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Varjo Hardware to Be Used in Astronaut Training

ARPost

While the headset’s “human-eye resolution” capabilities are definitely exciting, the daunting price tag has largely relegated the headset to the realm of industry. Unreal worked with the Microsoft HoloLens 2 to create an AR experience based around Apollo 11.

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RealWear Announces Navigator 500 “Assisted Reality” Headset

ARPost

The headset has some amazing stats in terms of camera and audio capabilities, and it’s definitely a smart headset, but “AR” might not mean what you think it means. The hardware itself is built around a modular design that can be manually optimized for different use cases. Of course, hardware isn’t everything.

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Pressure Mounts for Xbox’s Missing VR Strategy as PSVR Rakes in an Estimated Half Billion From Hardware Alone

Road to VR

In an era where Sony appears to have a significant lead in console sales already, and with PSVR sharpening the system’s competitive edge, pressure is mounting for Microsoft to figure out its Xbox VR strategy. Pressure is mounting Microsoft to figure out how its VR plans pan out on Xbox. Moving the Needle. Photo by Road to VR.

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E3 Spotlight: Microsoft Aims For A VR Sweet Spot In 2018

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The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest. What We Know .

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Walmart Is Working On Its Own Metaverse With NFTs & Crypto

VRScout

The metaverse is definitely a hot topic for many brands right now. In a recent interview with NBC, futurist and metaverse expert Cathy Hackl , talked about the recent Microsoft acquisition of Activision and what it could mean for the metaverse: “We have to brace for this race to the metaverse. It is very much a part of our reality.

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Spatial Computing: Expert Roundtable

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and many others started to reestablish the Metaverse and XR as serious business tools following a lacklustre adoption rate from consumer markets. This trend encompasses the integration between the hardware and software. Is spatial computing a buzzword, or will the definition mould the XR industry to come?

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NVIDIA Posts First DirectX 12 Ultimate Driver Set, Enables GPU Hardware Scheduling

Anand Tech

As well, this driver also enables support for hardware accelerated GPU scheduling. Perhaps the more interesting aspect of this driver release, though only tangential to DirectX 12 Ultimate support, is that NVIDIA is enabling support for hardware accelerated GPU scheduling. ray tracing and tier 2 variable rate shading.

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