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Our First Look At Microsoft HoloLens 2

VRScout

Microsoft debuts their latest mixed reality device at Mobile World Conference 2019. Over these past three and a half years, Microsoft has been listening to their customers, claims HoloLens inventor and Microsoft Technical Fellow Alex Kipman as he took his turn on stage. Microsoft HoloLens 2 / Image Credit: Microsoft.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.13): Sony invests in Epic, Rockstar is working on an AAA VR game, and more!

The Ghost Howls

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. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations.

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The Best University Courses To Learn Metaverse Skills

Bernard Marr

Huge companies like Facebook and Microsoft are throwing vast sums of money at their attempts to build, and therefore define, the metaverse. Game development engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine were first created in order to make virtual worlds where we can compete in sports, puzzles, or just blow each other up with futuristic weapons.

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

” So, in our world, Unity — and let’s not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there’s Unreal. One of my favorite examples — I will qualify it with they are not using Torch yet — but ABC News Australia. Microsoft’s got a great product around it. He worked for Microsoft last year.

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH’s Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

” So, in our world, Unity — and let’s not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there’s Unreal. One of my favorite examples — I will qualify it with they are not using Torch yet — but ABC News Australia. Microsoft’s got a great product around it. He worked for Microsoft last year.

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Lighting the Torch for In-App AR Development, with TORCH's Paul Reynolds

XR for Business Podcast

So, in our world, Unity -- and let's not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there's Unreal. One of my favorite examples -- I will qualify it with they are not using Torch yet -- but ABC News Australia. And they actually built an Unreal engine-based app to publish news content to go on with their news. Alan: Improbable.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

While the program was principally incubated by Crytek, students working in VR First labs tend use Unity (48%), followed by Unreal (20%) and then CRYENGINE (14%). North Metropolitan TAFE, Australia. image courtesy VR First. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Middle East Technical University, Turkey. Oklahoma State University, USA.

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