XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Although MR hardware costs are still relatively expensive, as hardware innovation continues, the space will become more accessible. 2022 is a breakout year for MR hardware and software. Moreover, Microsoft is powering many MR hardware and software solutions with its immersive software development kit.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Nreal SDK runs on the Unity-based Microsoft Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK), and applies to Nreal’s Air and Light smart glasses. Nreal built the hand-tracking update using two open-source MRTK applications, “Hand Tracking Hub” and “Startup Scene,” available via Microsoft Design Labs. Core NRSDK Updates.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As the rise of XR hardware continues, the tech space gives consumer and enterprise end-users an avenue to explore spatial computing. While widespread consumer adoption is still far away, many AR hardware and software firms are leading the pack in spreading the technology worldwide. What Smart Glasses are Available Today?

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Upload VR

JULY 10, 2023

At Microsoft in the 90s he co-developed Windows NT, the workstation OS which became the technology foundation of all Windows versions from XP onwards. Mark Lucovsky is a veteran operating systems engineer. From 2017 Lucovsky led Facebook's effort to build a new operating system for AR glasses.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In the US, stores like Microsoft, Gamestop, and Micro Center host Vive setups offering public demos, while you can find the system in Europe in locations like Currys PC World, GAME, and Scan Computers. Oculus has a healthy smattering of demo locations across the US in many Best Buy and Microsoft stores. Oculus Rift, Touch, and Gear VR.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. RUBIKA, France. North Metropolitan TAFE, Australia. Oklahoma State University, USA.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Silicon Valley’s advent calendar clearly marks September as the traditional time for Apple to talk finished hardware, not secretive projects. Not long after, on the day of the hardware event, Apple released Xcode 11, the newest version of the company’s macOS development environment. That’s by design.

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Upload VR

JUNE 9, 2023

Google chickened out , Microsoft got distracted , and it's totally understandable if you lost interest in VR when they did. Yes, Google might still be resurgent with Android, powered by Owlchemy's insights and Samsung's hardware , and other companies might surprise with a novel strategy too. The just-announced visionOS 1.0

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Peter Graham

MARCH 19, 2020

Because Spatial is hardware-agnostic every colleague doesn’t need to have a Magic Leap 1, they can join a meeting from a Microsoft HoloLens, Oculus Quest, Android/iPhone mobile device or desktop (just without the fancy spatial computing).

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VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Some of the biggest names in social impact will be in attendance, including: Participant Media, Conservation International, the Rainforest Alliance, Connect for Climate/World Bank, and the Milken Institute, as well as tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Oculus.

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Gravity Jack

DECEMBER 2, 2020

To our knowledge, Microsoft is one of very few companies to put out a second iteration of an HMD — and we at Gravity Jack wanted to know what improvements were made. . Serving as a powerful, hands-free, tool across industries like medicine, manufacturing, and retail, the HoloLens 2 continues to redefine the immersive hardware market.

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Gravity Jack

DECEMBER 2, 2020

To our knowledge, Microsoft is one of very few companies to put out a second iteration of an HMD — and we at Gravity Jack wanted to know what improvements were made. . Serving as a powerful, hands-free, tool across industries like medicine, manufacturing, and retail, the HoloLens 2 continues to redefine the immersive hardware market.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Facebook keeps running fast towards its vision of the m verse, both from a hardware and software standpoint. When Microsoft won a $22B dollars contract with the US Army to develop a special version of HoloLens that could increase the “lethality” of troops, the news made strides worldwide. The AR program for the US Army gets delayed.

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Gravity Jack

DECEMBER 2, 2020

To our knowledge, Microsoft is one of very few companies to put out a second iteration of an HMD — and we at Gravity Jack wanted to know what improvements were made. . Serving as a powerful, hands-free, tool across industries like medicine, manufacturing, and retail, the HoloLens 2 continues to redefine the immersive hardware market.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

They are: “Franc”: FoV 47°×40° “Luck”: 46°×34° “Garta” 49°×47°. Most probably there won’t be hardware releases (Oculus has just launched the Rift S and the Quest ) but just teases of new devices of the future and a lot of new software releases and showcases (like the one about the game that is being developed by Respawn).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Recently, Valve announced delays to their new Steam Deck handheld, whilst Megadodo Games announced a delayed, limited production run of their DecaGear before leaving the hardware market completely. It wasn’t even possible to buy another Tundra HDK, and months later they are still showing out of stock. Image provided by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

The device is exactly the same and there are no hardware differences, but I guess that they have different ROMs that should be flashed directly from Facebook , and this is pretty difficult to guarantee. Can you convert your consumer Quest to an enterprise one? In which countries is it available? In which countries is it available?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Kudos to Shachar Weis for discovering this: he told me about this news, and I have verified that it has disappeared completely from Amazon Italy and Amazon France, while some Redditors confirmed that the same holds for Amazon UK. An article by Microsoft Design details how some designers have created an AR cube with very natural interactions.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

HP has fixed many of the visual problems of the headse t, and Microsoft has just released a patch on Windows 10 that aims at solving many visual issues of all WMR headsets (like Chromatic aberration). But honestly, I expected a bit more … it’s a bit weird that Microsoft hasn’t solved its biggest pain point yet. Other relevant news.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” And then right after, I went to Laval Virtual in France. Alan: Oh wow.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I’m thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE — first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now — and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, “well, this is ready for prime time.” And then right after, I went to Laval Virtual in France. Alan: Oh wow.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 7, 2019

As I'm thinking back to it now, this was actually on HTC VIVE -- first gen, which was only maybe 3, 4 years ago now -- and I was so impressed with the first generation of hardware that I was like, "well, this is ready for prime time." And then right after, I went to Laval Virtual in France. We had a big conference earlier in March.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So another big area that I’m seeing sort of early indication with, especially when I went to the Laval Virtual in France — it’s an expo that’s going for the last 21 years — this concept of open innovation. So collaboration and communication. Remote assist is another sort of separate thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So another big area that I'm seeing sort of early indication with, especially when I went to the Laval Virtual in France -- it's an expo that's going for the last 21 years -- this concept of open innovation. So collaboration and communication. Remote assist is another sort of separate thing.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So another big area that I’m seeing sort of early indication with, especially when I went to the Laval Virtual in France — it’s an expo that’s going for the last 21 years — this concept of open innovation. So collaboration and communication. Remote assist is another sort of separate thing.

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