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Our First Look At Microsoft HoloLens 2

VRScout

Microsoft debuts their latest mixed reality device at Mobile World Conference 2019. Over these past three and a half years, Microsoft has been listening to their customers, claims HoloLens inventor and Microsoft Technical Fellow Alex Kipman as he took his turn on stage. Microsoft HoloLens 2 / Image Credit: Microsoft.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.05.11): new Quest is in the works, Magic Leap may pivot to healthcare, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The company switched to an enterprise model , but apart from a rebranding and an assistance service it is not clear what it actually means, especially if compared with the enormous enterprise offering that Microsoft is giving with HoloLens (Azure services, integration with Teams, etc…). Unreal Engine 4.25 adds many XR features.

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How the Stock Market is Showing Faith in Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)

ARVR

One-year price performance for MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL, SNE, and NVDA According to the latest report from Statista , the global augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) markets are rapidly growing and are forecast to reach a total of $72.8 How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality are Revolutionizing Healthcare Facebook, Inc. (FB)

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Who Will Own the Metaverse?

AR Insider

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.20): Oculus ready to manufacture the Quest S, Pico doubles-down on 3DOF, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Google’s investment for a 7.7% Google-Jio joint venture to develop an Android-based platform for an affordable 5G phone. In its personal crusade against Microsoft, optics expert Karl Guttag has listed in 4 articles all the defects of the HoloLens 2. Not a great evolution from Microsoft. India’s first 5G network; 2.

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What Does the XR Industry Think about Apple’s Vision Pro?

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

This could actually be quite beneficial for Meta, Microsoft, and Magic Leap. Additionally, sports, retail, logistics, healthcare and, more recently, financial services will lead the way. This will lead to more money invested in research and development (R&D) to make a lighter-weight glass for the AR experience.

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A 2020 XR Year-In-Review, with MetaVRse' Alan & Julie Smithson, and Alex Colgan

XR for Business Podcast

But then you look at Unreal. Tools like that, like Chalk, and I think Microsoft has their version of it as well on Hololens and other things. But imagine your frontline healthcare worker, for example, in a hospital. Epic sued Apple and Google this year over the duopoly of the app stores. just, Google it.