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Microsoft Ignite May Have Permanently Changed How We Think About Mixed Reality

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Microsoft Ignite was a three-day conference that took place virtually on YouTube, Microsoft.com, and in Altspace from March 2-4. Surprisingly, there was little at the conference directly related to HoloLens , Microsoft’s mixed reality headset. Nadella described Mesh by inviting users to “think about what XBox Live did for gaming.”

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Microsoft Ignite May Have Permanently Changed How We Think About Mixed Reality

ARPost

Microsoft Ignite was a three-day conference that took place virtually on YouTube, Microsoft.com, and in Altspace from March 2-4. Surprisingly, there was little at the conference directly related to HoloLens , Microsoft’s mixed reality headset. Nadella described Mesh by inviting users to “think about what XBox Live did for gaming.”

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How to develop for Microsoft HoloLens

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One of the devices that generates the greatest interest among the tech community at the moment is Microsoft HoloLens. Development: Unity , Vuforia , Microsoft Visual Studio , Windows 10 SDK , HoloLens Emulator (if you do not have a device). Ivan Zubritskiy. Image courtesy Program-Ace.). Preparing tools, SDKs and IDEs.

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Is Mixed Reality the future of coaching in sports?

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So far everything collected and analyzed has been after the play or game. But now thanks to a study by New Jersey Institute of Technology the use of real-time statistics may change the way games are coached. The study is based on a coach wearing the Mixed Reality Microsoft HoloLens headset.

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Xbox Cofounder Seamus Blackley Takes R&D Post at AR Firm Daqri

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Daqri is working with Blackley, who was originally a theoretical physicist before he started making games, and his team of physicists at Heat Engine in Southern California to explore applications of optics and holography in something that Daqri calls Software Defined Light. I wrote a book about the making of the Xbox).

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Akonia Uses Holography To Create Transparent Augmented Reality Display

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The company now plans to use holography to make inexpensive transparent displays for augmented reality smartglasses. You can overlay something like a green arrow for navigation or a Pikachu for a game.”. We’ve used lenses for hundreds of years, and we hope holography will give us a new way to manipulate light.”.

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What ‘Pokémon Go’ Could Be Like if it Was Really Augmented Reality

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Developer CapitolaVR decided to find out by building a Pokemon Go inspired test game for their brand new Microsoft HoloLens. Developers over at CapitolaVR in Amsterdam decided to try and this is what they came up with when targeting their shiny new Microsoft HoloLens AR headset – complete with interactive hand gestures.