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Microsoft Now Hosts Free HoloLens Demos Across US & Canada

Road to VR

Haven’t been able to make it to any of the big gaming expos (or you don’t know anyone with the $3,000 AR headset)? Microsoft Stores across the US and Canada are now hosting free HoloLens demos, so you can finally see what the hubbub is all about. Atlanta, Lenox Square Mall. Atlanta, Perimeter Mall.

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Honda Mixed Reality Race Pits Pro Driver Against Pro YouTuber

VRScout

While many automotive manufacturers might be satisfied with a simple 30 second televised ad highlighting the best features of their latest offering, Honda saw an opportunity to show-off their new Honda Civic Type R while simultaneously blending the line between virtual and reality using what could be a game-changing technology.

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Physicality & Spectatorship in ‘Project Arena’ Could Blur the Line Between E-sport and Actual Sport

Road to VR

Essentially Wii Sports (2006) for PS3 using PlayStation Move, it featured a table tennis mode that remains, to my eyes, the greatest motion-control game ever published. It was the closest anyone had come to the dream of a ‘1-to-1’ sports game. The game pits two players opposing each other in a Tron-like environment.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.03.09): New Half-Life: Alyx videos and details, coronavirus makes events go virtual and much more!

The Ghost Howls

HitMotion’s game designer Massimiliano Ariani is in Tuscany and he’s well as well. Valve is rising the hype releasing constantly new material about the game, making us slowly discover how the game is. The game appears fantastic : the graphics are high-level, the interactions are carefully studied to be natural (e.g.

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XR Association Hosts Eight Immersive Tech Firms

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

New members include XR firms Taqtile, Genesys Impact, Immersive Worlds LLC, Elm Park Labs, Pearson, Mieron, Schell Games, and Striver. Organisations such as the Greater Atlanta Chapter, Jobs for the Future, the Association of Talent Development, and the Society for Resource Management (SHRM) in Atlanta attended the Conference.

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Augmenting Enterprise Productivity, with Altoura’s Jamie Fleming and Bharat Ahluwalia

XR for Business Podcast

There's a usage scenario which is more like a console or gaming console, in the sense you decide that I'm going to be in this experience for an hour or 30 minutes. We do a lot of work with Microsoft in helping serve their customers across a variety of use cases. Bharat: It definitely feels like it. So that's where our focus is as well.

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Augmenting Enterprise Productivity, with Altoura’s Jamie Fleming and Bharat Ahluwalia

XR for Business Podcast

There's a usage scenario which is more like a console or gaming console, in the sense you decide that I'm going to be in this experience for an hour or 30 minutes. We do a lot of work with Microsoft in helping serve their customers across a variety of use cases. Bharat: It definitely feels like it. So that's where our focus is as well.