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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

In the fall of 2016, Microsoft announced a partnership with a handful of hardware manufacturers to make developer headsets implementing the inside-out tracking technology seen on the HoloLens. LA, GET EXCITED: BJORK’S VR EXHIBITION COMES TO LOS ANGELES. VALVE’S R&D IN EYE-TRACKING TO INCREASE.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

Dean: Getting back to the platform owners, I think if you look at HTC and some of the things that they’ve done… you know, they did an eye-tracking version of the HTC Vive here. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. And now, to this day, I think it remains Microsoft’s best pivot ever. Dean: Yeah.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

Dean: Getting back to the platform owners, I think if you look at HTC and some of the things that they’ve done… you know, they did an eye-tracking version of the HTC Vive here. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. And now, to this day, I think it remains Microsoft’s best pivot ever. Dean: Yeah.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

you know, they did an eye-tracking version of the HTC Vive here. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. And now, to this day, I think it remains Microsoft's best pivot ever. Alan: Have you been to the Microsoft campus? It's not your drab, beige Windows building, or Microsoft Word. If they're going to spend. Dean: Yeah.

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On the XR Beat, with VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi

XR for Business Podcast

Dean: Getting back to the platform owners, I think if you look at HTC and some of the things that they’ve done… you know, they did an eye-tracking version of the HTC Vive here. Alan: The VIVE Pro Eye. And now, to this day, I think it remains Microsoft’s best pivot ever. Dean: Yeah.

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As UploadVR Turns 2 We Reflect On The First Full Year of Consumer VR

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google. The month closes with Microsoft finally awakening, announcing it will ship the $3,000 self-contained HoloLens augmented reality developer kit to developers at the end of March. December 2015. March 2016. November 2016.

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XR Podcast Hosts Unite, with Voices of VR Podcast’s Kent Bye – Part 1

XR for Business Podcast

Kent: It reminds me of– I have gone to Microsoft Build for the last three years, and that’s a good place to kind of see some of the AR demos that are there in terms of the partners with Microsoft. Being able to actually look somebody in the eyes in VR. Alan: Yeah. It really– it feels right. It’s amazing.