Road to VR

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Today at the Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Engineering Community event in Shenzhen, China, the company announced that VR/AR (mixed reality) headsets from top manufacturers are due to hit the market in 2017. Microsoft’s HoloLens of course will also be in the mix.

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APRIL 1, 2021

The United States Army confirmed via an official statement yesterday that it has awarded Microsoft a contract to deliver 120,000 military-grade HoloLens AR headsets designed for use in a variety of combat scenarios. ” Image Credit: Microsoft. Image Credit: US Army. Image Credit: US Army. Feature Image Credit: US Army.

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ARVR

JUNE 4, 2021

They can put on a mixed reality headset, like Microsoft HoloLens, and step inside the Colosseum, observe it from any angle and fly over it in a hot air balloon. Even though the above example is in the historical field, mixed reality can be applied to science and medicine, geography, architecture, and pretty much any other subject.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

Architecture students from Egypt and the United States meeting in Second Life. Those groups that still use these types of environments have a very definite purpose in mind, such as advancing ongoing research or building communities that support those activities. This is what Microsoft did in the 1980s with office automation.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 5, 2023

Now, with CoPilot taking shape thanks to a partnership with Microsoft, OpenAI and other firms are helping to define the future of work with AI. DAO value propositions alter how a core group of employees coordinates and delivers work. Moreover, ChatGPT still sits at the top of technology headlines.

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

The company is building its strategy on the only possible growth plan – building the fastest technology their engineers came come up with, and then produce the silicon which will come to market branded either as AMD, an AMD-THATIC joint-venture or as Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony… and a new mysterious client for the semi-custom business.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Reality Processor” may refer instead to the architecture of the chipsets , which uses an M2 chipset as the main processing unit, an ISP processor for image analysis, and a third chip that is meant to connect the two. After further tests on the device, t he Army has begun accepting the first 5000 units that Microsoft should manufacture.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 4, 2023

One of the big players was Microsoft and the HoloLens, which I was personally very interested in. ” Christianson also added: [With a device distribution system] you already know everything else is done because the architecture is in place. It significantly reduces your time frame and your cost.

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VRWorld

JULY 20, 2016

First Intel – Nvidia deal happened in 2000, when Intel gave the best offer to Microsoft and won the deal for the first Xbox console. Today, both companies make x86 RISC processors, and Intel was even forced to adopt AMD’s x86-64, 64-bit architecture which is now present in almost every processor Intel makes.

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HaptX

MARCH 6, 2018

Edwards, who received her degree in Geography, seems an unlikely candidate to lead the game industry’s largest professional group based solely on her educational focus. When one finds out that she worked at Microsoft in the early days of Encarta Encyclopedia and World Atlas , it starts to make sense.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Microsoft and the Haas Group. From single-family homes to luxurious villas and company headquarters, the Haas group has developed virtually every kind of building consumers can think of in prefabricated forms. The company decided they needed to update their technology as a result, and turned to Microsoft for assistance.

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ARPost

JULY 30, 2020

The device can provide simultaneous two-way translation in multiple languages and offer several modes—face-to-face translation, group translation, and broadcast translation. Hearable Solution Architecture: Core Aspects. The tool can hear a dialog partner, then translate the speech to one of the available languages. Mobile application.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Having launched its first VR headset in late 2017, alongside a handful of similar headsets as part of Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality platform, HP is preparing to take its next step with the launch of a new headset that diverges from the pack. The first I recognize: Samsung’s recently launched Odyssey+.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 6, 2020

A video chat of a group of three friends over Skype (Image by Microsoft). This is very important for who works in design, or architecture; If you need your whole human body. After a workshop in VR, the people in the audience can s eparate in little groups and talk to each other , exactly as it happens in real-life workshops.

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Ryan Schultz

JANUARY 14, 2024

The course, co-taught by a computer science professor from the Faculty of Science and an interior design professor from the Faculty of Architecture, is titled Building Virtual Worlds: Users, Techniques and Tools. If there are three names, then the topmost name is a group name, like Second Life Mentor (see Step 3, below).

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic). Its wizarding successor grossed $12M in its first month.

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Road to VR

MAY 11, 2017

The HoloLens is the most impressive augmented reality headset on the market today, and their developer kit is already being deployed into industries ranging from architecture, engineering, design, sales, medicine, and education. Will these VR systems meet the needs of whatever Microsoft has decided is their target market?

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2020

The growing importance of company’s first-party game studios to Sony’s console business was made even more apparent when it was recently announced that the company will rebrand the studio group from Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios to, simply, PlayStation Studios.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Instead, he has concentrated his journalistic efforts on a stereotypical dystopia of avatars and social media white elephants from a caricatured Meta, Microsoft AltSpaceVR, and Decentraland. Yes, the media has documented failures among the consumer-facing metaverse, which includes Meta, JP Morgan, Decentraland, Microsoft, and others.

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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. This was our little group before the event started. What about Azure and private servers?

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: Well, actually, what was interesting for me being at Laval is, I put on a — for the first time — a VR architecture event… actually, over a year ago, now; this was January 2018. But it was hard for me to get a feel for where architecture uptake was, from a VR perspective, in the US. We had good participation.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: Well, actually, what was interesting for me being at Laval is, I put on a — for the first time — a VR architecture event… actually, over a year ago, now; this was January 2018. But it was hard for me to get a feel for where architecture uptake was, from a VR perspective, in the US. We had good participation.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

NVIDIA has announced RTX, a framework that enables real-time raytracing in its latest generation Volta GPUs (the architecture of the upcoming NVIDIA graphics card, already implemented in some enterprise products by NVIDIA). Realtime Raytracing is now possible. OpenXR is continuing its work.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

Bob: Well, actually, what was interesting for me being at Laval is, I put on a -- for the first time -- a VR architecture event. But it was hard for me to get a feel for where architecture uptake was, from a VR perspective, in the US. actually, over a year ago, now; this was January 2018. We had good participation.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 19, 2020

Being able to walk through an architectural environment, tag it, and have those comments stay so that when someone comes in later, they can see them and they can respond to them. And one of the things that we've been working on -- and I've been part of -- is the Khronos Group. I hope to join the Khronos Group very shortly and help.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 19, 2020

Being able to walk through an architectural environment, tag it, and have those comments stay so that when someone comes in later, they can see them and they can respond to them. And one of the things that we've been working on -- and I've been part of -- is the Khronos Group. I hope to join the Khronos Group very shortly and help.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Greg has been designing and driving the development of immersive digital simulation for architecture, engineering, and construction markets for the last 20 years. So Bentley Systems — just to frame that — is a global software company focused on engineering and infrastructure, architecture, and construction software.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Greg has been designing and driving the development of immersive digital simulation for architecture, engineering, and construction markets for the last 20 years. So Bentley Systems — just to frame that — is a global software company focused on engineering and infrastructure, architecture, and construction software.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Image from Khronos Group). Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. Other relevant news. SteamVR now supports OpenXR. Resolve lets you explore huge 3D models from your Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Greg has been designing and driving the development of immersive digital simulation for architecture, engineering, and construction markets for the last 20 years. He's been pushing the envelope of this technology and software for the Microsoft Hololens, and recently built an app for the global launch event of the next generation Hololens 2.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 19, 2020

Being able to walk through an architectural environment, tag it, and have those comments stay so that when someone comes in later, they can see them and they can respond to them. And one of the things that we've been working on -- and I've been part of -- is the Khronos Group. I hope to join the Khronos Group very shortly and help.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

With 8agora, companies, groups, and individuals can host events virtually. With AltSpace, companies, groups, and individuals can host virtual events where participants can use avatars to attend. Pricing: Free for individuals and groups who want to experience Spatial. Image courtesy 8Agora.). AltspaceVR. Surgical Theater.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Smart glasses give remote experts a see-what-I-see view of the work, providing step by step oversight through Microsoft Teams, Webex, Zoom, or some other common application. It is incredibly cumbersome for a tech to hold a phone and perform their work, and field workers often need to call on a remote expert for help.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 9, 2019

They’ve got a number of different solutions for the construction worker that leverage the Microsoft Hololens 2, the XR10, which is their new wonderful hardhat based augmented reality/mixed reality headset. So what we did is, is we hopped on board with Microsoft kind of from the start, maybe mid last year. So all that coming up.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 9, 2019

They’ve got a number of different solutions for the construction worker that leverage the Microsoft Hololens 2, the XR10, which is their new wonderful hardhat based augmented reality/mixed reality headset. So what we did is, is we hopped on board with Microsoft kind of from the start, maybe mid last year. So all that coming up.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 9, 2019

They've got a number of different solutions for the construction worker that leverage the Microsoft Hololens 2, the XR10, which is their new wonderful hardhat based augmented reality/mixed reality headset. So what we did is, is we hopped on board with Microsoft kind of from the start, maybe mid last year. So all that coming up.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 31, 2020

But we have a human-computer interaction group and we tested so many different aspects of control. You've got Microsoft -- who's invested billions of dollars in Hololens 2 -- and they're even struggling with some color banding issues. So we managed to have an entirely new architecture. This is a really great experience."

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