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Big XR News from Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and OpenXR

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Big vendor news this week, Admist start-ups and fresh ideas; this week, big names like Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Apple took the headlines due to each firm’s optimisation of its XR product portfolio. Surgeons can train repeatedly with customized modules to improve their efficacy, skills, and data retention.

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Microsoft Adds Dynamics 365 Guides XR Tools to HoloLens 2

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Microsoft has developed its mixed reality (MR) solutions with fresh updates on its Dynamics 365 Guides platform, the company announced in early April. The new tools will support deskless and frontline workers worldwide and follow numerous steps Microsoft has taken to promote its Mesh platform for MR experiences.

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Big News from XR Awards, Microsoft, Meta, and Sony

XR Today - Big XR News tag

New updates to Microsoft Mesh allows remote workers to add immersive experiences to private previews on the platform. Moreover, the update is part of Microsoft’s push to optimise its products with immersive features to combat modern challenges like Zoom fatigue and dial-in hurdles. Meta is required to pay roughly €1.2

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The XR Week Peek (2020.09.28): The debate on Facebook continues, Microsoft acquires Zenimax, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Personally, I think that this trend that every country wants to keep its data inside its boundaries in understandable, but it risks also creating a collection of walled gardens, as it is happening with USA vs China). Microsoft has acquired Zenimax for $7.5B. The game is fun to be played and has a great user experience. Let’s dream!).

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59% of VR Developers Use Unity, But Devs Make More Money With Unreal

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 started out in the high end, and it has moved lower through pricing tactics and revisions that enable it to be the foundation of mobile games. Sadly, we don’t know which company is really in the stronger position because their data comparisons are apples and oranges. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”.

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Varjo Hardware to Be Used in Astronaut Training

ARPost

With our devices, astronauts can see and virtually interact with the switches and control panels inside their Starliner capsule and read the real-time data on their crew displays. Boeing also made the experience using 3D scans of the Starliner console on Unreal Engine. Building the Experience. Connie Miller with Varjo headset.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

And I’m also worried about using a Facebook account for everything XR related, because Facebook has a long history of obscure practices with the data of its users , apart from the standard “personalized ads” business. Facebook already had full control of my Oculus and Facebook accounts, so it had already my XR data.

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