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HoloLens Exhibit Teleports You to the Tundra of Arctic Alaska

VRScout

Connecticut naval museum Mystic Seaport is opening an exhibit that uses Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed reality headset to let guests walk into a tundra through holograms and spatialized sound. The experience, called Murmur: Arctic Realities , is set at a frozen marsh 80-miles north of the Arctic circle. .

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How Are US Regulators Affecting Big Tech’s XR Plans?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Attorney generals from eight states—California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia—have joined the litigation. Other firms such as Amazon, Meta Platforms, and Microsoft have ordered redundancies across their workforces at 18,000, 11,000, and 12,000, respectively. Not Too Big to Fail?

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Facebook steps into cloud gaming — and another feud with Apple

TechCrunch VR

Their approach is different than what Microsoft or Google has built but Facebook highlights a shared central challenge: dealing with Apple. Apple was initially slow to provide a path forward for cloud gaming apps from Google and Microsoft, which had previously been outlawed on the App Store. Virginia and West Virginia.

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