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APRIL 28, 2017

One of Microsoft’s newest leaders in mixed reality, Mark Bolas, took the stage for a few minutes at Acer’s press conference this week and put into human terms the company’s goals with the technology. Now he is helping define the company’s strategy and vision moving forward into the new medium.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We’re already seeing aspects of spatial computing emerge in everything from collaborative platforms like Microsoft Teams to smartphones. Even the cameras and processors in these innovative tools are becoming smaller and more powerful. We’ve already seen the impact of evolving hand and eye-tracking tools in the market.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 14, 2024

In April 2024, Meta announced a new “open ecosystem strategy” This means developers and device manufacturers can leverage the operating system to create virtual, mixed, and augmented reality experiences. Microsoft is also partnering with Meta to develop a limited-edition Quest headset for the Xbox.

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2020

Interestingly, the investment in Unreal Engine is being made on behalf of a wholly-owned subsidiary of parent company Sony Corporation rather than by Sony Interactive Entertainment (AKA PlayStation). There’s no better example of this than the revolutionary entertainment experience, Fortnite. Image courtesy PlayStation.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

I don’t know how many of them will prove to be true, but for sure they all can be something that can inspire you to define your XR strategy for this year. In this blog, I told you about the Finnish Metaverse Strategy , but I’ve heard that also The Netherlands and Korea are bullish on this new technology.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 22, 2024

Google, Qualcomm, and Samsung announcing a partnership to build an XR headset (Image by Samsung) Google in a few days would have most probably announced at Google I/O its operating system for XR, nicknamed “Android XR” (we don’t know the official name), to kickstart this strategy. Developers can apply for access here.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2022

The Quest Pro fits very well this strategy since it is a headset made for professionals. Productivity for Meta means in particular making the job done, that is giving the tools to professionals to do work on the headset. Meta has partnered with other two tech giants: Adobe and Autodesk, to bring their professional tools to Quest Pro.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It was really interesting to see Microsoft pivot towards enterprise with the HoloLens and I think it was absolutely the right move for them to make Click To Tweet. For starters, they’re based in Oregon as opposed to Silicon Valley.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

How medical visualization tools enhance learning by reducing the cognitive load on our brains. Immersive learning technologies are proliferating fast and also growing in popularity, being used not only for entertainment but also in a variety of professional applications. If done correctly, this will significantly enhance learning.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 22, 2022

All organisations are welcome to the forum via a Participating Agreement, where they can join prototyping, plugfests, open-source tooling, and hackathons, and other activities from July this year. The Metaverse Standards Forum has been formed to foster development of open standards to build the open metaverse.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Companies worldwide are developing an increasing number of use cases for XR, with many achieving success in immersive training, research and development (R&D), virtual collaboration, entertainment, and remote guidance, among others. The key to successful XR strategies is considering where employees may face the biggest hurdles.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 3, 2023

With the need to innovate industries, many speakers at the online event will showcase groundbreaking approaches to creativity in XR content creation, building information modelling (BIM), entertainment, filmmaking, and other disciplines. I’m looking forward to taking part as a speaker at the upcoming online conference.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

This gamification mechanic seems pretty lame to me : people need entertaining quests, not boring stuff just done to show them the new features of the platform. It has basically created a whole ecosystem of its own through strategic investments : I’m very curious to see what is the final goal of this strategy.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Hybrid And Multi-Cloud The number of large organizations with a multi-cloud strategy (i.e., At the same time, more and more of the data we consume will come in the form of streamed data – movies and music from Netflix and Spotify, video data from Zoom or Teams calls, and new forms of streamed entertainment such as cloud gaming.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Using their forward-facing cameras, hand and eye tracking, and 3-6 degrees of flight (DoF), the world’s most popular headsets have employed motion-capturing tools to boost user immersion. It also contains lots of tools for building motion games more easily. Here, they can access the entire feature set of MDK tools.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 24, 2022

In a world where people are actively searching for more ways to connect with communities and unlock entertainment online, XR could be the perfect next step for your gaming brand. At the same time, there are a number of development platforms out there specifically designed to assist companies in their AR strategies.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

First of all, it has been made by the mothership Sony Corporation , and not by Sony Interactive Entertainment, that manages the PlayStation. Watch Microsoft Office in XR. Popular mixed-reality-videos tool LIV releases 2.0 version with dual camera support. More info (LIV 2.0).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This includes Varjo’s XR-2, Microsoft’s HoloLens 2, Pico Interactive’s Pico 4 Enterprise, and Meta Platform’s Quest Pro. Enhance training and development strategies. Entertainment and Events. Security and safety: A lot of the benefits of XR rely on tools to protect data and information.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. More info (New features of OpenXR) More info (OpenXR in Unity) More info (OpenXR in Microsoft products). Will it be this year? Will it be next year? But will it come at some stage?

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The Lowe‘s Holoroom is being used to let customers test drive power tools and other home renovation equipment so that they feel comfortable not just buying it but also using it when they get home. Microsoft Capture Studio is offering such services scanning celebrities and performers for entertainment and education purposes.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 1, 2017

Announcements today include innovations in entertainment, gaming and cinema, smart wearables, sensing toys, robotics and consumer electronics, cloud, enterprise and business technologies, human-computer interaction solutions, automotive, and high-performance APIs. tool to enable recording, localization and navigation within buildings.

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Bernard Marr

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Of course, in addition to serving as technological showcases, games are one of the most popular forms of modern entertainment and can be a great way to unwind when we can't face another spreadsheet or Zoom meeting. However, other cloud services continued to grow, including Nvidia's GeForce Now and Microsoft's Xbox Cloud Gaming.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 21, 2021

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). We all know that Microsoft too is waiting before introducing VR for the Xbox because the VR market is too little for them, and Sony seems to follow a similar strategy, not investing too much until next year. Other relevant news. PSVR 2 may release during Holidays 2022.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

AR smart glasses can come with many benefits that boost the hardware market as a source of reliable workplace tools, notably small form factors, simple UIs, and accessibility. Additionally, enterprise applications often include device management tools for IT administrators, offering capabilities like remote wiping for lost or stolen devices.

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Digitalnauts

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Despite the fact that VR developers can create anything you can imagine possible and more , t he gaming and entertainment industry is probably the most well-known application of this te chnology. XR is a tool that we can utilise to improve our experiences in the real world, with actual positive change. . SMART GLASSES.

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Few months ago, Apple released a development tool called ARKit that enabled developers to add AR capabilities to their apps. This pace of development puts Apple in pole position to capture larger market share than the incumbents such as Google or Microsoft. The Verge has a good article about the first generation ARKit-developed apps.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

After that, I headed for China to pursue my dream and headed marketing and strategy for the release of the Microsoft A.I. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, I worked for IBM Research in Silicon Valley as a database architect, and after that e arned my MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Honestly, they are very very far away from the industrial collaboration apps that Microsoft has released for HoloLens and that industrial customers find a lot useful, but it’s a start. Location based entertainment. This is for instance something that Microsoft lacks completely. Avatar Chat.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

Billion & mind you i haven't added the overall population of #asia.Ignore us at your own risk #facebook #microsoft & the curators of those lists. Co-founder & CEO of #VeeR, A leading VR entertainment company with the mission of bringing cinematic VR content to the mass audience. However, in June 2020, a U.S. 3- Ayden Ye.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. And alongside Hill+Knowlton Strategies, one of the WPP [Group] PR and strategy agencies. We all need to be entertained.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

And we work across the whole gamut of immersive tech, from 360 video -- which is less the flavor of the month now -- through to real time based experiences across Microsoft Hololens 2, and in AR. And alongside Hill+Knowlton Strategies, one of the WPP [Group] PR and strategy agencies. We all need to be entertained.

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Robert Scoble

MAY 15, 2021

A new set of tools for developers to build all of this. When I worked at Microsoft I got in trouble with the lawyers over patents so they made me sleep with a lawyer (true story, that was my punishment). I also am invested in Apple competitors, Qualcomm, Snap, Microsoft, Amazon, and about 50 other companies in a diverse portfolio.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Managing partner Teppei Tsutsui drops by to share some of his investing strategies. So the GFR Fund is a seed stage fund that’s investing technology companies, disrupting the digital media and entertainment space, including VR and AR. Alan: Welcome to The XR for Business podcast with your host Alan Smithson. Teppei: Sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Managing partner Teppei Tsutsui drops by to share some of his investing strategies. So the GFR Fund is a seed stage fund that’s investing technology companies, disrupting the digital media and entertainment space, including VR and AR. Alan: Welcome to The XR for Business podcast with your host Alan Smithson. Teppei: Sure.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

To get some insight into those numbers, I moderated a panel on investing in virtual reality and augmented reality at Greenlight Insights’ recent Virtual Reality Strategy conference in San Francisco. It needs to have a strategy to survive. We’re also looking at things like content production, content tools.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

She’s advised a broad range of companies, from startups to major corporations on their communications and digital strategy. Alice: I think one of the recent examples — and you were talking about it when you were saying about doing your news roundup — in the last week was really that Microsoft demo at Inspire.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2019

She’s advised a broad range of companies, from startups to major corporations on their communications and digital strategy. Alice: I think one of the recent examples — and you were talking about it when you were saying about doing your news roundup — in the last week was really that Microsoft demo at Inspire.

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