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Magic Leap Acquires Augmented Reality Telepresence Startup Mimesys

Next Reality AR

Just months after we previewed the augmented reality, volumetric video conferencing powers of Mimesys, the company has undergone a major change — it's now a part of Magic Leap.

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Historical Museum creates an Innovative Immersive Experience with Microsoft HoloLens

CraneMorley

Peter’s Church in Belgium has finally been fully restored. This new interactive experience utilizes the power of Mixed Reality and Microsoft HoloLens for a completely different experience than ever before. As you see within the video shown below everything is in the HoloLens users’ field of view.

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Spatial Beats: Snap, Niantic & Facebook

AR Insider

Let’s dive in… E3, the big trade event for the video game industry, concluded this week. Hopefully not like the Slaughterbots in the infamous video above. 3 B is a lot of money, but hardly enough to match the vision of founder Rony Abovitz, who was up against the likes of Microsoft and Facebook. Who’s next?

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The XR Week Peek (2020.11.09): PS5 doesn’t improve PSVR, VRChat reaches 24,000 concurrent users, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft ramps up distribution of HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Microsoft is working to improve the distribution of its latest devices: HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

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Can Factories and Power Plants Be Run from Home?

CraneMorley

Microsoft HoloLens 2 and Dynamics 365 Remote Assist are examples of technology that provide interesting use cases. Another exciting use case that raises eyebrows is shown in the video below. Microsoft and DEME (Dredging, Environmental and Marine Engineering NV) uses the HoloLens to operate the crane remotely.

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Future Of Work: The 4 Biggest Workplace Trends In 2023

Bernard Marr

And Microsoft’s Mesh platform adds avatars and mixed reality capabilities to its Microsoft Teams collaborative working environment, to give users a taste of metaverse-like functionality. Nvidia is also promoting its Omniverse collaborative working tool as a metaverse platform.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.12.16): Oculus Quest gets hand tracking, Magic Leap pivots towards enterprise and much more!

The Ghost Howls

I’m back from Belgium, where I took part in the nice Stereopsia event! Now the pivot comes too little, too late: Microsoft is years ahead of its competitors in offering services for big companies (Azure is a fantastic solution in this sense), and Magic Leap is really behind in this. Road To VR even gave it a “6” mark.