Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2022

Bernard Kress, principal optical architect on Microsoft’s HoloLens team, has left the company to take on the role of Director of XR Engineering at the recently formed Google Labs. Around 300 people are purportedly working on Project Iris, however Google plans to expand by “hundreds more.”

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Road to VR

JULY 14, 2016

But what would it look like running on a dedicated augmented reality headset? Developer CapitolaVR decided to find out by building a Pokemon Go inspired test game for their brand new Microsoft HoloLens. You can see the results in the video above. See Also: ‘Pokémon Go’ is Where I Draw the Line on “Augmented Reality”.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Augmented Reality will soon be more than cartoony Pokemon and Snapchat Filters (and Facebook’s coming Camera Effects Platform). As the video below shows, a cinematically real, 3D George Takei is not something that can be made casually. Like Microsoft’s Takei demo, Holo-Hamm and Spiderman are grounded in place.

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Doc-Ok

JANUARY 17, 2017

Here is an update on my quest to stay on top of all things “holo:” HoloLamp and RealView “Live Holography.” This is a solid and well-known technology called structured-light 3D scanning , and can be seen in action at the beginning of this HoloLamp video clip. RealView Holographic Augmented Reality.

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