VRScout

MAY 10, 2018

Microsoft teases practical MR worker tools for Hololens at 2018 Build Developer Conference. Call me strange, but of all the mixed reality demos I tried at this year’s Microsoft Build Developer Conference in Seattle, Washington, the one I actually found the most fun had me repairing an electric panel. Image Credit: Microsoft Build.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Alternatively, Meta’s big tech teammate, Microsoft, also launched a huge partnership on cross-compatibility with the former’s Quest product lineup and latter’s Office 365 solutions. Microsoft is already vying for the Metaverse after its massive $67 billion deal with Activision Blizzard. What Is an Avatar?

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VRScout

APRIL 12, 2021

Steven Murphy, an orthopedic surgeon and founder of Surgical Planning Associates , the AR-enhanced platform—referred to as HipInsight—works by outfitting surgeons with Microsoft HoloLens 2 mixed reality headsets loaded with 3D images of the patients’ anatomy.

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 2, 2023

This refers to applications that use algorithms (a set of instructions) to become increasingly good at performing a particular task as it is exposed to more and more data relating to that task. What types of data are there? Business data is commonly divided into one of two categories – internal and external data.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Because statistical data is always more compelling when presented in 3D. As if that we’rent enough, we now find ourselves facing a dangerous outbreak of the fast-spreading respiratory illness referred to as coronavirus. . Still, nCoV-2019 Tracker serves as an excellent example of VR’s potential as a data visualization tool.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 26, 2021

In addition to Apple, Microsoft has already begun to accelerate the headworn AR market. Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer projections if applicable. Research includes monthly narrative reports, market-sizing forecasts, consumer survey data and multimedia, all housed in a robust intelligence vault.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2022

The Digital Markets Act is a law that the European Parliament and Commission are discussing since 2020 and has the purpose of limiting the excessive power of the major tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta. Data privacy. References. So, let’s see what is going to happen.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Efforts to construct and expand the Metaverse were sparked by Meta Platform’s major pivot in October, which saw Microsoft, NVIDIA, HTC VIVE, Qualcomm, Google, Varjo, and dozens of other tech giants enter the race for prime positioning to build the virtual and connected world. Non Fungible Token (NFTs). The Nakaverse. Virtual Reality.

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Bernard Marr

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Microsoft, which is reported to have laid off around 10,000 employees, practically simultaneously announced that it plans to invest $10 billion in OpenAI, the creators of the viral application ChatGPT. Together, four of the biggest tech companies – Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft – have cut 50,000 jobs.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Generally, “the cloud” refers to remote servers that do work off of a device. The RealWear Cloud also allows data analysis across headsets. Handling this data for an individual on an individual headset is possible but, again, becomes unbearable at scale sans cloud. But, what is the cloud anyway? Your Forecast: Cloudy.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Realistically and specifically, the Metaverse does not only refer to a series of immersive worlds. Following this period of Metaverse criticism, firms such as Apple avoided the terminology for their own MR device, and Meta barely referred to its Horizon service during Connect 2023. But how did Microsoft get to this point?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2023

The first is that the headset is just at the beginning of its life, some pieces of content like Beat Saber are not available yet, so this initial data is spurious and over time Beat Saber will be the most sold game again. I’m anyway linking a few of them here below, just for your reference. This may have two different explanations.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 6, 2020

It includes some of its data and takeaways. Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer data if applicable. Though its current active use is lowest among platforms, its installed base is greatest… meaning it has the biggest shell to grow into (see data in the next section). Platform Rundown.

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VRScout

MAY 17, 2019

Earlier this month, Microsoft teased Minecraft fans with a short video hinting at some type of upcoming augmented reality experience for smartphones. Image Credit: Microsoft. Speaking of locations, Minecraft Earth layers its Overworld map on top of real-world environments based off data from Open Street Maps.

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Tech Trends VR

JULY 10, 2018

MineLife VR, for example, manages to synthesize large, complex, and vast spatial data into a life-sized, interactive, virtual reality experience. MineLife VR, for example, manages to synthesize large, complex, and vast spatial data into a life-sized, interactive, virtual reality experience. It worked surprisingly well.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Adding AR to this traditional workflow involves software from VisualLive and Microsoft Hololens. Bottom-Line Impact Much of the above was put into play in the construction of Microsoft data centers. Microsoft’s Azure Spatial Anchors were also used for positional accuracy of BIM models.

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VRScout

JUNE 20, 2018

Rather, it was the fact that Oke and Lavigne, after working for over a decade in the video game industry with companies such as Microsoft, EA, and Ubisoft, had applied there combined experience to found LlamaZOO and produce what sounded like an incredibly eclectic range of VR applications under the name. It worked surprisingly well.

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Tech Trends VR

MAY 29, 2018

What is different about this is that apart from being more polished and integrating more collaborative features in one place via Microsoft Teams it also plugs into the company’s strategic focus on AI Click To Tweet. I was trying out the Microsoft Remote Assist feature, a HoloLens app (although the functionality also works on PCs.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Setting up augmented reality giant Niantic as one of the book’s principal developers and villains, Pesce describes “A Riot in Rhodes” referring to crowds of Pokémon Go users descending on Peg Paterson Park in Rhodes, New South Wales. The very first page of Pesce’s book puts the reader in July 12, 2016. See Also: Must Read AR/VR Books in 2020.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In partnership with Nvidia, Microsoft, and Cesium, it offers a real-time 3D creation engine for producing immersive mapping and digital twins of real-world locations. It broadly refers to digital domains that host synchronous interaction between placeshifted participants. But not everyone has that data.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

To further enhance the user experience, Apple is launching an accompanying App Store for the Vision Pro solely for XR software, allowing users to quickly download productivity solutions for working, peer-to-peer collaboration, and viewing reference material.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Next year, Apple will debut the Vision Pro following years of hype, and Microsoft will also start rolling out its industrial Metaverse services. Meta introduced the feature two years ago to prevent people from referring to their phones during gameplay. The XR market may be experiencing a quiet before the storm.

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Bernard Marr

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

ChatGPT is often referred to as the “do-anything-machine,” as it’s a great first port-of-call when you want to get just about any job done. If you’re a user of Gmail, Workspace, Documents and so on, you’ll be impressed by how easily it’s able to draft emails, create documents, generate data or automate many routine tasks.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 1, 2022

Over the last two years, metaverse technologies have matured due to investments from firms such as Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Epic Games, and many others. This refers to the plethora of design tools and applications used by developers and content creators to produce digital resources, immersive experiences, and other assets.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

References to Apple RealityOS have been leaked. Some days ago, two developers have found references to “RealityOS” both in the Apple Store logs and in an opensource repo by Apple. New info on Microsoft abandoning the Hololens 3. Leaks about Apple are intensifying over the weeks. More info (Leaks on RealityOS?—?Upload

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AR Insider

APRIL 8, 2020

After examining Amazon , Microsoft , and Google , it’s time to zero in on Bose. For a frame of reference, Apple’s path to audio AR could follow its early iPhone progression in launching a developer platform and app store. “So But what’s everyone else doing? Hardware Blitz. That’s the new promise we’re making.”.

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Bernard Marr

MARCH 27, 2023

This has become possible due to the sheer amount of user data that can be captured from online users. In the days of newspaper, radio, and television advertising, the data that could be collected was limited to information gleaned from audience and market research surveys.

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Road to VR

APRIL 10, 2019

Microsoft won a decisive $480 million defense contract with the U.S. The headset can also gather data such as a soldier’s hear rate to improve training and marksmanship. Army late last year to bring the company’s AR hardware platform to the battlefield. All of this hasn’t gone unchallenged though.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The camera uses the patterns on the actual book as a reference to display the AR content, a technology that is often used today on Snapchat and Instagram. So markerless AR is powered not only by depth sensors and other positioning data, but also by ML algorithms on top of this data. Apps like Pokemon Go utilize markerless AR.

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VRScout

JUNE 17, 2019

—players will navigate a series of “celestial” puzzles in order to unlock various tree, animal, and plant spirits, which can then be placed and interacted with inside what the developers refer to as “musical terrariums.”. PROJECT LUX from Spicy Tails. SLUMBALL VR from U24 Solutions.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

At the very beginning of September, a leaked internal build of iOS 13 was found to contain a “readme” file referring to StarBoard, a system that allows developers to view stereo-enabled AR apps on an iPhone. Inside that set of tools lurked data files for what appeared to be two different headsets, codenamed Franc and Luck.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

One” and “Pro” may refer to two pricing tiers: for instance, the headset that may release next year could be the “Apple Reality Pro”, given its predicted price of $2000+. A Fortnite data miner has found references to Oculus stuff in the latest update of Fortnite , Update 21.50. There are hints about Fortnite coming to Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2019

Frontal view of the device (Image by Microsoft). The biggest news of the MWC for what concerns XR has been for sure the announcement of the HoloLens 2 by Microsoft. Image by Microsoft). Together with the HoloLens 2, Microsoft has also announced a new version of the Kinect, called Kinect Azure. HoloLens 2. Azure Kinect.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Facebook came with the Oculus Quest 1 & 2 , then Microsoft with the Hololens2 with hand tracking capabilities; but there are limitations in dealing with occlusions and in tracking outside the camera’s field of view on the headset. VRfree is a solid device including precise and scalable hand tracking data.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

I think that Gartner was not referring to the consumer market, where VR is still unripe (even if devices like the Oculus Quest and the Vive Focus Plus are helping it in becoming more widespread), but at the B2B one, where VR is already helping companies to spare money (e.g. Security — establishing hierarchies for data capture and protection.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. Whenever I’ll mention VPNs in the remainder of the article, I’m always referring to these ones. Verify the most that you can before leaving, so that you can find solution in advance. Absolutely not.

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AR Insider

APRIL 29, 2021

Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer projections if applicable. Army’s $22 billion contract with Microsoft. That common pattern is pronounced in AR where the hardware isn’t stylistically viable yet for consumer markets, causing them to lag in smart glasses adoption. . In Perspective.

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