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Our First Look At Microsoft HoloLens 2

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Microsoft debuts their latest mixed reality device at Mobile World Conference 2019. Over these past three and a half years, Microsoft has been listening to their customers, claims HoloLens inventor and Microsoft Technical Fellow Alex Kipman as he took his turn on stage. Microsoft HoloLens 2 / Image Credit: Microsoft.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.10.25): Quest 2 Pro leaked, Facebook to change its name, and more!

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According to The Verge, the top executives from Facebook are working on a rebrand of the company, most probably to create a parent company that owns all the various businesses controlled by Facebook … something similar to what Google made when it created Alphabet. Positional Tracking : SteamVR 2.0/1.0 Positional Tracking : SteamVR 2.0/1.0

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.05): HP and Canon reveal new XR enterprise headsets, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

This special version of the headset features additional sensors that can get more data about the user: A heart rate sensor on the forehead; Two additional cameras that track the lower part of the face of the user, so that to read his facial expressions; Eye-tracking cameras , that can also detect the dimension of the pupil.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.09.20): Quest 2 Pro leaks, Xiaomi smartglasses, Half Dive headset, and more!

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References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. Diver-X Half Dive is an interesting headset from Japan. Last Call has been released.

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10 Augmented Reality Trends of 2022: A Vision of Immersion

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This past year, Google introduced a few new features for ARCore such as recording and playback APIs. For example, Microsoft Hololens 2 can provide information to the surgeon while allowing them to use both of their hands during the procedure. However, Google Glass launched eight years ago. Are we any closer now?

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How Will AR Transform Advertising?

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While not swapping anything out, Google is attempting to make the world an ad through its visual search app–Google Lens. And in Japan there are more than 4,000 “Vtubers” , Virtual YouTube stars, which choose to take on virtual characters rather than their real world identity. Virtual humans are getting more and more real.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.11.11): Cardboard becomes opensource, HoloLens 2 and nreal shipping and much more!

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Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed.