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Microsoft May Leapfrog Facebook and Google in VR With HoloLens Tracking

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Microsoft’s play for command of next generation personal computing can be seen today with the announcement of a series of Windows-powered VR headsets starting at $300. The headsets planned from HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, and Acer will use what’s known as “inside-out” position tracking.

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Hands-On With Google’s Inside-Out WorldSense Tracking

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Before my demo at Google I/O, Google’s head of VR Clay Bavor outlined a series of caveats and expectations for what I was about to experience. The demo, according to Google, would reset after each journalist so the hardware would see the room fresh each time after each person donned the headset. WorldSense.

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A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

The user is seated in a stool in front of the machine, their head obscured by a hood. Here the applications began to once again focus on simulation for the workplace — the “workplace” in this instance being, of course, space. Google revealed Glass the same year the first Oculus prototype hit the scene.

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First look at HTC Vive Sync

Hypergrid Business

The headset came out last year , starts at $800, and is hands-down the best VR headset I’ve used to so far, and that includes various incarnations of the Oculus Rift, the Microsoft Hololens, the original HTC Vive, Oculus Go, and dozens of different smartphone-based headsets. VIVE Focus Plus. Image courtesy HTC Vive.).

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HR in XR, with BrainXchange’s Emily Friedman

XR for Business Podcast

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. So I know AGCO is using Google Glass all over. I got to try it at… maybe it was AWE, but I got to try one of their training simulators and I was tiling a wall in a bathroom. Google has some easy tools. But there’s a lot going on. Alan: Really?

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HR in XR, with BrainXchange’s Emily Friedman

XR for Business Podcast

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. So I know AGCO is using Google Glass all over. I got to try it at… maybe it was AWE, but I got to try one of their training simulators and I was tiling a wall in a bathroom. Google has some easy tools. But there’s a lot going on. Alan: Really?

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HR in XR, with BrainXchange's Emily Friedman

XR for Business Podcast

It was 2015, right after Google Glass, quote/unquote failed. So if you want to know more about this, it's brainxchange.com and just look for EWTS, or just Google "Enterprise Wearable Technology Summit". So I know AGCO is using Google Glass all over. Google has some easy tools. But there's a lot going on. Alan: Really?