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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

The mura-free 2160 x 2160 LCD panels for each eye strengthen visual clarity, and the headset even includes 4 cameras built into the headset to reduce the need for external sensors. Developed in collaboration with other leading XR companies like Microsoft, the HP headset is compatible with a range of platforms.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Today, we’re looking at some of the top MR headset manufacturers in the industry, to help business leaders track down the right endpoints for their technology stack. Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 headset enables 6 degrees of freedom tracking, with spatial mapping and mixed reality capture.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

OMG, it’s almost 3 years that I write these roundups… the first week peek was exclusive for my blog subscribers and it featured as best news the release of Google Blocks and in the other news something about Samsung Gear VR… how much time has passed since then! Image by Microsoft). Participate in a VR eye-tracking apps contest!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft Teams to integrate Mesh in 2022. With a surprise move, Microsoft has announced that in 2022 it will integrate Microsoft Mesh, its framework to create shared XR experiences, inside Microsoft Teams. And if they have these features from Microsoft, they won’t need to get them from Meta.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 7, 2022

It will work with PlayStation 5 and offer amazing clarity, next-generation haptics, and for the first time on a consumer device, eye tracking. Other companies like Nreal and Microsoft are in a better position, but just because we are in the very early stages of the market.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Today, we’re looking at some of the top MR headset manufacturers in the industry to help business leaders track down the right endpoints for their technology stack. The flagship MR solution from the company is the Samsung HMD Odyssey, which combines Microsoft Windows Holographic computing components with a 110-degree Fresnel lens.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

On the contrary, Microsoft has worked a lot on the platform, to make it more appealing to enterprise customers. It has released experiences like Microsoft Remote Assist, that let different teams in a company work together to solve maintenance problems. Of course, it will exploit the already awesome Microsoft platform.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

New info on Microsoft abandoning the Hololens 3. Last week we all heard the news about Microsoft abandoning the HoloLens 3, and the denial of it by Alex Kipman and Microsoft itself. We are not supporting eye tracking or biometrics for this closed beta. More info (Leaks on RealityOS?—?Upload

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2019

All the other major companies (Samsung, Huawei, etc…) are working on AR and Apple for sure can’t stop experimenting with if it doesn’t want to miss the next communication platform as Microsoft did with Windows Phone. A new job listing points out to the fact that Oculus is planning to integrate eye tracking in its next devices.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Source: Samsung. Next generation VR devices are getting updated with all the necessary ingredients to make video passthrough possible including high resolution displays, powerful cameras, depth sensors, GPUs and eye-tracking. Hardware. #2 Source: Trimble.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 11, 2022

Qualcomm and Microsoft partnership. Qualcomm and Microsoft have announced a partnership to push together the next-generation lightweight AR glasses. Further, the announcement reveals plans to integrate Microsoft Mesh—the company’s multi-user XR foundation—with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Spaces XR development tools. Road To VR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

This lets you experience scenes that are a bit more complex than the ones that you can live on Microsoft’s device; The field of view is 40° Horizontal and 30° Vertical. Furthermore, it is not something original to Magic Leap, since I’ve seen Microsoft doing it in VR some years ago. That’s really bad.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Eye tracking will enable more realistic interactions with both NPCs and human avatars, along with detailed analytics, heatmapping, and privacy concerns. Hand and finger tracking, gesture interfaces, and grip simulation: Leap Motion: Manus VR: Neurodigital: Gestigon: Handpose: Usens: Dexta Robotics: Minority Report (film).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

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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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2019

Inside-out tracking— which does away with external sensors in favor of cameras mounted on the headset itself—would make room-scale tracking the default, while simplifying the setup and usage. Eye-tracking is another feature which is up in the air for Rift S.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

During the presentation of HoloLens 2, Microsoft called on stage Trimble to present its safety solution to use the latest Microsoft AR headset safely in industrial environments. The result is a virtual avatar that looks incredibly realistic in his movements, since it has the eyes, the fingers and the whole body tracked.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Eye-tracking startup Eyefluence, which raises $14 million this month, is acquired about a year later by Google. Samsung starts off the month debuting its VR Internet browser for Gear VR, becoming the first to offer a VR browser. Samsung unveils the Note 7 smartphone alongside the latest Gear VR. December 2015.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

In my opinion , the true error is with the Vive 1 , that will get a price that is higher than the one of all the competitors… and that will cost as much as a Samsung Odyssey, notwithstanding its far lower features. But we also know that when in VR, most people just look forward with their eyes. Vive Focus comes to the west.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

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. VALVE’S R&D IN EYE-TRACKING TO INCREASE. THE UPCOMING SAMSUNG GEAR VR CONTROLLER IS COOL.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest. Jacob, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest. Jacob, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 26, 2019

Co-founder Jinha Lee developed pioneering AR interfaces at MIT, Microsoft, and Samsung and then also showed them at a TED talk. Our guest today, Jacob, has also been a partner at Samsung NEXT. And when Jinha finished up at Samsung, AR had sort of started catching on in earnest. Jacob, welcome to the show.

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VRWorld

APRIL 30, 2017

“ HTC Vive ecosystem expands with eye tracking. link] 7invensun-eye-tracker-for- vive/. “A Chinese startup known as 7invensun (pronounced seven-in-ven-sun) is announcing it will be releasing a new eye tracking module for the Vive next month. ” Samsung is testing human face as a VR controller.

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

So shifting gears slightly, you know, and this is interesting, it’s in your book as well: A recent study commissioned by Microsoft in the Harvard Business Review showed that 87 per cent of correspondants that they interviewed are currently exploring, piloting, or deploying mixed reality in their company workflows. Charlie: 6d.ai

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XR for Business Podcast

MAY 13, 2019

So shifting gears slightly, you know, and this is interesting, it’s in your book as well: A recent study commissioned by Microsoft in the Harvard Business Review showed that 87 per cent of correspondants that they interviewed are currently exploring, piloting, or deploying mixed reality in their company workflows. Charlie: 6d.ai

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

Above: Microsoft’s HoloLens in action. Image Credit: Microsoft. An example of something that’s working out right now in VR is the Samsung commercials, the Samsung VR that was running every second over Christmas. With hand tracking and eye tracking built into the headset, I can be playing with my friends across the world.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

Microsoft has just released its OpenXR implementation, while other companies like Oculus and Epic Games are still working on theirs, and they will be released soon. Samsung gets a patent for an AR contact lens. Only $375 to see the notifications of your phone in front of your eyes.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft wants to play safe, though, so it is now launching it only in two small countries , so that to identify possible problems only in a small subset of the worldwide population before the big launch. Samsung will manufacture the chips for Facebook AR glasses. Other relevant news. More info.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

With what’s going on from Project Tango and Microsoft, there are definitely big players in this space. Microsoft and Facebook have talked about inside out tracking. Google recently bought Eyefluence for its eye tracking. Zhang: Multiplatform, multiple form factors, that’s very important.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I think there’s an inherent risk of collecting eye tracking data, and positional head tracking data, and more data about individuals. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?].

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I think there’s an inherent risk of collecting eye tracking data, and positional head tracking data, and more data about individuals. So if you look at the investments done by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and a bunch of other, Lenovo, Valve[?].

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2020

A worker wearing HoloLens 2 (Image by Microsoft). Maybe with eye-tracking, AI, 5G connection, and a battery that lasts all day. So, I envision the main companies in the field, like Microsoft and Magic Leap, to put their efforts into improving their platform to offer better services to their enterprise customers.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

This is much more than what Oculus promised to track some years ago (“only the height of the user is sent to Facebook, for statistical purposes”), and the amount of tracking info is going to slowly increase. The undercost hardware subsidized by other forms of content is something that consoles have made far before Facebook.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Alan: One of the tools that I think we’re just starting to see come online is eye tracking and motion tracking, where we’re really able to get data points about humans that we’ve never had before. We can now do better objective assessments, instead of subjective measurements.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Alan: One of the tools that I think we're just starting to see come online is eye tracking and motion tracking, where we're really able to get data points about humans that we've never had before. We can now do better objective assessments, instead of subjective measurements. And that gives us some very powerful tools.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Alan: One of the tools that I think we’re just starting to see come online is eye tracking and motion tracking, where we’re really able to get data points about humans that we’ve never had before. We can now do better objective assessments, instead of subjective measurements.

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