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Microsoft Now Hosts Free HoloLens Demos Across US & Canada

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Haven’t been able to make it to any of the big gaming expos (or you don’t know anyone with the $3,000 AR headset)? Microsoft Stores across the US and Canada are now hosting free HoloLens demos, so you can finally see what the hubbub is all about. Las Vegas, Fashion Show. Chandler, Chandler Fashion Center.

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Spatial Beats: Apple VR, Google Poly & LBVR Hangs On

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We are waiting and hoping and praying a white knight swoops in to rescue Poly like Microsoft rescued AltspaceVR in the VR winter of 2018. According to this story in Bloomberg, Apple will soon introduce a VR device for gaming, watching video, and communicating, which means we might get our first real look at it later this year.

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Spatial Beats: Zoom, Looking Glass & AR Funding

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While Burning Man announced it’s throwing in the towel on a live 2021 event, the world’s largest trade show, CES, will be back in Las Vegas the first week of January, 2022. The new holographic displays will ship with a number of standalone demos on them, including one from Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios.

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DICE 2017: Magic Leap’s Graeme Devine on Ghost Girl Murder Mystery Game Concept

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Graeme Devine, Chief Game Wizard at Magic Leap, took the stage today at the DICE Summit 2017 in Las Vegas to talk about the future of mixed reality. As Devine sees it, “The games industry will lead the way to mixed reality in every vertical” as it’s the only software technology that shows constant interaction with the end user.

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Dell Precision 7720 Is A VR-Ready Mobile Workstation Using Nvidia Quardo GPUs

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That’s the Dell Precision 7720, announced at the company’s CES press conference in Las Vegas this week. Workstations are designed to let users utilize demanding professional applications and aren’t really gaming optimized. The show held little news for VR fans overall, but the Precision is worth mentioning.

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Lenovo’s Windows Holographic VR Headset Debuts At CES

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Microsoft’s Windows Holographic VR headsets are going to run the gamut of specs like input, field of view, and resolution. The Chinese company revealed its first VR headset shortly ahead of CES 2017 in Las Vegas this week. Lenovo’s offering sounds like it might sit somewhere in the middle.

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Relive Your Best Memories in AR/VR With Owlii’s Volumetric 3D Telepresence

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What if you never had to miss a first step, first word or little league game ever again? Owlii is an emerging startup that debuted its technology this week on the show floor at CES 2017 in Las Vegas. The first was running on an HTC Vive and the second on Microsoft’s HoloLens. What if you had Owlii.

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