XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JANUARY 26, 2024

Microsoft launched its highly-anticipated Mesh for Teams immersive VR meeting platform for business end-users. The service is available now and can be accessed through desktop or Meta Quest headsets, offering users immersive virtual meeting rooms and customizable avatars for several valuable use cases.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Currently, the extended reality (XR) market is growing at a phenomenal CAGR of 48.3%, as innovative companies continue to uncover the benefits of unique, virtual landscapes. We now see VR (Virtual Reality) AR (Augmented Reality) and MR (Mixed Reality) as more than just avenues for entertainment.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

You can imagine the potential of such a tool when combined with a mixed reality headset (you could change some furniture in your house, or re-create a virtual environment that has the same shape as your room). Microsoft will for sure keep pushing for immersive realities and “the metaverse”, but in a completely different way.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Virtual reality offers a fantastic way to embed employees in rich simulated environments. Augmented reality can offer a cost-effective way to train employees in real time, wherever they are. It can help surgeons practice complex procedures or teach firefighters how to navigate a burning building.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Through virtual reality, students can also learn more about how water flows through soil, affecting plants, air and humans in a multitude of ways. With the help of the HTC Vive environment, Penn State has been able to create a comprehensive environment for training and educational immersion. Microsoft HoloLens and GE.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 15, 2022

For instance, in the virtual reality world, hand and eye tracking can embed users deeper into their virtual experience. Eye tracking makes it easier to navigate virtual environments, while hand tracking ensures uses can interact with what they see.

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VRWorld

AUGUST 17, 2016

Project Alloy is best described as a VR Headset in the class of HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, but with the ability to “cut the VR cord”, since it features mobile processing similar to the one used on Microsoft’s HoloLens. Just like HoloLens, Project Alloy lets you use your own fingers and hands to control the virtual environment.

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VRWorld

AUGUST 15, 2017

Perhaps Spectra is best explained through the video below: As you can see above, depth sensing can now identify individual fingers and could be one of main drivers for the upcoming headsets such as Microsoft Hololens 3, which switched from Intel processors to custom silicon.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Once computers understand space, we can use these informed computers to edit our real world by placing digital objects and information in it and view this all through a transparent digital screen like smart glasses or even our smartphone: this is Augmented Reality or AR. Augmented Reality ads are not new. Source: Ikea.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, David Em made strides in the creation of explorable virtual landscapes, while the Ames Research Center iterated on VIEW (Virtual Interactive Environment Workstation). The term “augmented reality” wasn’t officially coined until 1990, but the 80s also saw important breakthroughs in the space.

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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

JULY 26, 2019

So specifically, as it relates to augmented and virtual reality content; today, there is no ability for you to send me an augmented reality object -- let's say an architectural diagram. You cannot dispute the fact that virtual and augmented reality training makes good business sense.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

So specifically, as it relates to augmented and virtual reality content; today, there is no ability for you to send me an augmented reality object — let’s say an architectural diagram. You cannot dispute the fact that virtual and augmented reality training makes good business sense.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

So specifically, as it relates to augmented and virtual reality content; today, there is no ability for you to send me an augmented reality object — let’s say an architectural diagram. You cannot dispute the fact that virtual and augmented reality training makes good business sense.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 5, 2023

Zspace uses simple and convenient tools to allow learners to manipulate objects in a 360-digital screen environment, combining a laptop or display with a set of simple wearable glasses. → Explore Zspace Avantis Systems Bringing VR and AR capabilities to schools, Avantis Systems builds environments where students can learn and grow together.

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