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Doctors Perform One-Of-A-Kind AR Surgery In Boston

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According to a report by WCVB-TV , a new intra-operative AR guidance platform ‘HipInsight’ was used for the first time last month during a live operation at New England Baptist Hospital, marking one of the first times AR technology has been used inside the operating room during live surgery.

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Which emerging technologies are enterprise companies getting serious about in 2020?

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Scott Kirsner is CEO and co-founder of Innovation Leader , a research and events firm that focuses on innovation in Global 1000 companies, and a longtime business columnist for The Boston Globe. They buy technologies that can solve problems they know about today, rather than those they may face a couple bends down the road.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.08.22): VRChat Android alpha released, Kinect For Azure discontinued, and more!

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More info Other relevant news (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft discontinues Kinect for Azure Microsoft has decided to discontinue its latest iteration of the Kinect sensor, dubbed Kinect For Azure DK. Microsoft will stop selling its Kinect For Azure sensor in October 2023, or until the supplies last. This seems good.

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Meta, IBM Rally XR Community for Global AI Alliance

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A leader in AI development for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) solutions, Meta’s latest involvement in the AI Alliance will help facilitate an ethical framework for the emerging technology.

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AT&T Shows Future of VR/AR at Developer Summit

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With the deep history of innovation and modern focus on entertainment, it is no shocker that AT&T is taking aim at the most immersive medium: virtual and augmented reality technology. Based out of Boston, WaypointRx is comprised of students from MIT and Harvard. Ed Schmit, Executive Director of AT&T, said “We were impressed.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.01.27): Samsung may be working on a new headset, Half-Life: Alyx will ship on time and much more!

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Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? This makes us clearly understand that gamers are still not really into VR, and confirms the thesis by Microsoft that is not adding VR to Xbox. More info (Announcement by Unity Technologies) More info (Comment by Upload VR). Learn more.

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VR Reader

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Furthermore, my involvement is primarily confined to one particular social VR platform, AltspaceVR, owned by Microsoft, making most of my experience the product of a niche within a niche within a niche. Virtual Reality is a medium, or a media technology. I am a loving critic. I see many possibilities, many futures. It was all amazing.