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Lifeliqe Is Bringing HoloLens To The Classroom

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Microsoft’s HoloLens and other mixed reality devices have enormous potential to inform and educate, arguably even more so than VR. You may have already heard of Lifeliqe; last year the company partnered with HTC to make educational VR experiences for the Vive headset. You can see a video of the student’s impressions below.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.10.05): HP and Canon reveal new XR enterprise headsets, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Google drops support for Daydream. With a communication that has surprised no one, Google has dropped support for the Daydream platform, which won’t be supported in the upcoming Android 11. Phones stopped to be compatible with Daydream , and Google never released a new viewer after the second version of the Daydream View.

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Retraining for a Post-Retirement World with VRVoice’s Bob Fine

XR for Business Podcast

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.” A lot of companies focusing on it. A lot of companies picking up on it.

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Retraining for a Post-Retirement World with VRVoice’s Bob Fine

XR for Business Podcast

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.” A lot of companies focusing on it. A lot of companies picking up on it.

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Retraining for a Post-Retirement World with VRVoice's Bob Fine

XR for Business Podcast

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." One of the things that was demoed there, there was a presentation from Microsoft about the new Hololens 2.

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“But I don’t want to wear glasses”

Robert Scoble

We have already seen some devices like Google Glass that gave us a taste of how they would improve the world, even while introducing new problems, deepest amongst them was that they didn’t provide enough benefit to offset the real social costs of wearing a computing device and the weight that a computer put on our face.

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Voted, Passed and Signed: XRA Commended the CHIPS and Science Act

ARPost

The Washington DC-based association sees it as a vital element of the emerging tech ecosystem. Google, HTC Vive, Microsoft, Meta, and Sony Interactive Entertainment jointly created XRA. See Also: “Thinking Ahead About XR” Report by Bipartisan Policy Center and XR Association. The XRA supports the fast-growing XR industry.

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