. To learn more about these exciting and industry-changing applications visit the link at the top to get the report. The report has lots of interesting use cases for AR and VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Microsoft is already working with an esteemed client list to distribute its immersive solutions portfolio to suit a range of enterprise use cases. One of Microsoft’s XR clients is Nexco-East Engineering, which operates roughly 4,000km of all expressways in Japan. This resulted in gaps in understanding.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Credit: Alex Perry / Mashable / Microsoft. The first step to learning more about the current version of your OS is establishing what your OS is to begin with. Microsoft has very simple instructions for finding out precisely which version of Windows you have on its support website. Apple's method is the easiest.

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Bernard Marr

JANUARY 4, 2023

Today, if you know where to look, then just about anyone can dive in and start creating applications that leverage machine learning in innovative ways. Many of these people will not have the technical skills needed to write code or the spare time to learn them. Apple CreateML. Google Teachable Machine. ObviouslyAI.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 14, 2019

Apple took us on a surreal walk through San Francisco, looking at digital art on an iPhone . — Apple is investing in augmented reality, a technology its CEO has called “big and profound.”. — AR uses cameras and machine learning technology to place digital graphics in the real world. Key Points.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

According to CBINSIGHTS , tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) have all been acquiring AI startups aggressively in the last decade. Apple leads when compared with other giants in terms of acquisitions made. Most of the big giant companies in the world are investing heavily in the field of AI.

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ARPost

APRIL 29, 2021

There are two premium price tiers with additional affordances, but there is also a free model with an easy sign-in using a Microsoft, Google, or Apple account or with a private email. TechSee and Vuzix (and Microsoft). Incidentally, Vuzix also supports Teams, Microsoft’s remote conferencing platform. Microsoft Mesh.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2020

International Business Machines Corp. Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC. . % Change. Rank Change. Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. Intel Corp. LG Electronics Inc. Ford Global Technologies LLC. SEE ALSO Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Thinks AR/VR is a Solution to the Housing Crisis.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 2, 2018

The Brazilian-born inventor gets recognition for his groundbreaking work with the Microsoft Hololens. Built-in machine learning and AI-algorithms enable the HoloLens to be contextually aware of its surroundings and interpret user commands Click To Tweet. The European Patent Office (EPO) announced that it has nominated U.S.-based

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Also, this is the first of what I suspect will be many blogposts about the Apple Vision Pro spatial computing headset, which I am eager to get my hands on as soon as I can! Accordingly, I have created a new blogpost category, called Apple Vision Pro. I have a second blog post on that project, which I hope to publish very soon.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 25, 2024

Almer’s history sees the firm’s founders, Beetschen and Timon Binder , use their shared experience working with Microsoft Hololens and Jet Fighter AR headsets to come together to design lightweight, affordable, and scaleable headsets for businesses. billion per year. So, the opportunity is very real.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2021

If I had known people could like it, I would have not made it in 5 minutes with Microsoft Word, lol. VR is not the ultimate empathy machine. “VR VR is the ultimate empathy machine” is a powerful sentence that Chris Milk has pronounced during a TED Talk that has been quoted thousands of times in the VR communities. Learn more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 7, 2023

However, despite this, many of us have yet to learn what spatial computing is or how it works. Tech giant Apple has even helped to generate new demand for spatial technology with its new Vision Pro headset. Greenwold defined spatial computing as human interactions with machines that manipulate experiences in real life.

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AR Insider

JULY 15, 2021

Machine learning algorithms for avatars will use tracking data from our eyes, mouths, and bodies. What they need to learn is how to make the eventual consumer glasses cheaper and more power-efficient for all-day use. They’ll learn when people break the law, how hard they actually work, and how often they lie.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MARCH 4, 2024

The Vision Pro bring Apple’s branding into the space and, with it, many eyes. Major XR Firms Push Spaital Productivity Solutions As Apple enters the immersive technology space, a shift towards XR/spatial computing productivity solutions is underway. MWC 2024 was a valuable insight into the mainstream XR market.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2024

Ultraleap’s computer vision and machine learning models also enable low-cost hand-tracking integration for enterprise end users. Ultraleap also notes how hand tracking is becoming a “mandatory feature” of major available and upcoming headsets from firms including Microsoft, Meta, and Apple.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Nreal, Microsoft Support Blind Children with AR XR is still very much emerging, and healthcare research is still immature. Using spatial audio, the HMD locates individuals in a space to create a mental map of a child’s surroundings, which Microsoft called a People Map. Microsoft gained positive outcomes based on the study.

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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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VRWorld

JULY 19, 2017

The vision of the company is to create stretchable clothing with built-in electronics that detect user’s movement, all while being a piece of clothing which can be worn comfortably with machine washability just as regular shirt could do. ” Future plans include expanding to Apple’s operating systems (both iOS and macOS ).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

What an exciting week for technology, with the Facebook Connect, PS5 price announcement, Apple event and the release of RTX30 graphics cards! Even Apple uses modified ARM chips. an ARM chips can be installed on IoT sensors that communicate to a server where an NVIDIA card is used to perform machine learning on the data).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

It showed what is its vision for the long-term future: AR glasses that are intelligent enough to learn about your behavior and to examine the context you are in so that to be able to already provide you suggestions about what they can do to help you. Image by Microsoft). Learn more. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. Foxconn puts lenses for Apple Glasses in “Trial Production” stage. Learn More.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

But I hope you’ll enjoy this newsletter coming from the world of the undead anyway… Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple starts accepting applications for Vision Pro devkits Apple has started accepting applications from interested developers to get a Vision Pro to develop XR experiences.

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Bernard Marr

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Now, as we head into 2023, the conversation has shifted to Apple CEO Tim Cook’s concerns that it might not take off because it’s too complicated and other commentators suggesting it’s too weird to gain mainstream traction. And at Nokia, one team has implemented a weekly 30-minute “ lunch and learn ” VR learning session.

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Mashable VR

MARCH 22, 2022

Desktops , laptops , and tablets continue to play a bigger role in everyday life, so children are learning about the internet, word processing, coding, and other computer skills, then applying those skills to various aspects of both education and recreation. When it comes to your kids, we recommend buying a laptop over a desktop.

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