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Report Casts Doubt on HoloLens 3, Microsoft Says AR Headset is “doing great”

Road to VR

Microsoft’s enterprise-focused HoloLens 3 may be dead in the water, as a recent report maintains that internal divisions have hobbled the company’s efforts to release its next AR headset as planned. Alex Kipman wearing HoloLens 2, Image courtesy Microsoft. Microsoft Responds.

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Led by Former Oculus Exec, Facebook’s New Cloud Gaming Service Paves the Way to VR Streaming

Road to VR

Some of the cloud gaming stuff that we’re doing will, of course, be useful for VR as well, and we’re building a big community around that on Oculus. It’s critical for us to start with latency-tolerant games so we can deliver a good experience for players across a variety of devices.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.01.23): Apple Vision Pro preorders have been opened, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Of course, some people from all over the world made some tricks to buy it anyway. There is even Microsoft Word! So even if we zero the network time, there is still a lot of latency because of decoding, and Wi-Fi 7 can do nothing about that.

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5G Networks Crucial to Metaverse Future, AT&T Says

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Telecoms have played a massive role in facilitating the expanded use of unified communications apps such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype, and multiple social media platforms. XR Today: Which are some of the low latency-based technologies AT&T (cloud/edge) has been deploying and what are their benefits?

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Varjo XR-4 hands-on preview: high resolution and raytracing are an explosive mix in VR

The Ghost Howls

This is of course not required for the Secure edition It is possible to add Ultraleap hand tracking for +499€. Of course, a more accurate test would be having the headset for at least 1 hour of consecutive play time, but let’s say that at least the first impressions were good in this sense.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.03.08): Microsoft launches Mesh, HTC and Pico tease new hardware, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Microsoft announces Mesh, an XR collaboration platform. Alex Kipman promised us a Microsoft Ignite conference with an amazing level of immersion , and he kept his word. But since Microsoft owns one of those studios (and using it costs around $100K/day if I remember well!), You are all fantastic! Here you are my flower for you!

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The XR Week Peek (2023.07.31): Roblox released on Quest, Apple bringing back investments in VR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

It seems that his first tests were so-so, but after a new firmware beta update, the system became quite accurate, and apart from some latency problems, it was able to track his body very well. The purpose of the group is of course the one of fighting the duopoly of Apple Maps/Google Maps.

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