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Microsoft Wins Contract To Supply US Army With 120,000 HoloLens Headsets

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The United States Army confirmed via an official statement yesterday that it has awarded Microsoft a contract to deliver 120,000 military-grade HoloLens AR headsets designed for use in a variety of combat scenarios. During CES 2020 we learned that VRgineer’s military-grade VR headset was already being used by the US Air Force.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.08.02): Facebook creates Metaverse group and prepares to launch its smartglasses, and more!

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Facebook Reality Labs creates a group focused on working on the “metaverse”. Zuckerberg said last week that he wants in 5 years Facebook to become a “metaverse company” and this week he started taking action in this sense: he has created a group in the company focused on “building the metaverse”. (Image by Facebook).

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Apple Will Reportedly Keep Dedicated Headset Team In 'Vision Products Group'

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Instead, Apple organizes itself through departments, such as software engineering, hardware development, machine learning, design and more. However, during the development of Apple Vision Pro , Apple had its own dedicated division for the headset, known at the Technology Development Group.

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How Microsoft Is Leading A War On Deepfakes

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This is actually a video of acclaimed director/writer/actor Jordan Peele that’s been altered to look like the 44th President of the United States using an artificial intelligence software. Believe it or not, this is not former US President Barrack Obama.

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You Can Now Pilot A Drone Using VR And Your Torso

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A group of scientist at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have come up with a technique that uses VR and a custom motion capture suit to allow users to precisely maneuver their drone using only their torso. The process of developing a data-driven, body-machine took some time.

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

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I spoke with him about many topics, like why VR is so good for training (and he told me that his company Strivr has trained more than ONE MILLION Walmart employees in VR ), if it is true that VR is the “ultimate empathy machine”, how much is graphical fidelity important for presence, and of course also about his encounter with Zuck.

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It’s Time To Develop A Consent Framework For Virtual Beings

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And for a third group, the value in virtual beings isn’t the ability to create a new person: it’s to recreate an existing one. Virtual being music group Auxuman (Image Credit: Auxuman). For others, the value is in creating non-player characters that provide a rich backstory to further immerse players in the game and enrich quests.