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Microsoft Now Hosts Free HoloLens Demos Across US & Canada

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Microsoft Stores across the US and Canada are now hosting free HoloLens demos, so you can finally see what the hubbub is all about. At the time of this writing, no online sign-up sheet is available specific to HoloLens demos, only a list of participating stores. Seattle, University Village. California. Brea, Brea Mall.

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Microsoft Introduces HoloLens Mixed Reality To The Job Site

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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.

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Power and Responsibility: Highlights from Microsoft Build

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Live from Seattle, Tech Trends scoops up all the tastiest bites from the #MSBuild2018 developer’s conference. “We We need to ask ourselves not only what computers can do, but what they should do,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in his opening keynote at Build. Microsoft sees the “intelligent cloud” as the backbone of this revolution.

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Mixed Reality Lending a Helping Hand

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Go ahead and call me weird, but of all the Mixed Reality demos I did at this year’s Build, the one I found most fun had me repairing an electric panel. I was trying out the Microsoft Remote Assist feature, a HoloLens app (although the functionality also works on PCs. VRScout (@VRScout) May 10, 2018.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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You can enjoy the full audio recording below: Mindshow, updated Samsung Gear VR, Samsung 360 camera release date, GoPro, HTC, mobile tracking innovation from Chinese developer Deepoon, Microsoft Hololens, investment wrapup, and more! MICROSOFT OPENS UP SALES OF HOLOLENS. SEIZE THE SPOTLIGHT WITH MINDSHOW. …and more.

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Shooter Veterans Form VR Game Studio Drifter Entertainment

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Three veterans of first-person shooter games have formed Drifter Entertainment , a Seattle-based virtual reality game studio. He was also a chief technology officer at Microsoft on the HoloLens project, and he was the lead programmer on Gears of War and Gears of War 2. The founders include Ray Davis, Kenneth Scott, and Brian Murphy.

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

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In related news, the consumer version of the HTC Vive is now promised to be shipped within 72 hours of ordering as well as additional retail availability and demo locations. Facebook Enables Native 360 Photos. You can now upload a 360 degree photo to the Book of Face just like you would with a normal photo.